From 6973e40350f57e3502d6fc3c9caa80301cfe424f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:02:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: Improved formatting. Indent all paragraphs by two spaces and break lines after 79 characters. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl Signed-off-by: Florian Forster --- README | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index f1d78600..56dee295 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ Operation * When the `csv' or `rrdtool' plugins are loaded they'll write the values to files. The usual place for these files is beneath `/var/lib/collectd'. - * When using some of the plugins, collectd needs to run as user root, since only - root can do certain things, such as craft ICMP packages needed to ping + * When using some of the plugins, collectd needs to run as user root, since + only root can do certain things, such as craft ICMP packages needed to ping other hosts. collectd should NOT be installed setuid root since it can be used to overwrite valuable files! @@ -309,20 +309,20 @@ Prerequisites Crosscompiling -------------- - To compile correctly collectd needs to be able to initialize static - variables to NAN (Not A Number). Some C libraries, especially the GNU - libc, have a problem with that. + To compile correctly collectd needs to be able to initialize static + variables to NAN (Not A Number). Some C libraries, especially the GNU + libc, have a problem with that. - Luckily, with GCC it's possible to work around that problem: One can define - NAN as being (0.0 / 0.0) and `isnan' as `f != f'. However, to test this - ``implementation'' the configure script needs to compile and run a short - test program. Obviously running a test program when doing a cross- - compilation is, well, challenging. + Luckily, with GCC it's possible to work around that problem: One can define + NAN as being (0.0 / 0.0) and `isnan' as `f != f'. However, to test this + ``implementation'' the configure script needs to compile and run a short + test program. Obviously running a test program when doing a cross- + compilation is, well, challenging. - If you run into this problem, you can use the `--with-nan-emulation' - configure option to force the use of this implementation. We can't promise - that the compiled binary actually behaves as it should, but since NANs - are likely never passed to the libm you have a good chance to be lucky. + If you run into this problem, you can use the `--with-nan-emulation' + configure option to force the use of this implementation. We can't promise + that the compiled binary actually behaves as it should, but since NANs + are likely never passed to the libm you have a good chance to be lucky. Contact -- 2.11.0