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+.\" $NetBSD: pty.4,v 1.15 2013/12/01 00:17:14 christos Exp $
+.\"
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+.\" @(#)pty.4 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/30/93
+.\"
+.Dd November 30, 2013
+.Dt PTY 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm pty
+.Nd pseudo terminal driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd pseudo-device pty
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+driver provides support for a device-pair termed a
+.Em pseudo terminal .
+A pseudo terminal is a pair of character devices, a
+.Em master
+device and a
+.Em slave
+device.
+The slave device provides to a process an interface identical to
+that described in
+.Xr tty 4 .
+However, whereas all other devices which provide the interface described in
+.Xr tty 4
+have a hardware device of some sort behind them, the slave device
+has, instead, another process manipulating it through the master
+half of the pseudo terminal.
+That is, anything written on the master device is given to the
+slave device as input and anything written on the slave device is
+presented as input on the master device.
+.Pp
+Pseudo terminal pairs are allocated on
+as-needed basis, maximum number of them is controlled via
+.Em kern.maxptys
+sysctl (defaults to 992).
+.Pp
+The following
+.Xr ioctl 2
+calls apply only to pseudo terminals:
+.Bl -tag -width TIOCREMOTE
+.It Dv TIOCEXT
+Enable/disable
+.Dq "external processing" .
+This affects delivery of
+.Dv TIOCPKT_IOCTL
+packets.
+External processing is enabled by specifying (by reference) a nonzero
+.Vt int
+parameter and disabled by specifying (by reference) a zero
+.Vt int
+parameter.
+.Pp
+.Dv TIOCEXT
+is reset to its default (disabled) when the slave closes the
+.Nm .
+.It Dv TIOCSTOP
+Stops output to a terminal (e.g. like typing
+.Ql ^S ) .
+Takes
+no parameter.
+.It Dv TIOCSTART
+Restarts output (stopped by
+.Dv TIOCSTOP
+or by typing
+.Ql ^S ) .
+Takes no parameter.
+.It Dv TIOCPKT
+Enable/disable
+.Em packet
+mode.
+Packet mode is enabled by specifying (by reference) a nonzero
+.Vt int
+parameter and disabled by specifying (by reference) a zero
+.Vt int
+parameter.
+When applied to the master side of a pseudo
+terminal, each subsequent
+.Xr read 2
+from the terminal will return data written on the slave part of
+the pseudo terminal preceded by a zero byte (symbolically
+defined as
+.Dv TIOCPKT_DATA ) ,
+or a single byte reflecting control status information.
+In the latter case, the byte is an inclusive-or
+of zero or more of the bits:
+.Bl -tag -width TIOCPKT_FLUSHWRITE
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_FLUSHREAD
+whenever the read queue for the terminal is flushed.
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_FLUSHWRITE
+whenever the write queue for the terminal is flushed.
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_STOP
+whenever output to the terminal is stopped a la
+.Ql ^S .
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_START
+whenever output to the terminal is restarted.
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_DOSTOP
+whenever
+.Em t_stopc
+is
+.Ql ^S
+and
+.Em t_startc
+is
+.Ql ^Q .
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_NOSTOP
+whenever the start and stop characters are not
+.Ql ^S/^Q .
+.Pp
+While this mode is in use, the presence of control status information
+to be read from the master side may be detected by a
+.Xr select 2
+for exceptional conditions.
+.Pp
+This mode is used by
+.Xr rlogin 1
+and
+.Xr rlogind 8
+to implement a remote-echoed, locally
+.Ql ^S/^Q
+flow-controlled
+remote login with proper back-flushing of output; it can be
+used by other similar programs.
+.It Dv TIOCPKT_IOCTL
+When this bit is set, the slave has changed the
+.Xr termios 4
+structure (TTY state),
+and the remainder of the data read from
+the master side of the
+.Nm
+is the new
+.Xr termios 4
+structure.
+The master side of the
+.Nm
+can also use
+.Xr tcgetattr 3
+to read the new
+.Xr termios 4
+structure.
+.Pp
+The master will not read packets with the bit
+.Dv TIOCPKT_IOCTL
+set until it has activated
+.Dq "external processing"
+using
+.Dv TIOCEXT .
+.Pp
+This is used by
+.Xr telnetd 8
+to implement TELNET "line mode" - it allows the
+.Xr telnetd 8
+to detect
+.Xr tty 4
+state changes by the slave, and negotiate the appropriate TELNET
+protocol equivalents with the remote peer.
+.El
+.It Dv TIOCUCNTL
+Enable/disable a mode that allows a small number of simple user
+.Xr ioctl 2
+commands to be passed through the pseudo-terminal,
+using a protocol similar to that of
+.Dv TIOCPKT .
+The
+.Dv TIOCUCNTL
+and
+.Dv TIOCPKT
+modes are mutually exclusive.
+This mode is enabled from the master side of a pseudo terminal
+by specifying (by reference)
+a nonzero
+.Vt int
+parameter and disabled by specifying (by reference)
+a zero
+.Vt int
+parameter.
+Each subsequent
+.Xr read 2
+from the master side will return data written on the slave part of
+the pseudo terminal preceded by a zero byte,
+or a single byte reflecting a user control operation on the slave side.
+A user control command consists of a special
+.Xr ioctl 2
+operation with no data; the command is given as
+.Dv UIOCCMD Ns (n) ,
+where
+.Ar n
+is a number in the range 1-255.
+The operation value
+.Ar n
+will be received as a single byte on the next
+.Xr read 2
+from the master side.
+The
+.Xr ioctl 2
+.Dv UIOCCMD Ns (0)
+is a no-op that may be used to probe for
+the existence of this facility.
+As with
+.Dv TIOCPKT
+mode, command operations may be detected with a
+.Xr select 2
+for exceptional conditions.
+.It Dv TIOCREMOTE
+A mode for the master half of a pseudo terminal, independent
+of
+.Dv TIOCPKT .
+This mode causes input to the pseudo terminal to be flow controlled
+and not input edited (regardless of the terminal mode).
+Each write to the control terminal produces a record boundary for
+the process reading the terminal.
+In normal usage, a write of data is like the data typed as a line
+on the terminal; a write of 0 bytes is like typing an end-of-file
+character.
+.Dv TIOCREMOTE
+can be used when doing remote line
+editing in a window manager, or whenever flow controlled input
+is required.
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z]x -compact
+.It Pa /dev/pty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z]
+master pseudo terminals
+.It Pa /dev/tty[p-zP-T][0-9a-zA-Z]
+slave pseudo terminals
+.El
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+None.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ioctl 2 ,
+.Xr read 2 ,
+.Xr select 2 ,
+.Xr write 2 ,
+.Xr openpty 3 ,
+.Xr tty 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .