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.. module:: pty |
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-:platform: Linux |
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-:synopsis: Pseudo-Terminal Handling for Linux. |
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+:platform: Unix |
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+:synopsis: Pseudo-Terminal Handling for Unix. |
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.. moduleauthor:: Steen Lumholt |
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.. sectionauthor:: Moshe Zadka moshez@zadka.site.co.il |
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concept: starting another process and being able to write to and read from its |
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controlling terminal programmatically. |
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-Because pseudo-terminal handling is highly platform dependent, there is code to |
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-do it only for Linux. (The Linux code is supposed to work on other platforms, |
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-but hasn't been tested yet.) |
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+Pseudo-terminal handling is highly platform dependent. This code is mainly |
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+tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS (it is supposed to work on other POSIX |
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+platforms but it's not been thoroughly tested). |
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The :mod:`pty` module defines the following functions: |
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spawned behind the pty will eventually terminate, and when it does *spawn* |
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will return. |
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+ A loop copies STDIN of the current process to the child and data received |
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+ from the child to STDOUT of the current process. It is not signaled to the |
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+ child if STDIN of the current process closes down. |
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The functions *master_read* and *stdin_read* are passed a file descriptor |
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which they should read from, and they should always return a byte string. In |
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order to force spawn to return before the child process exits an |