Re: Errors in man pages, here: signal(7): Wording

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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.
> 
> **
> 
> Current wording hard to read:
> 
> a)
> "\"Input\" socket interfaces, when a timeout (B<SO_RCVTIMEO>)  has been set "
> "on the socket using B<setsockopt>(2): B<accept>(2), B<recv>(2), "
> "B<recvfrom>(2), B<recvmmsg>(2)  (also with a non-NULL I<timeout> argument), "
> "and B<recvmsg>(2)."
> 
> b)
> "\"Output\" socket interfaces, when a timeout (B<SO_RCVTIMEO>)  has been set "
> "on the socket using B<setsockopt>(2): B<connect>(2), B<send>(2), "
> "B<sendto>(2), and B<sendmsg>(2), if a send timeout (B<SO_SNDTIMEO>)  has "
> "been set."

Please explain the problem in more detail.

Thanks,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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