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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:04:16 +0100
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lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:55:16PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> o_O  I better continue believing it is the subject. Because with
>> one extra word at the front, you can make this a "complete sentence":
>> 
>> 	Please initialize [the] current offset in xfs_file_readdir.
>
> That still looks like an incomplete sentence, although orders are often
> given in that form.  Something like these seem more like complete
> sentences:

It's simply the imperative. You can make perfectly good English
sentences in just one word -- "Eat." is an example. See more at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_mood.

It is a bit of a mystery why the kernel is ordering me to initialize
the current offset of xfs_file_readdir though. I don't know how to do
that, so I guess it's lucky that I don't use XFS. Who knows what would
happen if I didn't correctly initialize xfs_file_readdir.


/Benny


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