Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:20:01 GMT From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/176806: recv(2) man page grammatical fixes Message-ID: <201303101420.r2AEK10h048392@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/176806; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/176806: recv(2) man page grammatical fixes Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:12:05 +0200 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:20:13AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >=20 > >Number: 176806 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: recv(2) man page grammatical fixes [snip] > >Description: > recv(2) has the following description for EAGAIN: >=20 > [EAGAIN] The socket is marked non-blocking, and the receive > operation would block, or a receive timeout had been > set, and the timeout expired before data were > received. >=20 > Improper use of commas make the sentence difficult to comprehend, > and the word "were" should be "was". Hmm, are you really sure about the "were" part? I think it may have been used on purpose to indicate a counterfactual conditional - data *was not* received, although it was supposed (expected) to be. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org p.penchev@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 "yields falsehood, when appended to its quotation." yields falsehood, when = appended to its quotation. --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRPJSwAAoJEGUe77AlJ98TYiIP/1XbdRz6HAikA3WiZMHYckQ8 DDlx1DWJI7b9aAGkfgFN7qNTgpvcZpHWJ0wPDp6BL50psVkoWGFnrMXB9hDJxXfR p2i6PIZVbhxnDCL8vJnNdU2ZIAEDMfEqVNRrvZpfCjZih8iiCpKbYNqOECv9M5u8 KrimjBIhb/AAeZzk45mldb8eVSFEHD9DdxM4sakbo2cdi5jZ5ICsRs/sZGE4P4Yx G5CJ4GtFNK4HYevyr70dI2HJfWw5t5g+MTLEzTjqBzB5nyJgOGta+ScJigKx4hPt O2SGYeRhiiO4FtGeIbLu9ObxOpvKSdiJKr2h4Wdg9VGtHx/8rqAy5PtwMjqb4yrv 1g2KgzKxOxi4S8SARbEijiMkUreeP2EGEtoUMX9lQymiKtm31JYMa49/wzVXQnEQ OBg/caLHbNZ17Lzn2q7feZG7715+3qXxWkvwDbaggzdZJPInc+Wcn8bRXRWh1Z+u SXmiWA8Wk6zSr37qkI9nrVBKkZsx2Bz0YKo9TPOADZqrJhjXu2oEBCYYfoBnU7+P iFiEb+5IIp9uxf3MBHRMk1f7AU2crgBBbirT3anialuWYU+jMPRLh1KUlp+zX9K7 cUmmhdW3zo9Ka0VQ/1x7naZHQbZr0bm2E1xdH+FcWiYdzANh726GdS10cU69W+Ly qB3fXeGJtvu1gfu5KqZV =PNMk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--
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