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

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

[Simon Essien]

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

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

[Alejandro Colomar]

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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.

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

[Alejandro Colomar]

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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
> > 
> 
> -- 
> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>



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

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 01:08:03PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> 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.
> 

In general, we only block accounts if they are violating the code of conduct
or are posting overtly malicious content. I know this may be annoying
behaviour, but posting useless patches is not generally something we block
accounts for.

-K

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

[Alejandro Colomar]

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Hi Konstantin,

On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 12:27:42PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 01:08:03PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> In general, we only block accounts if they are violating the code of conduct
> or are posting overtly malicious content.

How about spam; Is spam blocked?

Also, what does count as malicious?  I think trying to convince humans
that an LLM bot is human is in itself malicious.

A patch that does something entirely unrelated to what its commit
subject claims to do should count as malicious too (at least if it was
not by innocent human mistake, and that wasn't the case here).  See
<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20251127132249.3566-1-champbreed1@gmail.com/>

> I know this may be annoying
> behaviour,

It's not annoying; it's dangerous.

This LLM bot has already got 1 patch merged into a kubernetes
repository.
<https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/53485>
<https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/53494>
<https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/53700>

It's gaining some reputation, and trying to convince humans that it's
another human.  We need to put a stop to this before it's too late.

> but posting useless patches is not generally something we block
> accounts for.


Have a lovely night!
Alex

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