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From: Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org
Subject: [glibc/maskray/unnest] llio.texi: Wording fixes in description of closefrom()
Date: Fri,  3 Sep 2021 17:04:25 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210903170425.B78EF3847800@sourceware.org> (raw)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=5aa359d33163bde660fec9b26e23cfb93d63ecde

commit 5aa359d33163bde660fec9b26e23cfb93d63ecde
Author: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 25 11:27:41 2021 -0300

    llio.texi: Wording fixes in description of closefrom()
    
    Fix two problems.
    
    Rather than "larger than", better English is "greater than".
    
    Then there is a wordinig error on the following line: "then lowfd"
    appears to be cruft.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

Diff:
---
 manual/llio.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi
index 2c59f6badf..e55b02d8bd 100644
--- a/manual/llio.texi
+++ b/manual/llio.texi
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ The kernel does not implement the required functionality.
 @standards{GNU, unistd.h}
 @safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{@acsfd{}}}
 
-The function @code{closefrom} closes all file descriptors larger than or equal
-to @var{lowfd} then @var{lowfd}.  This function is similar to calling
+The function @code{closefrom} closes all file descriptors greater than or equal
+to @var{lowfd}.  This function is similar to calling
 @code{close} for all open file descriptors not less than @var{lowfd}.
 
 Already closed file descriptors are ignored.


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