From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: enh <enh@google.com>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>,
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prctl.2: Fix typo
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 22:23:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUFwNEo6z8MCHjgA@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJgzZoo+szFoHqY-V+1Fuv0wp6tvGwwxsc0na89FYdqZ3Z7gfA@mail.gmail.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 640 bytes --]
Hi Elliott,
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 12:15:43PM -0700, enh wrote:
> "operation" is certainly the most general, and i struggle to see any
> value to the current wording --- it's not like any of them help the
> reader know "what goes here" without accompanying documentation.
>
> TL;DR: "yeah, if you change the man pages, i'll definitely change
> Android's headers to simplify them in this way" (and i have no
I'll do it; will CC you on any such changes.
Cheers,
Alex
> particular opinion about _which_ word, and that sounds like a bikeshed
> it's not worth going near :-) ).
--
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-31 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4678853.9Mp67QZiUf@nimes>
[not found] ` <ZUD12kxqzd0PsT_E@debian>
[not found] ` <CACKs7VCi-MZfrhPLGqPDz71ciTBkKGriMwJQAy16WoP--P6=QQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-10-31 16:11 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-31 16:19 ` enh
2023-10-31 18:40 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-31 19:15 ` enh
2023-10-31 21:23 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2023-11-01 0:37 ` enh
2023-11-01 10:16 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 12:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] Use terms consistently in function parameter names Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 12:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] man*/: epoll_*(), fcntl(), flock(), ioctl(), msgctl(), *prctl(), ptrace(), quotactl(), reboot(), semctl(), shmctl(), lockf(): Consistently use 'op' and 'operation' Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 18:12 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 19:19 ` enh
2024-03-03 12:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] clock_nanosleep.2, nanosleep.2: Use 'duration' rather than 'request' Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 12:45 ` Bruno Haible
2024-03-03 12:55 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-03 13:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] " Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 0:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] clock_nanosleep.2, " enh
2024-03-05 0:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 0:56 ` enh
2024-03-05 1:11 ` Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] clock_nanosleep.2: Use 't' " Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-05 22:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] clock_nanosleep.2, nanosleep.2: Use 'duration' " enh
2023-10-31 17:08 ` [PATCH] prctl.2: Fix typo Bruno Haible
2023-10-31 21:20 ` Alejandro Colomar
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ZUFwNEo6z8MCHjgA@debian \
--to=alx@kernel.org \
--cc=bruno@clisp.org \
--cc=enh@google.com \
--cc=libc-alpha@sourceware.org \
--cc=linux-man@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=stefan.puiu@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).