Evenin' folks. I'm currently facing a problem which i don't quite understand. I'm trying to fork and exec and app, and redirect it's stdin and stdout to a PTY. I can do it just fine in C, but would like to make the socket IO, which is the other half of this, easier on me. anyway here's what i have. 
use IO::Pty;
use POSIX;
use IO::Tty qw(TIOCSCTTY);


$master = new IO::Pty || die "cant open PTY $!\n";
$slave = $master->slave();
$slave->set_raw();
$name = $slave->ttyname();
print STDERR "### PTY $name\n";
$slave_fd = $slave->fileno();
$master_fd = $master->fileno();

 my $pid = fork();
 die "Cannot fork" if not defined $pid;
  unless ($pid) {

POSIX::close(1);
POSIX::close(0);
POSIX::close($master_fd);
close($device->{handle});
POSIX::dup2($slave_fd,0);
POSIX::dup2($slave_fd,1);
POSIX::Setsid;
ioctl($slave,TIOCSCTTY,0);

$yes = POSIX::isatty($slave);
print STDERR "## TTY $yes\n";

        exec("$execline") || die "Shouldnt be here. Exec failed ? : $!
+";        


    exit 0;
  }

POSIX::close($slave_fd);
print STDERR "forked\n";
POSIX::close($master_fd);

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.... etc
that's just the part i'm worried about. Anyway, the application being exec'd requires a valid tty for STDIN, and i'm not getting that. Eventually i'll have to read the PTY and send it to a socket, but i can handle that on my own i think. Any ideas? any better way to allocate a pty? Thanks

In reply to pty redir by jaco

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