From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 23:38:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E805216A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:38:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from speicher.org (speicher.org [208.199.76.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E06243D1D for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:38:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: from speicher.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by speicher.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9GNcTRO076524; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:38:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: (from geoff@localhost) by speicher.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9GNcSJ5076523; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:38:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:38:28 -0400 From: Geoff Speicher To: David Syphers Message-ID: <20041016233828.GA76284@sirius.speicher.org> References: <1097916792.1810.4.camel@kaiser.sig11.org> <200410161208.32381.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <200410161625.42502.marc.ramirez@bluecirclesoft.com> <200410161416.51163.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410161416.51163.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Marc Ramirez cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: rionda@gufi.org Subject: Re: UPDATING readability X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:38:43 -0000 On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:16:50PM -0700, David Syphers wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:25 pm, Marc Ramirez wrote: > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:08 pm, David Syphers wrote: > > > On Saturday 16 October 2004 01:53 am, Matteo Riondato wrote: > > > > Could we change an entry from: > > > > > > > > 20041007: > > > > One of the syscalls the 1:1 threading library libthr uses has > > > > changed, thus breaking ABI compatibility. Make sure you > > > > rebuild this library with the kernel. > > > > > > > > to: > > > > Compromise: One of the syscalls _which_ the ... > > Okay... this would be grammatically correct. However, I'm curious why the > original poster believes the current version to be unclear, since it is also > grammatically correct. (Omitting "that" or "which" at the beginning of a > restrictive relative clause is very common in English.) I think the point is that sometimes the omission makes a sentence less clear, and this is arguably an instance of one of those cases. I think you would agree that inserting a "that" isn't any less clear or correct. On my bikeshed, somebody wrote this: 20041007: Rebuild libthr the next time you rebuild your kernel. :) Geoff