Re: Errors in man pages, here: fork.2, markup

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

On 7/6/20 12:12 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: fork.2
> Issue:  any fork handlers → any B<fork>() handlers
> 
> "Since version 2.3.3, rather than invoking the kernel's B<fork>()  system "
> "call, the glibc B<fork>()  wrapper that is provided as part of the NPTL "
> "threading implementation invokes B<clone>(2)  with flags that provide the "
> "same effect as the traditional system call.  (A call to B<fork>()  is "
> "equivalent to a call to B<clone>(2)  specifying I<flags> as just "
> "B<SIGCHLD>.)  The glibc wrapper invokes any fork handlers that have been "
> "established using B<pthread_atfork>(3)."

No. "fork handler" is a term. Just like exit handler. Or clean-up
handler.

Thanks,

Michael



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