Hi coreutils maintainers,
"stty --help" produces the output
[-]parodd set odd parity (even with `-')
When looking at the code and "man termios", which says:
PARODD If set, then parity for input and output is odd; otherwise
even parity is used.
it is clear that option '-parodd' means the opposite of option 'parodd'.
But the German translator misunderstood this line twice (even after being
pointed to the fact that it's ambiguous), as if it was
[-]parodd set odd parity (believe it or not, also with `-')
Can this ambiguity please be fixed at the root, in the English source
code? Here is a proposed patch (apply with "patch -p0"):
2012-07-13 Bruno Haible <[email protected]>
stty: Clarify meaning of '-parodd'.
* src/stty.c (usage): Disambiguate explanation of -parodd.
Reported by Michael Stummvoll <[email protected]>.
--- src/stty.c.orig Fri Jul 13 15:44:17 2012
+++ src/stty.c Fri Jul 13 15:40:47 2012
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@
[-]hup send a hangup signal when the last process closes the tty\n\
[-]hupcl same as [-]hup\n\
[-]parenb generate parity bit in output and expect parity bit in
input\n\
- [-]parodd set odd parity (even with '-')\n\
+ [-]parodd set odd parity (or even parity with '-')\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
