From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3 V2] xfsprogs: make things non-gender-specific
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 14:33:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b81f21d-68b9-86e1-de7e-f9e82dd28195@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fde98da-d221-87d0-a401-2c82cf1df35f@redhat.com>
Users are not exclusively male, so fix that implication
in the xfs_quota manpage and the configure.ac comments.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---
V2: Fix configure.ac comments too, and fix a missed "him" in the manpage
also "choses" is not a word :)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 645e4572..48f3566d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ esac
# Some important tools should be installed into the root partitions.
#
# Check whether exec_prefix=/usr: and install them to /sbin in that
-# case. If the user choses a different prefix assume he just wants
+# case. If the user chooses a different prefix assume they just want
# a local install for testing and not a system install.
#
case $exec_prefix:$prefix in
diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_quota.8 b/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
index 74c24916..cfb87621 100644
--- a/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
+++ b/man/man8/xfs_quota.8
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ To most users, disk quotas are either of no concern or a fact of life
that cannot be avoided.
There are two possible quotas that can be imposed \- a limit can be set
on the amount of space a user can occupy, and there may be a limit on
-the number of files (inodes) he can own.
+the number of files (inodes) they can own.
.PP
The
.B quota
@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ the file, not only are the recent changes lost, but possibly much, or even
all, of the contents that previously existed.
.br
There are several possible safe exits for a user caught in this situation.
-He can use the editor shell escape command to examine his file space
+They can use the editor shell escape command to examine their file space
and remove surplus files. Alternatively, using
.BR sh (1),
-he can suspend
+they can suspend
the editor, remove some files, then resume it.
A third possibility is to write the file to some other filesystem (perhaps
to a file on
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 19:53 [PATCH 0/3] xfs_quota: man page fixups Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs_quota: document how the default quota is stored Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-03 20:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-03 20:36 ` [PATCH 1/3 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:46 ` [PATCH 1/3 V3] " Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 21:20 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-03 20:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs_quota: Remove delalloc caveat from man page Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-03 20:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs_quota: make manpage non-male-specific Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:10 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-03 20:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-12-03 20:33 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2020-12-03 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/3 V2] xfsprogs: make things non-gender-specific Darrick J. Wong
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