Hello Helge, This bug report appears to be obsolete. I can't find this error in the page. Thanks, Michael On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 19:08, 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: open.2 > Issue: same was → same ways > > "When these APIs are given a I<dirfd> argument of B<AT_FDCWD> or the " > "specified pathname is absolute, then they handle their pathname argument in " > "the same way as the corresponding conventional APIs. However, in this case, " > "several of the APIs have a I<flags> argument that provides access to " > "functionality that is not available with the corresponding conventional APIs." > > -- > 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/
