+Wed May 15 18:59:38 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@delasyd.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
+
+ * manual/examples/longopt.c: Include stdlib.h and getopt.h.
+
Tue May 14 03:36:21 1996 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [$subdir == misc] (headers):
command to complete, it creates a pipe to the subprocess and returns a
stream that corresponds to that pipe.
-If you specify a @var{mode} argument of @code{"r"}, you can read from the
+If you specify a @var{mode} argument of @code{"r"}, you can read from the
stream to retrieve data from the standard output channel of the subprocess.
The subprocess inherits its standard input channel from the parent process.
@section Atomicity of Pipe I/O
Reading or writing pipe data is @dfn{atomic} if the size of data written
-is less than @code{PIPE_BUF}. This means that the data transfer seems
-to be an instantaneous unit, in that nothing else in the system can
-observe a state in which it is partially complete. Atomic I/O may not
-begin right away (it may need to wait for buffer space or for data), but
-once it does begin, it finishes immediately.
+is not greater than @code{PIPE_BUF}. This means that the data transfer
+seems to be an instantaneous unit, in that nothing else in the system
+can observe a state in which it is partially complete. Atomic I/O may
+not begin right away (it may need to wait for buffer space or for data),
+but once it does begin, it finishes immediately.
Reading or writing a larger amount of data may not be atomic; for
example, output data from other processes sharing the descriptor may be