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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: kern/6184: No error if resulting file pos in lseek is negative 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:40:02 MST."
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On Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:40:02 MST, jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:

>   .It Bq Er EINVAL
>   .Fa Whence
>  -is not a proper value.
>  +is not a proper value or the resulting file offset would be negative.
			^^^

Stick a comma in there to emphasise for English-speaking people that
these are two distinct possibilities.  Funnily enough, people whose
native language is not English usually interpret this sort of sentence
correctly. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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