svn commit: r246763 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/kern

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 11:24 -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > Author: ian
> > Date: Wed Feb 13 15:09:16 2013
> > New Revision: 246763
> > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/246763
> >
> > Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
> >
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2   Wed Feb 13 14:57:54 2013        (r246762)
> > +++ head/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2   Wed Feb 13 15:09:16 2013        (r246763)
> > @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ argument,
> >  which is rounded up to the nearest block size.
> >  A zero value in
> >  .Fa arg
> > -turns off read ahead.
> > +turns off read ahead, a negative value restores the system default.
> >
> 
> Comma splice?

Perhaps.  The two clauses are independent in the grammatical sense, but
conceptually not so much.  I had initially written a semicolon, but then
I pondered and changed it, mainly because I tend to over-use semicolons,
so I often reflexively remove them if I stop to think about it.

My concern was keeping the second occurance of the word "value"
conceptually coupled with the first use of it in the sentence; that's
why I didn't use a separate sentence.

Do you think a semicolon is better?

-- Ian