Re: typo in accept-process-output (process.c)

[David Kastrup]

Dieter Wilhelm <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi 
>
> There's a typo in Emacs 22.1 (still there in EMACS_22_BASE).  Is it OK
> when I post typos here or should I do it with a bug report?
>
> Index: process.c
> ===================================================================
> --- process.c (revision 7)
> +++ process.c (working copy)
> @@ -3920,7 +3920,7 @@
>  If optional fourth arg JUST-THIS-ONE is non-nil, only accept output
>  from PROCESS, suspending reading output from other processes.
>  If JUST-THIS-ONE is an integer, don't run any timers either.
> -Return non-nil iff we received any output before the timeout expired.  */)
> +Return non-nil if we received any output before the timeout expired.  */)
>       (process, seconds, millisec, just_this_one)
>       register Lisp_Object process, seconds, millisec, just_this_one;

That is not a typo.

>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  iff
       
          <mathematics, logic> if and only if, i.e. necessary and
          sufficient.  For example, two figures are {congruent} iff one
          can be placed over the other so that they coincide.
       
          (2002-12-28)


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