From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: miquels@cistron-office.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch: 2.5.62 devfs shrink
Date: 28 Feb 2003 13:03:16 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buou1ep8323.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302280314.TAA11682@baldur.yggdrasil.com>
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:
> For example, should the directory names be singular or plural
> (/dev/loop or /dev/loops, /dev/disk or /dev/disks)? I would recommend
> signular because it is less English-centric.
I think singular is also far more common in existing [unix] practice.
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-28 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-28 3:14 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-28 4:03 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-02-28 8:08 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-02-28 12:50 ` Helge Hafting
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2003-02-28 2:49 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-27 23:13 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-28 0:00 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-28 1:37 ` Andrew Walrond
2003-02-26 2:47 miltonm
2003-02-25 10:23 Adam J. Richter
2003-02-25 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2003-02-26 0:51 ` Dave Jones
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