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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-03-08 01:27:38 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-03-08 01:27:38 +0000
commita7a93d5086103f52367d3e9776976eb0b0bc6c7b (patch)
treea6c659fdb9c384d56bd8c01a55c9332e791f1341 /manual/filesys.texi
parent07037eeb43ca1e0ac2802e3a1492cecf869c63c6 (diff)
Clean up glibc manual references to "GNU system" (bug 6911).
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/filesys.texi')
-rw-r--r--manual/filesys.texi29
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi
index 872e3710a0..dc570df181 100644
--- a/manual/filesys.texi
+++ b/manual/filesys.texi
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ the buffer. @Theglibc{} provides @code{getwd} only
for backwards compatibility with BSD.
The @var{buffer} argument should be a pointer to an array at least
-@code{PATH_MAX} bytes long (@pxref{Limits for Files}). In the GNU
-system there is no limit to the size of a file name, so this is not
+@code{PATH_MAX} bytes long (@pxref{Limits for Files}). On @gnuhurdsystems{}
+there is no limit to the size of a file name, so this is not
necessarily enough space to contain the directory name. That is why
this function is deprecated.
@end deftypefn
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ field you can count on in all POSIX systems.
@item ino_t d_fileno
This is the file serial number. For BSD compatibility, you can also
-refer to this member as @code{d_ino}. In the GNU system and most POSIX
+refer to this member as @code{d_ino}. On @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} and most POSIX
systems, for most files this the same as the @code{st_ino} member that
@code{stat} will return for the file. @xref{File Attributes}.
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ The process has too many files open.
@item ENFILE
The entire system, or perhaps the file system which contains the
directory, cannot support any additional open files at the moment.
-(This problem cannot happen on the GNU system.)
+(This problem cannot happen on @gnuhurdsystems{}.)
@item ENOMEM
Not enough memory available.
@@ -1075,7 +1075,8 @@ The directory or file system that would contain the new link is full
and cannot be extended.
@item EPERM
-In the GNU system and some others, you cannot make links to directories.
+On @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} and some others, you cannot make links to
+directories.
Many systems allow only privileged users to do so. This error
is used to report the problem.
@@ -1099,7 +1100,7 @@ A hardware error occurred while trying to read or write the to filesystem.
@cindex symbolic link
@cindex link, symbolic
-The GNU system supports @dfn{soft links} or @dfn{symbolic links}. This
+@gnusystems{} support @dfn{soft links} or @dfn{symbolic links}. This
is a kind of ``file'' that is essentially a pointer to another file
name. Unlike hard links, symbolic links can be made to directories or
across file systems with no restrictions. You can also make a symbolic
@@ -1352,8 +1353,8 @@ The file name to be deleted doesn't exist.
@item EPERM
On some systems @code{unlink} cannot be used to delete the name of a
directory, or at least can only be used this way by a privileged user.
-To avoid such problems, use @code{rmdir} to delete directories. (In the
-GNU system @code{unlink} can never delete the name of a directory.)
+To avoid such problems, use @code{rmdir} to delete directories. (On
+@gnulinuxhurdsystems{} @code{unlink} can never delete the name of a directory.)
@item EROFS
The directory containing the file name to be deleted is on a read-only
@@ -1381,7 +1382,7 @@ The directory to be deleted is not empty.
@end table
These two error codes are synonymous; some systems use one, and some use
-the other. The GNU system always uses @code{ENOTEMPTY}.
+the other. @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} always use @code{ENOTEMPTY}.
The prototype for this function is declared in the header file
@file{unistd.h}.
@@ -1458,7 +1459,7 @@ that are the current working directories of processes.
@item ENOTEMPTY
@itemx EEXIST
-The directory @var{newname} isn't empty. The GNU system always returns
+The directory @var{newname} isn't empty. @gnulinuxhurdsystems{} always return
@code{ENOTEMPTY} for this, but some other systems return @code{EEXIST}.
@item EINVAL
@@ -2480,16 +2481,16 @@ read_umask (void)
@end smallexample
@noindent
-However, it is better to use @code{getumask} if you just want to read
-the mask value, because it is reentrant (at least if you use the GNU
-operating system).
+However, on @gnuhurdsystems{} it is better to use @code{getumask} if
+you just want to read the mask value, because it is reentrant.
@end deftypefun
@comment sys/stat.h
@comment GNU
@deftypefun mode_t getumask (void)
Return the current value of the file creation mask for the current
-process. This function is a GNU extension.
+process. This function is a GNU extension and is only available on
+@gnuhurdsystems{}.
@end deftypefun
@comment sys/stat.h