Op 05/18/16 om 13:55 schreef Ingo Schwarze:
Hi,
Remco wrote on Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:29:40AM +0200:
Op 05/18/16 om 01:49 schreef Edgar Pettijohn:
The wording made it hard for me to understand at first.
The "unless" "non-zero" seem like double negatives.
Actually, quadruple negation:
1
Hi,
Remco wrote on Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:29:40AM +0200:
> Op 05/18/16 om 01:49 schreef Edgar Pettijohn:
>> The wording made it hard for me to understand at first.
>> The "unless" "non-zero" seem like double negatives.
Actually, quadruple negation:
1. Unless
2. nochdir is
3. non-
4. zero
Op 05/18/16 om 01:49 schreef Edgar Pettijohn:
The wording made it hard for me to understand at first. The "unless"
"non-zero" seem like double negatives.
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> i agree your text is easier to read. actually reading things like this
> seems clear until you try and think about what it means.
>
> still, you are changing the emphasis of the text. it seems the
> author chose that wording deliberately. it reads like the author
> wants to say that it would be
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 06:49:27PM -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
> The wording made it hard for me to understand at first. The "unless"
> "non-zero" seem like double negatives.
>
i agree your text is easier to read. actually reading things like this
seems clear until you try and think about what
The wording made it hard for me to understand at first. The "unless"
"non-zero" seem like double negatives.
Index: daemon.3
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RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/gen/daemon.3,v
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diff -u -p -u -r1.12 daemon.3
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