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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:55:02 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Maxim Konovalov <maxim@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c
Message-ID:  <20060602102502.GF55506@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060602093829.GE23618@submonkey.net>
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On Friday,  2 June 2006 at 10:38:29 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:54:59AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Friday,  2 June 2006 at  2:50:47 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:01, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:49:50AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>>>>>> @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@
>>>>>> the file must be open for writing.
>>>>>> .Sh RETURN VALUES
>>>>>> .Rv -std
>>>>>> +If the file to be modified is not a directory or
>>>>>> +a regular file, the
>>>>>> +.Fn truncate
>>>>>> +call will return the value 0.
>>>>>
>>>>> Doesn't "value of 0" sound better?
>>>>
>>>> Not to me, though I can't explain why.  I think the phrase "X will return
>>>> the
>>>> value Y" is common in man pages though.
>>>
>>> "will return" sounds strange to be.
>>
>> Yes, it will be better if you avoid the future tense.
>
> May I recommend that one of you just change it?

What colour?

Greg
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