X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/blobdiff_plain/ad7871609881e73855d0b04da49b486cd93efca7..ed554bc5e4201344d7eaad78263566e79428759c:/usr/src/share/man/man5/dir.5 diff --git a/usr/src/share/man/man5/dir.5 b/usr/src/share/man/man5/dir.5 index 0d088822f2..39d7b77bf2 100644 --- a/usr/src/share/man/man5/dir.5 +++ b/usr/src/share/man/man5/dir.5 @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" @(#)dir.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 +.\" @(#)dir.5 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" -.Dd June 5, 1993 +.Dd April 19, 1994 .Dt DIR 5 .Os BSD 4.2 .Sh NAME @@ -42,19 +42,19 @@ .Fd #include .Fd #include .Sh DESCRIPTION -Directories provide a convienent hierarchical method of grouping +Directories provide a convenient hierarchical method of grouping files while obscuring the underlying details of the storage medium. A directory file is differentiated from a plain file by a flag in its .Xr inode 5 entry. -It consists of records (directory entries) each of which contain +It consists of records (directory entries) each of which contains information about a file and a pointer to the file itself. Directory entries may contain other directories as well as plain files; such nested directories are refered to as subdirectories. A hierarchy of directories and files is formed in this manner -and is called a file system (or refered to as a file system tree). +and is called a file system (or referred to as a file system tree). .\" An entry in this tree, .\" nested or not nested, .\" is a pathname.