Hello Jessica, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Jessica McKellar <jesstess@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > The following patch (also attached) makes some small grammar fixes to > the O_DIRECT description in man2/open.2. The patch is against master > in git: Thanks. Applied for man-pages-3.36. Cheers, Michael > === > > diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 > index 69324dd..a97158a 100644 > --- a/man2/open.2 > +++ b/man2/open.2 > @@ -281,11 +281,11 @@ special situations, such as when applications do > their own caching. > File I/O is done directly to/from user space buffers. > The > .B O_DIRECT > -flag on its own makes at an effort to transfer data synchronously, > +flag on its own makes an effort to transfer data synchronously, > but does not give the guarantees of the > .B O_SYNC > -that data and necessary metadata are transferred. > -To guarantee synchronous I/O the > +flag that data and necessary metadata are transferred. > +To guarantee synchronous I/O, > .B O_SYNC > must be used in addition to > .BR O_DIRECT . > > === > > Regards, > -Jessica > > -- > Jessica McKellar > http://jesstess.com -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
