svn commit: r186714 - head/share/man/man9
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 3 02:37:41 PST 2009
Author: brueffer
Date: Sat Jan 3 10:37:38 2009
New Revision: 186714
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186714
Log:
Mdoc and language cleanup.
Modified:
head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9
Modified: head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9 Sat Jan 3 10:14:01 2009 (r186713)
+++ head/share/man/man9/dev_clone.9 Sat Jan 3 10:37:38 2009 (r186714)
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 8, 2008
+.Dd January 3, 2009
+.Dt DEV_CLONE 9
+.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm dev_clone ,
.Nm drain_dev_clone_events
@@ -40,11 +42,11 @@ EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER(dev_clone, clone_h
.Ft void
.Fn drain_dev_clone_events
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-Device driver may register a listener that will be notified each time
-name lookup on the
-.Xr devfs
+A device driver may register a listener that will be notified each time
+a name lookup on the
+.Xr devfs 5
mount point fails to find the vnode.
-Listener shall be registered for the
+A listener shall be registered for the
.Va dev_clone
event.
When called, it is supplied with the first argument
@@ -52,23 +54,25 @@ When called, it is supplied with the fir
that was specified at handler registration time,
appropriate credentials
.Va cr ,
+and a name
.Va name
-of the length
+of length
.Va namelen
-that was looked for.
-If handler decides that the name is appropriate and want to create device
-that will be associated with the name, it should return it to the devfs
+that we look for.
+If the handler decides that the name is appropriate and wants to create the device
+that will be associated with the name, it should return it to devfs
in the
-.Va dev .
+.Va dev
+argument.
.Pp
The
.Fn drain_dev_clone_events
function is a barrier.
-It is guaranteed that all calls to eventhandlers for dev_clone that were
-started before
+It is guaranteed that all calls to eventhandlers for
+.Nm dev_clone
+that were started before
.Fn drain_dev_clone_events
call, are finished before it returns control.
-.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr devfs 5 ,
.Xr namei 9
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