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kern/41543: typo in bpf(4) man page: `affect' when `effect' was meant



>Number:         41543
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       typo in bpf(4) man page: `affect' when `effect' was meant
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 05 07:55:00 +0000 2009
>Originator:     campbell%mumble.net@localhost
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:

        The description of the FIOASYNC ioctl command applied to bpf
        file descriptors reads `...in order for this to take
        affect...'.  `Affect' should be `effect'.

>How-To-Repeat:

        man bpf
        /FIOASYNC

>Fix:

        Apply the following patch:

Index: bpf.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/share/man/man4/bpf.4,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -r1.40 bpf.4
--- bpf.4       10 Apr 2009 13:37:38 -0000      1.40
+++ bpf.4       5 Jun 2009 07:51:37 -0000
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
 arrive.
 Note that you must do an
 .Dv FIOSETOWN
-in order for this to take affect, as
+in order for this to take effect, as
 the system will not default this for you.
 The signal may be changed via
 .Dv BIOCSRSIG .



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