Hello Michael,
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Text is broken: "as if by"??
> > 
> > "The file descriptor associated with the stream is opened as if by a call to "
> > "B<open>(2)  with the following flags:"
> 
> This is okay English--no problem here, as far as I can see.

I'm a good but not a native speaker. Could it be reworded as follows:

"The file descriptor associated with the stream is opened as if a call to "
"B<open>(2)  with the following flags would happen:"

Greetings

        Helge

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