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| <maintainer type="person"> |
| <email>tomjbe@gentoo.org</email> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription> |
| Pseudo-Terminals (ptys) are a type of interprocess communication with a master |
| and a slave end. One program (in our case nullmodem) opens the master sides of |
| connections and therefore provides connectible slave sides of connections. |
| If nullmodem receives some data on one of these connections it retransmits them |
| on all other connections. It can be seen as a network with star-type wiring. |
| Because the names of the slave side ptys are dynamic, nullmodem creates |
| symbolic links to filenames of your choice. |
| e.g. the command nullmodem /tmp/loop0 /tmp/loop1 /tmp/loop2 |
| creates a pty-network with 3 slave sides linked to the names /tmp/loop0, |
| /tmp/loop1 and /tmp/loop2. |
| If you close a slave side connection nullmodem will detect this and provide |
| a new stub to connect to and update the symbolic link. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |