docs/75574: typos in man3 manual pages, curs_termcap.3, logging.3, login_cap.3.
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 29 02:10:25 UTC 2004
The following reply was made to PR docs/75574; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
To: n-kogane at syd.odn.ne.jp
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/75574: typos in man3 manual pages, curs_termcap.3,
inet6_option_space.3, ipx.3, libalias.3, libdisk.3, libstand.3, logging.3,
login_cap.3.
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:08:35 -0500
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:12:19 +0000 (GMT)
n-kogane at syd.odn.ne.jp wrote:
>
> diff -u curs_termcap.3.orig ./curs_termcap.3
> --- curs_termcap.3.orig Sat Dec 18 00:08:08 2004
> +++ ./curs_termcap.3 Tue Dec 28 04:36:36 2004
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
> are marked TO BE WITHDRAWN and may be removed in future versions.
>
> Neither the XSI Curses standard nor the SVr4 man pages documented the return
> -values of \fBtgetent\fR correctly, though all three were in fact returned ever
> +values of \fBtgetent\fR correctly, though all there were in fact returned ever
> since SVr1.
> .SH SEE ALSO
> \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBterminfo\fR(\*n), \fBputc\fR(3S).
This is contributed software, which we normally don't modify.
Is there a way you could have this modification done by the
vendor?
> diff -u inet6_option_space.3.orig ./inet6_option_space.3
> --- inet6_option_space.3.orig Sat Dec 18 00:08:11 2004
> +++ ./inet6_option_space.3 Tue Dec 28 23:52:42 2004
> @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@
> .Fa *tptrp
> must be set to
> .Dv NULL .
> -.Pa
> +.Pp
> This function starts searching for an option of the specified type
> beginning after the value of
> .Fa *tptrp .
> diff -u ipx.3.orig ./ipx.3
> --- ipx.3.orig Sat Dec 18 00:08:16 2004
> +++ ./ipx.3 Tue Dec 28 23:54:42 2004
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
> quantity to be zero extended in the high-network-order bytes.
> Next, the field is inspected for hyphens, in which case
> the field is assumed to be a number in decimal notation
> -with hyphens separating the millenia.
> +with hyphens separating the millennia.
> Next, the field is assumed to be a number:
> It is interpreted
> as hexadecimal if there is a leading
> diff -u libalias.3.orig ./libalias.3
> --- libalias.3.orig Sat Dec 18 00:08:10 2004
> +++ ./libalias.3 Tue Dec 28 23:56:31 2004
> @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
> .Fa buffer ,
> and
> .Fa maxpacketsize
> -indicates the maximum packet size permissible should the packet length be
> +indicates the maximum packet size permissibility should the packet length be
I'm not sure changing one adjective for another adjective which makes
the sentence sound odd is a good idea.
[SNIP]
The rest looks good to me.
--
Tom Rhodes
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