Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:51:35 +0200 From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, yuripv@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r363598 - head/usr.sbin/nologin Message-ID: <65062b6a-9a8e-e4fc-9355-99f26e7ef341@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <202007271717.06RHHc0j070402@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <202007271717.06RHHc0j070402@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Hi, On 7/27/20 7:17 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > On 7/27/20 6:41 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer) >>>> Date: Mon Jul 27 10:45:47 2020 >>>> New Revision: 363598 >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363598 >>>> >>>> Log: >>>> nologin.8: Improve wording >>> I disagree that this improves wording. The norm of action for >>> "logging" in Unix is to "write to syslog", not "log to syslog". >> Hmm, I agree, but here it is "log using syslog". > Please read syslog(3) it is rather consistent about using > "write to syslog". The action of calling syslog(3) is to > "writes message to the system message logger." Obviously, we write to syslog but from what I remember the reason why we decided to change the wording to "log using syscall" was that you don't write to the syslog(3) function, but you use it instead. > >> Have you got any idea how to further improve this sentence? > No, but can we not degrade it? Sure. Would you like me to just revert it? Cheers, Mateusz
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