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From: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man <linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [patch] futex.7: broken sentence
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:29:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E9313D.1070501@redhat.com> (raw)

Hello,

futex(7) man page contains broken sentence. Attached patch proposes one 
possible fix for this problem.

peter

diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7
index 31d91a1..2c5b56c 100644
--- a/man7/futex.7
+++ b/man7/futex.7
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ in which case the application is commonly called 
multithreaded.
  .SS Semantics
  .PP
  Any futex operation starts in user space,
-but it may necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
+but it may be necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
  .BR futex (2)
  system call.
  .PP
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             reply	other threads:[~2013-07-19 12:29 UTC|newest]

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2013-07-19 12:29 Peter Schiffer [this message]
     [not found] ` <51E9313D.1070501-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-20 20:06   ` [patch] futex.7: broken sentence Michael Kerrisk

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