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From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To: <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, <larryd.kbd@gmail.com>,
	<austin-group-l@opengroup.org>
Cc: <zackw@panix.com>, <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	<libc-alpha@sourceware.org>, <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	<gwc@opengroup.org>, <fweimer@redhat.com>, <enh@google.com>,
	<eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, <carlos@redhat.com>, <ajosey@opengroup.org>
Subject: Re: Pseudoterminal terminology in POSIX
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:20:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f3149ad.G/e/1Ac5SJF38sra%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6425d636-7f48-3a73-ef0e-7bb5b991360c@gmail.com>

Larry Dwyer via austin-group-l at The Open Group <austin-group-l@opengroup.org> 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

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-10 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-05 11:21 Michael Kerrisk
2020-08-05 13:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
     [not found]   ` <20200805142049.GA17848@localhost>
2020-08-05 20:34     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]     ` <CAP1RCkjrqKGJmh6f637D=yGuhev7ae5QJkMjv5a8iHo4X33NFw@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <1d8c5e6e96fbdd47ce143a566b57db2c803d4898.camel@gnu.org>
2020-08-05 20:34         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]         ` <21048.1596645536@jinx.noi.kre.to>
     [not found]           ` <CAH7i3LrNvBo3indixGyJgS2_4F9r3cd3kOiDgPK8m-ZXj1a0zg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <874bfe40-5f05-151d-42b3-482baacbf0b2@gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <CAH7i3LpXZxwaLQTY=XK8zM4jWYHSiy1feA6ZLE-mT-ZiJNak5A@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-11  8:31                 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-08-08 23:18 ` Larry Dwyer
2020-08-10 13:20   ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2020-08-10 18:10     ` Zack Weinberg
2020-08-10 18:17       ` Samuel Thibault
2020-08-10 18:21         ` Samuel Thibault
2020-08-11  8:32       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-08-10 13:58   ` Thor Lancelot Simon
2020-08-11  8:31     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-08-11 11:51       ` Thor Lancelot Simon
2020-08-11 14:20         ` Michael Kerrisk
2020-08-12 14:37       ` Thor Lancelot Simon
2020-08-11  8:32   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-08-11 17:29     ` Joshua M. Clulow
2020-08-12 13:19       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-08-18 16:10         ` Dave Martin
2020-08-18 16:44           ` enh
2020-08-11 11:17   ` Dirk Fieldhouse

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