Andrew Brown wrote:

> >I seem to remember W. R. Stevens having a C subroutine to allocate a
> >master/slave pty pair based on the master side being an exclusive
> >open, but I don't recall one in libc.  Is there such a creature?
>
> openpty(3).
>
> david curry's book "using c on the unix system" has a nice example of
> it as well.  unfortunately that book is out of the print and the new
> edition is called "unix systems programming for svr4" and doesn't have
> as much bsd stuff in it.

Thank you kindly, I did not know this creature, but there it sits.

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                                               just like everyone else." ;-)