Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:55:16 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages |
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On Dec 21 2007 19:41, Herbert Xu wrote: >On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> > [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly >> > >> >The reason is that it lacks a subject. >> >> "current offset" is your subject. > >In my school we were taught that "current offset" is part of the >predicate as opposed to the subject. This can be seen from the >fact that "offset" is singular while "initialise" did not take >on its third-person singular form of "initialises".
o_O I better continue believing it is the subject. Because with one extra word at the front, you can make this a "complete sentence":
Please initialize [the] current offset in xfs_file_readdir.
;-)
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