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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-01-11 16:02:08 +0000
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-01-11 16:02:08 +0000
commit49c9ac30a418787998b118e21e571cf35dbdffe7 (patch)
tree46e5e8a29107978124179f7a174bba8015631313
parent9fdcf4ad39ad736d061e3322d918b1be87931d8d (diff)
downloadcpython-git-49c9ac30a418787998b118e21e571cf35dbdffe7.tar.gz
Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library
reference.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstat.tex b/Doc/lib/libstat.tex
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@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ The interpretation of ``file size'' changes according to the file
type. For plain files this is the size of the file in bytes. For
FIFOs and sockets under most Unixes (including Linux in particular),
the ``size'' is the number of bytes waiting to be read at the time of
-the stat(2)/fstat(2)/lstat(2) call; this can sometimes be useful,
-especially for polling one of these special files after a non-blocking
-open. The meaning of the size field for other character and block
-devices varies more, depending on the local implementation of the
-underlying system call.
+the call to \function{os.stat()}, \function{os.fstat()}, or
+\function{os.lstat()}; this can sometimes be useful, especially for
+polling one of these special files after a non-blocking open. The
+meaning of the size field for other character and block devices varies
+more, depending on the implementation of the underlying system call.
Example: