[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix a typo

Stefan Beller stefanbeller at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 3 00:20:01 PST 2014


On 03.02.2014 05:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 11:03:06PM +0100, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> ---
>>  src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1 | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1 b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
>> index 90d184b7..750033f 100644
>> --- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
>> +++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/PORTING-DBUS1
>> @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ have attached. Note that when issuing the ioctl, you can select a
>>  different set of credentials to gather, than what was originally requested
>>  for being attached to incoming messages.
>>  
>> -Credentials are always specific to the sender's domain that was
>> +Credentials are always specific to the senders domain that was
>>  current at the time of sending, and of the process that opened the
> I'm not certain if the current version is gramatically correct, but
> the proposed version seems wrong: there's just one sender, so only
> singular form makes sense.
> 
> Zbyszek
> 

I got confused there indeed.
It was correct before used as possessive apostrophe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Possessive_apostrophe

In german however an apostrophe is used almost exclusively to indicate
omitted letters, which is a common confusion here.

Please revert my commit as it's wrong.

Stefan


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