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Clarify that the "amaster" argument of forkpty() is only defined upon 

return in the parent process, but the tty name is available to both
the parent and child. Bump date.
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.\" $NetBSD: openpty.3,v 1.13 2004/06/18 02:42:57 christos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: openpty.3,v 1.14 2008/11/28 07:17:17 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd June 17, 2004
.Dd November 28, 2008
.Dt OPENPTY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -101,11 +101,15 @@ function combines
and
.Fn login_tty
to create a new process operating in a pseudo-tty.
The file descriptor of the master side of the pseudo-tty is returned in
.Fa amaster ,
and the filename of the slave in
The file descriptor of the master side of the pseudo-tty is returned
(to the parent process only) in
.Fa amaster .
The filename of the slave is returned (to both the parent and child
processes) in
.Fa name
if it is non-null.
if
.Fa name
is non-null.
The
.Fa termp
and