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Author SHA1 Message Date
keramida
ac7c9f771d Fix all the spelling mistakes I could find in the man pages for words
that have at least 3 characters.

MFC after:	1 week
Thanks to:	Music band ``Chingon''
		for keeping me company while searching for these.
2005-07-31 03:30:48 +00:00
yar
af2693c2fb Correct a misspelled name of time_hi_and_version. 2003-06-27 13:41:29 +00:00
ru
51fe7c1a88 mdoc(7) police: "The .Fa argument.". 2002-12-19 09:40:28 +00:00
ru
a4b155d7a2 mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language.
Stop calling system calls "function calls".

Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".

When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
2002-12-18 09:22:32 +00:00
ru
3f859aa2ab mdoc(7) police: formatting nits.
Approved by:	re
2002-11-29 15:57:50 +00:00
marcel
ad9b0af483 Given that we have 3 places to document UUID related information,
namely uuidgen(1), uuidgen(2) and uuid(3), the following division
has been choosen:
	uuidgen(1)	A description of the command line utility,
			and other user oriented UUID information.
	uuidgen(2)	A mostly technical description of UUIDs.
	uuid(3)		A description of the functions and other
			programmer oriented UUID information.

According to the division: add more technical contents.

Contributed by: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
Edited and enhanced: marcel
2002-11-11 00:29:01 +00:00
ru
0335ae6463 mdoc(7) police: kill hard sentence break. 2002-05-30 12:04:36 +00:00
marcel
58435e6cb7 Add uuidgen(2) and uuidgen(1).
The uuidgen command, by means of the uuidgen syscall, generates one
or more Universally Unique Identifiers compatible with OSF/DCE 1.1
version 1 UUIDs.

From the Perforce logs (change 11995):

Round of cleanups:
o  Give uuidgen() the correct prototype in syscalls.master
o  Define struct uuid according to DCE 1.1 in sys/uuid.h
o  Use struct uuid instead of uuid_t. The latter is defined
   in sys/uuid.h but should not be used in kernel land.
o  Add snprintf_uuid(), printf_uuid() and sbuf_printf_uuid()
   to kern_uuid.c for use in the kernel (currently geom_gpt.c).
o  Rename the non-standard struct uuid in kern/kern_uuid.c
   to struct uuid_private and give it a slightly better definition
   for better byte-order handling. See below.
o  In sys/gpt.h, fix the broken uuid definitions to match the now
   compliant struct uuid definition. See below.
o  In usr.bin/uuidgen/uuidgen.c catch up with struct uuid change.

A note about byte-order:
        The standard failed to provide a non-conflicting and
unambiguous definition for the binary representation. My initial
implementation always wrote the timestamp as a 64-bit little-endian
(2s-complement) integral. The clock sequence was always written
as a 16-bit big-endian (2s-complement) integral. After a good
nights sleep and couple of Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters (not
necessarily in that order :-) I reread the spec and came to the
conclusion that the time fields are always written in the native
by order, provided the the low, mid and hi chopping still occurs.
The spec mentions that you "might need to swap bytes if you talk
to a machine that has a different byte-order". The clock sequence
is always written in big-endian order (as is the IEEE 802 address)
because its division is resulting in bytes, making the ordering
unambiguous.
2002-05-28 06:16:08 +00:00