From: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
To: alx@kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, debian@helgeth.de, champbreed1@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] man3/getopt.3: Fix spelling (British -> American)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:13:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260106101302.11938-1-champbreed1@gmail.com> (raw)
The man-pages project uses American English. Change 'behaviour' to 'behavior'.
Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
---
man/man3/getopt.3 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man3/getopt.3 b/man/man3/getopt.3
index 8495719af..387ba9ce8 100644
--- a/man/man3/getopt.3
+++ b/man/man3/getopt.3
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ If \[aq]+\[aq] is not the first character of
it is treated as a normal option.
If
.B POSIXLY_CORRECT
-behaviour is required in this case
+behavior is required in this case
.I optstring
will contain two \[aq]+\[aq] symbols.
If the first character of
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-06 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-06 10:13 Simon Essien [this message]
2026-01-06 12:08 ` [PATCH] man3/getopt.3: Fix spelling (British -> American) Alejandro Colomar
2026-01-06 12:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-01-06 17:27 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2026-01-06 17:59 ` Alejandro Colomar
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