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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" IO::Tty \- Low\-level allocate a pseudo\-Tty, import constants. .SH "VERSION" .IX Header "VERSION" 1.12 .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 3 \& use IO::Tty qw(TIOCNOTTY); \& ... \& # use only to import constants, see IO::Pty to create ptys. .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" \&\f(CW\*(C`IO::Tty\*(C'\fR is used internally by \f(CW\*(C`IO::Pty\*(C'\fR to create a pseudo-tty. You wouldn't want to use it directly except to import constants, use \&\f(CW\*(C`IO::Pty\*(C'\fR. For a list of importable constants, see IO::Tty::Constant. .PP Windows is now supported, but \s-1ONLY\s0 under the Cygwin environment, see <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/>. .PP Please note that pty creation is very system-dependend. From my experience, any modern \s-1POSIX\s0 system should be fine. Find below a list of systems that \f(CW\*(C`IO::Tty\*(C'\fR should work on. A more detailed table (which is slowly getting out-of-date) is available from the project pages document manager at SourceForge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/expectperl/>. .PP If you have problems on your system and your system is listed in the \&\*(L"verified\*(R" list, you probably have some non-standard setup, e.g. you compiled your Linux-kernel yourself and disabled ptys (bummer!). Please ask your friendly sysadmin for help. .PP If your system is not listed, unpack the latest version of \f(CW\*(C`IO::Tty\*(C'\fR, do a \f(CW\*(Aqperl Makefile.PL; make; make test; uname \-a\*(Aq\fR and send me (\fIRGiersig@cpan.org\fR) the results and I'll see what I can deduce from that. There are chances that it will work right out-of-the-box... .PP If it's working on your system, please send me a short note with details (version number, distribution, etc. 'uname \-a' and 'perl \-V' is a good start; also, the output from \*(L"perl Makefile.PL\*(R" contains a lot of interesting info, so please include that as well) so I can get an overview. Thanks! .SH "VERIFIED SYSTEMS, KNOWN ISSUES" .IX Header "VERIFIED SYSTEMS, KNOWN ISSUES" This is a list of systems that \f(CW\*(C`IO::Tty\*(C'\fR seems to work on ('make test' passes) with comments about \*(L"features\*(R": .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1AIX\s0 4.3 .Sp Returns \s-1EIO\s0 instead of \s-1EOF\s0 when the slave is closed. Benign. .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1AIX\s0 5.x .IP "\(bu" 4 FreeBSD 4.4 .Sp \&\s-1EOF\s0 on the slave tty is not reported back to the master. .IP "\(bu" 4 OpenBSD 2.8 .Sp The ioctl \s-1TIOCSCTTY\s0 sometimes fails. This is also known in Tcl/Expect, see http://expect.nist.gov/FAQ.html .Sp \&\s-1EOF\s0 on the slave tty is not reported back to the master. .IP "\(bu" 4 Darwin 7.9.0 .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1HPUX\s0 10.20 & 11.00 .Sp \&\s-1EOF\s0 on the slave tty is not reported back to the master. .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1IRIX\s0 6.5 .IP "\(bu" 4 Linux 2.2.x & 2.4.x .Sp Returns \s-1EIO\s0 instead of \s-1EOF\s0 when the slave is closed. Benign. .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1OSF\s0 4.0 .Sp \&\s-1EOF\s0 on the slave tty is not reported back to the master. .IP "\(bu" 4 Solaris 8, 2.7, 2.6 .Sp Has the \*(L"feature\*(R" of returning \s-1EOF\s0 just once?! .Sp \&\s-1EOF\s0 on the slave tty is not reported back to the master. .IP "\(bu" 4 Windows NT/2k/XP (under Cygwin) .Sp When you send (print) a too long line (>160 chars) to a non-raw pty, the call just hangs forever and even \fIalarm()\fR cannot get you out. Don't complain to me... .Sp \&\s-1EOF\s0 on the slave tty is not reported back to the master. .IP "\(bu" 4 z/OS .PP The following systems have not been verified yet for this version, but a previous version worked on them: .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1SCO\s0 Unix .IP "\(bu" 4 NetBSD .Sp probably the same as the other *BSDs... .PP If you have additions to these lists, please mail them to <\fIRGiersig@cpan.org\fR>. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" IO::Pty, IO::Tty::Constant .SH "MAILING LISTS" .IX Header "MAILING LISTS" As this module is mainly used by Expect, support for it is available via the two Expect mailing lists, expectperl-announce and expectperl-discuss, at .PP .Vb 1 \& http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/expectperl\-announce .Ve .PP and .PP .Vb 1 \& http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/expectperl\-discuss .Ve .SH "AUTHORS" .IX Header "AUTHORS" Originally by Graham Barr <\fIgbarr@pobox.com\fR>, based on the Ptty module by Nick Ing-Simmons <\fInik@tiuk.ti.com\fR>. .PP Now maintained and heavily rewritten by Roland Giersig <\fIRGiersig@cpan.org\fR>. .PP Contains copyrighted stuff from openssh v3.0p1, authored by Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Markus Friedl and Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>. I also got a lot of inspiration from the pty code in Xemacs. .SH "COPYRIGHT" .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Now all code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. .PP Nevertheless the above \s-1AUTHORS\s0 retain their copyrights to the various parts and want to receive credit if their source code is used. See the source for details. .SH "DISCLAIMER" .IX Header "DISCLAIMER" \&\s-1THIS\s0 \s-1SOFTWARE\s0 \s-1IS\s0 \s-1PROVIDED\s0 ``\s-1AS\s0 \s-1IS\s0'' \s-1AND\s0 \s-1ANY\s0 \s-1EXPRESS\s0 \s-1OR\s0 \s-1IMPLIED\s0 \&\s-1WARRANTIES\s0, \s-1INCLUDING\s0, \s-1BUT\s0 \s-1NOT\s0 \s-1LIMITED\s0 \s-1TO\s0, \s-1THE\s0 \s-1IMPLIED\s0 \s-1WARRANTIES\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \&\s-1MERCHANTABILITY\s0 \s-1AND\s0 \s-1FITNESS\s0 \s-1FOR\s0 A \s-1PARTICULAR\s0 \s-1PURPOSE\s0 \s-1ARE\s0 \s-1DISCLAIMED\s0. \&\s-1IN\s0 \s-1NO\s0 \s-1EVENT\s0 \s-1SHALL\s0 \s-1THE\s0 \s-1AUTHORS\s0 \s-1BE\s0 \s-1LIABLE\s0 \s-1FOR\s0 \s-1ANY\s0 \s-1DIRECT\s0, \s-1INDIRECT\s0, \&\s-1INCIDENTAL\s0, \s-1SPECIAL\s0, \s-1EXEMPLARY\s0, \s-1OR\s0 \s-1CONSEQUENTIAL\s0 \s-1DAMAGES\s0 (\s-1INCLUDING\s0, \&\s-1BUT\s0 \s-1NOT\s0 \s-1LIMITED\s0 \s-1TO\s0, \s-1PROCUREMENT\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1SUBSTITUTE\s0 \s-1GOODS\s0 \s-1OR\s0 \s-1SERVICES\s0; \s-1LOSS\s0 \&\s-1OF\s0 \s-1USE\s0, \s-1DATA\s0, \s-1OR\s0 \s-1PROFITS\s0; \s-1OR\s0 \s-1BUSINESS\s0 \s-1INTERRUPTION\s0) \s-1HOWEVER\s0 \s-1CAUSED\s0 \s-1AND\s0 \&\s-1ON\s0 \s-1ANY\s0 \s-1THEORY\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1LIABILITY\s0, \s-1WHETHER\s0 \s-1IN\s0 \s-1CONTRACT\s0, \s-1STRICT\s0 \s-1LIABILITY\s0, \s-1OR\s0 \&\s-1TORT\s0 (\s-1INCLUDING\s0 \s-1NEGLIGENCE\s0 \s-1OR\s0 \s-1OTHERWISE\s0) \s-1ARISING\s0 \s-1IN\s0 \s-1ANY\s0 \s-1WAY\s0 \s-1OUT\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1THE\s0 \&\s-1USE\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1THIS\s0 \s-1SOFTWARE\s0, \s-1EVEN\s0 \s-1IF\s0 \s-1ADVISED\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1THE\s0 \s-1POSSIBILITY\s0 \s-1OF\s0 \s-1SUCH\s0 \&\s-1DAMAGE\s0. .PP In other words: Use at your own risk. 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