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

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 2 06:56:23 PDT 2006


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*

-- 
John Baldwin


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