Re: [patch] user_namespaces.7: Fix two groff warnings for escape character ignored

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Hello Stéphane

On 26 February 2015 at 10:39, Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Le jeudi 26 février 2015 à 10:07:02, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) a écrit :
>>
>> When do you see these warnings? (I'm not seeing them.)
>
> I use the command bellow for "debugging" manpages :
>
>    $ GROFF_ENCODING=utf8 groff -b -ww -z -mandoc

Thanks. I see now that the problem was a typo (twice). I applied the
right fix, below. Thanks for the report.

Cheers,

Michael


diff --git a/man7/user_namespaces.7 b/man7/user_namespaces.7
index 4baf7aa..0a670a6 100644
--- a/man7/user_namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/user_namespaces.7
@@ -439,12 +439,12 @@ maps to a range starting at 0 in the
(nonexistent) parent namespace,
 and the length of the range is the largest 32-bit unsigned integer.
 (This deliberately leaves 4294967295 (the 32-bit signed \-1 value) unmapped.
 This is deliberate:
-.IR "(uid_t)\ -\1"
+.IR "(uid_t)\ \-1"
 is used in several interfaces (e.g.,
 .BR setreuid (2))
 as a way to specify "no user ID".
 Leaving
-.IR "(uid_t)\ -\1"
+.IR "(uid_t)\ \-1"
 unmapped and unusable guarantees that there will be no
 confusion when using these interfaces.
 .\"


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