From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 15:45:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E79E16A407; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cokane@cokane.org) Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5940A13C469; Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cokane@cokane.org) Received: from mail.cokane.org (rrcs-24-153-184-158.sw.biz.rr.com [24.153.184.158]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4HFjeZu003837; Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.cokane.org (Postfix, from userid 103) id 0518514B6AB; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:45:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3-gr0 (2006-06-01) on discordia X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3-gr0 Received: from [172.20.1.3] (erwin.int.cokane.org [172.20.1.3]) by mail.cokane.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F0814B6A9; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:45:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Coleman Kane To: David Malone In-Reply-To: <20070517110808.GA24532@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200705041542.l44Fgwsq012507@repoman.freebsd.org> <86lkfnu9ga.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070517110808.GA24532@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:46:16 -0600 Message-Id: <1179416776.1142.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Rong-En Fan , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.X top.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:44 -0000 On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:08 +0100, David Malone wrote: > 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. Heh that's a good one. It took me a moment to figure out what this "Pixie Boot" was that everyone kept talking about. I still insist upon calling it P-X-E, though. -- Coleman Kane