On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:51:45 GMT, John R Rose <jr...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> 8273616: Fix trivial doc typos in the java.base module > > src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/channels/AsynchronousFileChannel.java > line 399: > >> 397: * If {@code true} then this method is required to force >> changes >> 398: * to both the file's content and metadata to be written to >> 399: * storage; otherwise, it needs only force content changes >> to be > > This is a correct though rare use of subjunctive mood: One need not change > it. > However, if be desired that we change the mood to indicative, I suggest s/it > need only force/it only needs to force/. (_it need only force_ is not really subjunctive mood, but rather usage as a modal auxiliary, see https://english.stackexchange.com/a/297235) ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5475