On 8/10/20 3:58 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 04:18:10PM -0700, Larry Dwyer via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: >> How about the "control" side and the "terminal" side (of the paired device >> files)? > > How about the "pty side" and the "tty side"? It seems hard to be more > neutral than that and we can be sure there is no ambiguity. This is an option that came up in the glibc/Linux man-pages discussion. My objection is that I want proper nouns that one can use in a prose description of pseudoterminals. Thanks, Michael