From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: assert Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:31:58 +0200 Message-ID: <5244617E.3000306@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jon Grant Cc: Michael Kerrisk , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 25.09.2013 15:18, Jon Grant wrote: > Hello mtk > > Would it be better to replace "his" with "their", in the interests of equality? > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/assert.3.html > > "The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his > program. The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function > do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user." > > > NB. This may apply to other man pages. Hi Jon, I fixed four pages along the lines you suggest. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ My next Linux/UNIX system programming course: http://blog.man7.org/2013/09/linuxunix-system-programming-course.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html