cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:30:10 -0400
> Sender: owner-cvs-all at freebsd.org
> 
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 20:19, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > On Friday,  2 June 2006 at  9:26:13 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Friday 02 June 2006 06:25, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > >> On Friday,  2 June 2006 at 10:38:29 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > >>> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:54:59AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > >>>> On Friday,  2 June 2006 at  2:50:47 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > >>>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:01, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > >>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:49:50AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
> > >>>>>>>> the file must be open for writing.
> > >>>>>>>> .Sh RETURN VALUES
> > >>>>>>>> .Rv -std
> > >>>>>>>> +If the file to be modified is not a directory or
> > >>>>>>>> +a regular file, the
> > >>>>>>>> +.Fn truncate
> > >>>>>>>> +call will return the value 0.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Doesn't "value of 0" sound better?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Not to me, though I can't explain why.  I think the phrase "X
> > >>>>>> will return the value Y" is common in man pages though.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> "will return" sounds strange to be.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Yes, it will be better if you avoid the future tense.
> > >>>
> > >>> May I recommend that one of you just change it?
> > >>
> > >> What colour?
> > >
> > > Shouldn't that be "Which colour?" or even "Which color?" *duck*
> > 
> > I don't think so.  Why should it?
> 
> Somewhere in my brain there's this notion that if one is choosing amongst a 
> set of items one should use 'which' rather than 'what', e.g. 'which floor' in 
> an elevator rather than 'what floor'.

Would someone with a copy of "Elements of Style" look this up and paint
the damned shed!
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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