tomahawkins:

On 4/29/07, Georg Sauthoff wrote:

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On 2007-04-29, Tom Hawkins wrote:

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I haven't done this before in any language, so any tips would be appreciated. From what I gather, a call to posix_openpt or openpty returns a master and a slave, or alternatively opening /dev/ptmx followed by calls to grantpt and unlockpt.

well, then I suggest 'Stevens, Advanced programming in the unix environment' for basic pseudo terminal programming.

Thanks for the reference.

Does Haskell's standard library support pseudo terminals, or will I have to write foreign interfaces for grantpt and unlockpt?

I'm not aware of an existing binding, so I'd suggesting writing your own. Should be pretty simple. -- Don