Fam Zheng <[email protected]> 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.
