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([2001:a61:2482:101:3351:6160:8173:cc31]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q8sm310096wmg.22.2020.04.20.01.02.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Apr 2020 01:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Kai_M=c3=a4kisara?= Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: st(4): Understanding To: Helge Kreutzmann References: <20200419064827.GA32094@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:02:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200419064827.GA32094@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org [CC += Kai] On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear manpages maintainers. > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometiems 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 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 translate 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. As requested, each > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > The last sentence is unclear, what "list above"? And booleans? > > "Set various drive and driver options according to bits encoded in " > "I. These consist of the drive's buffering mode, a set of Boolean " > "driver options, the buffer write threshold, defaults for the block size and " > "density, and timeouts (only in kernels 2.1 and later). A single operation " > "can affect only one item in the list above (the Booleans counted as one " > "item.)" I agree that it's unclear, but I don't kjnow what the fix is. Perhaps kai can help. Kai, the problematic text is this: MTSETDRVBUFFER Set various drive and driver options according to bits encoded in mt_count. These consist of the drive's buffer‐ ing mode, a set of Boolean driver options, the buffer write threshold, defaults for the block size and density, and timeouts (only in kernels 2.1 and later). A single opera‐ tion can affect only one item in the list above (the Bool‐ eans counted as one item.) Do you know what the "list above" refers to? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/