debian man page for open_init_pty

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)