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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 2c86076..8c63444 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ process and user. On some platforms, including FreeBSD and Mac OS X, setting ``environ`` may cause memory leaks. Refer to the system documentation for - :cfunc:`putenv`. + :c:func:`putenv`. If :func:`putenv` is not provided, a modified copy of this mapping may be passed to the appropriate process-creation functions to cause child processes @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ process and user. .. function:: setpgrp() - Call the system call :cfunc:`setpgrp` or :cfunc:`setpgrp(0, 0)` depending on + Call the system call :c:func:`setpgrp` or :c:func:`setpgrp(0, 0)` depending on which version is implemented (if any). See the Unix manual for the semantics. Availability: Unix. @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ process and user. .. function:: setpgid(pid, pgrp) - Call the system call :cfunc:`setpgid` to set the process group id of the + Call the system call :c:func:`setpgid` to set the process group id of the process with id *pid* to the process group with id *pgrp*. See the Unix manual for the semantics. @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ process and user. .. function:: getsid(pid) - Call the system call :cfunc:`getsid`. See the Unix manual for the semantics. + Call the system call :c:func:`getsid`. See the Unix manual for the semantics. Availability: Unix. @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ process and user. .. function:: setsid() - Call the system call :cfunc:`setsid`. See the Unix manual for the semantics. + Call the system call :c:func:`setsid`. See the Unix manual for the semantics. Availability: Unix. @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ process and user. .. function:: strerror(code) Return the error message corresponding to the error code in *code*. - On platforms where :cfunc:`strerror` returns ``NULL`` when given an unknown + On platforms where :c:func:`strerror` returns ``NULL`` when given an unknown error number, :exc:`ValueError` is raised. Availability: Unix, Windows. @@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ These functions create new file objects. (See also :func:`open`.) .. versionchanged:: 2.5 On Unix, when the *mode* argument starts with ``'a'``, the *O_APPEND* flag is - set on the file descriptor (which the :cfunc:`fdopen` implementation already + set on the file descriptor (which the :c:func:`fdopen` implementation already does on most platforms). @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ These functions create new file objects. (See also :func:`open`.) .. versionchanged:: 2.0 This function worked unreliably under Windows in earlier versions of Python. - This was due to the use of the :cfunc:`_popen` function from the libraries + This was due to the use of the :c:func:`_popen` function from the libraries provided with Windows. Newer versions of Python do not use the broken implementation from the Windows libraries. @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ as internal buffering of data. .. function:: fsync(fd) Force write of file with filedescriptor *fd* to disk. On Unix, this calls the - native :cfunc:`fsync` function; on Windows, the MS :cfunc:`_commit` function. + native :c:func:`fsync` function; on Windows, the MS :c:func:`_commit` function. If you're starting with a Python file object *f*, first do ``f.flush()``, and then do ``os.fsync(f.fileno())``, to ensure that all internal buffers associated @@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ Files and Directories .. function:: lstat(path) - Perform the equivalent of an :cfunc:`lstat` system call on the given path. + Perform the equivalent of an :c:func:`lstat` system call on the given path. Similar to :func:`~os.stat`, but does not follow symbolic links. On platforms that do not support symbolic links, this is an alias for :func:`~os.stat`. @@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ Files and Directories .. function:: major(device) Extract the device major number from a raw device number (usually the - :attr:`st_dev` or :attr:`st_rdev` field from :ctype:`stat`). + :attr:`st_dev` or :attr:`st_rdev` field from :c:type:`stat`). .. versionadded:: 2.3 @@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ Files and Directories .. function:: minor(device) Extract the device minor number from a raw device number (usually the - :attr:`st_dev` or :attr:`st_rdev` field from :ctype:`stat`). + :attr:`st_dev` or :attr:`st_rdev` field from :c:type:`stat`). .. versionadded:: 2.3 @@ -1343,11 +1343,11 @@ Files and Directories .. function:: stat(path) - Perform the equivalent of a :cfunc:`stat` system call on the given path. + Perform the equivalent of a :c:func:`stat` system call on the given path. (This function follows symlinks; to stat a symlink use :func:`lstat`.) The return value is an object whose attributes correspond to the members - of the :ctype:`stat` structure, namely: + of the :c:type:`stat` structure, namely: * :attr:`st_mode` - protection bits, * :attr:`st_ino` - inode number, @@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ Files and Directories For backward compatibility, the return value of :func:`~os.stat` is also accessible as a tuple of at least 10 integers giving the most important (and portable) - members of the :ctype:`stat` structure, in the order :attr:`st_mode`, + members of the :c:type:`stat` structure, in the order :attr:`st_mode`, :attr:`st_ino`, :attr:`st_dev`, :attr:`st_nlink`, :attr:`st_uid`, :attr:`st_gid`, :attr:`st_size`, :attr:`st_atime`, :attr:`st_mtime`, :attr:`st_ctime`. More items may be added at the end by some implementations. @@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ Files and Directories .. index:: module: stat The standard module :mod:`stat` defines functions and constants that are useful - for extracting information from a :ctype:`stat` structure. (On Windows, some + for extracting information from a :c:type:`stat` structure. (On Windows, some items are filled with dummy values.) Example:: @@ -1461,9 +1461,9 @@ Files and Directories .. function:: statvfs(path) - Perform a :cfunc:`statvfs` system call on the given path. The return value is + Perform a :c:func:`statvfs` system call on the given path. The return value is an object whose attributes describe the filesystem on the given path, and - correspond to the members of the :ctype:`statvfs` structure, namely: + correspond to the members of the :c:type:`statvfs` structure, namely: :attr:`f_bsize`, :attr:`f_frsize`, :attr:`f_blocks`, :attr:`f_bfree`, :attr:`f_bavail`, :attr:`f_files`, :attr:`f_ffree`, :attr:`f_favail`, :attr:`f_flag`, :attr:`f_namemax`. @@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ Files and Directories For backward compatibility, the return value is also accessible as a tuple whose values correspond to the attributes, in the order given above. The standard module :mod:`statvfs` defines constants that are useful for extracting - information from a :ctype:`statvfs` structure when accessing it as a sequence; + information from a :c:type:`statvfs` structure when accessing it as a sequence; this remains useful when writing code that needs to work with versions of Python that don't support accessing the fields as attributes. @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ The various :func:`exec\*` functions take a list of arguments for the new program loaded into the process. In each case, the first of these arguments is passed to the new program as its own name rather than as an argument a user may have typed on a command line. For the C programmer, this is the ``argv[0]`` -passed to a program's :cfunc:`main`. For example, ``os.execv('/bin/echo', +passed to a program's :c:func:`main`. For example, ``os.execv('/bin/echo', ['foo', 'bar'])`` will only print ``bar`` on standard output; ``foo`` will seem to be ignored. @@ -2117,7 +2117,7 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. There is no option to wait for the application to close, and no way to retrieve the application's exit status. The *path* parameter is relative to the current directory. If you want to use an absolute path, make sure the first character - is not a slash (``'/'``); the underlying Win32 :cfunc:`ShellExecute` function + is not a slash (``'/'``); the underlying Win32 :c:func:`ShellExecute` function doesn't work if it is. Use the :func:`os.path.normpath` function to ensure that the path is properly encoded for Win32. @@ -2132,13 +2132,13 @@ written in Python, such as a mail server's external command delivery program. .. function:: system(command) Execute the command (a string) in a subshell. This is implemented by calling - the Standard C function :cfunc:`system`, and has the same limitations. + the Standard C function :c:func:`system`, and has the same limitations. Changes to :data:`sys.stdin`, etc. are not reflected in the environment of the executed command. On Unix, the return value is the exit status of the process encoded in the format specified for :func:`wait`. Note that POSIX does not specify the meaning - of the return value of the C :cfunc:`system` function, so the return value of + of the return value of the C :c:func:`system` function, so the return value of the Python function is system-dependent. On Windows, the return value is that returned by the system shell after running |