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| author | Jon Schlueter <jon.schlueter@gmail.com> | 2011-03-05 05:12:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Jon Schlueter <jon.schlueter@gmail.com> | 2011-03-05 05:12:24 -0500 |
| commit | 11776aff731256a5d87784caec8db6a29151d115 (patch) | |
| tree | 384b12f248839f2d93392ce0bc3b3d881d28a944 /libgpsd.xml | |
| parent | d84fbd511ed2d0e78437249fb561ce9bd91e4077 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-11776aff731256a5d87784caec8db6a29151d115.tar.gz | |
whitespace cleanup in libgpsd.xml
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libgpsd.xml b/libgpsd.xml index 174e91a0..f9a54f05 100644 --- a/libgpsd.xml +++ b/libgpsd.xml @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ is a service library which supports querying GPS devices; link it with the linker option -lgpsd. It is a set of low-level device-handling calls, which <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gpsd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> -itself uses. See +itself uses. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gpsd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> for a description of the high-level interface, which is almost certainly what you want.</para> @@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ certainly what you want.</para> <function>gpsd_init()</function> initializes a session structure to hold the data collected by the GPS.</para> -<para>The second argument must be a context structure. The library -will use it for information that need to be shared between sessions; +<para>The second argument must be a context structure. The library +will use it for information that need to be shared between sessions; presently this includes the leap-second correction and possibly a pointer to a shared-memory segment used to communicate with the Network Time Protocol daemon.</para> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ designate a speed to be tried at the front of the hunt queue</para> </variablelist> <para><function>gpsd_activate()</function> -initializes the connection to the GPS. +initializes the connection to the GPS. <function>gpsd_deactivate()</function> closes the connection. These functions are provided so that long-running programs can release a connection when there is no @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ holds position, speed, GPS signal quality, and other data returned by the GPS. It returns a mask describing which fields have changed.</para> <para><function>gpsd_wrap()</function> -ends the session, implicitly performing a +ends the session, implicitly performing a <function>gpsd_deactivate()</function>.</para> <para>The calling application must define one additional function: @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ The library will use this to issue ordinary status messages. See <filename>gpsd.h</filename> in the source distribution for the set of logging levels.</para> -<para>The low-level functions do not allocate or free any dynamic +<para>The low-level functions do not allocate or free any dynamic storage. They can thus be used in a long-running application (such as <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gpsd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> itself) with a guarantee that they won't cause memory leaks.</para> |