pseudo terminals: /dev/ptmx <-> /dev/pts/ vs. /dev/ptyp <-> /dev/ttyp
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I remember that quite some time ago I could pair 2 programs like "screen" or "minicom" using /dev/ptyp master and a corresponding /dev/ttyp slave device. These devices are gone for some time now.
Nowadays I think I have to start one of these accessing /dev/ptmx and a slave device is automatically created as /dev/pts/<something>. This auto-create seems to work.
The problem I have is that although I have rw permissions on the devices, no data is going through and I get an error.
Example:
- screen /dev/ptmx
- /dev/pts/X is created with proper perms
- screen /dev/pts/X
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