diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/llio.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/llio.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi index 23c5f767f1..c31a5cf0eb 100644 --- a/manual/llio.texi +++ b/manual/llio.texi @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ extra bytes are stripped of. If the file was small or equal to @var{length} in size before nothing is done. The file must be writable by the user to perform this operation. -The return value is zero is everything wnet ok. Otherwise the return +The return value is zero is everything went ok. Otherwise the return value is @math{-1} and the global variable @var{errno} is set to: @table @code @item EACCES @@ -1180,16 +1180,16 @@ No synchronization is possible since the system does not implement this. Sometimes it is not even necessary to write all data associated with a file descriptor. E.g., in database files which do not change in size it is enough to write all the file content data to the device. -Metainformation like the modification time etc. are not that important +Meta-information like the modification time etc. are not that important and leaving such information uncommitted does not prevent a successful recovering of the file in case of a problem. @comment unistd.h @comment POSIX @deftypefun int fdatasync (int @var{fildes}) -When a call to the @code{fdatasync} function returns it is maed sure +When a call to the @code{fdatasync} function returns it is made sure that all of the file data is written to the device. For all pending I/O -operations the parts guaranteeing data integrety finished. +operations the parts guaranteeing data integrity finished. Not all systems implement the @code{fdatasync} operation. On systems missing this functionality @code{fdatasync} is emulated by a call to |