OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)                                               NSA                                              OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)



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 <srivastaATdebian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.



Security Enhanced Linux                                   January 2005                                          OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)