Re: Errors in man pages, herer: mmap.2, spelling

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On 7/6/20 12:14 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Dear linux man page maintainer,
> the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of
> man pages both from a large variety of sources (including linux man
> pages) as well for a large variety of target languages.
> 
> During their work translators notice different possible issues in the
> original (english) man pages. Sometimes 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 in 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 convert 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. If future reports
> should use another channel, please let me know.
> 
> **
> 
> Man page: mmap.2

I think you meant: mremap.2...

> Issue: Randolf → Randolph
> 
> "Your favorite text book on operating systems for more information on paged "
> "memory (e.g., I<Modern Operating Systems> by Andrew S.\\& Tanenbaum, "
> "I<Inside Linux> by Randolf Bentson, I<The Design of the UNIX Operating "
> "System> by Maurice J.\\& Bach)"


Nice catch! Fixed.

Thanks,

Michael



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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