On Fri, 24.10.14 03:19, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:15:59PM -0700, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > man: in pam_systemd, it must be "his" (or "her"), not their > > Why? "Their" is gramatically correct, and sidesteps specyfing the gender. > > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/192/is-it-correct-to-use-their-instead-of-his-or-her It's misleading since it's still primarily associated with plural. And the sentence contains a plural form, which means it can be understood incorrectly. Anyway, I now changed the page to always repeat "the user" again, instead of any pronoun. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
