doc: clarify ambiguous rdev description #34094
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Replace "is considered 'special'" with "represents a device". The latter is more clear and is derived from the stat() man page. The former is also derived from the man page, but is ambiguous because: * "considered" introduces doubt. Is it, or isn't it? * "special" is never defined. "represents a device" communicates more meaning. * "special" is in scare-quotes, introducing more doubt as to what exactly it means. Refs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fstat.2.html PR-URL: #34094 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@disroot.org>
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Replace "is considered 'special'" with "represents a device". The latter is more clear and is derived from the stat() man page. The former is also derived from the man page, but is ambiguous because: * "considered" introduces doubt. Is it, or isn't it? * "special" is never defined. "represents a device" communicates more meaning. * "special" is in scare-quotes, introducing more doubt as to what exactly it means. Refs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fstat.2.html PR-URL: #34094 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@disroot.org>
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Replace "is considered 'special'" with "represents a device". The latter is more clear and is derived from the stat() man page. The former is also derived from the man page, but is ambiguous because: * "considered" introduces doubt. Is it, or isn't it? * "special" is never defined. "represents a device" communicates more meaning. * "special" is in scare-quotes, introducing more doubt as to what exactly it means. Refs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fstat.2.html PR-URL: #34094 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@disroot.org>
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Replace "is considered 'special'" with "represents a device". The latter
is more clear and is derived from the stat() man page. The former is
also derived from the man page, but is ambiguous because:
meaning.
exactly it means.
Refs: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fstat.2.html
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