Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, 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: <202007281947.06SJl1IC075164@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <65062b6a-9a8e-e4fc-9355-99f26e7ef341@FreeBSD.org>
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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? Without beter wording that would be easy to do. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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