X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fintern.texi;h=5081de6e7cc86042cc66ca37abe3307869623f31;hb=9d3142805b66dabe89a13502a1b34f5dd1e83058;hp=27330ba20ffdf7872e3487d39b53e141ab5b561e;hpb=05eddc1a5824b8c53c4345d94062d80c88e572a6;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/doc/intern.texi b/doc/intern.texi index 27330ba..5081de6 100644 --- a/doc/intern.texi +++ b/doc/intern.texi @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ The @code{name} field is the file name of the file, with directory names @FIXME{how big a name before field overflows?} The @code{mode} field provides nine bits specifying file permissions -and three bits to specify the Set UID, Set GID, and Save Text +and three bits to specify the Set @acronym{UID}, Set @acronym{GID}, and Save Text (@dfn{sticky}) modes. Values for these bits are defined above. When special permissions are required to create a file with a given mode, and the user restoring files from the archive does not hold such @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ should be faked up when creating or updating an archive; e.g., the group permission could be copied from the @emph{other} permission. The @code{uid} and @code{gid} fields are the numeric user and group -ID of the file owners, respectively. If the operating system does -not support numeric user or group IDs, these fields should be ignored. +@acronym{ID} of the file owners, respectively. If the operating system does +not support numeric user or group @acronym{ID}s, these fields should be ignored. The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; linked files are archived with this field specified as zero. @FIXME-xref{Modifiers, in @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ The @code{magic} field indicates that this archive was output in the P1003 archive format. If this field contains @code{TMAGIC}, the @code{uname} and @code{gname} fields will contain the ASCII representation of the owner and group of the file respectively. -If found, the user and group IDs are used rather than the values in +If found, the user and group @acronym{ID}s are used rather than the values in the @code{uid} and @code{gid} fields. For references, see ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 or IEEE Std 1003.1-1990, pages