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bug#41634: 'timeout' returning 124 and 133


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#41634: 'timeout' returning 124 and 133
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 14:34:01 +0100
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On 07/06/2020 13:38, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Minor, grammar-related question:

+Upon timeout send the TERM signal to COMMAND, if no other SIGNAL specified.\n\
_______________^
s/timeout/&,/ ?

I stumbled upon this sentence a couple of times - shouldn't there be a comma?
The word 'timeout' could be a regular noun, a verb, or in this special case
the name of the tool, so I had to read the first half several times.
But maybe it's only me as a non-native English speaker - commas are much
cheaper over here. ;-)

When writing --help we tend to be space limited,
so I tend to write with punctuation mainly as disambiguation.
But indeed it is better to add the comma there, and we have space.

cheers,
Pádraig





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