On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Dear manpages maintainers.
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as
> well for a large variety of target languages.
>
> During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
> original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward
> typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention
> not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original.
>
> We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at
> least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some
> distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss
> the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be
> already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately
> if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and
> the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check
> each and every issue.
>
> Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format,
> i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man,
> groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where
> possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into
> your source format.
>
> Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
> not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
> problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
> them.
>
> I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each
> issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If
> future reports should use another channel, please let me know.
>
> **
>
> Mining closing bracket at init(1), i.e. init (1 → init(1)
Fixed.
Thanks,
Michael
> "struct utmp {\n"
> " short ut_type; /* Type of record */\n"
> " pid_t ut_pid; /* PID of login process */\n"
> " char ut_line[UT_LINESIZE]; /* Device name of tty - \"/dev/\" */\n"
> " char ut_id[4]; /* Terminal name suffix,\n"
> " or inittab(5) ID */\n"
> " char ut_user[UT_NAMESIZE]; /* Username */\n"
> " char ut_host[UT_HOSTSIZE]; /* Hostname for remote login, or\n"
> " kernel version for run-level\n"
> " messages */\n"
> " struct exit_status ut_exit; /* Exit status of a process\n"
> " marked as DEAD_PROCESS; not\n"
> " used by Linux init (1 */\n"
> " /* The ut_session and ut_tv fields must be the same size when\n"
> " compiled 32- and 64-bit. This allows data files and shared\n"
> " memory to be shared between 32- and 64-bit applications. */\n"
> "#if __WORDSIZE == 64 && defined __WORDSIZE_COMPAT32\n"
> " int32_t ut_session; /* Session ID (B<getsid>(2)),\n"
> " used for windowing */\n"
> " struct {\n"
> " int32_t tv_sec; /* Seconds */\n"
> " int32_t tv_usec; /* Microseconds */\n"
> " } ut_tv; /* Time entry was made */\n"
> "#else\n"
> " long ut_session; /* Session ID */\n"
> " struct timeval ut_tv; /* Time entry was made */\n"
> "#endif\n"
>
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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