From: Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 05:48:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Backport: SF Bug #1008310, os.major() os.minor() example and description change.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.3c1~253
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cb64ae180ede7423d50d870aff5d4ddb831692ec;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Backport: SF Bug #1008310, os.major() os.minor() example and description change.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index a2420ee442ad..59741ae4fc2b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -823,12 +823,14 @@ defines the newly created device special file (probably using
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{major}{device}
-Extracts a device major number from a raw device number.
+Extracts the device major number from a raw device number (usually
+the \member{st_dev} or \member{st_rdev} field from \ctype{stat}).
 \versionadded{2.3}
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{minor}{device}
-Extracts a device minor number from a raw device number.
+Extracts the device minor number from a raw device number (usually
+the \member{st_dev} or \member{st_rdev} field from \ctype{stat}).
 \versionadded{2.3}
 \end{funcdesc}