Re: [PATCH] llio.texi: Wording fixes in description of closefrom()

["Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\) via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>]

Hello Adhemerval

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 18:11, Adhemerval Zanella
<adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
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> On 11/08/2021 19:30, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > Fix two problems.
> >
> > Rather than "larger than", better English is "greater than".
> >
> > Then there is a wordinig error on the follwoing line: "then lowfd"
> > appears to be cruft.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
>
> LGTM, thanks.
>
> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

Who will apply this? (I can't.)

Thanks,

Michael

> > ---
> >  manual/llio.texi | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi
> > index 2c59f6badf..e55b02d8bd 100644
> > --- a/manual/llio.texi
> > +++ b/manual/llio.texi
> > @@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ The kernel does not implement the required functionality.
> >  @standards{GNU, unistd.h}
> >  @safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{@acsfd{}}}
> >
> > -The function @code{closefrom} closes all file descriptors larger than or equal
> > -to @var{lowfd} then @var{lowfd}.  This function is similar to calling
> > +The function @code{closefrom} closes all file descriptors greater than or equal
> > +to @var{lowfd}.  This function is similar to calling
> >  @code{close} for all open file descriptors not less than @var{lowfd}.
> >
> >  Already closed file descriptors are ignored.
> >



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