On Thu, 6 Feb 2025, 17:01-0700, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 4:17?PM Benjamin Kaduk <bjkf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 12:29?PM Maxim Konovalov <ma...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> The branch main has been updated by maxim:
> >>
> >> URL:
> >> https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b7f2a457a883c8530c9b6111cee6a988ce5b7249
> >>
> >> commit b7f2a457a883c8530c9b6111cee6a988ce5b7249
> >> Author:     Maxim Konovalov <ma...@freebsd.org>
> >> AuthorDate: 2025-02-04 20:26:53 +0000
> >> Commit:     Maxim Konovalov <ma...@freebsd.org>
> >> CommitDate: 2025-02-04 20:26:53 +0000
> >>
> >>     arch.7: grammar fixes
> >>
> >>     The "for hysterical raisons" was a nice one, though.
> >>
> >>     MFC after:      3 days
> >> ---
> >>  share/man/man7/arch.7 | 4 ++--
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/share/man/man7/arch.7 b/share/man/man7/arch.7
> >> index a3c875df0bff..796c6db7d299 100644
> >> --- a/share/man/man7/arch.7
> >> +++ b/share/man/man7/arch.7
> >> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ userland interfaces relating to underlying hardware
> >> platform
> >>  differences in bus architecture, device enumeration and boot interface.
> >>  Generally,
> >>  .Dv MACHINE
> >> -should only be used in src/sys and src/stand or in system imagers or
> >> +should only be used in src/sys and src/stand or in system images or
> >>  installers.
> >>
> >
> > "system imagers" is a real term -- people or scripts who image
> > (i.e., install) systems.  I think "imagers" makes more sense than
> > "images" here since the "system image" would typically be a static
> > set of data and the imager is a thing that is potentially dynamic
> > (i.e., needing to control MACHINE or behave differently depending
> > on its value) and the system images that it produce do not gain
> > any value from examining MACHINE).
> >
[...]

Yes, it might be, I thought about that.

Since we have the author of this text -- Warner, is it "imagers" or
"images"?

Thanks,

Maxim

-- 
Maxim Konovalov

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