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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-06-26 19:47:34 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2013-06-26 19:47:34 -0400
commit74d005783e355acc784d123024e33bbb66ef9ef1 (patch)
tree6f03a459398fd5079a645ec830e0154651f4d7dd /man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
parent909f413d3c572baadf9b13e36e1e90beba42af86 (diff)
downloadsystemd-74d005783e355acc784d123024e33bbb66ef9ef1.tar.gz
man: use <constant> for various constants which look ugly with quotes
Diffstat (limited to 'man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml')
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
index 33d2980b3b..f3fbe69c32 100644
--- a/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
+++ b/man/sd_journal_get_fd.xml
@@ -123,22 +123,28 @@
<para><function>sd_journal_get_events()</function>
will return the <function>poll()</function> mask to
wait for. This function will return a combination of
- <literal>POLLIN</literal> and
- <literal>POLLOUT</literal> and similar to fill into
+ <constant>POLLIN</constant> and
+ <constant>POLLOUT</constant> and similar to fill into
the <literal>.events</literal> field of
- <literal>struct pollfd</literal>.</para>
+ <varname>struct pollfd</varname>.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_get_timeout()</function>
- will return a timeout value for usage in <function>poll()</function>. This returns a value in microseconds since the epoch of CLOCK_MONOTONIC for timing out <function>poll()</function> in <literal>timeout_usec</literal>. See
+ will return a timeout value for usage in
+ <function>poll()</function>. This returns a value in
+ microseconds since the epoch of
+ <constant>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</constant> for timing out
+ <function>poll()</function> in
+ <varname>timeout_usec</varname>. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>clock_gettime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details about
- <literal>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</literal>. If there's no
+ <constant>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</constant>. If there's no
timeout to wait for this will fill in
- <literal>(uint64_t) -1</literal> instead. Note that
+ <constant>(uint64_t) -1</constant> instead. Note that
<function>poll()</function> takes a relative timeout
in milliseconds rather than an absolute timeout in
- microseconds. To convert the absolute 'us' timeout into
- relative 'ms', use code like the following:</para>
+ microseconds. To convert the absolute 'us' timeout
+ into relative 'ms', use code like the
+ following:</para>
<programlisting>uint64_t t;
int msec;
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@ else {
}</programlisting>
<para>The code above does not do any error checking
- for brevity's sake. The calculated <literal>msec</literal>
+ for brevity's sake. The calculated <varname>msec</varname>
integer can be passed directly as
<function>poll()</function>'s timeout
parameter.</para>
@@ -174,7 +180,7 @@ else {
synchronously wait until the journal gets changed. The
maximum time this call sleeps may be controlled with
the <parameter>timeout_usec</parameter>
- parameter. Pass <literal>(uint64_t) -1</literal> to
+ parameter. Pass <constant>(uint64_t) -1</constant> to
wait indefinitely. Internally this call simply
combines <function>sd_journal_get_fd()</function>,
<function>sd_journal_get_events()</function>,
@@ -209,8 +215,8 @@ else {
errno-style error code.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_get_events()</function>
- returns a combination of <literal>POLLIN</literal>,
- <literal>POLLOUT</literal> and suchlike on success or
+ returns a combination of <constant>POLLIN</constant>,
+ <constant>POLLOUT</constant> and suchlike on success or
a negative errno-style error code.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_reliable_fd()</function>
@@ -222,19 +228,19 @@ else {
<para><function>sd_journal_process()</function> and
<function>sd_journal_wait()</function> return one of
- <literal>SD_JOURNAL_NOP</literal>,
- <literal>SD_JOURNAL_APPEND</literal> or
- <literal>SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE</literal> on success or
+ <constant>SD_JOURNAL_NOP</constant>,
+ <constant>SD_JOURNAL_APPEND</constant> or
+ <constant>SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE</constant> on success or
a negative errno-style error code. If
- <literal>SD_JOURNAL_NOP</literal> is returned the
+ <constant>SD_JOURNAL_NOP</constant> is returned the
journal didn't change since the last invocation. If
- <literal>SD_JOURNAL_APPEND</literal> is returned new
+ <constant>SD_JOURNAL_APPEND</constant> is returned new
entries have been appended to the end of the
- journal. If <literal>SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE</literal>
+ journal. If <constant>SD_JOURNAL_INVALIDATE</constant>
journal files were added or removed (possibly due to
rotation). In the latter event live-view UIs should
probably refresh their entire display while in the
- case of <literal>SD_JOURNAL_APPEND</literal> it is
+ case of <constant>SD_JOURNAL_APPEND</constant> it is
sufficient to simply continue reading at the previous
end of the journal.</para>
</refsect1>
@@ -249,7 +255,7 @@ else {
<function>sd_journal_wait()</function> interfaces are
available as shared library, which can be compiled and
linked to with the
- <literal>libsystemd-journal</literal>
+ <constant>libsystemd-journal</constant>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
file.</para>
</refsect1>