svn commit: r363598 - head/usr.sbin/nologin

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> Hi,
> 
> On 7/27/20 7:17 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On 7/27/20 6:41 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >>>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
> >>>> Date: Mon Jul 27 10:45:47 2020
> >>>> New Revision: 363598
> >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363598
> >>>>
> >>>> Log:
> >>>>     nologin.8: Improve wording
> >>> I disagree that this improves wording.  The norm of action for
> >>> "logging" in Unix is to "write to syslog", not "log to syslog".
> >> Hmm, I agree, but here it is "log using syslog".
> > Please read syslog(3) it is rather consistent about using
> > "write to syslog".  The action of calling syslog(3) is to
> > "writes message to the system message logger."
> 
> Obviously, we write to syslog but from what I remember the reason why we decided to change the 
> wording to "log using syscall" was that you don't write to the syslog(3) function, but you use it 
> instead.
> 
> >
> >> Have you got any idea how to further improve this sentence?
> > No, but can we not degrade it?
> 
> Sure. Would you like me to just revert it?

Without beter wording that would be easy to do.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org