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Re: The request of words matter updated
- X-seq: zsh-workers 50669
- From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
- To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx, "Xiao Ling XL Chen" <chenxlxl@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Kui K Zhang" <kzzhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: The request of words matter updated
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:15:50 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, at 2:20 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 11:58 PM Xiao Ling XL Chen <chenxlxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ... as what the words matter requirement, may I ask change them in a future level?
>
> I support this effort in general
+1
> but at the present time the Linux documentation for pty(7),
> openpty(3), etc., still use the terms in question. (I haven't
> checked other platforms.)
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD do as well.
Illumos uses "manager" and "subsidiary" (https://illumos.org/man/4D/pty).
AIX uses "controller" and "worker"
(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=files-pty-special-file).
> Should we plan for this change to track the library terminology?
Are Linux or the BSDs planning on making similar changes? If not,
we could be waiting for a very long time.
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