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What is this?
On many platforms terminal emulators need some privilege for some functionalities.
Especially, they need root privilege on BSDs to prevent other users from peeking
user's input. With libspt you can drop all privileges of your terminal emulator.
Additionally libspt saves terminal emulator writers many portability related
headaches. (Yes, there is many headaches.)
From libspt-0.2 it also provides a minimal termios(termio/sgtty) wrapper functionality.
It does not support any customization nor complex settings but enables you to
implement easiest functionalities portably with least work.
How it works?
Libspt invokes one helper program "sptagent". It is a setuid root program.
Its job is chown of pty and utmp logging. It is similar to SysV pt_chmod or
Linux utempter but much more intelligent.
Documentations
See manpage for API.
Download
libspt-1.1.tar.bz2
libspt-1.0.tar.bz2
libspt-0.3.tar.bz2(alpha)
libspt-0.2.1.tar.bz2(alpha)
libspt-0.2.tar.bz2(alpha)
libspt-0.1.tar.bz2(alpha)
Patches
You need to run autoconf after applying these patches.
mlterm-2.8.0-libspt.diff
rxvt-2.7.10-libspt.diff
Bug report
mail me.
AIDA Shinra
shinra@j10n.org