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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: core(5)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 18:06:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27f46ba9-d9eb-e670-9628-ded62a6980c4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9000a831-9a0f-0577-5755-95b301218383@jguk.org>

Hell Jonny

On 6/6/20 3:18 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Some feedback on this page
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/core.5.html
> 
> 1) "disk file" sounds rather old fashioned, usually would just say
> "file", on this page, removing the word "disk"
> 
> "The default action of certain signals is to cause a process to 
> terminate and produce a /core dump file/, a disk file containing an"
> 
> 2) We wouldn't regularly say "nonwritable" in English, "not
> writeable" is better English
I did some rewording for both of these.

Thanks,

Michael

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Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-08 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-06 13:18 core(5) Jonny Grant
2020-06-06 14:50 ` core(5) Jakub Wilk
2020-06-06 15:45   ` core(5) Jonny Grant
2020-06-06 18:32     ` core(5) Jakub Wilk
2020-06-06 19:39       ` core(5) Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-06-06 21:16         ` core(5) Jonny Grant
2020-06-08 16:18           ` core(5) Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-06-08 16:06 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]

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