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14249 pseudo-terminal nomenclature should reflect POSIX
Change-Id: Ib4a3cef899ff4c71b09cb0dc6878863c5e8357bc
@@ -36,19 +36,19 @@
for certain that they have successfully updated the utmpx(4) database,
these functions should not be used because they cannot communicate that
for compatibility reasons.
The utempter_add_record() and addToUtmp() functions add a login record to
- the utmpx(4) database for the TTY belonging to the pseudo-terminal master
- file descriptor fd, using the username corresponding with the real user
- ID of the calling process and the optional hostname host, limited to 256
- characters, that is the size of ut_host member of struct utmpx minus
- terminating NUL character.
+ the utmpx(4) database for the TTY belonging to the pseudo-terminal
+ manager file descriptor fd, using the username corresponding with the
+ real user ID of the calling process and the optional hostname host,
+ limited to 256 characters, that is the size of ut_host member of struct
+ utmpx minus terminating NUL character.
The utempter_remove_record() and removeLineFromUtmp() functions mark the
login session as being closed for the TTY belonging to the pseudo-
- terminal master file descriptor fd.
+ terminal manager file descriptor fd.
The utempter_remove_added_record() and removeFromUtmp() functions have
the same properties as the previously mentioned functions, except that
they use an internally cached value of the file descriptor passed to
utempter_add_record() and addToUtmp().
@@ -70,6 +70,6 @@
Unsafe
SEE ALSO
pututxline(3c), utmpx(3head), utmpx(4)
-illumos May 5, 2020 illumos
+illumos February 5, 2022 illumos