Hello Kai, On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 17:42, "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)" <kai.makisara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On 20. Apr 2020, at 11.11, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > [CC += Kai] > > > > On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > >> Dear manpages maintainers. > >> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > ... > > > > I do not know. Perhaps Kai can help. > > > > Kai, the text in question is > > > > MT_ST_AUTO_LOCK (Default: false) > > When this option is true, the drive door is locked > > when the device is opened and unlocked when it is > > closed. > > > > I believe Helge asks whether the text should read: > > > > MT_ST_AUTO_LOCK (Default: false) > > When this option is true, the drive door is locked > > when the device is CLOSED and unlocked when it is > > OPEN. > > > The orginal text is correct. This is section 4 man page meaning that it > describes the programming interface, Opening the device means > opening the device file, i.e., starting to use the device from the > computer and the drive should be closed when the drive is operating. > It can be opened when the device file is closed and the device is > not in use. > > This might be clearer if the text would say “when the device file is > opened”? I admit that the original text, while correct, may not be > obvious to non-programmers. Thanks. And I made your suggested wording change, which I think is helpful to prevent misunderstandings. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
