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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2013-09-12 21:12:49 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-09-12 22:09:57 +0200
commit79640424059328268b9fb6c5fa8eb777b27a177e (patch)
treee3579216d1afd438e667044869dcdf9c732ef18c /man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml
parent982e44dbc3e70c97e83464a30354b80973d52b41 (diff)
man: wording and grammar updates
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous comma placement fixes… Highligts in this particular commit: - the "unsigned" type qualifier is completed to form a full type "unsigned int" - alphabetic -> lexicographic (that way we automatically define how numbers get sorted)
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diff --git a/man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml b/man/sd_journal_seek_head.xml
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@@ -111,30 +111,30 @@
(wallclock) timestamp,
i.e. <constant>CLOCK_REALTIME</constant>. Note that
the realtime clock is not necessarily monotonic. If a
- realtime timestamp is ambiguous it is not defined
+ realtime timestamp is ambiguous, it is not defined
which position is sought to.</para>
<para><function>sd_journal_seek_cursor()</function>
seeks to the entry located at the specified cursor
- string. For details on cursors see
+ string. For details on cursors, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_get_cursor</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
no entry matching the specified cursor is found the
call will seek to the next closest entry (in terms of
time) instead. To verify whether the newly selected
- entry actually matches the cursor use
+ entry actually matches the cursor, use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_test_cursor</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
<para>Note that these calls do not actually make any
entry the new current entry, this needs to be done in
a separate step with a subsequent
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_next</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- invocation (or a similar call). Only then entry data
+ invocation (or a similar call). Only then, entry data
may be retrieved via
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_get_data</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>. If
no entry exists that matches exactly the specified
- seek address the next closest is sought to. If
+ seek address, the next closest is sought to. If
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_next</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- is used the closest following entry will be sought to,
+ is used, the closest following entry will be sought to,
if
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_journal_previous</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
is used the closest preceding entry is sought