directory(3): delete trailing whitespace and rewrite E.g. as e.g.

Reported by:	make manlint
Sponsored by:	Dell EMC Isilon
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ngie 2017-05-23 06:55:51 +00:00
parent 090a292809
commit a3d518ffa2

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)directory.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 31, 2016
.Dd May 22, 2017
.Dt DIRECTORY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -292,14 +292,15 @@ is likely to be wrong if there are parallel unlinks happening
and the directory is larger than one page.
There is code to ensure that a
.Fn seekdir
to the location given by a
to the location given by a
.Fn telldir
immediately before the last
immediately before the last
.Fn readdir
will always set the correct location to return the same value as that last
.Fn readdir
performed.
This is enough for some applications which want to "push back the last entry read" E.g. Samba.
This is enough for some applications which want to
"push back the last entry read", e.g. Samba.
Seeks back to any other location,
other than the beginning of the directory,
may result in unexpected behaviour if deletes are present.