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Re^3: Proposal how to make modules using fork more portableby sundialsvc4 (Abbot) |
on Apr 01, 2011 at 00:05 UTC ( [id://896748]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
To me, the following sentence is not sufficiently clear: “There is a probability that the process which implements all the pseudo-processes is blocked.” As an English sentence, the beginning clause makes a clumsy use of third-person passive voice. (Should I be placidly ignoring an 0.01% probability, or running away for dear life from 99.9?) The remainder of the sentence might be technically correct, but it does not convey to me what the sentence means to me. What do I do? With regard to the final paragraph, well, I can’t close my eyes and readily visualize what a “pseudo-process” might be, nor does the text (as I read it on my computer now) contain a prior use of that term. (Note that I am not, right now, reading that perlpod on a Win32 computer.) Whether I am “familiar with Unix but not with Win32,” or vice-versa, or I am equally acquainted with both, I am not prepared by this sentence to know what I am dealing with, nor to understand both its superficial and its deeper implications. The same line of reasoning could also be applied to the earlier sentence ... “the emulation has some limitation related to kill.” (Oh, my! And what on earth might that “limitation” be, and why do you say, “some?”) Once again, I need to understand what it means to me. The documentation should have a clear meaning, and a definite, un-ambiguous answer for: “so what?” (Note: I am delighted to see you working on this documentation! I mean my feedback only in the most constructive way possible.)
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