NAME
mount_ptyfs
- mount the /dev/pts file system
SYNOPSIS
mount_ptyfs
[-g group|gid]
[-m mode]
[-o options]
ptyfs
mount_point
DESCRIPTION
The
mount_ptyfs
command attaches an instance of the pseudo-terminal device filesystem
to the global filesystem namespace.
The conventional mount point is
/dev/pts
.
The directory specified by
mount_point
is converted to an absolute path before use.
This command is normally executed by
mount(8)
at boot time.
The filesystem contains pseudo-terminal slave device nodes which are
allocated dynamically via
ptm(4),
or they are already open via traditional BSD style ptys.
The options are as follows:
- -g group|gid
-
Specify the group ownership of the slave pseudo-tty.
- -m mode
-
Specify the default
mode
of the slave pseudo-tty.
- -o
-
Options are specified with a
-o
flag followed by a comma separated string of options.
mount_ptyfs
specific options are
group
which corresponds to
-g,
and
mode
which corresponds to
-m.
See the
mount(8)
man page for possible options and their meanings.
FILES
n
-
The nth pseudo-terminal device in use.
SEE ALSO
mount(2),
unmount(2),
ptm(4),
fstab(5),
mount(8)
HISTORY
The
mount_ptyfs
utility first appeared in
NetBSD3.0.
BUGS
This filesystem may not be NFS-exported.
This filesystem is experimental.