From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: ENOSPC Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 23:11:33 +0200 Message-ID: <5616DC05.20502@gmail.com> References: <560C590B.2040607@jguk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <560C590B.2040607-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jonny Grant Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 09/30/2015 11:50 PM, Jonny Grant wrote: > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html > > [ENOSPC] > "No space left on device (POSIX.1)" > > Would be clearer to say "No space available on device" > > "left" has different meanings, "available" only has one meaning. > > Would you agree with this change? I don't see any ambiguity with the current phrasing... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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