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Linus Torvalds in sweary rant about punctuation in kernel comments

pakman
Coat

BSD got it right

This is my type of comment:

<code>

.\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until

.\" the time_t's wrap around.

.Pp

You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish.

</code>

Source at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/11/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8?revision=302408&view=markup#l211

I wonder what Linus thinks about that one. Mine's the one with the tone-deaf tuna in the pocket....

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