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.TH SPUFS 7 2007-12-20 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
-spufs \- SPU file system
+spufs \- SPU filesystem
.SH DESCRIPTION
-The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the
+The SPU filesystem is used on PowerPC machines that implement the
Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in order to access Synergistic
Processor Units (SPUs).
-The file system provides a name space similar to POSIX shared
+The filesystem provides a name space similar to POSIX shared
memory or message queues.
Users that have write permissions
-on the file system can use
+on the filesystem can use
.BR spu_create (2)
to establish SPU contexts under the
.B spufs
or
.BR write (2),
but often support only a subset of the operations
-supported on regular file systems.
+supported on regular filesystems.
This list details the supported
operations and the deviations from the standard behavior described
in the respective man pages.
.TP
.IR /mbox_stat ", " /ibox_stat ", " /wbox_stat
These are read-only files that contain the length of the current
-queue of each mailbox, i.e., how many words can be read from
+queue of each mailbox\(emthat is, how many words can be read from
.IR mbox " or " ibox
or how many words can be written to
.I wbox
.BR capabilities (7)
.I The Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA) specification
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.77 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.