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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-03-02 16:37:17 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-03-02 16:37:17 (GMT)
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@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
\chapter{Amoeba Specific Services}
\section{\module{amoeba} ---
- Amoeba system support.}
-\declaremodule{builtin}{amoeba}
+ Amoeba system support}
+\declaremodule{builtin}{amoeba}
+ \platform{Amoeba}
\modulesynopsis{Functions for the Amoeba operating system.}
@@ -12,13 +13,13 @@ Amoeba applications. It is only available on systems that support
Amoeba operations. RPC errors and other Amoeba errors are reported as
the exception \code{amoeba.error = 'amoeba.error'}.
-The module \code{amoeba} defines the following items:
+The module \module{amoeba} defines the following items:
\begin{funcdesc}{name_append}{path, cap}
Stores a capability in the Amoeba directory tree.
Arguments are the pathname (a string) and the capability (a capability
object as returned by
-\code{name_lookup()}).
+\function{name_lookup()}).
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{name_delete}{path}
@@ -38,11 +39,11 @@ object, to which various interesting operations apply, described below.
Replaces a capability in the Amoeba directory tree.
Arguments are the pathname and the new capability.
(This differs from
-\code{name_append()}
+\function{name_append()}
in the behavior when the pathname already exists:
-\code{name_append()}
+\function{name_append()}
finds this an error while
-\code{name_replace()}
+\function{name_replace()}
allows it, as its name suggests.)
\end{funcdesc}
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ in C.
The exception raised when an Amoeba function returns an error.
The value accompanying this exception is a pair containing the numeric
error code and the corresponding string, as returned by the C function
-\code{err_why()}.
+\cfunction{err_why()}.
\end{excdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{timeout}{msecs}