[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix a typo

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Mon Feb 3 05:43:48 PST 2014


On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:20:01AM +0100, Stefan Beller wrote:
> 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.
It wasn't committed, np.

Zbyszek



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