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| .TH OPEN_INIT_PTY "8" "January 2005" "Security Enhanced Linux" NSA |
| .SH NAME |
| open_init_pty \- run an program under a pseudo terminal |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B open_init_pty |
| \fISCRIPT\fR [[\fIARGS\fR]...] |
| .br |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .PP |
| Run a program under a pseudo terminal. This is used by |
| .B 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. |
| .PP |
| 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. |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, |
| for the Debian GNU/Linux system. |
