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author | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-03-08 01:27:38 +0000 |
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committer | Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> | 2012-03-08 01:27:38 +0000 |
commit | a7a93d5086103f52367d3e9776976eb0b0bc6c7b (patch) | |
tree | a6c659fdb9c384d56bd8c01a55c9332e791f1341 /manual/filesys.texi | |
parent | 07037eeb43ca1e0ac2802e3a1492cecf869c63c6 (diff) | |
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Clean up glibc manual references to "GNU system" (bug 6911).
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diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi index 872e3710a0..dc570df181 100644 --- a/manual/filesys.texi +++ b/manual/filesys.texi @@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ the buffer. @Theglibc{} provides @code{getwd} only for backwards compatibility with BSD. The @var{buffer} argument should be a pointer to an array at least -@code{PATH_MAX} bytes long (@pxref{Limits for Files}). In the GNU -system there is no limit to the size of a file name, so this is not +@code{PATH_MAX} bytes long (@pxref{Limits for Files}). On @gnuhurdsystems{} +there is no limit to the size of a file name, so this is not necessarily enough space to contain the directory name. That is why this function is deprecated. @end deftypefn @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ field you can count on in all POSIX systems. @item ino_t d_fileno This is the file serial number. For BSD compatibility, you can also -refer to this member as @code{d_ino}. In the GNU system and most POSIX +refer to this member as @code{d_ino}. On @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} and most POSIX systems, for most files this the same as the @code{st_ino} member that @code{stat} will return for the file. @xref{File Attributes}. @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ The process has too many files open. @item ENFILE The entire system, or perhaps the file system which contains the directory, cannot support any additional open files at the moment. -(This problem cannot happen on the GNU system.) +(This problem cannot happen on @gnuhurdsystems{}.) @item ENOMEM Not enough memory available. @@ -1075,7 +1075,8 @@ The directory or file system that would contain the new link is full and cannot be extended. @item EPERM -In the GNU system and some others, you cannot make links to directories. +On @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} and some others, you cannot make links to +directories. Many systems allow only privileged users to do so. This error is used to report the problem. @@ -1099,7 +1100,7 @@ A hardware error occurred while trying to read or write the to filesystem. @cindex symbolic link @cindex link, symbolic -The GNU system supports @dfn{soft links} or @dfn{symbolic links}. This +@gnusystems{} support @dfn{soft links} or @dfn{symbolic links}. This is a kind of ``file'' that is essentially a pointer to another file name. Unlike hard links, symbolic links can be made to directories or across file systems with no restrictions. You can also make a symbolic @@ -1352,8 +1353,8 @@ The file name to be deleted doesn't exist. @item EPERM On some systems @code{unlink} cannot be used to delete the name of a directory, or at least can only be used this way by a privileged user. -To avoid such problems, use @code{rmdir} to delete directories. (In the -GNU system @code{unlink} can never delete the name of a directory.) +To avoid such problems, use @code{rmdir} to delete directories. (On +@gnulinuxhurdsystems{} @code{unlink} can never delete the name of a directory.) @item EROFS The directory containing the file name to be deleted is on a read-only @@ -1381,7 +1382,7 @@ The directory to be deleted is not empty. @end table These two error codes are synonymous; some systems use one, and some use -the other. The GNU system always uses @code{ENOTEMPTY}. +the other. @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} always use @code{ENOTEMPTY}. The prototype for this function is declared in the header file @file{unistd.h}. @@ -1458,7 +1459,7 @@ that are the current working directories of processes. @item ENOTEMPTY @itemx EEXIST -The directory @var{newname} isn't empty. The GNU system always returns +The directory @var{newname} isn't empty. @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} always return @code{ENOTEMPTY} for this, but some other systems return @code{EEXIST}. @item EINVAL @@ -2480,16 +2481,16 @@ read_umask (void) @end smallexample @noindent -However, it is better to use @code{getumask} if you just want to read -the mask value, because it is reentrant (at least if you use the GNU -operating system). +However, on @gnuhurdsystems{} it is better to use @code{getumask} if +you just want to read the mask value, because it is reentrant. @end deftypefun @comment sys/stat.h @comment GNU @deftypefun mode_t getumask (void) Return the current value of the file creation mask for the current -process. This function is a GNU extension. +process. This function is a GNU extension and is only available on +@gnuhurdsystems{}. @end deftypefun @comment sys/stat.h |