On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lenn...@poettering.net> wrote:
> Well, the sentence is complicated enough as it is.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Switching to "her/his" would be a definitely improvement.

What if we reworded it to avoid the use of them, his, or her
altogether? Something like:

>-                        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
>-                        unit.</para></listitem>
>+                        all processes of the session are terminated. If
>+                        the last concurrent session of a user ends,
>+                        that user's systemd instance and slice unit
>+                        will both be terminated.</para></listitem>
...
>-                                removed on his final logout. If a user
>+                                 removed when the user logs out of
>+                                 the last active session. If a user
or
>+                                 removed when the user has logged
>+                                 out of all active sessions. If a user

It's a bit more verbose, but I think it's more precise, and it
completely sidesteps the 'singular they' debate (which I'll refrain
from weighing in on).

Chris Bell

Ph.D. Student
University of South Florida
College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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