Re: GNU readline / tty related questions

emiller_news@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
How can I open a tty or pty from a C/C++ program, start a process
inside that terminal and have character-level communication between
the C/C++ program and the terminal input/output?

If this is possible with Excpect, this is fine, but it wouldn't help
me in the long run, because I can't use an intermediate Tcl program,
nor does the Tcl code help me with the C implementation.

Tcl/Expect is open source and contains a C implementation of exactly
what you're talking about. It uses a pty and spawns a program in it.

Also, I believe the Tcl interpreter is specifically designed to be easy
to embed in another program (so that it is not a separate executable),
so maybe that is an option.

- Logan
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