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113 lines
3.0 KiB
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.\" $NetBSD: ptm.4,v 1.5 2005/11/12 18:53:47 christos Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Thomas Klausner
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.Dd November 12, 2005
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.Dt PTM 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ptm
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.Nd pseudo-terminal multiplexor device
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd pseudo-device pty Op Ar count
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver is the backend for the
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.Pa /dev/ptm
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device.
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It supports three
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.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s .
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The first is
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.Dv TIOCPTMGET ,
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which allocates a free pseudo-terminal device, sets its user ID to
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the calling user,
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.Xr revoke 2 Ns s
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it, and returns the opened file descriptors for both the master
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and the slave pseudo-terminal device to the caller in a
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.Va struct ptmget .
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This struct has the following content:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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struct ptmget {
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int cfd;
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int sfd;
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char cn[16];
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char sn[16];
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};
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.Ed
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.Pp
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where
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.Va cfd
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and
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.Va sfd
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contain the master resp. slave device's file descriptor and
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.Va cn
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and
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.Va sn
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the corresponding paths in the file system.
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.Pp
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The
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.Pa /dev/ptmx
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device supports two more
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.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s ,
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.Dv TIOCGRANTPT ,
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which is used by
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.Xr grantpt 3 ,
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.Dv TIOCPTSNAME ,
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which is used by
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.Xr ptsname 3 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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device is included with the pseudo-device
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.Xr pty 4 .
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It can be disabled by adding
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.Dq Cd options NO_DEV_PTM
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to the kernel configuration.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag
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.It Pa /dev/ptm
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.Nm
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access device
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.It Pa /dev/ptmx
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.Nm
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cloning device, used to implement Unix98 ptys
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr grantpt 3 ,
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.Xr openpty 3 ,
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.Xr posix_openpt 3 ,
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.Xr ptsname 3 ,
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.Xr unlockpt 3 ,
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.Xr pty 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Pa /dev/ptm
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device appeared in
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.Ox 3.5
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and was ported to
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.Nx 3.0 .
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