tags 748887 fixed-upstream thanks Colin,
Thanks for reporting that. That text bug had been there for 20 years! Fixed now, after a patch from Simon Paillard. Cheers, Michael On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Colin Williams <colinwilliams1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > The stdio manpage seems to have a mistake in the following sentence: > > "At program startup, three text streams are predefined and need not be opened > explicitly: standard input (for reading conventional input), standard > output (for writing conventional input), and standard error (for writing > diagnostic output)." > > I believe the description of standard output should say: "standard output > (for writing conventional output)". > > I am running Debian 7.5, however I downloaded the Unstable package (3.65-1), > and looked in stdio.3.gz, the error still appears to be there. > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.5 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
