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6 open_init_pty - run an program under a pseudo terminal
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12 Run a program under a pseudo terminal. This is used by run_init to run
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14 gram acquires a new Pseudo terminal, forks a child process that binds
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25 This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
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