From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonny Grant Subject: Re: assert Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:42:11 +0100 Message-ID: <524609C3.2090909@jguk.org> References: <5244617E.3000306@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5244617E.3000306-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 26/09/13 17:31, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > 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. Great! -- 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