From 0847872439000e0ca82604bc3d1b9c6eb00aa6fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:42:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor wording changes --- man2/fcntl.2 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 index d40679100..5ed13813b 100644 --- a/man2/fcntl.2 +++ b/man2/fcntl.2 @@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ Set the file descriptor flags to the value specified by .IR arg . .P .SS "File status flags" -Each open file description has certain associated flags, initialized by +Each open file description has certain associated status flags, +initialized by .BR open (2) .\" or .\" .BR creat (2), @@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ Set the file status flags to the value specified by File access mode .RB ( O_RDONLY ", " O_WRONLY ", " O_RDWR ) and file creation flags -.RB ( O_CREAT ", " O_EXCL ", " O_NOCTTY ", " O_TRUNC ) +.RB (e.g., O_CREAT ", " O_EXCL ", " O_TRUNC ) in .I arg are ignored. @@ -148,8 +149,8 @@ On Linux this command can only change the and .BR O_NONBLOCK flags. -.\" FIXME But according to SUSv3, O_SYNC should also be modifiable via -.\" fcntl(2) -- MTK, Dec 04 +.\" FIXME According to SUSv3, O_SYNC should also be modifiable via +.\" fcntl(2), but currently Linux does not permit this -- MTK, Dec 04 .P .SS "Advisory locking" .BR F_GETLK ", " F_SETLK " and " F_SETLKW