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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-10-24 12:02:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-10-24 12:02:44 +0200 |
| commit | c1405e4f313768519d66f49e0ffcbe964409d150 (patch) | |
| tree | 0fff90d5c72d665d4ffeb32dba46ff517a284013 | |
| parent | 08cb4bdd70309c5d8e56e0469358c53f49079b74 (diff) | |
man: avoid gendered singular pronouns
Using "their" as pronoun in these places is confusing since it is more
associated with plural rather than singular, and the sentence already
contains a plural. The word "her/his" apparently offends some people,
hence let's avoid the problem altogether and just name the noun again.
| -rw-r--r-- | man/pam_systemd.xml | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/pam_systemd.xml b/man/pam_systemd.xml index 40709f7c54..f81a4070bc 100644 --- a/man/pam_systemd.xml +++ b/man/pam_systemd.xml @@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ <orderedlist> <listitem><para>If enabled in <citerefentry><refentrytitle>logind.conf</refentrytitle> - <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, - all processes of the session are terminated. If - the last concurrent session of a user ends, his - user systemd instance will be terminated too, - and so will the user's slice + <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, all + processes of the session are terminated. If + the last concurrent session of a user ends, + ther user's systemd instance will be + terminated too, and so will the user's slice unit.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>If the last concurrent session @@ -202,9 +202,9 @@ to the user login time on the machine. It is automatically created the first time a user logs in and - removed on his final logout. If a user - logs in twice at the same time, both - sessions will see the same + removed on the user's final logout. If + a user logs in twice at the same time, + both sessions will see the same <varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname> and the same contents. If a user logs in once, then logs out again, and logs |