Re: [man-pages PATCH v3] statx.2, open.2: document STATX_DIOALIGN

[Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>]

Hi Alejandro,

On Sat, Oct 08, 2022 at 03:56:22AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > +If none of the above is available, then direct I/O support and alignment
> 
> Please use semantic newlines.
> 
> See man-pages(7):
>    Use semantic newlines
>        In the source of a manual page, new sentences  should  be
>        started on new lines, long sentences should be split into
>        lines  at  clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and
>        so on), and long clauses should be split at phrase bound‐
>        aries.  This convention,  sometimes  known  as  "semantic
>        newlines",  makes it easier to see the effect of patches,
>        which often operate at the level of individual sentences,
>        clauses, or phrases.

I tried to do this in v4.  It seems very arbitrary, though, so if you want
further changes to the newlines I recommend just making them when committing the
patch.

Note that a better way to review changes to text is to do a word diff instead of
a line diff.

- Eric