Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 16:58:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, ngie@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r314585 - head/usr.sbin/syslogd Message-ID: <201703040058.v240wnug073597@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <9EDDFC3F-80F2-4864-9DF5-BF9F81A9DB4A@gmail.com>
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-- Start of PGP signed section. [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > > On Mar 3, 2017, at 15:12, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Mar 3, 2017, at 05:56, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > >> > >> -- Start of PGP signed section. > >> [ Charset ISO-8859-7 unsupported, converting... ] > >>> "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote > >>> in <1A3F6606-822C-4C80-ADFA-48378F0F29EE@gmail.com>: > >>> > >>> ya> >> How about "...accepts UDP packets sent with any source port" or > >> > >> I actually think this right here is the clearest one of all the ones > >> I have seen attempted. Oh, remove the s from accepts. > > > > How about this instead (it incorporates hrs?s suggestion and your?s)? > > Thanks, > > -Ngie > > > > $ svn diff syslogd.8 > > Index: syslogd.8 > > =================================================================== > > --- syslogd.8 (revision 314626) > > +++ syslogd.8 (working copy) > > @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ > > .Ar service > > of > > .Ql \&* > > -allows packets to be received from any UDP port. > > +accept UDP packets from any source port. > > The default > > .Ar service > > is > > Actually, accepts is better. Although it isn?t clear by itself, the sentence fragment is describing the -a option, which is singular, not plural. Here?s the sentence in full context: > > source packet must belong to. A > service of `*' accepts UDP > packets from any source port. > Oh, yes, it shoud be accepts given the additional context. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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