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kill.2: tfix

PATCH In review Tobias Stoeckmann 2 participants 3 messages Feb 22, 2015 – Feb 26, 2015 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 kill.2: tfix

A missing s after send:

POSIX.1-2001 requires that kill(-1,sig) send_s_ sig to [...]

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 man2/kill.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
man2/kill.2 +1 -1
index abd7807..e15c0a9 100644
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ has explicitly installed signal handlers.
 This is done to assure the
 system is not brought down accidentally.
 .LP
-POSIX.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP
+POSIX.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP sends \fIsig\fP
 to all processes that the calling process may send signals to,
 except possibly for some implementation-defined system processes.
 Linux allows a process to signal itself, but on Linux the call
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2.3.0

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Hallo Tobias,

Quoted 1 line · Tobias Stoeckmann

A missing s after send:

It depends whether one believes that subjunctive[1] still exists in English. Opinions are divided. I'm trying to hold onto it, so I've not applied this patch.

Cheers,

Michael

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#English

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POSIX.1-2001 requires that kill(-1,sig) send_s_ sig to [...]

---
 man2/kill.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
man2/kill.2 +1 -1
index abd7807..e15c0a9 100644
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ has explicitly installed signal handlers.
 This is done to assure the
 system is not brought down accidentally.
 .LP
-POSIX.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP
+POSIX.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP sends \fIsig\fP
 to all processes that the calling process may send signals to,
 except possibly for some implementation-defined system processes.
 Linux allows a process to signal itself, but on Linux the call
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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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Okay, learned something new again. ;)

Thanks for clarification.

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On February 26, 2015 at 8:41 AM "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hallo Tobias,

Quoted 1 line · Tobias Stoeckmann

A missing s after send:

It depends whether one believes that subjunctive[1] still exists in English. Opinions are divided. I'm trying to hold onto it, so I've not applied this patch.

Quoted 5 lines

Cheers,

Michael

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#English

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