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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-02-28 14:44:20 +0000
committerJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2012-02-28 14:44:20 +0000
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Use Texinfo macros to refer to the GNU C Library within the manual.
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
@c %MENU% Functions for manipulating files
@chapter File System Interface
-This chapter describes the GNU C library's functions for manipulating
+This chapter describes @theglibc{}'s functions for manipulating
files. Unlike the input and output functions (@pxref{I/O on Streams};
@pxref{Low-Level I/O}), these functions are concerned with operating
on the files themselves rather than on their contents.
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ the current working directory, storing it in the character array
@var{buffer} that you provide. The @var{size} argument is how you tell
the system the allocation size of @var{buffer}.
-The GNU library version of this function also permits you to specify a
+The @glibcadj{} version of this function also permits you to specify a
null pointer for the @var{buffer} argument. Then @code{getcwd}
allocates a buffer automatically, as with @code{malloc}
(@pxref{Unconstrained Allocation}). If the @var{size} is greater than
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ software.
@comment BSD
@deftypefn {Deprecated Function} {char *} getwd (char *@var{buffer})
This is similar to @code{getcwd}, but has no way to specify the size of
-the buffer. The GNU library provides @code{getwd} only
+the buffer. @Theglibc{} provides @code{getwd} only
for backwards compatibility with BSD.
The @var{buffer} argument should be a pointer to an array at least
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ descriptor which is created by the @code{opendir} call. For instance,
to switch the current working directory to the directory just read the
@code{fchdir} function could be used. Historically the @code{DIR} type
was exposed and programs could access the fields. This does not happen
-in the GNU C library. Instead a separate function is provided to allow
+in @theglibc{}. Instead a separate function is provided to allow
access.
@comment dirent.h
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ the global variable @code{errno} contains more information on the error.
As described above the fourth argument to the @code{scandir} function
must be a pointer to a sorting function. For the convenience of the
-programmer the GNU C library contains implementations of functions which
+programmer @theglibc{} contains implementations of functions which
are very helpful for this purpose.
@comment dirent.h
@@ -3035,7 +3035,7 @@ set the real size of the file.
@cindex special files
The @code{mknod} function is the primitive for making special files,
-such as files that correspond to devices. The GNU library includes
+such as files that correspond to devices. @Theglibc{} includes
this function for compatibility with BSD.
The prototype for @code{mknod} is declared in @file{sys/stat.h}.
@@ -3176,7 +3176,7 @@ you can create with @code{tmpnam}. You can rely on being able to call
@code{tmpnam} at least this many times before it might fail saying you
have made too many temporary file names.
-With the GNU library, you can create a very large number of temporary
+With @theglibc{}, you can create a very large number of temporary
file names. If you actually created the files, you would probably run
out of disk space before you ran out of names. Some other systems have
a fixed, small limit on the number of temporary files. The limit is