Re: [RFC PATCH] Replacing "master-slave" terminology for pseudoterminals

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:38 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/30/20 5:16 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > I know what you mean. One reason for that verbosity is the need to
> > clearly distinguish "pseudoterminal device/end" from "pseudoterminal
> > device pair". It's hard to avoid being wordy there.
>
> The perfect is the enemy of the good. My feeling is that as others
> write this text in emails or discussions, we'll eventually all settle
> on some other short form we find agreeable and then later we can adjust
> the man pages to use that.

based on my own brief experience, i'm expecting that _code_ will
settle on pty and tty. but if you're reading the man pages to
understand the concepts -- which are inherently quite confusing -- i
think spelling things out in longhand might remain useful in that
context.

> Until then taking the lead to change this
> language is the correct way forward.

yeah, definitely.

i'd prefer for michael to go first -- since the bionic documentation
is basically just a link to man7.org, and even without that he's the
canonical source -- but i'm happy to go first and submit my change
first if it helps us make progress :-)

> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>