Re: Errors in man pages, here: ioctl_tty.2

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

Fixed as suggested. Thanks,Helge.

Cheers,

Michael

On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 19:07, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Linux manpages maintainer,
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including Linux
> Manpages) 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: ioctl_tty.2
> Issue: Solaris, Linux → Solaris and Linux
>
> "(SVr4, UnixWare, Solaris, Linux treat I<tcsendbreak(fd,arg)> with nonzero "
> "I<arg> like I<tcdrain(fd)>.  SunOS treats I<arg> as a multiplier, and sends "
> "a stream of bits I<arg> times as long as done for zero I<arg>.  DG/UX and "
> "AIX treat I<arg> (when nonzero) as a time interval measured in "
> "milliseconds.  HP-UX ignores I<arg>.)"
>
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