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 <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
Security Enhanced Linux January 2005 OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)
