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([2001:a61:3adb:8201:9649:88f:51f8:6a21]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u10sm22845881wml.29.2020.07.06.03.43.00 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 06 Jul 2020 03:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: open.2, typo To: Helge Kreutzmann References: <20200706101453.GA26677@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <16ea655d-a933-f17d-6c7f-be3945ee72d3@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 12:43:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200706101453.GA26677@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 7/6/20 12:14 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear linux man page maintainer, > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including linux man > pages) as well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometimes 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 in 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 convert 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. If future reports > should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > Man page: open.2 > Issue: same was → same ways > > "When these APIs are given a I argument of B or the " > "specified pathname is absolute, then they handle their pathname argument in " > "the same was as the corresponding conventional APIs. However, in this case, " > "several of the APIs have a I argument that provides access to " > "functionality that is not available with the corresponding conventional APIs." Thanks. Fixed: ==> "same way". Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/