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Branden Robinson" To: Colin Brough Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage Message-ID: <20200308220839.z7nd76ug5b7erdsg@localhost.localdomain> References: <3ce3c571-9700-9b02-621b-5b07accf99f7@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kyrrjkd4jag7gpqo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ce3c571-9700-9b02-621b-5b07accf99f7@gmail.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --kyrrjkd4jag7gpqo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2020-03-08T21:59:13+0000, Colin Brough wrote: > Reporting an error on 'stat(2)' manpage, present on > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/stat.2.html, as well as on my > Ubuntu derived distro. >=20 > Name of the first of the list of ERRORS is spelled wrong: >=20 > - on manpage listed as 'EACCES' (single S at the end) >=20 > - should be 'EACCESS' (double S on the end) This is not an error, EACCES is not only the correct spelling, but it is standardized. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html Like creat(), it a legacy of the pathological obsesstion with abbreviation that afflicted early Unix developers. (This one at least has the excuse that externally-visible symbols were limited to six characters for compatibility with Fortran linkers. creat() has no such defense.) 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