diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | README-prereq | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README-valgrind | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/chown-core.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/df.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/ls.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mv.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pwd.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/remove.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/stat.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/su.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/system.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/timeout.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/truncate.c | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file | 2 |
16 files changed, 29 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq index 76463ea5a..e19981621 100644 --- a/README-prereq +++ b/README-prereq @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ Detailed below are concrete examples for getting the prerequisites for particular systems. -- linux - fedora +- GNU/Linux - fedora This shows the steps for getting the required tools to build coreutils 7.0 on a Fedora 8 system. We try to use official packages where possible. The 3 methods described for making these required packages available, should - help clarify build requirements on any linux system at least. + help clarify build requirements on any GNU/Linux system at least. 1. Make sure offical distro git package is installed # yum install git diff --git a/README-valgrind b/README-valgrind index 12da47599..93ad19ee5 100644 --- a/README-valgrind +++ b/README-valgrind @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ # find tests -name Makefile.am|xargs grep -wl PATH|xargs perl -pi -e 's,src/vg,src,' # # Create this symlink for suppressions (this is no longer necessary, -# with linux-2.6.9 and valgrind-2.2.0): +# with Linux kernel 2.6.9 and valgrind-2.2.0): # ln -s $PWD/.vg-suppressions /tmp/cu-vg # Create src/vg: diff --git a/src/chown-core.c b/src/chown-core.c index cf0c941b6..587b26ebc 100644 --- a/src/chown-core.c +++ b/src/chown-core.c @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ change_file_owner (FTS *fts, FTSENT *ent, } } - /* On some systems (e.g., Linux-2.4.x), + /* On some systems (e.g., GNU/Linux 2.4.x), the chown function resets the `special' permission bits. Do *not* restore those bits; doing so would open a window in which a malicious user, M, could subvert a chown command run @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ iwrite (int fd, char const *buf, size_t size) else if (nwritten == 0) { /* Some buggy drivers return 0 when one tries to write beyond - a device's end. (Example: Linux 1.2.13 on /dev/fd0.) + a device's end. (Example: Linux kernel 1.2.13 on /dev/fd0.) Set errno to ENOSPC so they get a sensible diagnostic. */ errno = ENOSPC; break; @@ -1201,7 +1201,7 @@ advance_input_offset (uintmax_t offset) to indicate that lseek failed. The offending behavior has been confirmed with an Exabyte SCSI tape - drive accessed via /dev/nst0 on both Linux-2.2.17 and Linux-2.4.16. */ + drive accessed via /dev/nst0 on both Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.16 kernels. */ #ifdef __linux__ @@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ dd_copy (void) the input buffer; thus we allocate 2 pages of slop in the real buffer. 8k above the blocksize shouldn't bother anyone. - The page alignment is necessary on any linux system that supports + The page alignment is necessary on any Linux kernel that supports either the SGI raw I/O patch or Steven Tweedies raw I/O patch. It is necessary when accessing raw (i.e. character special) disk devices on Unixware or other SVR4-derived system. */ @@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) /* Complain only when ftruncate fails on a regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object, as POSIX 1003.1-2004 specifies ftruncate's behavior only for these file types. - For example, do not complain when Linux 2.4 ftruncate + For example, do not complain when Linux kernel 2.4 ftruncate fails on /dev/fd0. */ int ftruncate_errno = errno; struct stat stdout_stat; @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static bool file_systems_processed; /* If true, invoke the `sync' system call before getting any usage data. Using this option can make df very slow, especially with many or very busy disks. Note that this may make a difference on some systems -- - SunOS 4.1.3, for one. It is *not* necessary on Linux. */ + SunOS 4.1.3, for one. It is *not* necessary on GNU/Linux. */ static bool require_sync; /* Desired exit status. */ @@ -3387,7 +3387,7 @@ print_current_files (void) } /* Replace the first %b with precomputed aligned month names. - Note on glibc-2.7 on linux at least this speeds up the whole `ls -lU` + Note on glibc-2.7 at least, this speeds up the whole `ls -lU` process by around 17%, compared to letting strftime() handle the %b. */ static size_t @@ -243,9 +243,9 @@ movefile (char *source, char *dest, bool dest_is_dir, /* This code was introduced to handle the ambiguity in the semantics of mv that is induced by the varying semantics of the rename function. - Some systems (e.g., Linux) have a rename function that honors a + Some systems (e.g., GNU/Linux) have a rename function that honors a trailing slash, while others (like Solaris 5,6,7) have a rename - function that ignores a trailing slash. I believe the Linux + function that ignores a trailing slash. I believe the GNU/Linux rename semantics are POSIX and susv2 compliant. */ if (remove_trailing_slashes) @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ find_dir_entry (struct stat *dot_sb, struct file_name *file_name, The getcwd function performs nearly the same task, but is typically unable to handle names longer than PATH_MAX. This function has no such limitation. However, this function *can* fail due to - permission problems or a lack of memory, while Linux's getcwd + permission problems or a lack of memory, while GNU/Linux's getcwd function works regardless of restricted permissions on parent directories. Upon failure, give a diagnostic and exit nonzero. diff --git a/src/remove.c b/src/remove.c index 7bc7a55cc..64f9e90e7 100644 --- a/src/remove.c +++ b/src/remove.c @@ -1125,9 +1125,9 @@ remove_entry (int fd_cwd, Dirstack_state const *ds, char const *filename, DO_UNLINK (fd_cwd, filename, x); - /* Upon a failed attempt to unlink a directory, most non-Linux systems - set errno to the POSIX-required value EPERM. In that case, change - errno to EISDIR so that we emit a better diagnostic. */ + /* Upon a failed attempt to unlink a directory, most non GNU/Linux + systems set errno to the POSIX-required value EPERM. In that case, + change errno to EISDIR so that we emit a better diagnostic. */ if (! x->recursive && errno == EPERM && is_dir_lstat (fd_cwd, filename, st)) errno = EISDIR; 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. */ diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c index feea4b793..63c5911c4 100644 --- a/src/stat.c +++ b/src/stat.c @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static char const *trailing_delim = ""; Some systems have statfvs.f_basetype[FSTYPSZ] (AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris). Others have statvfs.f_fstypename[_VFS_NAMELEN] (NetBSD 3.0). Others have statfs.f_fstypename[MFSNAMELEN] (NetBSD 1.5.2). - Still others have neither and have to get by with f_type (Linux). + Still others have neither and have to get by with f_type (GNU/Linux). But f_type may only exist in statfs (Cygwin). */ static char const * human_fstype (STRUCT_STATVFS const *statfsbuf) @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("user %s does not exist"), new_user); /* Make a copy of the password information and point pw at the local - copy instead. Otherwise, some systems (e.g. Linux) would clobber + copy instead. Otherwise, some systems (e.g. GNU/Linux) would clobber the static data through the getlogin call from log_su. Also, make sure pw->pw_shell is a nonempty string. It may be NULL when NEW_USER is a username that is retrieved via NIS (YP), diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h index eafcc2523..5bc23b32f 100644 --- a/src/system.h +++ b/src/system.h @@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ bad_cast (char const *s) Note that this is to minimize system call overhead. Other values may be appropriate to minimize file system - or disk overhead. For example on my current linux system + or disk overhead. For example on my current GNU/Linux system the readahead setting is 128KiB which was read using: file="." diff --git a/src/timeout.c b/src/timeout.c index 8ef4b5488..c79f24eb5 100644 --- a/src/timeout.c +++ b/src/timeout.c @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ #define AUTHORS proper_name_utf8 ("Padraig Brady", "P\303\241draig Brady") -/* Note ETIMEDOUT is 110 on linux but this is non standard */ +/* Note ETIMEDOUT is 110 on GNU/Linux systems but this is non standard */ #define EXIT_TIMEDOUT 124 /* Internal failure. */ @@ -311,11 +311,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) alarm (timeout); /* We're just waiting for a single process here, so wait() suffices. - Note the signal() calls above on linux and BSD at least, essentially - call the lower level sigaction() with the SA_RESTART flag set, which - ensures the following wait call will only return if the child exits, - not on this process receiving a signal. Also we're not passing - WUNTRACED | WCONTINUED to a waitpid() call and so will not get + Note the signal() calls above on GNU/Linux and BSD at least, + essentially call the lower level sigaction() with the SA_RESTART flag + set, which ensures the following wait call will only return if the + child exits, not on this process receiving a signal. Also we're not + passing WUNTRACED | WCONTINUED to a waitpid() call and so will not get indication that the child has stopped or continued. */ wait (&status); diff --git a/src/truncate.c b/src/truncate.c index c6f12b7a9..06fa03a03 100644 --- a/src/truncate.c +++ b/src/truncate.c @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ do_ftruncate (int fd, char const *fname, off_t ssize, rel_mode_t rel_mode) /* Complain only when ftruncate fails on a regular file, a directory, or a shared memory object, as POSIX 1003.1-2004 specifies ftruncate's behavior only for these file types. - For example, do not complain when Linux 2.4 ftruncate + For example, do not complain when Linux kernel 2.4 ftruncate fails on /dev/fd0. */ int const ftruncate_errno = errno; if (fstat (fd, &sb) != 0) diff --git a/tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file b/tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file index 33abb69cd..cb36d08d9 100755 --- a/tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file +++ b/tests/dd/skip-seek-past-file @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ if ! truncate --size=$OFF_T_MAX in 2>/dev/null; then # so just check for the skip warning. compare skip_err err || fail=1 else - # On Linux at least lseek(>max file size) fails. + # On Linux kernels at least, lseek(>max file size) fails. # error message should be "... cannot skip: strerror(EINVAL)" grep "cannot skip:" err >/dev/null || fail=1 fi |