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| author | lukem <lukem@NetBSD.org> | 1998-08-29 08:32:32 +0000 |
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| committer | lukem <lukem@NetBSD.org> | 1998-08-29 08:32:32 +0000 |
| commit | ce83c69e00a77ed28196913aa6cd4d90b18a5a40 (patch) | |
| tree | 450c82d7051427c4a5591ae055ee20a914f89ff7 /lib/libc/sys/read.2 | |
| parent | ed88a6f1032cd4c9cfba1c0bd934bbe6bff8fc05 (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/read.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/read.2 | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/read.2 b/lib/libc/sys/read.2 index 2976798e03d..15d981e2176 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/read.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/read.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: read.2,v 1.11 1998/08/03 15:02:47 kleink Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: read.2,v 1.12 1998/08/29 08:32:40 lukem Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -55,21 +55,21 @@ .Ft ssize_t .Fn preadv "int d" "const struct iovec *iov" "int iovcnt" "off_t offset" .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Fn Read +.Fn read attempts to read .Fa nbytes of data from the object referenced by the descriptor .Fa d into the buffer pointed to by .Fa buf . -.Fn Readv +.Fn readv performs the same action, but scatters the input data into the .Fa iovcnt buffers specified by the members of the .Fa iov array: iov[0], iov[1], ..., iov[iovcnt\|\-\|1]. -.Fn Pread +.Fn pread and .Fn preadv perform the same functions, but read from the specified position in @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Each .Fa iovec entry specifies the base address and length of an area in memory where data should be placed. -.Fn Readv +.Fn readv will always fill an area completely before proceeding to the next. .Pp @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Otherwise, a -1 is returned and the global variable .Va errno is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS -.Fn Read , +.Fn read , .Fn readv , .Fn pread , and @@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ and will succeed unless: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF -.Fa D +.Fa d is not a valid file or socket descriptor open for reading. .It Bq Er EFAULT -.Fa Buf +.Fa buf points outside the allocated address space. .It Bq Er EIO An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system. @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ and may return one of the following errors: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL -.Fa Iovcnt +.Fa iovcnt was less than or equal to 0, or greater than .Dv {IOV_MAX} . .It Bq Er EINVAL |
