Re: Pseudoterminal terminology in POSIX

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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




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