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From: "Stéphane Aulery" <saulery@free.fr>
To: 501566@bugs.debian.org, dash@vger.kernel.org,
	stephane.chazelas@gmail.com
Subject: Bug#501566: [MAN] Clarify two redirection mechanisms
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:50:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141208185005.GA11773@free.fr> (raw)

Hello,

Stéphane Chazelas said:
> Herbert Xu said:
>>
>> "Resource" is rather unwieldy, how about simply "file"?
>
> "file" could be misleading
>
> [...]
>
> IMO, "resource" is vague enough so as not to give the wrong idea
> and I like that wording because it conveys the intended
> mechanism clearly ("redirect to same thing as"). But I agree
> it's not ideal.

It is true that "resource" is dissonant as "file" is too restrictive. The
term "file descriptor" is used above. Why not use it again?

Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery


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             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-08 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-08 18:50 Stéphane Aulery [this message]
2014-12-08 20:37 ` Bug#501566: [MAN] Clarify two redirection mechanisms Stephane CHAZELAS
2014-12-08 21:22   ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-08 21:56     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-08 22:15       ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-09 16:54     ` Bug#501566: " Stephane CHAZELAS
2014-12-11  6:06       ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-11  9:03       ` saulery
2014-12-25 22:51         ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-26 11:35           ` Stéphane Aulery

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