Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:08:51 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small |
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, javaman wrote: > > A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt: > it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)
The IFF is just a way of saying "if and only if". So it's not actually a typo, it's just that some of the kernel people probably took a few too many courses in mathematics and their English-language skills were impacted by it.
Linus
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