On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to write my own remote shell program, [...] > 2. If I run command like VIM, it doesn't run. > And buttons like "<ESC>:q" won't work > > Can someone enlighten me about what SSH did, so it all works perfectly? Pseudo terminals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo_terminal. ssh asks sshd for one when you run an interactive shell (eg "ssh yourserver") or you use the -t flag. You can run vim via ssh without a pty and it'll behave like your application: "ssh server vim somefile". If you can find a copy of Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment it's got a chapter on PTYs that's pretty good. Failing that, take a look at the openpty man page and the code in openssh's sshpty.c. if you don't have openpty then your task just got harder because it's quite platform-specific; take a look in openbsd-compat/bsd-openpty.c. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
