Re: Dear linux man-pages maintainer,

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Hi Helge, Seth,

On 3/12/23 00:29, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> (2) You proposed correcting "runlevel" to "run level".  The word
>> "runlevel" is a coinage by operating system developers; in ordinary
>> English it would indeed have to be two words, but it's common to write
>> it with no space in this context.
> 
> About this, in the Linux man-pages we tend to favor correct English,
> and not words like runlevel or userspace.  So, when it is a noun it
> is run level, and when it's an adjective, it's run-level.  I'll have
> a look at it, and see what needs fixing.

I applied this patch:

<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=d7a062de4fe5209acb585df03d5f8a2ea27a730f>

Cheers,

Alex

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