linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.

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Message-ID: <20150806125435.694d9ee3@noble>
Date:	Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:54:35 +1000
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:41:52 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
wrote:

> On 07/24/15 17:28, NeilBrown wrote:
> > 
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> Some edits for you to consider.

Wow, thanks.  I think I agree with all ... had to do some research for
"neither is" though.

> 
> > +However, there is a little bit more to seqlocks than that.  If
> > +RCU-walk accesses two different fields in a seqlock-protected
> > +structure, or accesses the same field twice, there is no a-priori
> 
>                                              no hyphen:      ^

Do you have an opinion on where I should but "a priori" in italics?
I feel there needs to be something to make it clear the "a" is not an
English "a".

Jon: do you want an incremental patch, or a resend?

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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