From 55b2774b3ac5f48aca48f18d3aa3f49a7ba621a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralph Ronnquist Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 19:51:23 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] editorial (not a proper ar archive) --- README.adoc | 10 +++++----- fusefile.8 | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index a37d36d..7c00e22 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ file changes or reduces in size, anything may happen. If the mountpoint file doesn't exist, then **fusefile** creates it, and removes it when unmounted. -When a "pad" file is used, it is updated as an "ar" archive where each -write event is a new member appended at the end. The "pad" member has -two additional, newline-terminated text lines with the insertion -position and the member size (ascii decimal digits), before the actual -insertion event content. +When a "pad" file is used, it is updated as a simple archive where +each write event is a new member appended at the end. Each "pad" +member has a prefix of two newline-terminated text lines telling the +insertion position and the member size (both as ascii decimal digits), +before the actual insertion event content. ## AUTHOR diff --git a/fusefile.8 b/fusefile.8 index 7051d94..4baf0a9 100644 --- a/fusefile.8 +++ b/fusefile.8 @@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ file changes or reduces in size, anything may happen. If the mountpoint file doesn't exist, then \fBfusefile\fR creates it, and removes it when unmounted. -When a "pad" file is used, it is updated as an "ar" archive where each -write event is a new member appended at the end. The "pad" member has -two additional, newline-terminated text lines with the insertion -position and the member size (ascii decimal digits), before the actual -insertion event content. +When a "pad" file is used, it is updated as a simple archive where +each write event is a new member appended at the end. Each "pad" +member has a prefix of two newline-terminated text lines telling the +insertion position and the member size (both as ascii decimal digits), +before the actual insertion event content. .SH AUTHOR -- 2.39.2