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