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authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>2014-05-08 01:28:45 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2014-05-07 20:13:27 -0400
commitb8bde11658366290521e3d03316378b482600323 (patch)
treeccecde357ccb3b109e69aa2a6227f7cd7c71aedc /man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
parentdca348bcbb462305864526c587495a14a76bfcde (diff)
doc: comma placement corrections and word order
Set commas where there should be some. Some improvements to word order.
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diff --git a/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml b/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
index 7e1190687..5849127be 100644
--- a/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
+++ b/man/sd_bus_path_encode.xml
@@ -82,16 +82,16 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
prefix and an external identifier string as arguments, plus a
place to store the returned bus path string. The bus path prefix
must be a valid bus path, starting with a slash
- <literal>/</literal>, but not ending in one. The external
- identifier string may be in any format, may be the empty string
- and no restrictions on the charset are made - however it must
+ <literal>/</literal>, and not ending in one. The external
+ identifier string may be in any format, may be the empty string,
+ and has no restrictions on the charset — however, it must
always be <constant>NUL</constant>-terminated. The returned string
will be the concatenation of the bus path prefix plus an escaped
version of the external identifier string. This operation may be
reversed with <function>sd_bus_decode()</function>. It is
- recommended to only use external identifiers here that generally
+ recommended to only use external identifiers that generally
require little escaping to be turned into valid bus path
- identifiers (for example by sticking to a 7-bit ASCII character
+ identifiers (for example, by sticking to a 7-bit ASCII character
set), in order to ensure the resulting bus path is still short and
easily processed.</para>
@@ -101,12 +101,12 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
takes a bus path and a prefix string, plus a place to store the
returned external identifier string. If the bus path does not
start with the specified prefix, 0 is returned and the returned
- string is set to <constant>NULL</constant>. Otherwise the
+ string is set to <constant>NULL</constant>. Otherwise, the
string following the prefix is unescaped and returned in the
external identifier string.</para>
<para>The escaping used will replace all characters which are
- invalid in a bus object path by <literal>_</literal> followed by a
+ invalid in a bus object path by <literal>_</literal>, followed by a
hexadecimal value. As a special case, the empty string will be
replaced by a lone <literal>_</literal>.</para>
</refsect1>
@@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
returns positive or 0, and a valid bus path in the return
argument. On success, <function>sd_bus_path_decode()</function>
returns a positive value if the prefixed matched, or 0 if it
- did not. If the prefix matched the external identifier is returned
- in the return parameter. If it did not match NULL is returned in
+ did not. If the prefix matched, the external identifier is returned
+ in the return parameter. If it did not match, NULL is returned in
the return parameter. On failure, a negative errno-style error
number is returned by either function. The returned strings must
be