hari
hari

Reputation: 9733

pty man page doubt/question

man pty says...

   The  BSD ioctl(2) operations TIOCSTOP, TIOCSTART, TIOCUCNTL, and TIOCREMOTE
   have not been implemented under Linux.

why so? How is these operations taken care of in linux?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 127

Answers (1)

Frédéric Hamidi
Frédéric Hamidi

Reputation: 262939

BSD-style PTYs have been deprecated since Linux 2.6.4. System V (UNIX 98)-style PTYs should be used instead.

That's probably the reason why these ioctl operations remain unimplemented to this day.

Upvotes: 1

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