On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Alain <alainb06@xxxxxxx> wrote: > There is a typo in the example given under "Note" section. > > Sorry I saw just now that there is a very easy way to report that by mail... > I already files the report (and details such as version used = Ubuntu > 10.04.3) here : > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/891854 > > Typo is: > > fprintf(stderr, "No matching characters\n"): > > Should be instead > > fprintf(stderr, "No matching characters\n"); > > > ( ';' semicolon terminates an C instruction, and not ':' colon ) > > I also made a suggestion (see bug report), to change the example using the > 'm' modifier as 'a' seems rather dangerous and obsolete. > This second part is just a suggestion (subject to discussion) whereas the > typo is really there and makes compiling without errors impossible. > > Best regards. > Alain BENEDETTI Thanks Alain. Fixed! Cheers, Michael -- 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
