Thanks, Helge. Fixed as you suggest. Cheers, Michael On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 19:05, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear Linux manpages maintainer, > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including Linux > Manpages) 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: bzero.3 > Issue: to zeroed → to be zeroed > > "The B<explicit_bzero>() function addresses a problem that security-" > "conscious applications may run into when using B<bzero>(): if the compiler " > "can deduce that the location to zeroed will never again be touched by a " > "I<correct> program, then it may remove the B<bzero>() call altogether. " > "This is a problem if the intent of the B<bzero>() call was to erase " > "sensitive data (e.g., passwords) to prevent the possibility that the data " > "was leaked by an incorrect or compromised program. Calls to " > "B<explicit_bzero>() are never optimized away by the compiler." > > -- > Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php > 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred > Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/ -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
