Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:22:24 -0400 From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> To: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Cc: rionda@gufi.org Subject: Re: UPDATING readability Message-ID: <200410162322.28821.marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <200410161416.51163.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> References: <1097916792.1810.4.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> <200410161625.42502.marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> <200410161416.51163.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
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--nextPart1855471.nS4jXD6byC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 16 October 2004 05:16 pm, David Syphers wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:25 pm, Marc Ramirez wrote: > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:08 pm, David Syphers wrote: > > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:53 am, Matteo Riondato wrote: > > > > Could we change an entry from: > > > > > > > > 20041007: > > > > One of the syscalls the 1:1 threading library libthr uses h= as > > > > changed, thus breaking ABI compatibility. Make sure you > > > > rebuild this library with the kernel. > > > > > > > > to: > > > > Compromise: One of the syscalls _which_ the ... > > Okay... this would be grammatically correct. However, I'm curious why the > original poster believes the current version to be unclear, since it is > also grammatically correct. (Omitting "that" or "which" at the beginning = of > a restrictive relative clause is very common in English.) There are a lot of words between the nominal subject, 'one' and the nominal= =20 verb, 'has changed.' All these interspersers must be pushed, and if you're= =20 not fluent, well, remember the 'five things in short-term memory' rule. Maybe the best way to write it is in press release style: Oct 7, 2004 SYSCALL DROPPED, CAUSING LIBRARY BREAKAGE =46reeBSD staff /USR/SRC/SYS/ - Today, libthr is picking through the pieces of the life it= =20 once knew. Libthr, the predominate 1:1 threading library for FreeBSD, foun= d=20 today that a syscall it had depended on was dropped from the FreeBSD ABI. = =20 According to the library, "unless the admin rebuilds me under the new ABI,= =20 the kernel's only option will be to kill(2) the process, probably with a=20 SIGSYS." The dropped syscall was only four years old. For more informatio= n=20 on SIGSYS, visit /usr/include/sys/signal.h. =20 =2D-=20 Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) http://www.bluecirclesoft.com http://www.mrami.com (personal) --nextPart1855471.nS4jXD6byC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBceV0g1EgpGw750IRAnXsAKDMJ1gbPKhm/HmyGn33whcmqdZRlQCfcM3K 3pd5niHPVCWUX6EmkKBTd28= =uLSE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1855471.nS4jXD6byC--
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