bionic (8) open_init_pty.8.gz

Provided by: newrole_2.7-1_amd64 bug

NAME

       open_init_pty - run an program under a pseudo terminal

SYNOPSIS

       open_init_pty SCRIPT [[ARGS]...]

DESCRIPTION

       Run  a  program  under  a pseudo terminal. This is used by run_init to run actually run the program after
       setting up the proper context. This program acquires a new Pseudo terminal, forks a  child  process  that
       binds to the pseudo terminal, and then sits around and connects the physical terminal it was invoked upon
       with the pseudo terminal, passing keyboard input into to the child process, and passing the output of the
       child process to the physical terminal.

       It  sets  up  the  pseudo  terminal properly based on the physical terminal attributes, and then sets the
       user's terminal to RAW mode, taking care to reset it on exit.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.