Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:18:39 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 21 2007 17:56, Herbert Xu wrote: >>As to what is a complete sentence, that is debatable. However, >>typically it would include a subject and a predicate. By this >>rule the following line is not a complete sentence: >> >> [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly >> >>The reason is that it lacks a subject. > > "current offset" is your subject.
It's an object, not the subject.
The quoted changelog heading is a complete sentence nevertheless, as it is an imperative sentence. Its subject is implied.
It could end in a period or in an exclamation mark. But as it's actually a heading, it doesn't have to and probably shouldn't. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== ==-- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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