Re: Pseudoterminal terminology in POSIX

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Samuel Thibault, le lun. 10 août 2020 20:17:53 +0200, a ecrit:
> Zack Weinberg, le lun. 10 août 2020 14:10:42 -0400, a ecrit:
> > "control(ler) side" still gives the wrong impression IMNSHO.  The
> > pty[p-r][0-9a-f] | ptmx devices don't exert any actual control over
> > anything.
> 
> ? They do to some extent: writing ^C on that side will send a SIGINT to
> the foreground process there (even if owned by another user!).

Unless they opened it with O_NOCTTY to avoid letting it be their
"controlling terminal". There really is some "control" terminology here,
which is initiated by the pty side.

Samuel



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