From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: "Jeremy M. Dolan" <jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org>
Cc: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 04:28:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010201042813.C27725@cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6lah7t4f685qo3igk679ocdo2obfhd9lvg@4ax.com> <20010201034217.A550@foozle.turbogeek.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010201034217.A550@foozle.turbogeek.org>; from jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:42:17AM -0600
[Jeremy M. Dolan]
> Disk is spelled 'disk' except for Compact Disc and Digital Versatile
> Disc. If it wasn't 3:30 in the morning, a patch would be attached.
It wouldn't do any good. Many months ago, Ted Ts'o pleaded with
Richard Gooch (devfs author, from Australia) to switch to the American
spelling of the word, for consistency with the rest of the kernel, and
nothing came of it. At this point you may as well consider
'/dev/discs' an "interface set in stone". (Come on, do *you* want to
explain to thousands of people why their /etc/fstab suddenly broke?)
Peter
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-01 0:19 Alan Chandler
2001-02-01 0:35 ` List User
2001-02-01 18:27 ` idalton
2001-02-01 19:07 ` alex
2001-02-01 19:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-01 23:17 ` Harald Arnesen
2001-02-01 9:42 ` Jeremy M. Dolan
2001-01-31 23:00 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-01 10:28 ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2001-02-01 10:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 17:21 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-08 23:31 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-02-02 3:32 ` Mike Castle
2001-02-02 9:57 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2001-02-02 14:07 ` mirabilos
2001-02-02 15:47 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-10 0:41 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-10 23:17 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-02-10 23:51 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-02-11 0:22 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-11 3:56 ` John Cavan
2001-02-01 23:04 Wayne.Brown
2001-02-01 0:32 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-01 23:12 ` Mike Harrold
[not found] <fa.gvan6kv.3664g1@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.i0lgugv.dhmm08@ifi.uio.no>
2001-02-02 12:49 ` Tor Arntsen
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