forked from Lainports/opnsense-ports
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Libptytty is a small library that offers pseudo-tty management in an
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OS-independent way. It was created out of frustration over the many differences
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of pty/tty handling in different operating systems for the use inside
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"rxvt-unicode".
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In addition to offering mere pty/tty management, it also offers session database
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support (utmp and optional wtmp/lastlog updates for login shells).
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It also supports fork'ing after startup and dropping privileges in the calling
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process, so in case the calling process gets compromised by the user starting
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the program there is less to gain, as only the helper process runs with
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privileges (e.g. setuid/setgid), which reduces the area of attack immensely.
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Libptytty is written in C++, but it also offers a C-only API.
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WWW: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libptytty.html
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