[PATCH] dlls: Fix "seeking to" typo.

[Ken Thomases]

On Aug 8, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/8/19 9:11 AM, Serge Gautherie wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Serge Gautherie <winehq-git_serge_180711 at gautherie.fr>
>> ---
>>  dlls/d3dxof/parsing.c   | 2 +-
>>  dlls/winmm/tests/mmio.c | 4 ++--
>>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/dlls/d3dxof/parsing.c b/dlls/d3dxof/parsing.c
>> index 7d31627..94afd42 100644
>> --- a/dlls/d3dxof/parsing.c
>> +++ b/dlls/d3dxof/parsing.c
>> @@ -1427,7 +1427,7 @@ BOOL parse_object(parse_buffer * buf)
>>    if (get_TOKEN(buf) != TOKEN_CBRACE)
>>      return FALSE;
>>  -  /* For seeking to a possibly eof to avoid parsing another object next time */
>> +  /* For seeking a possibly eof to avoid parsing another object next time */
>>    check_TOKEN(buf);
>>      return TRUE;
>> diff --git a/dlls/winmm/tests/mmio.c b/dlls/winmm/tests/mmio.c
>> index 5501c31..f21deab 100644
>> --- a/dlls/winmm/tests/mmio.c
>> +++ b/dlls/winmm/tests/mmio.c
>> @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static void test_mmio_buffer_pointer(void)
>>      ok(res == MMSYSERR_NOERROR, "mmioAdvance failed %x\n", res);
>>      ok(mmio.pchEndRead-mmio.pchBuffer == sizeof(buffer), "got %d\n", (int)(mmio.pchEndRead-mmio.pchBuffer));
>>  -    /* seeking to the same buffer chunk, the buffer is kept */
>> +    /* seeking the same buffer chunk, the buffer is kept */
>>      size = sizeof(buffer)/2;
>>      pos = mmioSeek(hmmio, size, SEEK_SET);
>>      ok(pos == size, "failed to seek, expected %d, got %d\n", size, pos);
>> @@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ static void test_mmio_buffer_pointer(void)
>>      ok(mmio.pchNext-mmio.pchBuffer == size, "expected %d, got %d\n", size, (int)(mmio.pchNext-mmio.pchBuffer));
>>      ok(mmio.pchEndRead-mmio.pchBuffer == sizeof(buffer), "got %d\n", (int)(mmio.pchEndRead-mmio.pchBuffer));
>>  -    /* seeking to another buffer chunk, the buffer is empty */
>> +    /* seeking another buffer chunk, the buffer is empty */
>>      size = sizeof(buffer) * 3 + sizeof(buffer) / 2;
>>      pos = mmioSeek(hmmio, size, SEEK_SET);
>>      ok(pos == size, "failed to seek, got %d\n", pos);
> 
> This doesn't seem like a typo, and I'd be surprised to learn it's ungrammatical.

I agree that it's correct as-is, but only because of the programming-specific meaning of "seeking" in terms of repositioning a file/buffer position.  "Seeking to <noun>" would be very odd with any normal sense of "seeking".

-Ken