Pseudoterminal terminology in POSIX

Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.com
Mon Aug 10 13:58:21 GMT 2020


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.

Thor


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