A tty is a native terminal device, the backend is either hardware or kernel emulated. A pty (pseudo terminal device) is a terminal device which is emulated by an other program (example: xterm, screen, or ssh are such programs). A pts is the slave part of a pty. (More info can be found in man pty.) Short summary: A pty is created by a process through posix_openpt() (which usually opens the ...

Jan 9, 2017 · It outputs $ tty /dev/pts/0 This says that the tty here is a pts, I think. booting to graphical.target I did this: sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target reboot login with regular user debian8 run tty, yielding $ tty /dev/pts/0 ctrl alt f2 and login with regular user debian8 too. run tty, yielding $ tty /dev/pts/1 run w There are two guis.

Aug 27, 2023 · How do I obtain the PID of the shell running the pts? I can try to use something like ps -t $(tty) but this does not provide enough information to reliably determine the root shell (i.e. multiple shell instances, PID reuse on long running systems, etc).

Mar 7, 2013 · Hi all, i have some doubts regarding tty and pts... for example this is a part of the output from my pc when i run ps -aux Code: root 2893 0.0 0.0

Nov 21, 2018 · I need to hook onto output of currently running terminal (tty1) from virtual terminal and capture it (running X server).

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Mar 26, 2018 · 4860 tty2 S 0:00 (dns helper) 5055 pts/1 R 0:00 ps x Can someone help in decoding this output? What is meant by pts/0 and pts/1? All I could find was that pts stands for "pseudo terminal slave", but couldn't understand the difference behind pts/0 and pts/1. Why is there a ? in TTY column? Why is the tty unknown for that process?

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