svn commit: r318699 - head/lib/libc/gen
Ngie Cooper
ngie at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 23 06:55:52 UTC 2017
Author: ngie
Date: Tue May 23 06:55:51 2017
New Revision: 318699
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318699
Log:
directory(3): delete trailing whitespace and rewrite `E.g.` as `e.g.`
Reported by: make manlint
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Modified:
head/lib/libc/gen/directory.3
Modified: head/lib/libc/gen/directory.3
==============================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/gen/directory.3 Tue May 23 06:53:31 2017 (r318698)
+++ head/lib/libc/gen/directory.3 Tue May 23 06:55:51 2017 (r318699)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)directory.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd August 31, 2016
+.Dd May 22, 2017
.Dt DIRECTORY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -292,14 +292,15 @@ is likely to be wrong if there are paral
and the directory is larger than one page.
There is code to ensure that a
.Fn seekdir
-to the location given by a
+to the location given by a
.Fn telldir
-immediately before the last
+immediately before the last
.Fn readdir
will always set the correct location to return the same value as that last
.Fn readdir
performed.
-This is enough for some applications which want to "push back the last entry read" E.g. Samba.
+This is enough for some applications which want to
+"push back the last entry read", e.g. Samba.
Seeks back to any other location,
other than the beginning of the directory,
may result in unexpected behaviour if deletes are present.
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