On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:51:29PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Sure, that will work the same as before. The problem with such
> scripts is that what happens when someone is using ptyqf? I'd rather
> have a program that opens a pty dynamically and then makes a symbolic
> link from it to a known name. When the program exits, it can remove
> the symbolic link.  It is trivial to change the code to take the
> symbolic link destination name instead of the actual pty, and then
> use openpty() to allocate a pty dynamically.

So, all ptys will always have names in the filesystem?

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud