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authorArnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>2012-11-27 11:59:17 +0000
committerPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>2012-11-27 17:07:42 -0800
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manual: various fixes
Various consistency and correctness improvements. Also removing some sentences that are not or no longer relevant. Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be> Acked-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
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@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ There are a few non-trivial blocks here:
* b: a block device file
* p: a named pipe
- +mode+, +uid+ and +gid+ are the usual permissions settings
-- +major+ and +minor+ are here for device files
+- +major+ and +minor+ are here for device files - set to - for other
+ files
- +start+, +inc+ and +count+ are for when you want to create a batch
of files, and can be reduced to a loop, beginning at +start+,
incrementing its counter by +inc+ until it reaches +count+