Re: [PATCH] man3/getopt.3: Fix spelling (British -> American)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 01:08:08PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Konstantin,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 10:13:01AM +0000, Simon Essien wrote:
> > 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>
> 
> Could you please block 'Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>' from using
> any and all kernel infrastructure?  It's an LLM malicious bot, and
> starting to become very annoying and spammy.

If you can, also please hide his existing posts to linux-man@.

> 
> It's also violating the man-pages' contributing guidelines
> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING.d/ai>.
> 
> 
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex
> 
> > ---
> >  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
> > 
> 
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