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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-08-27 19:06:58 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-08-27 19:06:58 +0000
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1999-08-27 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * manual/argp.texi: Fixing language and types. * manual/conf.texi: Likewise. * manual/contrib.texi: Likewise. * manual/filesys.texi: Likewise. * manual/install.texi: Likewise. * manual/job.texi: Likewise. * manual/lang.texi: Likewise. * manual/llio.texi: Likewise. * manual/math.texi: Likewise. * manual/nss.texi: Likewise. * manual/pipe.texi: Likewise. * manual/signal.texi: Likewise. * manual/socket.texi: Likewise. * manual/stdio.texi: Likewise. * manual/sysinfo.texi: Likewise. * manual/users.texi: Likewise. Patches by Neil Booth <NeilB@earthling.net>.
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@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ read by the child process.
@cindex filtering i/o through subprocess
A common use of pipes is to send data to or receive data from a program
-being run as subprocess. One way of doing this is by using a combination of
+being run as a subprocess. One way of doing this is by using a combination of
@code{pipe} (to create the pipe), @code{fork} (to create the subprocess),
@code{dup2} (to force the subprocess to use the pipe as its standard input
or output channel), and @code{exec} (to execute the new program). Or,
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ write to the stream to send data to the standard input channel of the
subprocess. The subprocess inherits its standard output channel from
the parent process.
-In the event of an error, @code{popen} returns a null pointer. This
+In the event of an error @code{popen} returns a null pointer. This
might happen if the pipe or stream cannot be created, if the subprocess
cannot be forked, or if the program cannot be executed.
@end deftypefun
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ is not greater than @code{PIPE_BUF}. This means that the data transfer
seems to be an instantaneous unit, in that nothing else in the system
can observe a state in which it is partially complete. Atomic I/O may
not begin right away (it may need to wait for buffer space or for data),
-but once it does begin, it finishes immediately.
+but once it does begin it finishes immediately.
Reading or writing a larger amount of data may not be atomic; for
example, output data from other processes sharing the descriptor may be