Messages in this thread |  | | From | "mirabilos" <> | Subject | Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs | Date | Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:07:12 -0000 |
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Oh you English people,
why do you do it so complicated? We even don't need a kernel locale.
Take the nominations as they are, color/colour, disk/disc/diskette/floppy, etc.
And if you write by yourself, do it as you spell it. I'd even write it German if I wasn't used to speak fully English whilst coding.
And dont bother about names: - Namen sind Schall und Rauch. Was zaehlt, ist das, was drin ist. (for tho who can understand it. the others: sorry, it's a cite.)
Does it _actually_ make a prob to use disc in devfs instead of the (correct) disk when changing it broke configuration? We are _not_ M$, we (usually) _dont_ break old systems. And __colour does only matter when you directly access it.
Really, it's inconsistent, but it happened - so... You could consider changing it on a two-year solution: create a hardlink /dev/disks <-> /dev/discs in the KERNEL(!!) and remove /dev/discs in two years. Meanwhile everyone reading docu will have upgraded ;-) (ref. to the 4-week pause before ECN on vger.kernel.org)
-mirabilos
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