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Virtual filesystem directory available in the Linux kernel
devpts is a virtual filesystem directory available in the Linux kernel since version 2.1.93. It is normally mounted at /dev/pts and contains solely devices files which represent slaves to the multiplexing master located at /dev/ptmx which in turn is used to implement terminal emulators. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DevptsA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Cognitive Devpt in InfantsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Go sideways: PseudoterminalA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Terminal emulatorA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
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📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Cognitive Devpt in InfantsWillatts · 2010
- 📕Application of Tech Devpt CB (An Urban Institute paper)Larocca/Ture · 1978
- 📕Tourism and Economic Devpt in Asia · 1995
- 📕Entrepreneurship development in Kenyan technical educationEunice Kanyi, University of Alberta. Dept. of Secondary Education · 1999
- 📕Fast the Local EnvironmentL. Reed Brantley · 1978
- 📕New England folk songsHelen Hartness Flanders · 1933
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