From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Sergey Oskotskiy <sergey.oskotskiy@gmail.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: typo in ioperm man page
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 19:25:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8519468f-e9e6-9a7e-8a6c-8ef18cf24213@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALzkOGiTYq8t1q_MXYpH4apF6nvhQsL3MNwbsULbKxY3rQe1cQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/25/19 8:51 AM, Sergey Oskotskiy wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> I think the ioperm man page
> (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioperm.2.html) has a typo:
> it says "ioperm() sets the port access permission bits for the calling
> thread for num ___bits___ ...".
> I think it should be "...for num ___bytes___..."
>
> With best Christmas wishes,
Sergey,
Can you say more abut *why* you think it's wrong.[1] That would
help me investigate.
Thanks,
Michael
[1] At first glance, I suspect that the existing text *is*
correct.
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-25 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-25 7:51 typo in ioperm man page Sergey Oskotskiy
2019-12-25 18:25 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2019-12-26 7:45 ` Sergey Oskotskiy
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