open_init_pty(8) — Linux manual page
OPEN_INIT_PTY(8) NSA OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)
NAME
open_init_pty - run an program under a pseudo terminal
SYNOPSIS
open_init_pty SCRIPT [[ARGS]...]
DESCRIPTION
Run a program under a pseudo terminal. This is used by run_init
to run actually run the program after setting up the proper
context. This program acquires a new Pseudo terminal, forks a
child process that binds to the pseudo terminal, and then sits
around and connects the physical terminal it was invoked upon
with the pseudo terminal, passing keyboard input into to the
child process, and passing the output of the child process to the
physical terminal.
It sets up the pseudo terminal properly based on the physical
terminal attributes, and then sets the user's terminal to RAW
mode, taking care to reset it on exit.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava
<srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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