Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:13:53 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <darklogik@pittgoth.com> To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/36457: [PATCH] timed(8) Message-ID: <20020403111353.5dcc5a97.darklogik@pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <it4rit92n4.rit@localhost.localdomain> References: <200204020310.g323A2J41698@freefall.freebsd.org> <it4rit92n4.rit@localhost.localdomain>
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On 02 Apr 2002 14:06:23 -0800
swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote:
> <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
[SNIP]
> On further examination, I guess it'd be better yet without commas
> in the short list of three items, so I'd prefer the last of these:
>
> If two or more time daemons, whether timed, or ntpd(1), or others
> try to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result. [wrong]
>
> If two or more time daemons, whether timed, or ntpd(1), or others,
> try to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result. [ok]
>
> If two or more time daemons, whether timed or ntpd(1) or others, try
> to adjust the same clock, temporal chaos will result. [best]
If two or more time daemons attempt to access the same clock, temperal
chaos will result. [better?]
In my opinion, saying timed(8) and ntpd(8) again would be nothing but
repeating. At this point I feel the user or reader should know better
than to start two time daemons. I also feel its common sence, I
didn't like the old sentence, but I really don't like what we are
replacing it with.
What do you think about just omitting the daemon names here all
togeather. If we use your last sentence, i'd like to omit the ``or
others'' because it doesn't sound right, at least to me it doesn't...
I'd rather get an opinion on this though.
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