summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDenys Vlasenko2009-06-18 13:23:58 +0200
committerDenys Vlasenko2009-06-18 13:23:58 +0200
commitbcbd37df2495359195b0deda7c85deacc9b3ff13 (patch)
treebcbbf5011f4972def1e79210f23bcacc04d73ff2
parent14f6f0ad4a9d07f927b96b08c20d7ea546318517 (diff)
downloadbusybox-bcbd37df2495359195b0deda7c85deacc9b3ff13.zip
busybox-bcbd37df2495359195b0deda7c85deacc9b3ff13.tar.gz
tweak Config texts and some broken English elsewhere
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
-rw-r--r--archival/Config.in10
-rw-r--r--findutils/Config.in65
-rw-r--r--libbb/Config.in1
-rw-r--r--libbb/inet_common.c2
-rw-r--r--modutils/Config.in3
-rw-r--r--networking/Config.in13
6 files changed, 48 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in
index a983e44..1ea6f3d 100644
--- a/archival/Config.in
+++ b/archival/Config.in
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ config AR
probably say N here.
config FEATURE_AR_LONG_FILENAMES
- bool "Support for long filenames (not need for debs)"
+ bool "Support for long filenames (not needed for debs)"
default n
depends on AR
help
- By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters of
- the filename, this option removes that limitation.
+ By default the ar format can only store the first 15 characters
+ of the filename, this option removes that limitation.
It supports the GNU ar long filename method which moves multiple long
filenames into a the data section of a new ar entry.
@@ -211,11 +211,11 @@ config FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
tar archives using the `-c' option.
config FEATURE_TAR_AUTODETECT
- bool "Autodetect gz/bz2 compressed tarballs"
+ bool "Autodetect compressed tarballs"
default n
depends on FEATURE_SEAMLESS_Z || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_BZ2 || FEATURE_SEAMLESS_LZMA
help
- With this option tar can automatically detect gzip/bzip2 compressed
+ With this option tar can automatically detect compressed
tarballs. Currently it works only on files (not pipes etc).
config FEATURE_TAR_FROM
diff --git a/findutils/Config.in b/findutils/Config.in
index d69a238..2f0e3c7 100644
--- a/findutils/Config.in
+++ b/findutils/Config.in
@@ -12,17 +12,17 @@ config FIND
find is used to search your system to find specified files.
config FEATURE_FIND_PRINT0
- bool "Enable -print0 option"
+ bool "Enable -print0: NUL-separated output"
default y
depends on FIND
help
- Causes output names to be separated by a null character
+ Causes output names to be separated by a NUL character
rather than a newline. This allows names that contain
newlines and other whitespace to be more easily
interpreted by other programs.
config FEATURE_FIND_MTIME
- bool "Enable modified time matching (-mtime option)"
+ bool "Enable -mtime: modified time matching"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_MTIME
files, in days.
config FEATURE_FIND_MMIN
- bool "Enable modified time matching (-mmin option)"
+ bool "Enable -mmin: modified time matching by minutes"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_MMIN
files, in minutes.
config FEATURE_FIND_PERM
- bool "Enable permissions matching (-perm option)"
+ bool "Enable -perm: permissions matching"
default y
depends on FIND
help
Enable searching based on file permissions.
config FEATURE_FIND_TYPE
- bool "Enable filetype matching (-type option)"
+ bool "Enable -type: file type matching (file/dir/link/...)"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -53,21 +53,21 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_TYPE
directory, socket, device, etc.).
config FEATURE_FIND_XDEV
- bool "Enable 'stay in filesystem' option (-xdev)"
+ bool "Enable -xdev: 'stay in filesystem'"
default y
depends on FIND
help
This option allows find to restrict searches to a single filesystem.
config FEATURE_FIND_MAXDEPTH
- bool "Enable -maxdepth N option"
+ bool "Enable -maxdepth N"
default y
depends on FIND
help
This option enables -maxdepth N option.
config FEATURE_FIND_NEWER
- bool "Enable -newer option for comparing file mtimes"
+ bool "Enable -newer: compare file modification times"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -75,14 +75,14 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_NEWER
a modified time that is more recent than the specified FILE.
config FEATURE_FIND_INUM
- bool "Enable inode number matching (-inum option)"
+ bool "Enable -inum: inode number matching"
default y
depends on FIND
help
Support the 'find -inum' option for searching by inode number.
config FEATURE_FIND_EXEC
- bool "Enable -exec option allowing execution of commands"
+ bool "Enable -exec: execute commands"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_EXEC
the files matched.
config FEATURE_FIND_USER
- bool "Enable username/uid matching (-user option)"
+ bool "Enable -user: username/uid matching"
default y
depends on FIND
help
Support the 'find -user' option for searching by username or uid.
config FEATURE_FIND_GROUP
- bool "Enable group/gid matching (-group option)"
+ bool "Enable -group: group/gid matching"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_NOT
the non-POSIX notation '-not'.
config FEATURE_FIND_DEPTH
- bool "Enable the -depth option"
+ bool "Enable -depth"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -127,14 +127,14 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_PAREN
Enable usage of parens '(' to specify logical order of arguments.
config FEATURE_FIND_SIZE
- bool "Enable -size option allowing matching for file size"
+ bool "Enable -size: file size matching"
default y
depends on FIND
help
Support the 'find -size' option for searching by file size.
config FEATURE_FIND_PRUNE
- bool "Enable -prune option allowing to exclude subdirectories"
+ bool "Enable -prune: exclude subdirectories"
default y
depends on FIND
help
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_PRUNE
exclusion .svn and CVS directories.
config FEATURE_FIND_DELETE
- bool "Enable -delete option allowing to delete files"
+ bool "Enable -delete: delete files/dirs"
default n
depends on FIND && FEATURE_FIND_DEPTH
help
@@ -151,21 +151,21 @@ config FEATURE_FIND_DELETE
try to protect the user from doing stupid things. Use with care.
config FEATURE_FIND_PATH
- bool "Enable -path option allowing to match pathname patterns"
+ bool "Enable -path: match pathname with shell pattern"
default y
depends on FIND
help
The -path option matches whole pathname instead of just filename.
config FEATURE_FIND_REGEX
- bool "Enable -regex: match pathname to regex"
+ bool "Enable -regex: match pathname with regex"
default y
depends on FIND
help
The -regex option matches whole pathname against regular expression.
config FEATURE_FIND_CONTEXT
- bool "Enable -context option for matching security context"
+ bool "Enable -context: security context matching"
default n
depends on FIND && SELINUX
help
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ config GREP
grep is used to search files for a specified pattern.
config FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS
- bool "Support extended regular expressions (egrep & grep -E)"
+ bool "Enable extended regular expressions (egrep & grep -E)"
default y
depends on GREP
help
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ config FEATURE_GREP_FGREP_ALIAS
help
fgrep sees the search pattern as a normal string rather than
regular expressions.
- grep -F is always builtin, this just creates the fgrep alias.
+ grep -F always works, this just creates the fgrep alias.
config FEATURE_GREP_CONTEXT
bool "Enable before and after context flags (-A, -B and -C)"
@@ -208,40 +208,39 @@ config XARGS
bool "xargs"
default n
help
- xargs is used to execute a specified command on
+ xargs is used to execute a specified command for
every item from standard input.
config FEATURE_XARGS_SUPPORT_CONFIRMATION
- bool "Enable prompt and confirmation option -p"
+ bool "Enable -p: prompt and confirmation"
default n
depends on XARGS
help
- Support prompt the user about whether to run each command
+ Support -p: prompt the user whether to run each command
line and read a line from the terminal.
config FEATURE_XARGS_SUPPORT_QUOTES
- bool "Enable support single and double quotes and backslash"
+ bool "Enable single and double quotes and backslash"
default n
depends on XARGS
help
- Default xargs unsupport single and double quotes
- and backslash for can use aruments with spaces.
+ Support quoting in the input.
config FEATURE_XARGS_SUPPORT_TERMOPT
- bool "Enable support options -x"
+ bool "Enable -x: exit if -s or -n is exceeded"
default n
depends on XARGS
help
- Enable support exit if the size (see the -s or -n option)
+ Support -x: exit if the command size (see the -s or -n option)
is exceeded.
config FEATURE_XARGS_SUPPORT_ZERO_TERM
- bool "Enable null terminated option -0"
+ bool "Enable -0: null terminated input"
default n
depends on XARGS
help
- Enable input filenames are terminated by a null character
- instead of by whitespace, and the quotes and backslash
+ Support -0: input items are terminated by a NUL character
+ instead of whitespace, and the quotes and backslash
are not special.
endmenu
diff --git a/libbb/Config.in b/libbb/Config.in
index 7ced387..a572775 100644
--- a/libbb/Config.in
+++ b/libbb/Config.in
@@ -163,4 +163,5 @@ config FEATURE_HWIB
help
Support for printing infiniband addresses in
network applets.
+
endmenu
diff --git a/libbb/inet_common.c b/libbb/inet_common.c
index fa4d867..0fc08d6 100644
--- a/libbb/inet_common.c
+++ b/libbb/inet_common.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ char* FAST_FUNC INET6_rresolve(struct sockaddr_in6 *sin6, int numeric)
if (sin6->sin6_family != AF_INET6) {
#ifdef DEBUG
- bb_error_msg("rresolve: unsupport address family %d!",
+ bb_error_msg("rresolve: unsupported address family %d!",
sin6->sin6_family);
#endif
errno = EAFNOSUPPORT;
diff --git a/modutils/Config.in b/modutils/Config.in
index ef8d969..d2a2e04 100644
--- a/modutils/Config.in
+++ b/modutils/Config.in
@@ -91,8 +91,7 @@ config MODPROBE
level.
config FEATURE_MODPROBE_BLACKLIST
- bool
- prompt "Blacklist support"
+ bool "Blacklist support"
default n
depends on MODPROBE
help
diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in
index 6e3ed0f..861d963 100644
--- a/networking/Config.in
+++ b/networking/Config.in
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ config FEATURE_UNIX_LOCAL
default n
help
Enable Unix domain socket support in all busybox networking
- applets.
+ applets. Address of the form local:/path/to/unix/socket
+ will be recognized.
+
+ This extension is almost never used in real world usage.
+ You most likely want to say N.
config FEATURE_PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS
bool "Prefer IPv4 addresses from DNS queries"
@@ -833,15 +837,14 @@ config TFTP_DEBUG
default n
depends on TFTP || TFTPD
help
- Enable debug settings for tftp. This is useful if you're running
- into problems with tftp as the protocol doesn't help you much when
- you run into problems.
+ Make tftp[d] print debugging messages on stderr.
+ This is useful if you are diagnosing a bug in tftp[d].
config TRACEROUTE
bool "traceroute"
default n
help
- Utility to trace the route of IP packets
+ Utility to trace the route of IP packets.
config FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_VERBOSE
bool "Enable verbose output"