On 10/7/2011 12:15, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Oh, right. I thought that refers only to when you run an X application
>> that emulates a terminal in a window.
>
> That's technically called a 'pseudoterminal' - pts.  "man pts" is
> interesting reading, if you like that sort of thing.

No, that's an xterminal or a terminal window. A pts (actually, ptty) is a 
device driver that isn't a terminal but exposes the same ioctls as a 
terminal (and in particular can belong to a process group). Because UNIX 
never figured out the concept of a "login".

Unless a pts is different from a ptty?

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