Hello Helge, On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 21:37, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Michael, > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:31:04PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > Text is broken: "as if by"?? > > > > > > "The file descriptor associated with the stream is opened as if by a call to " > > > "B<open>(2) with the following flags:" > > > > This is okay English--no problem here, as far as I can see. > > I'm a good but not a native speaker. Could it be reworded as follows: > > "The file descriptor associated with the stream is opened as if a call to " > "B<open>(2) with the following flags would happen:" the sense is correct, but this would be a more clumsy English formulation. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
