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Getting a new tty pot

Posted Jul 30, 2009 8:08 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Getting a new tty pot by corbet
Parent article: A tempest in a tty pot

The *problem* is also step 2, of course. The TTY layer isn't complicated
by its need to conform to RS232 or whatever. It's complicated by its
horrendously arcane userspace interface (what is it, *two* chapters in
APUE?), which is the very thing whose behaviour must be preserved.

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