Re: Pseudoterminal terminology in POSIX

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Larry Dwyer via austin-group-l at The Open Group <austin-group-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How about the "control" side and the "terminal" side (of the paired 
> device files)?

The Solaris man pty page since a really long time has this:

    By default, 48 pseudo-terminal pairs are configured as  follows:

       /dev/pty[p-r][0-9a-f] controller devices
       /dev/tty[p-r][0-9a-f] slave devices

so I would be OK with "controller" side and "terminal" side.


Jörg

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