Document the fact that Linux binaries depend on pty(4).
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr brandelf 1 ,
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.Xr pty 4 ,
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.Xr elf 5 ,
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.Xr fdescfs 5 ,
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.Xr linprocfs 5 ,
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 20, 2008
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.Dd October 28, 2019
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.Dt PTY 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm pty
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.Nd BSD-style and System V-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver
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.Nd old-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device pty"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for the traditional BSD naming scheme that was
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used for accessing pseudo-terminals.
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used for accessing pseudo-terminals before it was replaced by
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.Xr pts 4 .
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This traditional naming is still used in Linux.
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When the device
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.Pa /dev/ptyXX
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is being opened, a new terminal shall be created with the
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It is only provided for compatibility with older C libraries
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that tried to open such devices when
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.Xr posix_openpt 2
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was being called.
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was being called,
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and for running Linux binaries.
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.Sh FILES
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The BSD-style compatibility pseudo-terminal driver uses the following
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device names:
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