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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:19:17 +0200
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: How to create tty/pty pair ?
Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency
Reply-to: ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il
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I do not know how to make a tty/pty pair with Cygwin.
I went over the faq and the ncursus readme and did not find an answer
or a pointer to an answer to this question. Can the Cygwin gurus help
me on this ?

The only reference I found (in the faq is this:
    Sergey Okhapkin (sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru) has been an invaluable Net
    contributor. He implemented the tty/pty support, has played a
    significant role in revamping signal and exception handling, and
    has made countless contributions throughout the library. He also
    provided binaries of the development snapshots to the Net after
    the beta 19 release. 
So I have the notion that tty/pty is supported on Cygwin.

Here is the code I use on Linux (and some other UNIX systems):

int allocate_pty ()
{
struct stat stb ;
int fd , i ;

   for ( i = 1 ; i < 256 ; i++ )
   {
       sprintf (pty_name, "/dev/ptyp%d", i ) ;
       if ( stat ( pty_name , & stb ) < 0 )
           return -1;

       fd = open (pty_name, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK, 0);
       if ( fd >= 0 )
       {
           pty_name [5] = 't' ;                    /* change /dev/pty?? to /dev/tty?? */
           if ( access ( pty_name, W_OK | R_OK ) != 0 )
           {
               close (fd);
                   continue ;
           }
           return fd;
       }
   }
   return -1 ;
}

Ehud.


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