Module Name: src
Committed By: pooka
Date: Thu May 2 12:27:08 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/lib/librumpuser: rumpuser.3
Log Message:
expand the intended usage of rumpuser_open()
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 src/lib/librumpuser/rumpuser.3
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Index: src/lib/librumpuser/rumpuser.3
diff -u src/lib/librumpuser/rumpuser.3:1.3 src/lib/librumpuser/rumpuser.3:1.4
--- src/lib/librumpuser/rumpuser.3:1.3 Tue Apr 30 21:18:40 2013
+++ src/lib/librumpuser/rumpuser.3 Thu May 2 12:27:08 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rumpuser.3,v 1.3 2013/04/30 21:18:40 pooka Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rumpuser.3,v 1.4 2013/05/02 12:27:08 pooka Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Antti Kantee. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -111,13 +111,15 @@ which returned
.Ft int
.Fn rumpuser_open "const char *name" "int mode" "int *fdp"
.Pp
-Open a file for I/O.
-Notably, there needs to be no mapping between
+Open
.Fa name
-and the host, but for example on a POSIX system it may be convenient
-to let
+for I/O and associate a file descriptor with it.
+Notably, there needs to be no mapping between
.Fa name
-denote the host file system namespace.
+and the host's file system namespace.
+For example, it is possible to associate the file descriptor with
+device I/O registers for special values of
+.Fa name .
.Bl -tag -width "xalignmentx"
.It Fa name
the identifier of the file to open for I/O
