OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for open_init_pty(8) — and literally all it does is run an program under a pseudo terminal 💅. That's it. That's the vibe. (Yes, the original says "an program" — we don't make the rules, we just preserve them fr fr 😭)

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

open_init_pty SCRIPT [[ARGS]...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like, imagine you wanna run a program under a pseudo terminal. That's the whole plot. 🎀

This is used by run_init to run actually run the program after setting up the proper context. (The manpage really said "run actually run" — iconic repetition, no notes. 💀)

Here's the tea on what this program does: it 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's giving middleman energy, but make it terminal. 🔥

It also 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. So like, it's not gonna leave your terminal in a weird state, bestie — it resets it on exit. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Slay. ✨

Security Enhanced Linux — January 2005 — OPEN_INIT_PTY(8)

okay that's the whole page, ily, bye bestie 💜