Subject: Re: stdin pipe rename in 3.2.0
From: Brian Inglis <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 21:46:32 -0600
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On 2021-03-18 14:28, Christoph Reiter via Cygwin wrote:
> I noticed that the stdin pipe was renamed from
> "\msys-dd50a72ab4668b33-pty1-from-master" to
> "\msys-dd50a72ab4668b33-pty0-to-slave" in
> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=bb42852062073439
> This trips up https://github.com/k-takata/ptycheck to detect the
> cygpty which is used in various code bases.
> Is there a reason it was renamed?
> And while grepping I noticed the old name is still checked for in
> other places like
> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/tty.cc;h=3c016315cdedb1dcca44cb3f3f96b87fd0b90a97;hb=HEAD#l162
> which seems weird.

If these are being renamed should they not now use neutral terminology based on 
terms such as primary and secondary, and the primary/default repo branches on a 
term such as main?

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