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spelling mistake manual pages

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From: Vikas Talan <vikas.chaudhary2608 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, mtk.manpages <at> gmail.com, majordomo <at> vger.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel <at> vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-announce <at> vger.kernel.org, 
 linux-api <at> vger.kernel.org, netdev <at> vger.kernel.org, 
 libc-alpha-subscribe <at> sourceware.org, libc-help-subscribe <at> sourceware.org, 
 manpages <at> packages.debian.org, listar <at> nl.linux.org, linux-man <at> vger.kernel.org
Subject: spelling mistake manual pages
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 17:52:55 +0530

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Dear Sir/Mam,
I found a spelling mistake in the manual pages. The topic is "22.2 LIMITING
RESOURCE USAGE" and the spelling mistake is "may". It should be "MANY".
Kindly check this and make it correct.

Thanks and regards,
Vikas Talan
7042985051

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Message #10 received at 35275-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Vikas Talan <vikas.chaudhary2608 <at> gmail.com>, 35275-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 mtk.manpages <at> gmail.com, majordomo <at> vger.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel <at> vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-announce <at> vger.kernel.org,
 linux-api <at> vger.kernel.org, netdev <at> vger.kernel.org,
 libc-alpha-subscribe <at> sourceware.org, libc-help-subscribe <at> sourceware.org,
 manpages <at> packages.debian.org, listar <at> nl.linux.org, linux-man <at> vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug#35275: spelling mistake manual pages
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 22:34:37 -0700

That report appears to be about the glibc manual. Please report glibc bugs as 
described here:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FilingBugs

Also, please use plain text rather than images to describe bugs in a text file.

Message #13 received at 35275-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Vikas Talan <vikas.chaudhary2608 <at> gmail.com>, 35275-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35275: spelling mistake manual pages
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:12:23 -0500

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tag 35275 notabug
thanks

On 4/14/19 7:22 AM, Vikas Talan wrote:
> Dear Sir/Mam,
> I found a spelling mistake in the manual pages. The topic is "22.2 LIMITING
> RESOURCE USAGE" and the spelling mistake is "may". It should be "MANY".
> Kindly check this and make it correct.

Attaching a 2M picture of a screenshot and spamming multiple lists at
once puts unnecessary load on the mail servers as it must fan that out
to all list recipients, even where it is not relevant. Please don't do
that in the future, when a text paste to a single targeted list is
sufficient and much more bandwidth-friendly.

The sentence is from the glibc info pages. And the text is correct as
written. It is talking about a single call that "may fail", not "many
failures" of multiple calls.  I am replying solely to the coreutils list
to drop the bug from the coreutils database, rather than spamming all
the other lists mentioned in your original mail (if it HAD been a bug,
the glibc manual also mentions that you should report bugs in the manual
to https://sourceware.org/bugzilla, or at a bare minimum the libc
mailing list - which I did not see in your scattershot report).

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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Message #16 received at 35275-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>,
 Vikas Talan <vikas.chaudhary2608 <at> gmail.com>, 35275-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35275: spelling mistake manual pages
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:49:29 -0700

Eric Blake wrote:
> Attaching a 2M picture of a screenshot and spamming multiple lists at
> once puts unnecessary load on the mail servers as it must fan that out
> to all list recipients

By the way my first thought when seeing a bug report like this, is that it is an 
attempt to break into developers' systems by sending a carefully-crafted image 
designed to exploit a bug in a popular image library. Perhaps I'm being too 
paranoid, but you never know. (Next time, I think I may just ignore or close the 
bug report without looking at the image. :-)

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