Pseudoterminal terminology (was Re: Rename "master" branch to "main"?)

[Florian Weimer]

* Michael Kerrisk:

> Those names (parent, child) do seem strange to me. With process
> creation, those terms make a kind of sense.

Not really: it's rare that a subprocess does not exit before the process
that launched it.

> The simplicity of it is appealing. But, how does this read in
> prose documentation. Do we replace actual English words with 
> abbreviations ("pty", "tty")? That looks a little weird in writing, 
> and seems weirder when spoken aloud. And then: "the pseudoterminal
> pty device" seems a little bit like something I might find in
> "The Department of Redundancy Dept"...

Maybe we can use “pseudoterminal device” and “terminal device”?

Thanks,
Florian