[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#545438: startpar(8): confusing manpage (re weighting).

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 08:02:04 UTC 2009


Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.87dsf-4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man8/startpar.8.gz

>From startpar(8):

> Processes block by pending I/O will weighting by the factor 800.  To
> change this factor the option -i can be used to specify an other
> value.

These sentences are totally unintelligible to me.  I'm a native
English speaker, so I hope this means the sentences are buggy.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.85-2   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                     2.0.37-1   Security Enhanced Linux policy lib

sysvinit-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests:
pn  sash                          <none>     (no description available)

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