On 25.09.2013 15:18, Jon Grant wrote: > Hello mtk > > Would it be better to replace "his" with "their", in the interests of equality? > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/assert.3.html > > "The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his > program. The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function > do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user." > > > NB. This may apply to other man pages. Hi Jon, I fixed four pages along the lines you suggest. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ My next Linux/UNIX system programming course: http://blog.man7.org/2013/09/linuxunix-system-programming-course.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html