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Re: The request of words matter updated

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx, "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Xiao Ling XL Chen" <chenxlxl@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Kui K Zhang" <kzzhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: The request of words matter updated
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:40:55 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, at 11:15 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, at 2:20 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> 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).

MacOS 12.6 uses "primary" and "replica".

Solaris 11.4 splits the difference with "controller" and "slave",
which strikes me as a lateral move at best.  A for effort, I suppose.

(No URLs, unfortunately, as I checked live systems.)

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vq

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