[LBo] tty / pts ??

[Billy Pollifrone]

Andrew Henry wrote:
> What do tty and pts mean and how are they related?  I understand the
> fact that tty is my 'line' connected to stdin (I think!) and that there
> are 6 virtual terminals, but I do not understand how pts relates to tty
> or what it means.  Can someone explain?

This describes it well.

http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1999/1179.html

Basically, it's devices that act on character by character basis such as
a terminal or a serial port.


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