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author | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-07 06:26:37 +0000 |
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committer | dd <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-07 06:26:37 +0000 |
commit | 9a8b40fedcdae9e3b8af7291b76f91b058707a6d (patch) | |
tree | 5623a6a7aca2a7720177d65852607e1f6323d9ba | |
parent | 2d24941f204207056b4b2797404c397d3c2ef471 (diff) | |
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Assorted grammar and other mechanical fixes.
PR: 32941
Submitted by: <setantae@submonkey.net>
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/intro.4 b/share/man/man4/intro.4 index d4037ec..693e113 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/intro.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/intro.4 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .Nm intro .Nd introduction to devices and device drivers .Sh DESCRIPTION -This section contains information related to devices, device driver +This section contains information related to devices, device drivers and miscellaneous hardware. .Ss The device abstraction Device is a term used mostly for hardware-related stuff that belongs @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ and .Xr mmap 2 . Not all drivers implement all system calls, for example, calling .Xr mmap 2 -on a terminal devices is likely to be not useful at all. +on terminal devices is likely to be not useful at all. .Ss Accessing Devices Most of the devices in a unix-like operating system are accessed through so-called @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Some devices come in two flavors: .Em block and .Em character -devices, or by a better name, buffered and unbuffered +devices, or to use better terms, buffered and unbuffered (raw) devices. The traditional names are reflected by the letters .Ql b @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ as the file type identification in the output of Buffered devices are being accessed through the buffer cache of the operating system, and they are solely intended to layer a file system on top of them. They are normally implemented for disks and disk-like -devices only, for historical reasons also for tape devices. +devices only and, for historical reasons, for tape devices. .Pp Raw devices are available for all drivers, including those that also implement a buffered device. For the latter group of devices, the @@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ to floppy disks (i.e. those used like tapes). .Pp -Access restrictions to device nodes are usually subject of the regular -file permissions of the device node entry, instead of being implied +Access restrictions to device nodes are usually subject to the regular +file permissions of the device node entry, instead of being enforced directly by the drivers in the kernel. .Ss Drivers without device nodes Drivers for network devices do not use device nodes in order to be |