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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] qemu-img: Document --force-share /
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] qemu-img: Document --force-share / -U |
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Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:53:59 +0800 |
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On Fri, 12/08 08:42, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Fam Zheng <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 12/07 10:53, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> On 12/07/2017 04:58 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 04:44:53PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> [...]
> >> >> +it less likely to conflict with a running guest's permissions due to
> >> >> image
> >> >> +locking. For example, this can be used to get the image information
> >> >> (with
> >> >> +'info' subcommand) when the image is used by a running guest. Note
> >> >> that this
> >> >> +could produce inconsistent result because of concurrent metadata
> >> >> changes, etc..
> >> >
> >> > Super nit-pick: an ellipsis[*] is three dots :-), so, when applying you
> >> > might want to: s/../.../
> >> >
> >> > [*] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ellipsis
> >>
> >> Except that both "etc." and "..." independently convey a sense of
> >> continuation, which means that using both at once is both redundant
> >> (just one will do) and difficult to argue how to typeset (since 'etc.'
> >> is often written with an explicit '.' to emphasize that is an
> >> abbreviation, does that mean you have to write 'etc.''...' for a total
> >> of 4 dots?).
> >
> > I have the impression that "etc." is more correct than "etc"
>
> It is.
>
> > so I used even
> > at
> > the end of the sensence where there is another period '.', making it
> > "etc..".
>
> That's wrong all the same :)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_(punctuation)#Abbreviations
>
> > If ending the paragraph with "etc." is enough, we can drop one ".".
>
> Please do.
Yes, thanks, v2 sent.
Fam