Re: [patch] pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_testcancel.3, pthreads.7: tfix

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Samanta,

On 11/13/21 14:00, Samanta Navarro wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:40:17PM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>>> Changed cancelability to cancellability.
>> This is a localization issue.  Words like 'travel' and 'cancel' usually
>> decline to forms with a doubled 'l' in Commonwealth English but retain
>> an unmodified stem in U.S. English.
> 
> You are right. But e.g. pthread_cancel already contains cancellation.
> So I think that cancellability would be matching the already existing
> style. Or cancellation is also changed to cancelation.

In general (with a few exceptions, see 
<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/ffe209ee-809c-10ea-c077-12669ff0f5ab@gmail.com/>), 
we prefer US English.  If you would like to send a patch for 
s/cancellation/cancelation/ I'd like to merge it.

Thanks!
Alex

> 
> Sincerely,
> Samanta
> 

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