Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:42:15 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Dag-Erling C. Smxf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/dpt dpt_control.c src/sys/gnu/ext2fs... Message-ID: <199804180542.NAA17129@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 22:00:31 MST." <3538336F.41C67EA6@whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > "Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" wrote: > > > des 1998/04/17 15:37:20 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/dev/dpt dpt_control.c > > > sys/gnu/ext2fs COPYRIGHT.INFO ext2_alloc.c ext2_vnops.c > > [..] > > > sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c > > > Log: > > > Seventy-odd "its" / "it's" typos in comments fixed as per kern/6108. > > > > What the hell??? I don't call this "fixing typos", as far as I can tell, > > most of these changes have broken the correct usage. > > > > eg: here, we are talking about the device's softc: > > +++ dpt_control.c 1998/03/23 10:49:01 > > @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ > > > > /** > > * Given a minor device number, > > - * return the pointer to it's softc structure > > + * return the pointer to its softc structure > > > sorry to contradict you Peter but this is the trick.. > > "its" is a single word, the same as: > "his" and "her" > > as in: > > his cat, her cat, its cat > > > the other version, e.g. > "Joh's crow" or "John's VM code", > shouldn't be confused with this.. > > why schools never explain it in this way I'll never understand. > it took me years till someone explained this to me so clearly.. > > Until then I'd assumed.. > "Sue's cakes", "John's cat", "it's softc" > > but that's wrong. > "it's" is soley for the contraction "it is". > > julian Yes, I see that now. But I had to look at a dictionary first before I believed it... :-) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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