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Diffstat (limited to 'src/dd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -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; |