On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 1:51 PM Thor Lancelot Simon via austin-group-l at The Open Group <austin-group-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:31:58AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > 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. > > All names are proper nouns. > > They might not be the particular proper nouns that we're used to seeing, > but they are still proper nouns! Let me clarify then: my preference is to have natural language nouns, words that a speaker who was unfamiliar with the domain would know (or could reasonably guess) how to pronounce when reading them. Thanks, Michael
