Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:53:07 GMT From: Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: 912333007432 - main - pf.conf.5: Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specific person. Message-ID: <202507180953.56I9r7EM046916@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by kp: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=9123330074321d4a8687ff9feee30098efe4e693 commit 9123330074321d4a8687ff9feee30098efe4e693 Author: Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2025-07-09 15:09:18 +0000 Commit: Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-07-18 07:33:29 +0000 pf.conf.5: Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specific person. Rewrite or use singular they. ok thfr@ sthen@ daniel@ ian@ job@ kmos@ jcs@ ratchov@ phessler@ and others I'm likely missing on an earlier version. feedback tj@, feedback and ok jmc@ Obtained from: OpenBSD, jsg <jsg@openbsd.org>, 25a24f0b58 Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate") --- share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 index ea3735482e42..5a9d8f350739 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 @@ -2784,8 +2784,8 @@ This means that it will not work on other protocols and will not match a currently established connection. .Pp Caveat: operating system fingerprints are occasionally wrong. -There are three problems: an attacker can trivially craft his packets to -appear as any operating system he chooses; +There are three problems: an attacker can trivially craft packets to +appear as any operating system; an operating system patch could change the stack behavior and no fingerprints will match it until the database is updated; and multiple operating systems may have the same fingerprint.
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