[PATCH] Correct description of -displayfd option in man page.

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Sep 2 15:47:30 PDT 2012


On 09/ 2/12 03:08 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> A display number is written to the specified fd, not a port number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk>
> ---
>  man/Xserver.man |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/Xserver.man b/man/Xserver.man
> index 8d243d6..b103551 100644
> --- a/man/Xserver.man
> +++ b/man/Xserver.man
> @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ causes the server to generate a core dump on fatal errors.
>  .B \-displayfd \fIfd\fP
>  specifies a file descriptor in the launching process.  Rather than specify
>  a display number, the X server will attempt to listen on successively higher
> -display numbers, and upon finding a free one, will write the port number back
> +display numbers, and upon finding a free one, will write the display number back
>  on this file descriptor as a newline-terminated string.  The \-pn option is
>  ignored when using \-displayfd.
>  .TP 8

Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>

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