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From: Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, alx.manpages@gmail.com,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch] pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_testcancel.3, pthreads.7: tfix
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 13:00:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211113130024.zka6elp7mmshsrlv@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211113124015.tr5wdkrxzinn4qjf@localhost.localdomain>

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.

Sincerely,
Samanta

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-13 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-13 11:56 [patch] pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_testcancel.3, pthreads.7: tfix Samanta Navarro
2021-11-13 12:40 ` G. Branden Robinson
2021-11-13 13:00   ` Samanta Navarro [this message]
2021-11-22 17:09     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-11-24 11:58       ` Samanta Navarro
2021-11-29 11:59         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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