Re: mysql-pgsql comparison

From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew(at)hairy(dot)beasts(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: mysql-pgsql comparison
Date: 2002-01-13 21:14:38
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0201132108590.4907-100000@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Anybody know what forkpty() does? I see it exists in libutil.a on
> Linux, but there's no man page for it.

It's a BSD function:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=forkpty

glibc does have info documentation about it. (Yes, info
is foul, but glibc's doco is actually pretty decent, and
"pinfo" makes it just about bearable.)

Matthew.

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