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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-04-06 07:43:49 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2009-04-07 18:57:53 +0100
commit9fdf5845fc87135c4f68bce79f72a25d07130240 (patch)
tree7a7cb5689be9f2344e05a64dc49085123ac20d26 /src/shred.c
parente22f096d109ea1deb370888fc79ce6496ffc6a1b (diff)
downloadcoreutils-9fdf5845fc87135c4f68bce79f72a25d07130240.tar.xz
maint: Clarify ambiguous refs to Linux kernels or GNU/Linux systems
* README-prereq: s_linux_GNU/Linux_ or s_linux_Linux kernel_ * README-valgrind: ditto * src/chown-core.c: ditto * src/dd.c: ditto * src/df.c: ditto * src/ls.c: ditto * src/mv.c: ditto * src/pwd.c: ditto * src/remove.c: ditto * src/shred.c: ditto * src/stat.c: ditto * src/su.c: ditto * src/system.h: ditto * src/timeout.c: ditto * src/truncate.c: ditto
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diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c
index 6ed4daaa3..4b2b8e92f 100644
--- a/src/shred.c
+++ b/src/shred.c
@@ -450,8 +450,8 @@ dopass (int fd, char const *qname, off_t *sizep, int type,
/* If the first write of the first pass for a given file
has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O
- and try again. This works around a bug in linux-2.4
- whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
+ and try again. This works around a bug in Linux kernel
+ 2.4 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some
file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to
access a file through the resulting descriptor would
fail with EINVAL. */