linux man-pages grammar mistake

DISCUSSION Lanchon 2 participants 2 messages Sep 29, 2014 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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2014-09-29 01:38 UTC #0 lore raw

page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pwrite.2.html#BUGS

it reads:       "...should have no AFFECT on..."
it should read: "...should have no EFFECT on..."

(emphasis added)

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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

2014-09-29 14:14 UTC #2 lore raw

Quoted 6 lines · Lanchon

page:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pwrite.2.html#BUGS
it reads:       "...should have no AFFECT on..."
it should read: "...should have no EFFECT on..."
(emphasis added)

Thanks. Fixed!

Cheers,

Michael

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