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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	stefanha@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: mirror - insure that errp is not NULL
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:17:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140214151720.GQ17391@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6994360a48564c05021509bf10dbe472ba7f61d6.1392234225.git.jcody@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:46:47PM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
It doesn't really matter, but:

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/assure.html

  “ensure” that something happens is to make certain that it does, and to
  “insure” is to issue an insurance policy. Other authorities, however,
  consider “ensure” and “insure” interchangeable. To please conservatives,
  make the distinction.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12 19:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: mirror - insure that errp is not NULL Jeff Cody
2014-02-12 19:55 ` Eric Blake
2014-02-13  6:43   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-13  6:40 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-13  6:46   ` Fam Zheng
2014-02-13  8:41 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-02-14 15:14   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-14 15:17 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]

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