From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/rcu: fix a typo in RTFP
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 14:40:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200409214034.GQ17661@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200409211851.ttld7nmkqmncovhe@master>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 09:18:51PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:46:34AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 01:24:37PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> >> If I am correct, this character should be 'u'.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
> >
> >Nice!!! ;-)
> >
>
> Hi, Paul
>
> Glad to hear from you.
>
> >This is a play on words between the word you are thinking of and the
> >old UNIX "fsck" (filesystem check) utility. It stays, but rest assured
> >that you did get point!
> >
>
> Sorry I am confused.
>
> My change is correct or the word fsck is correct and it means "read filesystem
> check papers"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck#As_an_expletive
Interestingly enough, this section is missing from the Chinese
translation of this page. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
> >> ---
> >> Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
> >> index 9bccf16736f7..261eeb501ba5 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
> >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >> -Read the Fscking Papers!
> >> +Read the Fucking Papers!
> >>
> >>
> >> This document describes RCU-related publications, and is followed by
> >> --
> >> 2.23.0
> >>
>
> --
> Wei Yang
> Help you, Help me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-09 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-09 13:24 [PATCH] Documentation/rcu: fix a typo in RTFP Wei Yang
2020-04-09 13:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-04-09 21:18 ` Wei Yang
2020-04-09 21:40 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-04-10 23:54 ` Wei Yang
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