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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