[clug] Pseudo terminals

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:38:34PM +1000, David Tulloh wrote:
> That looks like a nice clean approach Brad.  Another alternative there 
> is the uber-hackish approach, get the xterm to report it's own tty.  In 
> crude pseudo code:
> 
> $random = some unique random number/string
> xterm -T new -e "tty > /tmp/$random; $shell"
> $x = read(/tmp/$random);
> 
> David

Or just list its open ptys by doing the equivalent in code of ls
/proc/pid/fd/ and resolving its symlinks. The pid can be gotten from the
system command.

Michael.

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