Changeset 5cd6caa for chapter06

Timestamp:

02/10/2004 10:06:21 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

c91dd5b

Parents:

418e6cc

Message:

Another mix of minor text adjustments.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3247 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter06

Files:

• chapter06.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• makedev.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

chapter06/chapter06.xml

@@ -313 +313 @@
 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are some of the
 groups that the <command>make_devices</command> script in the next section
-uses. The LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org">Linux Standard
+uses. The LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org/">Linux Standard
 Base</ulink>) recommends only that, beside the group "root" with a GID of 0, a
 group "bin" with a GID of 1 be present. All other group names and GIDs can

chapter06/makedev.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
 
 <para>Device nodes are special files: things that can generate or receive data.
-They usually correspond to physical pieces of hardware, and can be created by
-issuing commands of the form: <command>mknod -m mode name type major
+They usually correspond to physical pieces of hardware. Device nodes can be
+created by issuing commands of the form: <command>mknod -m mode name type major
 minor</command>. In such a command, <emphasis>mode</emphasis> is the usual
 octal read/write/execute permissions triplet, and <emphasis>name</emphasis> is
@@ -35 +35 @@
 device name is actually arbitrary, except that most programs rely on devices
 such as <filename>/dev/null</filename> having their usual names. The remaining
-three parameters tell the kernel what piece of hardware the device node
+three parameters tell the kernel what device the node
 actually refers to. The <emphasis>type</emphasis> is a letter, either b or c,
 indicating whether the device is accessed in blocks (such as a hard disk) or
@@ -45 +45 @@
 kernel sources.</para>
 
-<para>Note that the same major/minor combination are usually assigned to both a
+<para>Note that the same major/minor combination is usually assigned to both a
 block and a character device. These are, however, completely unrelated devices
 that cannot be interchanged. A device is identified by the type/major/minor
@@ -80 +80 @@
 and ttyXX device nodes. To do this, open <filename>make_devices</filename> in
 your editor, go to the section "Pseudo-TTY masters" and enable as many ptyXX
-devices as you think you will need (one for every active xterm, ssh connection,
-telnet connection, and so on). In the immediately following section "Pseudo-TTY
-slaves", enable the corresponding ttyXX devices. When you are done, rerun
-<command>./make_devices</command> from inside <filename>/dev</filename> to have
-it create the new devices.</para>
+devices as you think you will need (every xterm, ssh connection, telnet
+connection, and the like, uses one of these pseudo terminals). In the
+immediately following section "Pseudo-TTY slaves", enable the corresponding
+ttyXX devices. When you are done, rerun <command>./make_devices</command> from
+inside <filename>/dev</filename> to have it create the new devices.</para>
 
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