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futex.7: broken sentence

PATCH Applied Peter Schiffer 2 participants 2 messages Jul 19, 2013 – Jul 20, 2013 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 futex.7: broken sentence

Hello,

futex(7) man page contains broken sentence. Attached patch proposes one possible fix for this problem.

peter

man7/futex.7 +1 -1
index 31d91a1..2c5b56c 100644
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ in which case the application is commonly called multithreaded.
 .SS Semantics
 .PP
 Any futex operation starts in user space,
-but it may necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
+but it may be necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
 .BR futex (2)
 system call.
 .PP

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Quoted 6 lines · Peter Schiffer

Hello,

futex(7) man page contains broken sentence. Attached patch proposes one possible fix for this problem.

peter

Applied. Thanks Peter,

Cheers,

Michael

Quoted 11 lines
man7/futex.7 +0 -0
index 31d91a1..2c5b56c 100644
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ in which case the application is commonly called

multithreaded.
.SS Semantics
.PP
Any futex operation starts in user space,

man7/futex.7 in which case the application is commonly called multithreaded. · line 57

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man7/futex.7 +1 -1
-but it may necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
+but it may be necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
  .BR futex (2)
  system call.
  .PP

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