Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage

Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage

[Colin Brough]

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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)

Attached a screen grab of the offending section.

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Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                                   colinbrough73@gmail.com

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Re: Typo in 'stat(2)' manpage

[G. Branden Robinson]

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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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