On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:31:58AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk man-pages via austin-group-l at The Open Group 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. Perhaps "lead" and "follower"? This terminology comes from multiple unit control systems on railroad locomotives (where it's been used interchangably with the problematic "master" / "slave" for a long time) and I think it's fairly descriptive of the situation with the pty control and terminal units, too.
