From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90D041388BF for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC00AE086A; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:37:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 988AFE07FA for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aVzUU-0004yq-E0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:37:50 +0100 Received: from ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net ([98.167.165.199]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:37:50 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:37:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: supervise-daemon -- a lightweight openrc daemon supervisor Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20160216185117.GC1704@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20160216193208.4fcbb6d7@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> <20160216220442.GA2892@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20160216221944.48a65f6e@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> <56C41395.3040702@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT a52b404) X-Archives-Salt: 998a4c7d-432b-408c-9f4c-d7c077d13bea X-Archives-Hash: a7970bf5e3d65d5071c3f20eaf888dcc Daniel Campbell posted on Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:30:45 -0800 as excerpted: > IMO you're over-thinking it. I read it as "As you were, then", which is > a common saying in the (American, at least) military advising one to > keep doing what they're doing, or return to a resting position. :) Yes. That's how I read it too... with the direct military reference in my head... but only _after_ realizing my first read simply didn't make sense in context. But I agree, that's almost certainly what was intended, which was why I decided there was a missing break, so that "As you were, then", could take on the military meaning, which in my (no-military-experience) mind at least, generally comes after a pause, represented by a break, in print. Without that, I saw it as continuation of the previous thought, with its connections with "dumb". And knowing from hard experience how easy it is to type something that ends up being misread across continents and cultures, I thought it best to mention the missing break, tho in hindsight I also should have been explicit about the military reference of the positive interpretation, as well, as while I considered it obvious once the break was there, now that I think about it, it's equally likely (if not more so) to be missed, by anyone not particularly familiar with the cultural reference. So thanks for making the military reference explicit. I saw it on second read, but failed to make it explicit, thus inviting misinterpretation, myself. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman