Commit 2542e50e authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Fixed minor markup nits for consistency with the rest of the library

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parent f54f2670
...@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ The interpretation of ``file size'' changes according to the file ...@@ -117,11 +117,11 @@ The interpretation of ``file size'' changes according to the file
type. For plain files this is the size of the file in bytes. For type. For plain files this is the size of the file in bytes. For
FIFOs and sockets under most Unixes (including Linux in particular), FIFOs and sockets under most Unixes (including Linux in particular),
the ``size'' is the number of bytes waiting to be read at the time of the ``size'' is the number of bytes waiting to be read at the time of
the stat(2)/fstat(2)/lstat(2) call; this can sometimes be useful, the call to \function{os.stat()}, \function{os.fstat()}, or
especially for polling one of these special files after a non-blocking \function{os.lstat()}; this can sometimes be useful, especially for
open. The meaning of the size field for other character and block polling one of these special files after a non-blocking open. The
devices varies more, depending on the local implementation of the meaning of the size field for other character and block devices varies
underlying system call. more, depending on the implementation of the underlying system call.
Example: Example:
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