PTY
Jul 16, 2026 · 1 min read
pty is a pseudoterminal, a software interface in Unix-like operating systems that emulates a physical hardware terminal. They're to gain access to the shell.
A pseudo-TTY is a pair of character special files, a master file and a corresponding slave file for bi-directional, interprocess communication1.
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Z/OS. 22 Mar. 2021, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=files-pseudoterminal. ↩
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