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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] man2/syscalls.2: srcfix
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:12:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ziwm4MlaUT7LNjFt@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240426214102.6pioaplkwkbch6iw@illithid>

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Hi Branden,

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 04:41:02PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The intermediate steps are not useful.  For example, after the first sed
> script, we have changes like this:
> 
> diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2
> index 7a7d6d730..979dba538 100644
> --- a/man2/syscalls.2
> +++ b/man2/syscalls.2
> @@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ .SS System call list
>  \fBchdir\fP(2)	1.0
>  \fBchmod\fP(2)	1.0
>  \fBchown\fP(2)	2.2	T{
> -See \fBchown\fP(2) for
> +See .BR chown (2)
> +for
>  version details
>  T}
>  \fBchown32\fP(2)	2.4
> 
> Having ".BR chown (2)" sitting out there as unformatted text (because
> macro calls have to _start_ an input line) is obviously not useful.
> 
> However, I did discover that the second script was a no-op!  So I'm
> dropping that (actually, replacing it) and will submit a v2.

Good.  :-)

Have a lovely night!
Alex

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      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-15 22:39 [PATCH 3/3] man2/syscalls.2: srcfix G. Branden Robinson
2024-04-17 10:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-04-26 21:41   ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-04-26 22:12     ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]

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