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-rw-r--r--manual/examples/longopt.c2
-rw-r--r--manual/pipe.texi12
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/manual/examples/longopt.c b/manual/examples/longopt.c
index d5c841f24a..9d6bd53c0f 100644
--- a/manual/examples/longopt.c
+++ b/manual/examples/longopt.c
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
 
 /* Flag set by @samp{--verbose}.  */
 static int verbose_flag;
diff --git a/manual/pipe.texi b/manual/pipe.texi
index 773dc4aac8..274b93d427 100644
--- a/manual/pipe.texi
+++ b/manual/pipe.texi
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function; see @ref{Running a Command}.  It executes the shell command
 command to complete, it creates a pipe to the subprocess and returns a
 stream that corresponds to that pipe.
 
-If you specify a @var{mode} argument of @code{"r"}, you can read from the 
+If you specify a @var{mode} argument of @code{"r"}, you can read from the
 stream to retrieve data from the standard output channel of the subprocess.
 The subprocess inherits its standard input channel from the parent process.
 
@@ -193,11 +193,11 @@ system.
 @section Atomicity of Pipe I/O
 
 Reading or writing pipe data is @dfn{atomic} if the size of data written
-is less than @code{PIPE_BUF}.  This means that the data transfer seems
-to be an instantaneous unit, in that nothing else in the system can
-observe a state in which it is partially complete.  Atomic I/O may not
-begin right away (it may need to wait for buffer space or for data), but
-once it does begin, it finishes immediately.
+is not greater than @code{PIPE_BUF}.  This means that the data transfer
+seems to be an instantaneous unit, in that nothing else in the system
+can observe a state in which it is partially complete.  Atomic I/O may
+not begin right away (it may need to wait for buffer space or for data),
+but once it does begin, it finishes immediately.
 
 Reading or writing a larger amount of data may not be atomic; for
 example, output data from other processes sharing the descriptor may be