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| author | Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> | 2013-06-27 21:51:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-07-02 23:06:22 -0400 |
| commit | e9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c40d1a1e527a09974839ac44a3b7b3d19232758 /man/systemd.exec.xml | |
| parent | 6824690f140f45064157d220a24b9afbeb1d093f (diff) | |
| download | systemd-e9dd9f9547350c7dc0473583b5c2228dc8f0ab76.tar.gz | |
man: improve grammar and word formatting in numerous man pages
Use proper grammar, word usage, adjective hyphenation, commas,
capitalization, spelling, etc.
To improve readability, some run-on sentences or sentence fragments were
revised.
[zj: remove the space from 'file name', 'host name', and 'time zone'.]
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.exec.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.exec.xml | 31 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml index 2ccc470e26..d6fc324b5d 100644 --- a/man/systemd.exec.xml +++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ <listitem><para>Sets the supplementary Unix groups the processes are executed - as. This takes a space separated list + as. This takes a space-separated list of group names or IDs. This option may be specified more than once in which case all listed groups are set as @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ <varname>Environment=</varname> but reads the environment variables from a text file. The text file should - contain new-line separated variable + contain new-line-separated variable assignments. Empty lines and lines starting with ; or # will be ignored, which may be used for commenting. A line @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ double quotes (").</para> <para>The argument passed should be an - absolute file name or wildcard + absolute filename or wildcard expression, optionally prefixed with "-", which indicates that if the file does not exist it won't be read and no @@ -717,9 +717,8 @@ capability bounding set for the executed process. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>capabilities</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> - for details. Takes a whitespace - separated list of capability names as - read by + for details. Takes a whitespace-separated + list of capability names as read by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cap_from_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>, e.g. <constant>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</constant>, <constant>CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE</constant>, @@ -986,7 +985,7 @@ <listitem><para>Control access to specific device nodes by the executed processes. Takes two - space separated strings: a device node + space-separated strings: a device node path (such as <filename>/dev/null</filename>) followed by a combination of r, w, m @@ -1011,7 +1010,7 @@ processes. Takes either a single weight value (between 10 and 1000) to set the default block IO weight, or a - space separated pair of a file path + space-separated pair of a file path and a weight value to specify the device specific weight value (Example: "/dev/sda 500"). The file path may be @@ -1037,8 +1036,8 @@ <listitem><para>Set the per-device overall block IO bandwidth limit for - the executed processes. Takes a space - separated pair of a file path and a + the executed processes. Takes a + space-separated pair of a file path and a bandwidth value (in bytes per second) to specify the device specific bandwidth. The file path may be @@ -1185,9 +1184,9 @@ <term><varname>IgnoreSIGPIPE=</varname></term> <listitem><para>Takes a boolean - argument. If true causes SIGPIPE to be + argument. If true, causes SIGPIPE to be ignored in the executed - process. Defaults to true, since + process. Defaults to true because SIGPIPE generally is useful only in shell pipelines.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -1196,7 +1195,7 @@ <term><varname>NoNewPrivileges=</varname></term> <listitem><para>Takes a boolean - argument. If true ensures that the + argument. If true, ensures that the service process and all its children can never gain new privileges. This option is more powerful than the respective @@ -1211,9 +1210,9 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>SystemCallFilter=</varname></term> - <listitem><para>Takes a space - separated list of system call - names. If this setting is used all + <listitem><para>Takes a space-separated + list of system call + names. If this setting is used, all system calls executed by the unit process except for the listed ones will result in immediate process |