Hello Rares, On 05/06/2017 09:45 PM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > Hello, > > In the DESCRIPTION section of the flock(2) system call, it says "Locks > created by flock() are associated with an open file description (see > open(2))." I'm pretty sure "file description" should be "file > descriptor". This also appears in the latest version of the manual > pages. I'm using manpages v. 4.10 (2016-03-15) on a Debian > stable/testing machine. Actually, it really is correct. Take a look at the open(2) man page. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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