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 -- EMail:joerg@xxxxxxxxxx (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'