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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-02-09 20:27:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1998-02-09 20:27:12 (GMT) |
| commit | 65b32f7f7448ae9a5f8cf3500ee7e127aa740b77 (patch) | |
| tree | cd0dd6be021dc851faca8f2f7a9a33420c2c3834 /Doc/libposix.tex | |
| parent | 41785fb8644b66f4f17e292e9f96e870ae8b2764 (diff) | |
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Consistently use \POSIX{} to denote POSIX. There were at least two different
ways to do it previously (not counting module names).
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diff --git a/Doc/libposix.tex b/Doc/libposix.tex index 803cbbc..ddd467b 100644 --- a/Doc/libposix.tex +++ b/Doc/libposix.tex @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ \bimodindex{posix} This module provides access to operating system functionality that is -standardized by the C Standard and the POSIX standard (a thinly disguised +standardized by the C Standard and the \POSIX{} standard (a thinly disguised \UNIX{} interface). \strong{Do not import this module directly.} Instead, import the @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ when an entry is \code{os.environ} is changed. \refstmodindex{os} The descriptions below are very terse; refer to the corresponding -\UNIX{} manual (or POSIX documentation) entry for more information. +\UNIX{} manual (or \POSIX{} documentation) entry for more information. Arguments called \var{path} refer to a pathname given as a string. Errors are reported as exceptions; the usual exceptions are given @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ a mapping object that behaves almost like a dictionary but invokes \renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(exception in module posix)} \begin{excdesc}{error} -This exception is raised when a POSIX function returns a -POSIX-related error (e.g., not for illegal argument types). Its +This exception is raised when a \POSIX{} function returns a +\POSIX{}-related error (e.g., not for illegal argument types). Its string value is \code{'posix.error'}. The accompanying value is a pair containing the numeric error code from \code{errno} and the corresponding string, as would be printed by the C function @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ without symbolic links, this is identical to \code{posix.stat()}.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{mkfifo}{path\optional{\, mode}} -Create a FIFO (a POSIX named pipe) named \var{path} with numeric mode +Create a FIFO (a \POSIX{} named pipe) named \var{path} with numeric mode \var{mode}. The default \var{mode} is 0666 (octal). The current umask value is first masked out from the mode. (Not on MS-DOS.) |