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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs/dcache: fix typos and sentence disorder
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 04:35:34PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:00:20PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:31:53PM +0800, Xiaofeng Cao wrote:
> > > change 'sould' to 'should'
> > > change 'colocated' to 'collocated'
> >
> > uh. collocated is incorrect. colocated is correct.
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colocate
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/collocate
>
> A bit more condensed variant: these two are both derived from
> con- + loco, but have different meanings -
> colocated: occupying the same place
> collocated: sitting next to each other
>
> In this case it's very much the former - the point of comment is that
> the fields in question share the same memory location, but we are
> guaranteed that any dentry we find in the alias list of an inode will
> have that location used for ->i_dentry.
>
> "co-located" would probably work better there.
>
> PS: history of that word pair is amusing. Both are (English) past participles,
> of co-locate and collocate resp. The former had the (Latin) prefix applied in
> English to borrowing from Latin (co-locate < locate < locatus) , the latter
> is straight borrowing (collocate < collocatus). Incidentally, in both cases
> the borrowed form had already been a past participle (of loco and
> colloco) resp. And colloco had the same prefix (com-/con-/co-) applied
> in Latin, with regular assimilation of -nl- to -ll-. But at that stage
> the meaning of the verb had been closer to "put in place" than to
> "be in place", so that gave "put next to each other" instead of "share
> the place". Shift towards "be found next to each other" happened long after
> the prefix had been applied...

(Flashback to my latin exams. The only thing that is missing is
complete confusion about nested subordinate clauses... ;))

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