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I guess my understanding is that a tty must involve a device driver for an actual piece of hardware. A pty is all software, implemented as a feature of the kern
by abnry 3y ago
I guess my understanding is that a tty must involve a device driver for an actual piece of hardware. A pty is all software, implemented as a feature of the kernel any application can ask for.
- krackers 3y agoBut on modern linux even the tty is a "virtual tty". Is the device driver part implicit in the kernel (which dumps out the contents to frame buffer)?