mtd/util mkfs.jffs2.1,1.3,1.4

[David Woodhouse]

Update of /home/cvs/mtd/util
In directory phoenix.infradead.org:/tmp/cvs-serv9514

Modified Files:
	mkfs.jffs2.1 
Log Message:
Document stdout/isatty behaviour

Index: mkfs.jffs2.1
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RCS file: /home/cvs/mtd/util/mkfs.jffs2.1,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4
--- mkfs.jffs2.1	12 Jan 2003 15:31:31 -0000	1.3
+++ mkfs.jffs2.1	12 Jan 2003 15:41:23 -0000	1.4
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .TH MKFS.JFFS2 1
+.\" $Id$
 .SH NAME
-mkfs.jffs2 \- Create a JFFS2 filesystem image from directory
+mkfs.jffs2 \- Create a JFFS2 file system image from directory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B mkfs.jffs2
 [
@@ -59,24 +60,25 @@
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The program
 .B mkfs.jffs2
-creates a JFFS2 (Second Journaling Flash Filesystem) filesystem
-image and writes the resulting image to the file specified by
-the option
+creates a JFFS2 (Second Journalling Flash File System) file system
+image and writes the resulting image to the file specified by the
 .B -o
-or to the standard output by default.  The filesystem image is
-created using the files and directories contained in the directory
-specified by the option
+option or by default to the standard output, unless the standard
+output is a terminal device in which case mkfs.jffs2 will abort.
+
+The file system image is created using the files and directories
+contained in the directory specified by the option
 .B -r
 or the present directory, if the
 .B -r
 option is not specified.
 
-Files to be placed into the filesystem image are compressed
+Files to be placed into the file system image are compressed
 using the
 .B zlib
 compression library.
 
-Filesystems are created with the same endianness as the host,
+File systems are created with the same endianness as the host,
 unless the
 .B -b
 or
@@ -84,11 +86,12 @@
 options are specified.  JFFS2 driver in the 2.4 Linux kernel only
 supported images having the same endianness as the CPU. As of 2.5.48,
 the kernel can be changed with a #define to accept images of the
-non-native endianness.
+non-native endianness. Full bi-endian support in the kernel is not
+planned.
 
 It is unlikely that JFFS2 images are useful except in conjuction
 with the MTD (Memory Technology Device) drivers in the Linux
-kernel, since the JFFS2 filesystem driver in the kernel requires
+kernel, since the JFFS2 file system driver in the kernel requires
 MTD devices.
 .SH OPTIONS
 Options that take SIZE arguments can be specified as either
@@ -99,7 +102,7 @@
 the output is padded to the end of the final erase block.
 .TP
 .B -r, -d, --root=DIR
-Build filesystem from directory DIR.  The default is the current
+Build file system from directory DIR.  The default is the current
 directory.
 .TP
 .B -s, --pagesize=SIZE