Re: [RFC PATCH] Replacing "master-slave" terminology for pseudoterminals

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Hello Elliot,

Thanks for looking at the patch.

On 7/29/20 6:31 PM, enh wrote:
> yeah, the old terminology was so non-obvious that reading through this,
> every change seemed like an improvement in clarity.
> 
> my only suggestion would be to consistently use tty_fd and pty_fd in the
> function signatures rather than just fd. (the presence or absence of 'p' in
> the function name is a clue, i hadn't picked up on that until i
> tried rewriting code to use pty/tty rather than master/slave.)

Yes, I've made that change now also.

> (aside: i was surprised by multiplexor rather than multiplexer, but grep
> says man7.org has 2 multiplexors to 1 multiplexer, so lgtm.)

Carlos also commented on this. I've changed it (and also
in other manual pages where "multiplexor" appeared)


Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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