From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: fopen(3): Wording
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkhcAEAiP1LifvXW_zCBOJGxLkVZuEsOg2n4jXRKY2yoAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200420193726.GD19913@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal>
Hello Helge,
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 21:37, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:
>
> 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:"
the sense is correct, but this would be a more clumsy English formulation.
Thanks,
Michael
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-20 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-19 6:48 Errors in man pages, here: fopen(3): Wording Helge Kreutzmann
2020-04-19 19:31 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-04-20 19:37 ` Helge Kreutzmann
2020-04-20 19:40 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
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