The pty crate provides pty::fork(). That makes a parent process fork with new pseudo-terminal (PTY).

This crate depends on followings:

• libc library
• POSIX environment

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
pty = "0.2"

and this to your crate root:

extern crate pty;

This function returns pty::Child. It represents the child process and its PTY.

For example, the following code spawns tty(1) command by pty::fork() and outputs the result of the command.

extern crate pty;
extern crate libc;

use std::ffi::CString;
use std::io::Read;
use std::ptr;

use pty::fork::*;

fn main() {
  let fork = Fork::from_ptmx().unwrap();

  if let Some(mut master) = fork.is_parent().ok() {
    // Read output via PTY master
    let mut output = String::new();

    match master.read_to_string(&mut output) {
      Ok(_nread) => println!("child tty is: {}", output.trim()),
      Err(e)     => panic!("read error: {}", e),
    }
  }
  else {
    // Child process just exec `tty`
    Command::new("tty").status().expect("could not execute tty");
  }
}

When run this, we get new PTY in the child process.

$ tty
/dev/pts/5
$ cargo run
    Running `target/debug/example`
child tty is: /dev/pts/8

API documentation for latest version: http://hibariya.github.io/pty-rs/pty/index.html

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/hibariya/pty-rs/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Copyright (c) 2015 Hika Hibariya

Distributed under the MIT License.