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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2021-08-25 11:27:41 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2021-08-26 15:23:07 -0300
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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>
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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.