From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Colin Brough <colinbrough73@gmail.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 09:08:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200308220839.z7nd76ug5b7erdsg@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ce3c571-9700-9b02-621b-5b07accf99f7@gmail.com>
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At 2020-03-08T21:59:13+0000, Colin Brough wrote:
> Reporting an error on 'stat(2)' manpage, present on
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/stat.2.html, as well as on my
> Ubuntu derived distro.
>
> Name of the first of the list of ERRORS is spelled wrong:
>
> - on manpage listed as 'EACCES' (single S at the end)
>
> - should be 'EACCESS' (double S on the end)
This is not an error, EACCES is not only the correct spelling, but it
is standardized.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html
Like creat(), it a legacy of the pathological obsesstion with
abbreviation that afflicted early Unix developers.
(This one at least has the excuse that externally-visible symbols were
limited to six characters for compatibility with Fortran linkers.
creat() has no such defense.)
Regards,
Branden
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