Hello David, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, David Prévot <davidp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michael, > >> All changes are now pushed to git; you may wish to check. > > Seems fine, thanks. > >> Thanks. Applied for 3.30. I prefer without "the", and made that change also. > > Agreed. Please find inline another tiny patch in order to shrink the definite > article from some other pages (found with “rgrep -i ' \\\- the' man*/”). Thanks. Applied for 3.30. Michael > diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5 > index cb9b253..513a4e3 100644 > --- a/man5/hosts.5 > +++ b/man5/hosts.5 > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ > .\" > .TH HOSTS 5 2002-06-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > -hosts \- The static table lookup for hostnames > +hosts \- static table lookup for hostnames > .SH SYNOPSIS > .B /etc/hosts > .SH DESCRIPTION > diff --git a/man5/protocols.5 b/man5/protocols.5 > index d414093..9c644f7 100644 > --- a/man5/protocols.5 > +++ b/man5/protocols.5 > @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ > .\" > .TH PROTOCOLS 5 2008-09-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > -protocols \- the protocols definition file > +protocols \- protocols definition file > .SH DESCRIPTION > This file is a plain ASCII file, describing the various DARPA internet > protocols that are available from the TCP/IP subsystem. > diff --git a/man7/spufs.7 b/man7/spufs.7 > index 64c4357..ee65298 100644 > --- a/man7/spufs.7 > +++ b/man7/spufs.7 > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ > .\" > .TH SPUFS 7 2007-12-20 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > -spufs \- the SPU file system > +spufs \- SPU file system > .SH DESCRIPTION > The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the > Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in order to access Synergistic > diff --git a/man7/termio.7 b/man7/termio.7 > index d6c20c0..bfa9003 100644 > --- a/man7/termio.7 > +++ b/man7/termio.7 > @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ > .\" > .TH TERMIO 7 2006-12-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > -termio \- the System V terminal driver interface > +termio \- System V terminal driver interface > .SH DESCRIPTION > .B termio > is the name of the old System V terminal driver interface. > > > Cheers > > David > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html