Re: Errors in the coreutils-6.9 PO file

[Andreas Schwab]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> According to Clytie Siddall on 10/24/2007 2:37 AM:
>>> 
>>> 2.
>>> 
>>> #: lib/gai_strerror.c:52
>>> msgid "Servname not supported for ai_socktype"
>>> 
>>> "Servname" is ambiguous: "Service name" or "Server name"? You may well
>>> get inaccurate translations.
>>
>> Simon?  This is your gnulib module.
>
> The string comes from glibc (sysdeps/posix/gai_strerror-strs.h).  Maybe
> it could be solved upstream?  I'm not sure what it should say, I think
> it should be "Service name".

You will find this string in every Unix that implements getaddrinfo.
It's kind of a standard now.  "servname" and "ai_socktype" are actually
the names of the formal parameters in the original implementation.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, address@hidden
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."