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. > > ** > > Full stop at end? > > "(B<CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE> is required.) Memory used by shared memory " > "(shmem) and B<tmpfs>(5) allocated with huge pages" Fixed. > -- > Missing closing bracket > > msgid "I<softirq> (since Linux 2.6.0" Fixed. > -- > Missing space 1GB → 1 GB > > "This file can be used to query and set the run-time limit on the maximum " > "(System V IPC) shared memory segment size that can be created. Shared " > "memory segments up to 1GB are now supported in the kernel. This value " > "defaults to B<SHMMAX>." Fixed. > -- > Missing full stop > > msgid "Enable memory failure recovery (when supported by the platform)" Fixed. > > -- > s/processes, This/processes. This/ Fixed. > "Specifies an amount of memory (in KiB) to reserve for user processes, This " > "is intended to prevent a user from starting a single memory hogging process, " > "such that they cannot recover (kill the hog). The value in this file has an " > "effect only when I</proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory> is set to 2 (\"overcommit " > "never\" mode). In this case, the system reserves an amount of memory that " > "is the minimum of [3% of current process size, I<user_reserve_kbytes>]." > -- > display → displays Fixed. > "This file display information about memory zones. This is useful for " > "analyzing virtual memory behavior." Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
