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([2001:a61:241a:1101:8c63:f991:aa91:da82]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p8sm33783277wrq.9.2020.08.04.13.04.18 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Replacing "master-slave" terminology for pseudoterminals To: enh References: <88273c2f-ce21-db54-688d-5bebd4a81ecd@redhat.com> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 22:04:17 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\) via Libc-alpha" Reply-To: "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" Cc: Florian Weimer , linux-man , Linux API , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, "libc-alpha@sourceware.org" , Joseph Myers Errors-To: libc-alpha-bounces@sourceware.org Sender: "Libc-alpha" On 8/4/20 7:25 PM, enh wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:48 AM Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > wrote: >> >> Hi Elliot, >> >> On 7/30/20 10:35 PM, enh wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 4:38 AM Carlos O'Donell 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 :-) >> >> I'd prefer to take this a little slowly. I don't plan to merge the >> changes just yet. I'm interested to get a bit more feedback first, >> including from Zack. (I'm guessing Zack is on holiday or so, which >> is why we've not heard from him.) Also, if we have rough consensus >> on this change, I would like to raise it with the POSIX folk; it >> would of course be great if there was a corresponding change in the >> standard, so that we all (all UNIX) have a common set of reference >> terms. > > the good news is that it came up at this week's austin group meeting... Yes, I (also) noticed in the Austin group minutes. > the bad news is that (afaik) none of us were there. > > i had been planning to suggest we try to join next week anyway, to > avoid having this stall again. I suggest that we lay the groundwork with an email. I've started crafting a mail to the POSIX folk that will CC all of the parties to the discussion we have already been having, and pointing at the current proposal. I'll send it out tomorrow morning. One complication in trying to have this discussion on mailing lists is that the Austin list can only be posted to by subscribers :-(.) If you want to participate in the discussion, it may be best to join the Austin Group mailing list (which essentially means joining the Austin Group), if you are not already a member. I think you can find the steps to do so here: https://www.opengroup.org/austin/lists.html If you don't do this, your mails to the austin-group-l@opengroup.org list will be rejected. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/