man: use singular “they”

For an example where we already use it, see man:sd-login(3):

> A session is defined by the time a user is logged in until they log out.

As far as I can tell, this removes the only remaining occurrences of
referring to users by gendered pronouns in our documentation (though
some still survive in code comments and the NEWS and TODO files):

    git grep '\b\(he\|him\|his\|she\|her\|hers\)\b' man/

diff --git a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
index 6d0aaa458773bd632c96b9ed5912988d3c520bbb..f0f03a29b21fa47d08eeb9bf10431b7230faf21e 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-journald.service.xml
@@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal</programlisting>
 
     <para>Journal files are, by default, owned and readable by the
     <literal>systemd-journal</literal> system group but are not
-    writable. Adding a user to this group thus enables her/him to read
+    writable. Adding a user to this group thus enables them to read
     the journal files.</para>
 
-    <para>By default, each logged in user will get her/his own set of
+    <para>By default, each logged in user will get their own set of
     journal files in <filename>/var/log/journal/</filename>. These
     files will not be owned by the user, however, in order to avoid
     that the user can write to them directly. Instead, file system

diff --git a/man/systemd.generator.xml b/man/systemd.generator.xml
index 8a7a11a8627e1a34b1fa05a277d139277efb7da4..5007563e062e13c5f8ccc0df0d50ceb1d9bca559 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd.generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.generator.xml
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
       <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-fstab-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       converts <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> into native mount units. It uses
       argv[1] as location to place the generated unit files in order to allow the
-      user to override <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> with her own native unit
+      user to override <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> with their own native unit
       files, but also to ensure that <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> overrides any
       vendor default from <filename>/usr</filename>.</para>