diff src/syscalls.cc @ 9064:7c02ec148a3c

Check grammar on all .cc files Same check as previously done on .m files Attempt to enforce some conformity in documentation text for rules such as two spaces after a period, commas around latin abbreviations, etc.
author Rik <rdrider0-list@yahoo.com>
date Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:57:22 -0700
parents eb63fbe60fab
children 923c7cb7f13f
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--- a/src/syscalls.cc	Mon Mar 30 19:48:56 2009 -0400
+++ b/src/syscalls.cc	Sat Mar 28 13:57:22 2009 -0700
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@
 DEFUN (fstat, args, ,
   "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {[@var{info}, @var{err}, @var{msg}] =} fstat (@var{fid})\n\
-Return information about about the open file @var{fid}.  See @code{stat}\n\
+Return information about the open file @var{fid}.  See @code{stat}\n\
 for a description of the contents of @var{info}.\n\
 @end deftypefn")
 {
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@
   "-*- texinfo -*-\n\
 @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} WTERMSIG (@var{status})\n\
 Given @var{status} from a call to @code{waitpid}, return the number of\n\
-the signal that caused the child process to terminate. This function\n\
+the signal that caused the child process to terminate.  This function\n\
 should only be employed if @code{WIFSIGNALED} returned true.\n\
 @seealso{waitpid, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED, WCOREDUMP, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG, WIFCONTINUED}\n\
 @end deftypefn")
@@ -1722,7 +1722,7 @@
 @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} O_APPEND ()\n\
 Return the numerical value of the file status flag that may be\n\
 returned by @code{fcntl} to indicate each write operation appends,\n\
-or that may be passed to @code{fcntl} to set the write mode to append.\
+or that may be passed to @code{fcntl} to set the write mode to append.\\n\
 @seealso{fcntl, O_ASYNC, O_CREAT, O_EXCL, O_NONBLOCK, O_RDONLY, O_RDWR, O_SYNC, O_TRUNC, O_WRONLY}\n\
 @end deftypefn")
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