lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Dec]   [21]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Trailing periods in kernel messages

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.

;-)


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2007-12-21 12:59    [W:0.068 / U:0.168 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site