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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-10-24 12:02:44 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-10-24 12:02:44 +0200
commitc1405e4f313768519d66f49e0ffcbe964409d150 (patch)
tree0fff90d5c72d665d4ffeb32dba46ff517a284013
parent08cb4bdd70309c5d8e56e0469358c53f49079b74 (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.xml16
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/pam_systemd.xml b/man/pam_systemd.xml
index 40709f7c5..f81a4070b 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