Re: [patch] futex.2, mount_setattr.2, proc.5, netlink.7, tcp.7: tfix

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Hi Branden and Samanta,

On 11/13/21 13:41, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Samanta,

At 2021-11-13T11:58:08+0000, Samanta Navarro wrote:
Typos found with codespell.
[...]
diff --git a/man2/mount_setattr.2 b/man2/mount_setattr.2
index 77233f5..ca56256 100644
--- a/man2/mount_setattr.2
+++ b/man2/mount_setattr.2
@@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
  .\"     because. Because making assumptions about the current working directory
  .\"     of the calling process is just too easy to get wrong; especially when
  .\"     pivot_root() or chroot() are in play.
-.\"     My absolut preference (joke intended) is to open a well-known starting
+.\"     My absolute preference (joke intended) is to open a well-known starting
  .\"     point with an absolute path to get a dirfd and then scope all future
  .\"     operations beneath that dirfd. This already works with old-style
  .\"     openat() and _very_ cautious programming but openat2() and its

I always thought the foregoing was a double entendre expressing the
author's taste for vodka...

Yes. There have been other attempts to patch this[1], but I'll defend the author's joke, even if I don't share his preferences for liquid ingestion. :)

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20210910200429.4816-3-jwilk@xxxxxxxxx/

Cheers,
Alex
--
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/



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