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

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Fred Drake 2001-01-11 16:02:08 +00:00
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@ -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
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 stat(2)/fstat(2)/lstat(2) call; this can sometimes be useful,
especially for polling one of these special files after a non-blocking
open. The meaning of the size field for other character and block
devices varies more, depending on the local implementation of the
underlying system call.
the call to \function{os.stat()}, \function{os.fstat()}, or
\function{os.lstat()}; this can sometimes be useful, especially for
polling one of these special files after a non-blocking open. The
meaning of the size field for other character and block devices varies
more, depending on the implementation of the underlying system call.
Example: