Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 15:10:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Marc Fonvieille <marc@blackend.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/39025: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook Message-ID: <200206081310.g58DAMG9025722@abigail.blackend.org>
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>Number: 39025
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 08 06:20:01 PDT 2002
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>Originator: Marc Fonvieille
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD abigail.blackend.org 4.6-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE #5: Sun May 12 00:30:43 CEST 2002 marc@abigail.blackend.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ABIGAIL i386
>Description:
Minor changes in section 3.9 of the Handbook:
- a typo: "a device driver often-times needs to be created." should be
"a device node often-times needs to be created."
- addition of literal tags for devfs.
Read the patch below for more details.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Apply the patch to handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml.diff begins here ---
--- chapter.sgml.org Sat Jun 8 14:42:30 2002
+++ chapter.sgml Sat Jun 8 15:03:28 2002
@@ -1308,12 +1308,12 @@
<sect2>
<title>Creating Device Nodes</title>
<para>When adding a new device to your system, or compiling
- in support for additional devices, a device driver
+ in support for additional devices, a device node
often-times needs to be created.</para>
<sect3>
<title>MAKEDEV Script</title>
- <para>On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created
+ <para>On systems without <literal>devfs</literal>, device nodes are created
using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; cd /dev
@@ -1327,15 +1327,15 @@
<sect3>
<title>devfs (Device File System)</title>
- <para> The device filesystem, or devfs, provides access to
+ <para> The device filesystem, or <literal>devfs</literal>, provides access to
kernel's device namespace in the global filesystem namespace.
Instead of having to create and modify device nodes,
- devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para>
+ <literal>devfs</literal> maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para>
<para>See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more
information.</para>
- <para>devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
+ <para><literal>devfs</literal> is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
--- chapter.sgml.diff ends here ---
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