Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line.

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Michael Kerrisk 2008-06-12 06:09:19 +00:00
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@ -225,17 +225,20 @@ removes a directory if it is empty, and complains otherwise.
The command
.I find
(with a rather baroque syntax) will find files with given name
or other properties. For example, "find . \-name tel" would find
or other properties.
For example, "find . \-name tel" would find
the file "tel" starting in the present directory (which is called ".").
And "find / \-name tel" would do the same, but starting at the root
of the tree. Large searches on a multi-GB disk will be time-consuming,
of the tree.
Large searches on a multi-GB disk will be time-consuming,
and it may be better to use
.BR locate (1).
.SS "Disks and Filesystems"
The command
.I mount
will attach the file system found on some disk (or floppy, or CDROM or so)
to the big file system hierarchy. And
to the big file system hierarchy.
And
.I umount
detaches it again.
The command
@ -253,8 +256,10 @@ will show you which processes are active and what numbers these
processes have.
The command
.I kill
allows you to get rid of them. Without option this is a friendly
request: please go away. And "kill \-9" followed by the number
allows you to get rid of them.
Without option this is a friendly
request: please go away.
And "kill \-9" followed by the number
of the process is an immediate kill.
Foreground processes can often be killed by typing Control-C.
.SS "Getting information"
@ -275,13 +280,16 @@ In documentation it is customary to refer to man pages
by giving the name and section number, as in
.BR man (1).
Man pages are terse, and allow you to find quickly some forgotten
detail. For newcomers an introductory text with more examples
detail.
For newcomers an introductory text with more examples
and explanations is useful.
.LP
A lot of GNU/FSF software is provided with info files. Type "info info"
A lot of GNU/FSF software is provided with info files.
Type "info info"
for an introduction on the use of the program "info".
.LP
Special topics are often treated in HOWTOs. Look in
Special topics are often treated in HOWTOs.
Look in
.I /usr/share/doc/howto/en
and use a browser if you find HTML files there.
.\"

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@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ These are faults where the page has to be read in from disk.
.B %R
Number of minor, or recoverable, page faults.
These are faults for pages that are not valid but which have
not yet been claimed by other virtual pages. Thus the data
not yet been claimed by other virtual pages.
Thus the data
in the page is still valid but the system tables must be updated.
.TP
.B %W

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@ -389,8 +389,8 @@ permission bit (see
and
.BR chmod (2)).
The Linux implementation of mandatory locking is unreliable. See BUGS
below.
The Linux implementation of mandatory locking is unreliable.
See BUGS below.
.SS "Managing signals"
.BR F_GETOWN ", " F_SETOWN ", " F_GETSIG " and " F_SETSIG
are used to manage I/O availability signals:

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@ -673,7 +673,8 @@ l l l l.
// More arguments.
Some ioctl's take a pointer to a structure which contains additional
pointers. These are documented here in alphabetical order.
pointers.
These are documented here in alphabetical order.
.B CDROMREADAUDIO
takes an input pointer

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@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ of size
.IR buflen .
After the call,
.I result
will point to the result on success. In case of an error
will point to the result on success.
In case of an error
or if no entry is found
.I result
will be NULL.