[PATCH] Add "Inter-process Communication" chapter to the glibc manual.
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Feb 26 15:06:00 GMT 2014
On 02/26/2014 04:00 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 03:47 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 02/26/2014 05:54 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>>> +The @glibcadj{} implements the semaphore APIs as defined in POSIX and
>>> +System V. Semaphores can be used by multiple processes to coordinate shared
>>> +resources. The following is a complete list of the semaphore functions provided
>>> +by @theglibc{}.
>>
>> I think the GNU style calls for two spaces at the end of a sentence.
>
> It is, but AFAIK makes no difference in the output since such formatting
> is handled by texinfo (the pdf shows no difference).
Yes, the TeX and HTML pipeline never cared. But I think the regular
Info output was affected. The old makeinfo implementation used to copy
over all kinds of formatting artifacts. I don't see this anymore,
perhaps it was fixed in the Perl reimplementation.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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