On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, at 18:02, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 8:44 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I think we could omit "i.e. privileges list." >> > > Agreed. Between the docs and code we say "privileges list" once and > that refers to the dumputIls description of the arguments to grant. As > the acronym page now defines the term using fundamentals, introducing > another term not used elsewhere seems undesirable.
New version attached. > Observations: > We are referencing a disambiguation page. We never actually spell out > ACL anywhere so we might as well just reference what Wikipedia believes > is the expected spelling. > > The page we link to uses "permissions" while we consistently use > "privileges" to describe the contents of the list. This seems like an > obvious synonym, but as the point of these is to formally define > things, pointing this equivalence is worth considering. I like this idea. How could this be implemented in the docs? Maybe a <note>...</note> for ACL in acronyms.sgml? /Joel
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