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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-11-28 07:26:15 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-11-28 07:26:15 (GMT)
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Clean up some markup cruft. A number of the macros that take no
parameters (like \UNIX) are commonly entered using an empty group to separate the markup from a following inter-word space; this is not needed when the next character is punctuation, or the markup is the last thing in the enclosing group. These cases were marked inconsistently; the empty group is now *only* used when needed.
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This module provides access to the \cfunction{select()}
and \cfunction{poll()} functions
available in most operating systems. Note that on Windows, it only
works for sockets; on other operating systems, it also works for other
-file types (in particular, on \UNIX{}, it works on pipes). It cannot
+file types (in particular, on \UNIX, it works on pipes). It cannot
be used on regular files to determine whether a file has grown since
it was last read.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ desciptors that don't originate from WinSock.}
\subsection{Polling Objects
\label{poll-objects}}
-The \cfunction{poll()} system call, supported on most Unix systems,
+The \cfunction{poll()} system call, supported on most \UNIX{} systems,
provides better scalability for network servers that service many,
many clients at the same time.
\cfunction{poll()} scales better because the system call only