Re: Errors in man pages, here: signal(7): Unusual wording

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Dear manpages maintainers.
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as
> well for a large variety of target languages.
> 
> During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
> original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward
> typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention
> not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original.
> 
> We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at
> least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some
> distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss
> the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be
> already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately
> if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and
> the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check
> each and every issue.
> 
> Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format,
> i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man,
> groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where
> possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into
> your source format.
> 
> Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
> not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
> problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
> them.
> 
> I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each
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> 
> **
> 
> "elect", possible, but uncommon, do you mean "select"?

I meant "elect" (as in "choose"). "select" would have been possible also.

Thanks,

Michael

> a)
> "A process can change the disposition of a signal using B<sigaction>(2)  or "
> "B<signal>(2).  (The latter is less portable when establishing a signal "
> "handler; see B<signal>(2)  for details.)  Using these system calls, a "
> "process can elect one of the following behaviors to occur on delivery of the "
> "signal: perform the default action; ignore the signal; or catch the signal "
> "with a I<signal handler>, a programmer-defined function that is "
> "automatically invoked when the signal is delivered."
> --
> b)
> "A process can change the disposition of a signal using B<sigaction>(2)  or "
> "B<signal>(2).  (The latter is less portable when establishing a signal "
> "handler; see B<signal>(2)  for details.)  Using these system calls, a "
> "process can elect one of the following behaviors to occur on delivery of the "
> "signal: perform the default action; ignore the signal; or catch the signal "
> "with a I<signal handler>, a programmer-defined function that is "
> "automatically invoked when the signal is delivered.  (By default, the signal "
> 


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