Re: Issue in man page mount_namespaces.7

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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On 12/5/22 13:36, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-12-05T13:03:05+0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>> * Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>, 2022-12-04 10:07:
>>> Issue:    mount or unmount → mount or umount
>>
>> The system call and the command line tool are written without "n" for
>> historical reasons, but it's spelled "unmount" otherwise.
>>
>>> "This mount shares events with members of a peer group.  Mount and unmount"
>>> "events immediately under this mount will propagate to the other mounts that"
>>> "are members of the peer group.  I<Propagation> here means that the same"
>>> "mount or unmount will automatically occur under all of the other mounts in"
>>> "the peer group.  Conversely, mount and unmount events that take place under"
>>> "peer mounts will propagate to this mount."
> 
> Yes, let us please not entrench Thompson spelling reforms to English in
> ordinary prose, lest we creat more problems than we solve.

Did you mean resolv?  I didn't know solve is a word :P

> 
> Regards,
> Branden

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