From ebce8403ab75b4f4b127d47700ef6768114dadb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:57:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] attr.7: Minor wording fixes Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/attr.7 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/attr.7 b/man7/attr.7 index 589a6918d..5f8cad214 100644 --- a/man7/attr.7 +++ b/man7/attr.7 @@ -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