Questions about rewriting the History function.

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Sat Nov 3 06:30:26 AEST 1990


In article <MEISSNER.90Oct31182112 at osf.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
> Actually on BSD systems, it is somewhat straight forward.  You make
> the history function be a pty master, and spawn the shell with the
> slave pty as it's /dev/tty.

It's now exceedingly straightforward, as the ``pty'' program will handle
all the details of pseudo-terminal allocation and management. See
pmlined, just posted to alt.sources, for an example of how easy it is to
implement a line discipline using pty. Feel free to play with pmlined
and add features.

---Dan



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