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getpt.3, pts.4: Minor wording fixes 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.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) */"

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@ -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