(CCing as I'm not sure if you're subscribed.) On Thursday 03 August 2006 02:53, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > This fixes up some bad usage of English in the appendix. I'm betting > translators have done better than this on the whole.... You are completely correct... Prompted by your mail and while applying your patch, I had a few ideas and I'd like to propose a slightly different patch which is based on your changes. Please let us know what you think. Index: files.xml =================================================================== --- files.xml (revision 39528) +++ files.xml (working copy) @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ <sect1 id="linuxdevices"><title>Linux Devices</title> <para> -In Linux you have various special files in -<filename>/dev</filename>. These files are called device files. In -the Unix world accessing hardware is different. There you have a -special file which actually runs a driver which in turn accesses the -hardware. The device file is an interface to the actual system -component. Files under <filename>/dev</filename> also behave -differently than ordinary files. Below are the most important device -files listed. +In Linux various special files can be found under the directory +<filename>/dev</filename>. These files are called device files and +behave unlike ordinary files. The most common types of device files +are for block devices and character devices. These files are an +interface to the actual driver (part of the Linux kernel) which in +turn accesses the hardware. Another, less common, type of device file +is the <firstterm>named pipe</firstterm>. +The most important device files are listed in the tables below. </para><para> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody> <row> <entry><filename>null</filename></entry> - <entry>Everything pointed to this device will disappear</entry> + <entry>Anything written to this device will disappear</entry> </row><row> <entry><filename>zero</filename></entry> <entry>One can endlessly read zeros out of this device</entry>
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