(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.38.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / open.2

diff --git a/original/man2/open.2 b/original/man2/open.2
index f1c3238..a655fae 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/open.2
+++ b/original/man2/open.2
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 .\" FIXME Linux 2.6.33 has O_DSYNC, and a hidden __O_SYNC.
 .\" FIXME: Linux 2.6.39 added O_PATH
 .\"
-.TH OPEN 2 2011-09-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH OPEN 2 2012-02-27 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 open, creat \- open and possibly create a file or device
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -281,17 +281,15 @@ special situations, such as when applications do their own caching.
 File I/O is done directly to/from user space buffers.
 The
 .B O_DIRECT
-flag on its own makes at an effort to transfer data synchronously,
+flag on its own makes an effort to transfer data synchronously,
 but does not give the guarantees of the
 .B O_SYNC
-that data and necessary metadata are transferred.
-To guarantee synchronous I/O the
+flag that data and necessary metadata are transferred.
+To guarantee synchronous I/O,
 .B O_SYNC
 must be used in addition to
 .BR O_DIRECT .
-See
-.B NOTES
-below for further discussion.
+See NOTES below for further discussion.
 .sp
 A semantically similar (but deprecated) interface for block devices
 is described in
@@ -403,9 +401,9 @@ One example is NFS, where the server maintains the access time.
 .B O_NOCTTY
 If
 .I pathname
-refers to a terminal device \(em see
-.BR tty (4)
-\(em it will not become the process's controlling terminal even if the
+refers to a terminal device\(emsee
+.BR tty (4)\(em
+it will not become the process's controlling terminal even if the
 process does not have one.
 .TP
 .B O_NOFOLLOW
@@ -835,7 +833,7 @@ as a performance option which is disabled by default.
 .RS
 "The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole
 interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey
-on some serious mind-controlling substances." \(em Linus
+on some serious mind-controlling substances."\(emLinus
 .RE
 .SH BUGS
 Currently, it is not possible to enable signal-driven