getpt.3, pts.4: Minor wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man3/getpt.3 b/man3/getpt.3
index 51fab24cf1aa532c4f742319c98ca4f07f95dacd..cf3379db3cc2f2d040a5b252f4f8d355c49b88a5 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/getpt.3
+++ b/man3/getpt.3
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH GETPT 3 2020-02-09 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-getpt \- open the pseudoterminal master (PTM)
+getpt \- open the pseudoterminal master
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" "             /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"

diff --git a/man4/pts.4 b/man4/pts.4
index 93a97ad7362b6ea49c9f28329b90ab7f2a186c99..eee4851bed03ed68d2bff2f30ea5626fd78e14be 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/pts.4
+++ b/man4/pts.4
@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ It is used to create a pseudoterminal master and slave pair.
 When a process opens
 .IR /dev/ptmx ,
 it gets a file
-descriptor for a pseudoterminal master (PTM),
-and a pseudoterminal slave (PTS) device is created in the
+descriptor for a pseudoterminal master
+and a pseudoterminal slave device is created in the
 .I /dev/pts
 directory.
 Each file descriptor obtained by opening
 .IR /dev/ptmx
-is an independent PTM with its own associated PTS, whose path can
+is an independent pseudoterminal master with its own associated slave,
+whose path can
 be found by passing the file descriptor to
 .BR ptsname (3).
 .PP