[svlug] Need a Tutorial on Writing Linux Terminal Emulators

[norm@dad.org]

norm at dad.org writes: (on Thu Sep 16 09:20:33 2010)

>I want to write a Linux terminal emulator. I hope to write it mostly in Java,
>with just a little C or C++. My notion is that there would be a core facility
>that would enable anybody to write their own Java emulator, worrying only about
>its GUI aspects.
>
>Could somebody point me to a hard-copy or soft-copy tutorial?
>
>Yes, I have read the pts(4) man page and the man pages it points to.

I have found such a tutorial. It is Chapter 64 of the just published, "The Linux
Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook", by Michael
Kerrisk

It appears to be very good, assuming that it's accurate.



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