[Gnash-commit] gnash ChangeLog doc/C/security.xml doc/C/refman...

[Benjamin Wolsey]

CVSROOT:        /sources/gnash
Module name:    gnash
Changes by:     Benjamin Wolsey <bwy>   08/03/03 15:35:30

Modified files:
        .              : ChangeLog 
        doc/C          : security.xml 
        doc/C/refmanual: internals.xml 

Log message:
                * doc/C/security.xml: ditto.
                * doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml: ditto.
        
        Edit the correct file this time.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnash/ChangeLog?cvsroot=gnash&r1=1.5783&r2=1.5784
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnash/doc/C/security.xml?cvsroot=gnash&r1=1.1&r2=1.2
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnash/doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml?cvsroot=gnash&r1=1.5&r2=1.6

Patches:
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/gnash/gnash/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.5783
retrieving revision 1.5784
diff -u -b -r1.5783 -r1.5784
--- ChangeLog   3 Mar 2008 15:18:20 -0000       1.5783
+++ ChangeLog   3 Mar 2008 15:35:29 -0000       1.5784
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
          to usage.xml and removal of obsolete options.
        * doc/C/usermanual/specifications.xml: more corrections.
        * doc/C/bugreport.xml: ditto.
+       * doc/C/security.xml: ditto.
+       * doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml: ditto.
 
 2008-03-03 Timo Jyrinki <address@hidden>
 

Index: doc/C/security.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/gnash/gnash/doc/C/security.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- doc/C/security.xml  1 Mar 2008 15:23:01 -0000       1.1
+++ doc/C/security.xml  3 Mar 2008 15:35:29 -0000       1.2
@@ -27,22 +27,22 @@
       <title>Local Shared Objects</title>
       
       <para>
-       SWF movies support a form of persistant storage called Local
+       SWF movies support a form of persistent storage called Local
        Shared Objects. These are stored in the subdirectories of one's
        <emphasis>~/.macromedia</emphasis> configuration. These files
        are comonly called &quot;Flash Cookies&quot;, as they don't get
        deleted when the SWF movie that created or writes data to them
        stops executing. These files often store things like game
-       scores. 
+       scores, but can also store a unique identifier for tracking users.
       </para>
       
       <para>
        Till recently, what was contained in these files wasn't widely
        known. There are several LSO file utilities floating around on
-       the Web. Gnash has it's own <emphasis>soldumper</emphasis>
+       the Web. &app; has its own <emphasis>soldumper</emphasis>
        program that lets one find and dump the contents of these
        files. As of yet, I haven't discovered any nasty privacy issues
-       yet, but as Gnash's SharedObject support is new, I may have just
+       yet, but as &app;'s SharedObject support is new, I may have just
        been lucky.
       </para>
       
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@
       </para>
       
       <para>
-       The one security setting Gnash supports is the
+       The one security setting &app; supports is the
        <emphasis>SOLReadOnly</emphasis> setting for your $HOME/.gnashrc
-       file. This makes Gnash never write to a .sol file, it only reads
+       file. This makes &app; never write to a .sol file, it only reads
        them. You can also set <emphasis>SOLSafeDir</emphasis> to a safe
-       subdirectory,or even remove it later, although most people
-       willwant to set this path to the default one created bythe other
+       subdirectory, or even remove it later, although most people
+       will want to set this path to the default one created by the other
        SWF player.
       </para>
       
@@ -73,24 +73,24 @@
       <para>
        SWF movies support a form of data interchange between running
        SWF movies called LocalConnection. This uses a shared memory
-       segment to exchange AMF objects. While the specification claim
+       segment to exchange AMF objects. While the specification claims
        an application has to register as a Listener, it turns out in
-       reality this isn't required. Even YouTube violates this
+       reality that this isn't required. Even YouTube violates this
        requirement. While one would think that data written to this
        memory segment would go away when the SWF movies are done
-       playing, but they are persistant, and on some systems, the data
+       playing, they are in fact persistent, and on some systems, the data
        even survives a reboot. Thank you Solaris...
       </para>
       
       <para>
-       The Gnash utility <emphasis>dumpshm</emphasis> can be used to do
+       The &app; utility <emphasis>dumpshm</emphasis> can be used to do
        several things with these shared memory segments. This utility
        can find the shared memory segment left by using other SWF
        players to see what has been left. it can then dump the contents
        of the shared mempory segment either by decoding the AMF objects
        and printing the values, or by dumping the raw file to disk
-       where you can analysze it with any other program you wish. If
-       you run dumpshm repeatedly, you can even do a crude packet
+       where you can analyze it with any other program you wish. If
+       you run dumpshm repeatedly, you can even do crude packet
        sniffing between two SWF movies playing.
       </para>
       
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
        The only current security related option for this is
        <emphasis>LocalConnection</emphasis>. This just disables all
        communication with other SWF movies. Work is in progress on
-       adding a tracing ability to Gnash.
+       adding a tracing ability to &app;.
       </para>
       
     </sect2>

Index: doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/gnash/gnash/doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml       2 Mar 2008 17:49:18 -0000       1.5
+++ doc/C/refmanual/internals.xml       3 Mar 2008 15:35:30 -0000       1.6
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
     
     <para>
       The top level of Gnash has several libraries, 
<emphasis>libgnashbase</emphasis>,
-      <emphasis>libgnashgeo</emphasis>, <emphasis>libgnashserver</emphasis>,
+      <emphasis>libgnashserver</emphasis>,
       <emphasis>libgnashasobjs</emphasis> and
       <emphasis>libgnashbackend</emphasis>. There are several utility programs 
       included for debug parsing and processing of Flash movie files,
-      and other useful utilitis for examining local Shared Objects and
-      sniffingh LocalConnections.
+      and other useful utilities for examining local Shared Objects and
+      sniffing LocalConnections.
     </para>
     
     <sect2 id="The Libraries">
@@ -33,14 +33,6 @@
        </para> 
       </sect3>
       
-      <sect3 id="libgnashgeo">
-       <title>libgnashgeo</title>
-       
-       <para>
-         Libgnashgeo contains code for device independent graphics routines.
-       </para>
-      </sect3>
-
       <sect3 id="libgnashgui">
        <title>libgnashgui</title>
        
@@ -112,7 +104,7 @@
       
       <para>
        There are currently a few standalone programs in Gnash,
-        which serve to either assist with Gnash development or play flash
+        which serve either to assist with Gnash development or to play flash
         movies.
       </para>
 
@@ -120,8 +112,8 @@
        <title>The Standalone Player</title>
        
        <para>
-         This is the standalone OpenGL back-end used to play
-         movies. There are several command-line options and keyboard
+         This is the standalone OpenGL backend used to play
+         movies. There are several command line options and keyboard
          control keys used by Gnash.
        </para>
 
@@ -166,7 +158,7 @@
       <para>
        The plugin is designed to work within Mozilla or Firefox,
        although there is Konqueror support as well. The plugin uses
-       the Mozilla NSAPI plugin API to be cross platform, and is
+       the Mozilla NPAPI plugin API to be cross platform, and is
        portable, as well as being well integrated into Mozilla based
        browsers.
       </para>