From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 14:33:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10B716A403; Thu, 17 May 2007 14:33:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B71B13C44C; Thu, 17 May 2007 14:33:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 17 May 2007 12:08:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:08:08 +0100 From: David Malone To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav Message-ID: <20070517110808.GA24532@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200705041542.l44Fgwsq012507@repoman.freebsd.org> <86lkfnu9ga.fsf@dwp.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86lkfnu9ga.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Rong-En Fan Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.X top.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:33:51 -0000 On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:43:17AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Rong-En Fan writes: > > Log: > > - s/jail id/jail ID/, acronyms should be in uppercase in general. Also, > > it is written this way in jail(8). > ID is not an acronym, it is an abbreviation of "identifier". This gets some discussion on the Grammar Girl blog. ID is slightly unusual because it should probably be written "Id." and might be said "Id" not "eye-dee". Thus it has aspects of an acronym (it looks like one and is pronounced like one), but isn't actually formed from initials. (Of course, if something is an acronym or an initialism depends a bit on what dialect you speak. For me, PXE was an initialism, and I was rather suprised to discover that is was an acronym in Californian ;-) David.