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

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Hello Michael,
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:26:06AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > **
> > 
> > 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.

I first read it in isolation in the po format and could not really
make good sense of the sentences, now I read it in context using man
and I see what they mean. Probably the translator had the same
problem.

No, the sentences are fine. 

Sorry for the noise, please close the report.

Greetings

        Helge


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