openpty() function

[PaowZ]

Hello there,

I'm trying to program a little app where I need to input data into a
first terminal (the one I launch the process) and to ouput data into
another terminal. So I need to open a terminal during execution. After
some searches, I got interested in openpty() function.
I read some examples and man-pages but something is not very clear in
my mind.
Does this function allow opening new terminal or what ?
Do I expect the right aim of this function ?
'Cause when I run my prog, nothing happens, so I wonder :S
Here the lines:
int master, slave;
if (openpty ( &master, &slave, NULL, NULL, NULL) < 0)
error("Error !!!");


Thanks a lot.

 

[PaowZ]

Oops...
Sorry for having bothered you.. I had to post to comp.unix.*
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[Chris Dollin]

Oops...
Sorry for having bothered you.. I had to post to comp.unix.*
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Thanks for the apology, and I hope comp.unix.* will help
you solve your problem.