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attr.7: Minor wording fixes 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-22 08:57:02 +02:00
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@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ An attribute may be defined or undefined.
If it is defined, its value may be empty or non-empty.
.PP
Extended attributes are extensions to the normal attributes which are
associated with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
associated with all inodes in the system (i.e., the
.BR stat (2)
data).
They are often used to provide additional functionality
@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS, JFS and reiserfs filesystems.
Attribute names are zero-terminated strings.
The attribute name is always specified in the fully qualified
.IR namespace.attribute
form, eg.
form, for example,
.IR user.mime_type ,
.IR trusted.md5sum ,
.IR system.posix_acl_access ,
@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ or
.PP
The namespace mechanism is used to define different classes of extended
attributes.
These different classes exist for several reasons, e.g. the permissions
These different classes exist for several reasons;
for example, the permissions
and capabilities required for manipulating extended attributes of one
namespace may differ to another.
.PP