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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
	Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:53:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171208075359.GD15798@lemon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lp1k6n8.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>

On Fri, 12/08 08:42, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 12/07 10:53, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> On 12/07/2017 04:58 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 04:44:53PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> [...]
> >> >> +it less likely to conflict with a running guest's permissions due to image
> >> >> +locking. For example, this can be used to get the image information (with
> >> >> +'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a running guest. Note that this
> >> >> +could produce inconsistent result because of concurrent metadata changes, etc..
> >> > 
> >> > Super nit-pick:  an ellipsis[*] is three dots :-), so, when applying you
> >> > might want to: s/../.../
> >> > 
> >> > [*] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ellipsis
> >> 
> >> Except that both "etc." and "..." independently convey a sense of
> >> continuation, which means that using both at once is both redundant
> >> (just one will do) and difficult to argue how to typeset (since 'etc.'
> >> is often written with an explicit '.' to emphasize that is an
> >> abbreviation, does that mean you have to write 'etc.''...' for a total
> >> of 4 dots?).
> >
> > I have the impression that "etc." is more correct than "etc"
> 
> It is.
> 
> >                                                              so I used even at
> > the end of the sensence where there is another period '.', making it "etc..".
> 
> That's wrong all the same :)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_(punctuation)#Abbreviations
> 
> > If ending the paragraph with "etc." is enough, we can drop one ".".
> 
> Please do.

Yes, thanks, v2 sent.

Fam

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-08  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-07  8:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U Fam Zheng
2017-12-07 10:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] " Kashyap Chamarthy
2017-12-07 16:53   ` Eric Blake
2017-12-08  1:41     ` Fam Zheng
2017-12-08  7:42       ` Markus Armbruster
2017-12-08  7:53         ` Fam Zheng [this message]

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