* Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage
@ 2020-03-08 21:59 Colin Brough
2020-03-08 22:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
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From: Colin Brough @ 2020-03-08 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
Name of the first of the list of ERRORS is spelled wrong:
- on manpage listed as 'EACCES' (single S at the end)
- should be 'EACCESS' (double S on the end)
Attached a screen grab of the offending section.
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Cheers
Colin
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* Re: Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage
2020-03-08 21:59 Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage Colin Brough
@ 2020-03-08 22:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
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From: G. Branden Robinson @ 2020-03-08 22:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Colin Brough; +Cc: mtk.manpages, linux-man
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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.
>
> Name of the first of the list of ERRORS is spelled wrong:
>
> - on manpage listed as 'EACCES' (single S at the end)
>
> - 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.)
Regards,
Branden
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