Re: Issue in man page getpt.3

Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-31T16:36:55Z

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Hi Helge,

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 02:48:41PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
>
> Issue: multiplexor → multiplexer

My dictionary says both are correct. Does anyone know what's the
difference? I guess it depends on the country, but I couldn't find
which uses which.

As for the Linux man-pages, there's a tie:

$ grep -rho multiplexer
multiplexer
multiplexer
multiplexer
multiplexer
$ grep -rho multiplexor
multiplexor
multiplexor
multiplexor
multiplexor

Cheers,
Alex

> "B<getpt>() opens a new pseudoterminal device and returns a file descriptor "
> "that refers to that device. It is equivalent to opening the pseudoterminal "
> "multiplexor device"
>
> "on Linux systems, though the pseudoterminal multiplexor device is located "
> "elsewhere on some systems that use the GNU C library."
>

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