HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 7 Device (Special) Files, 9 General Information, Index (vol 10)

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pty(7) pty(7)
WARNINGS
The slave side cannot indicate an end-of-file condition to the master side.
When using
TIOCREMOTE, a single write()
request to the master side of greater than 256 bytes may
result in multiple smaller records being read from the slave side instead of only one record.
AUTHOR
pty was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
/dev/ptym/pty[a-ce-z][0-9][0-9]
master pseudo terminals
/dev/ptym/pty[a-ce-z][0-9][0-9][0-9]
master pseudo terminals
/dev/ptym/pty[a-ce-z][0-9a-f]
master pseudo terminals
/dev/pty[pqr][0-9a-f]
master pseudo terminals
/dev/pty/tty[a-ce-z][0-9][0-9]
slave pseudo terminals
/dev/pty/tty[a-ce-z][0-9][0-9][0-9]
slave pseudo terminals
/dev/pty/tty[a-ce-z][0-9a-f]
slave pseudo terminals
/dev/tty[pqr][0-9a-f]
slave pseudo terminals
SEE ALSO
close(2), fcntl(2), ioctl(2), open(2), read(2), select(2), sigblock(2), write(2), ptsname(3C), signal(5), ter-
mio(7).
HP-UX 11i Version 2: September 2004 − 8 − Hewlett-Packard Company Section 7−−119