Both 'o' and 'e' are used in the manual pages:
$ grep -rho multiplex.r man/ | sort| uniq -c
4 multiplexer
4 multiplexor
Let's stick to 'e', for consistency with __NR_multiplexer.
Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Acked-by: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
.BR 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
+It is equivalent to opening the pseudoterminal multiplexer device
.P
.in +4n
.EX
.EE
.in
.P
-on Linux systems, though the pseudoterminal multiplexor device is located
+on Linux systems, though the pseudoterminal multiplexer device is located
elsewhere on some systems that use the GNU C library.
.SH RETURN VALUE
.BR getpt ()
.SH NOTES
Some older UNIX implementations that support System V
(aka UNIX 98) pseudoterminals don't have this function, but it
-can be easily implemented by opening the pseudoterminal multiplexor device:
+can be easily implemented by opening the pseudoterminal multiplexer device:
.P
.in +4n
.EX
.SH DESCRIPTION
The file
.I /dev/ptmx
-(the pseudoterminal multiplexor device)
+(the pseudoterminal multiplexer device)
is a character file with major number 5 and
minor number 2, usually with mode 0666 and ownership root:root.
It is used to create a pseudoterminal master and slave pair.