From: Alejandro Colomar Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:15:32 +0000 (+0100) Subject: man/: Unify spelling of 'multiplexer' X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dfab2419efac60e176d4e5f016de9c91b706a0fc;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git man/: Unify spelling of 'multiplexer' 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 Acked-by: "G. Branden Robinson" Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- diff --git a/man/man3/getpt.3 b/man/man3/getpt.3 index 49e024856..1ecef24e7 100644 --- a/man/man3/getpt.3 +++ b/man/man3/getpt.3 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Standard C library .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 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR); .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 () diff --git a/man/man3/posix_openpt.3 b/man/man3/posix_openpt.3 index c3efcba80..611139248 100644 --- a/man/man3/posix_openpt.3 +++ b/man/man3/posix_openpt.3 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ It is part of the UNIX 98 pseudoterminal support (see .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 diff --git a/man/man4/pts.4 b/man/man4/pts.4 index 358ffc04d..18bc52839 100644 --- a/man/man4/pts.4 +++ b/man/man4/pts.4 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ptmx, pts \- pseudoterminal master and slave .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.