docs/176806: recv(2) man page grammatical fixes

[Peter Pentchev]

The following reply was made to PR docs/176806; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/176806: recv(2) man page grammatical fixes
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:12:05 +0200

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 On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:20:13AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
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 > >Number:         176806
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       recv(2) man page grammatical fixes
 [snip]
 > >Description:
 > 	recv(2) has the following description for EAGAIN:
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 >   [EAGAIN]           The socket is marked non-blocking, and the receive
 >                      operation would block, or a receive timeout had been
 >                      set, and the timeout expired before data were
 >                      received.
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 > 	Improper use of commas make the sentence difficult to comprehend,
 > 	and the word "were" should be "was".
 
 Hmm, are you really sure about the "were" part?  I think it may have
 been used on purpose to indicate a counterfactual conditional - data
 *was not* received, although it was supposed (expected) to be.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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