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diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index bb15694..72366c6 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ users are allowed to implement this in C or any other language of their choosing.} @c Which is better: cray-cray users, lunatic users, @c moonstruck users, insane users, ballers, madmen, -@c loony tunes? +@c loony tunes, systemd-lovers? These servers implements the actual functionality of the display server. @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Request assignment of a unique ID. Multicast a message. @item -Join or leave a multicast groups. +Join or leave a multicast group. @end itemize Upon assignment of an ID the master server @@ -225,15 +225,15 @@ the client, refered to by it's ID, have closed. A message in the @command{mds} protocol is comprised of two parts: headers and a payload. When a client joins a multicast group it is -actually say that it is interested and receiving -broadcasts containing a specific header or a -specific header--value pair, or that it is -interesting in all messages@footnote{This +actually saying that it is interested in +receiving broadcasts containing a specific header +or a specific header--value pair, or that it +is interesting in all messages@footnote{This could be used for logging, possibly spying and networking.}. Thus a message is automatically multicasted to groups indicated by its headers. -The multicast groups and receiving of groups +The multicast groups and receiving of message is called interceptions. The interesting property of interceptions is that they may be modifying. When a server registers for @@ -284,16 +284,16 @@ received in its other connection and the let the OS kernel switch virtual terminal. The secondary connection to the display has registered interception with lower -priority of the message that the primary +priority of the message than the primary connection broadcasts. This message will be received by other servers that will let the message continue to the next server in the interception list once that server is ready for the OS kernel to switch -virtual terminal. All of these server has +virtual terminal. All of these servers have registered modifying interception of the -message but none will actually modify or -consume the message; it is only used a +message but none of them will actually modify +or consume the message; it is only used a mechanism for letting @command{mds-vt} know when all servers are ready for the switch without having to know how many they are @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ For example if the display server index is zero, temporary data may be stored in @file{/tmp/.@{system-directory@}.mds/0.data} -As defined by @code{SHM_PATH_PATTERN} by +As defined by @code{SHM_PATH_PATTERN} in @file{<libmdsserver/config.h>}, when a server re-executes itself it will marshal its state to the POSIX shared memory unit named |