PTY(4) - Device Drivers Manual
PTY(4) - Device Drivers Manual # PTY(4) - Device Drivers Manual NAME # pty, ptm - pseudo terminal driver SYNOPSIS # pseudo-device pty [count] DESCRIPTION # The pty driver provides support for a device-pair termed a pseudo terminal. A pseudo terminal is a pair of character devices, a master device and a slave device. The slave device provides to a process an interface identical to that described in tty(4). However, whereas all other devices which provide the interface described in tty(4) have a hardware device of some sort behind them, the slave device has, instead, another process manipulating it through the master half of the pseudo terminal. ...