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Update firmware, fix sound linux packages
author | Stanislas Leduc <shann@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sat Mar 02 20:44:59 2024 +0000 (7 months ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/python-ptyprocess/description.txt Sat Mar 02 20:44:59 2024 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ 1.4 +Launch a subprocess in a pseudo terminal (pty), and interact with both 1.5 +the process and its pty. 1.6 + 1.7 +Sometimes, piping stdin and stdout is not enough. 1.8 +There might be a password prompt that doesn't read from stdin, output 1.9 +that changes when it's going to a pipe rather than a terminal, 1.10 +or curses-style interfaces that rely on a terminal. 1.11 +If you need to automate these things, running the process in a pseudo 1.12 +terminal (pty) is the answer.