Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261712AbVASM7t (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:59:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261713AbVASM7t (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:59:49 -0500 Received: from mail-06.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.38]:37087 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261712AbVASM7r (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:59:47 -0500 Message-ID: <41EE59BD.5070801@cyberone.com.au> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:41 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: Marcelo Tosatti , Mauricio Lin , Andrew Morton , Mauricio Lin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc References: <3f250c7105010613115554b9d9@mail.gmail.com> <20050106202339.4f9ba479.akpm@osdl.org> <3f250c7105011414466f22fc37@mail.gmail.com> <20050114154209.6b712e55.akpm@osdl.org> <3f250c71050117100332774211@mail.gmail.com> <3f250c71050117110241dfc46c@mail.gmail.com> <20050117173023.GA22202@logos.cnet> <20050117213544.GA8896@holomorphy.com> <41EC614F.9070205@cyberone.com.au> In-Reply-To: <41EC614F.9070205@cyberone.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 29 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > >> It also is used in a particular euphemism that made >> it seem odd to me. I suspect it wasn't thought of when it was chosen. >> >> > > No. What's the euphemism? > > ... a few private responses later... Thanks for the enlightenment, everyone. Next time I won't ask! ;) But hey, what was the alternative? phd? Nah, I wouldn't like to give Hugh the satisfaction! (http://lwn.net/Articles/111506/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/