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authorlukem <lukem@NetBSD.org>1998-08-29 08:32:32 +0000
committerlukem <lukem@NetBSD.org>1998-08-29 08:32:32 +0000
commitce83c69e00a77ed28196913aa6cd4d90b18a5a40 (patch)
tree450c82d7051427c4a5591ae055ee20a914f89ff7 /lib/libc/sys/fsync.2
parented88a6f1032cd4c9cfba1c0bd934bbe6bff8fc05 (diff)
first pass at fixing up capitalization of function names and
arguments; ensure that each is correct with respect to the implementation, rather than being correct as per english.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/fsync.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/fsync.210
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2 b/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2
index 3f4b0d69455..a9d7cf6d1e5 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: fsync.2,v 1.4 1995/02/27 12:32:38 cgd Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: fsync.2,v 1.5 1998/08/29 08:32:37 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@
.Ft int
.Fn fsync "int fd"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Fn Fsync
+.Fn fsync
causes all modified data and attributes of
.Fa fd
to be moved to a permanent storage device.
This normally results in all in-core modified copies
of buffers for the associated file to be written to a disk.
.Pp
-.Fn Fsync
+.Fn fsync
should be used by programs that require a file to be
in a known state, for example, in building a simple transaction
facility.
@@ -64,10 +64,10 @@ The
fails if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EBADF
-.Fa Fd
+.Fa fd
is not a valid descriptor.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
-.Fa Fd
+.Fa fd
refers to a socket, not to a file.
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.