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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-11-02 22:16:22 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2000-11-02 22:16:22 +0000
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Update.
2000-11-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * iconvdata/utf-16.c (PREPARE_LOOP): Correct typo preventing BOM from being written. * manual/socket.texi (Local Namespace Concepts): Don't mention what permissions are necessary to connect to a socket. Reported by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>. * sysdeps/generic/backtracesyms.c (__backtrace_symbols): Fix computation of total for 64-bit machines. Patch by Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>. * manual/arith.texi (Rounding): Correct description of fesetround return value. Patch by Conrado Badenas <Conrado.Badenas@uv.es>.
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@@ -571,9 +571,10 @@ as file names.
In the local namespace socket addresses are file names. You can specify
any file name you want as the address of the socket, but you must have
-write permission on the directory containing it. In order to connect to
-a socket you must have read permission for it. It's common to put
-these files in the @file{/tmp} directory.
+write permission on the directory containing it.
+@c XXX The following was said to be wrong.
+@c In order to connect to a socket you must have read permission for it.
+It's common to put these files in the @file{/tmp} directory.
One peculiarity of the local namespace is that the name is only used
when opening the connection; once open the address is not meaningful and