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Re: [PATCH 2/2] manual/setjmp.texi: Improve clarity of Sys V context doc
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Michael <mtk dot lists at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, "Michael Kerrisk (gmail)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:20:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] manual/setjmp.texi: Improve clarity of Sys V context doc
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 12:47:47PM +0100, Michael wrote:
> Ondrej,
>
> Surprisingly, no-one called this...
>
> On 03/03/2014 11:56 AM, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:58:01PM +0800, Will Newton wrote:
> >> ChangeLog:
> >>
> >> 2014-03-03 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
> >>
> >> * manual/setjmp.texi (System V contexts): Improve
> >> clarity and grammar of documentation.
> >> ---
> >> manual/setjmp.texi | 21 ++++++++++-----------
> >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/manual/setjmp.texi b/manual/setjmp.texi
> >> index 3bef1b1..9446abc 100644
> >> --- a/manual/setjmp.texi
> >> +++ b/manual/setjmp.texi
> >> @@ -307,17 +307,16 @@ The function returns @code{0} if successful. Otherwise it returns
> >> @end deftypefun
> [...]
> >> +If this is necessary the user has to determine this herself. This must
> >
> > Written to promote role of woman it IT. Otherwise ok.
>
> Perhaps this was meant as a joke, but, even in that case, the remark is part of
> the very problem that Will's text tries to address. For centuries, women have
> been written out of the story. Witness the pervasive effect of that, when
> even an intelligent person in a small way (wittingly or unwittingly) diminishes
> attempts to write themback into the story. As far as I can see, GNU projects
> try to be more inclusive than that; remarks such as the above are not helpful
> toward that goal.
>
It was originally there. I just pointed that out.