Hi David, On 12/13/2016 02:31 PM, David Howells wrote: > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I use/Linux man-pages uses the "Oxford comma" convention. > > "... an optional comma ..." ;-) > > There's also: > > ... LSM security checks are still performed, and may filter out > further keys that the process is not authorized to view. > > but has two parts and isn't a list... ;-P
Oxford comma doesn't apply there... But, to me, it depends how you read the text aloud. I'd read it with a pause where the comma is, and so added a comma there. > >>>> D The key is dead (i.e., has been deleted). (A >>>> key may be briefly in this state during >>>> garbage collection.) >>> >>> No - "dead" in this context means that the key type was unregistered. >> >> Okay, so the text should read as: >> >> D The key is dead (i.e., the key has been unregis‐ >> tered). (A key may be briefly in this state >> during garbage collection.) >> >> Right? > > Not quite. The driver for the key type has been unregistered, not the key. Bother. I meant to write "key type"! Fixed. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
