* assert
@ 2013-09-25 13:18 Jon Grant
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From: Jon Grant @ 2013-09-25 13:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Kerrisk; +Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA
Hello mtk
Would it be better to replace "his" with "their", in the interests of equality?
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/assert.3.html
"The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his
program. The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function
do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user."
NB. This may apply to other man pages.
Best regards, Jon
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* Re: assert [not found] ` <CAGc9EvdE4Fd5QaJ_Rj+CsZkwvktTCPcnupJmSwNfM5SJRefAJA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> @ 2013-09-26 16:31 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [not found] ` <5244617E.3000306-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2013-09-26 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Jon Grant; +Cc: Michael Kerrisk, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA On 25.09.2013 15:18, Jon Grant wrote: > Hello mtk > > Would it be better to replace "his" with "their", in the interests of equality? > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/assert.3.html > > "The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his > program. The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function > do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user." > > > NB. This may apply to other man pages. Hi Jon, I fixed four pages along the lines you suggest. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ My next Linux/UNIX system programming course: http://blog.man7.org/2013/09/linuxunix-system-programming-course.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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* Re: assert [not found] ` <5244617E.3000306-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> @ 2013-09-27 22:42 ` Jonny Grant 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Jonny Grant @ 2013-09-27 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages); +Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA On 26/09/13 17:31, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 25.09.2013 15:18, Jon Grant wrote: >> Hello mtk >> >> Would it be better to replace "his" with "their", in the interests of equality? >> >> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/assert.3.html >> >> "The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his >> program. The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function >> do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user." >> >> >> NB. This may apply to other man pages. > > Hi Jon, > > I fixed four pages along the lines you suggest. Great! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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