Manual fixes for parentheses formatting

author: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 2005-10-19 07:29:28 +0000
committer: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 2005-10-19 07:29:28 +0000
commit: e1d6264d9feaed449e70f288ebdd40d8abae818c (patch)
tree: c3c8c2c31ecf22c1e9cb32458e485d02a695d3c6 /man3
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download: man-pages-e1d6264d9feaed449e70f288ebdd40d8abae818c.tar.gz
34 files changed, 142 insertions, 118 deletions
diff --git a/man3/asprintf.3 b/man3/asprintf.3
index 21ff7d1862..4e3c5fe772 100644
--- a/man3/asprintf.3
+++ b/man3/asprintf.3
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ The functions
 and
 .BR vasprintf ()
 are analogues of
-.B sprintf
+.BR sprintf ()
 and
-.BR vsprintf ,
+.BR vsprintf (),
 except that they allocate a string large enough to hold the output
 including the terminating NUL,
 and return a pointer to it via the first parameter.
diff --git a/man3/bcmp.3 b/man3/bcmp.3
index 25e639c9d7..2cbb1b875d 100644
--- a/man3/bcmp.3
+++ b/man3/bcmp.3
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function returns 0 if the byte sequences are equal,
 otherwise a non-zero result is returned.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 4.3BSD.  This function is deprecated: use
-.BR memcmp
+.BR memcmp ()
 in new programs.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR memcmp (3),
diff --git a/man3/bcopy.3 b/man3/bcopy.3
index 5e7fe54122..bdd8cbeffd 100644
--- a/man3/bcopy.3
+++ b/man3/bcopy.3
@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ The result is correct, even when both areas overlap.
 None.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 4.3BSD.  This function is deprecated: use
-.B memcpy
+.BR memcpy ()
 or
-.B memmove
+.BR memmove ()
 in new programs.  Note that the first two parameters
 are interchanged for
-.BR memcpy 
+.BR memcpy ()
 and
-.BR memmove .
+.BR memmove ().
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR memccpy (3),
 .BR memcpy (3),
diff --git a/man3/btree.3 b/man3/btree.3
index 40705d9a70..b093f47618 100644
--- a/man3/btree.3
+++ b/man3/btree.3
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ btree \- btree database access method
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The routine
-.IR dbopen
+.IR dbopen ()
 is the library interface to database files.
 One of the supported file formats is btree files.
 The general description of the database access methods is in
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The btree data structure is a sorted, balanced tree structure storing
 associated key/data pairs.
 .PP
 The btree access method specific data structure provided to
-.I dbopen
+.IR dbopen ()
 is defined in the <db.h> include file as follows:
 .PP
 typedef struct {
diff --git a/man3/bzero.3 b/man3/bzero.3
index 8054d5290c..8bdb2d8491 100644
--- a/man3/bzero.3
+++ b/man3/bzero.3
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ to zero.
 None.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 4.3BSD.  This function is deprecated: use
-.BR memset
+.BR memset ()
 in new programs.  
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR memset (3),
diff --git a/man3/cfree.3 b/man3/cfree.3
index 4fc2b0d22d..a628b29223 100644
--- a/man3/cfree.3
+++ b/man3/cfree.3
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ A frequently asked question is "Can I use
 to free memory allocated with
 .BR calloc (),
 or do I need
-.BR cfree() ?"
+.BR cfree ()?"
 Answer: use
 .BR free ().
 .LP
diff --git a/man3/clock_getres.3 b/man3/clock_getres.3
index 407e857933..fb1e8aebf4 100644
--- a/man3/clock_getres.3
+++ b/man3/clock_getres.3
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ High-resolution per-process timer from the CPU.
 .B CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
 Thread-specific CPU-time clock.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-.BR clock_gettime "(), " clock_settime ()
+.BR clock_gettime (),
+.BR clock_settime ()
 and
 .BR clock_getres ()
 return 0 for success, or \-1 for failure (in which case
diff --git a/man3/des_crypt.3 b/man3/des_crypt.3
index 4709e76f83..f23c8843cf 100644
--- a/man3/des_crypt.3
+++ b/man3/des_crypt.3
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ des_crypt, ecb_crypt, cbc_crypt, des_setparity, DES_FAILED \- fast DES encryptio
 .BI "int DES_FAILED(int " status );
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.B ecb_crypt(\|)
+.BR ecb_crypt ()
 and
-.B cbc_crypt(\|)
+.BR cbc_crypt ()
 implement the
 .SM NBS
 .SM DES
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ These routines are faster and more general purpose than
 They also are able to utilize
 .SM DES
 hardware if it is available.
-.B ecb_crypt(\|)
+.BR ecb_crypt ()
 encrypts in
 .SM ECB
 (Electronic Code Book)
 mode, which encrypts blocks of data independently.
-.B cbc_crypt(\|)
+.BR cbc_crypt ()
 encrypts in
 .SM CBC
 (Cipher Block Chaining)
diff --git a/man3/dprintf.3 b/man3/dprintf.3
index fc6863cc2e..b6cada5a22 100644
--- a/man3/dprintf.3
+++ b/man3/dprintf.3
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ The functions
 and
 .BR vdprintf ()
 (as found in the glibc2 library) are exact analogues of
-.B fprintf
+.BR fprintf ()
 and
-.BR vfprintf ,
+.BR vfprintf (),
 except that they output to a file descriptor
 .I fd
 instead of to a given stream.
@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ instead of to a given stream.
 These functions are GNU extensions, not in C or POSIX.
 Clearly, the names were badly chosen.
 Many systems (like MacOS) have incompatible functions called
-.IR dprintf ,
+.IR dprintf (),
 usually some debugging version of
-.IR printf ,
+.IR printf (),
 perhaps with a prototype like
 
 .BI "void dprintf (int level, const char *" format ", ...);"
@@ -67,6 +67,6 @@ So, probably, it is better to avoid this function in programs
 intended to be portable.
 
 A better name would have been
-.IR fdprintf .
+.IR fdprintf ().
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR printf (3)
diff --git a/man3/exec.3 b/man3/exec.3
index 83d8bb380c..fcbc355118 100644
--- a/man3/exec.3
+++ b/man3/exec.3
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ execl, execlp, execle, execv, execvp \- execute a file
 .BI "int execvp(const char *" file ", char *const " argv "[]);"
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
-.B exec
+.BR exec ()
 family of functions replaces the current process image with a new process
 image.  The functions described in this manual page are front-ends for the
 function
 .BR execve (2).
 (See the manual page for
-.B execve
+.BR execve ()
 for detailed information about the replacement of the current process.)
 .PP
 The initial argument for these functions is the pathname of a file which is
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ variable.  If this variable isn't specified, the default path
 errors are treated specially.
 .PP
 If permission is denied for a file (the attempted
-.B execve
+.BR execve ()
 returned
 .BR EACCES ),
 these functions will continue searching the rest of the search path.  If no
@@ -144,14 +144,14 @@ set to
 .BR EACCES .
 .PP
 If the header of a file isn't recognized (the attempted
-.B execve
+.BR execve ()
 returned
 .BR ENOEXEC ),
 these functions will execute the shell with the path of the file as its
 first argument.  (If this attempt fails, no further searching is done.)
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 If any of the
-.B exec
+.BR exec ()
 functions returns, an error will have occurred.  The return value is \-1,
 and the global variable
 .I errno
diff --git a/man3/fenv.3 b/man3/fenv.3
index 27ffcc99f3..02e8434198 100644
--- a/man3/fenv.3
+++ b/man3/fenv.3
@@ -219,11 +219,11 @@ is defined.
 The C99 standard does not define a way to set individual bits in the
 floating point mask, e.g. to trap on specific flags.
 glibc 2.2 supports the functions
-.I feenableexcept
+.IR feenableexcept ()
 and
-.I fedisableexcept
+.IR fedisableexcept ()
 to set individual floating point traps, and
-.I fegetexcept
+.IR fegetexcept ()
 to query the state.
 .sp
 .nf
diff --git a/man3/fopen.3 b/man3/fopen.3
index 7e6338f1d4..4f3f781dcb 100644
--- a/man3/fopen.3
+++ b/man3/fopen.3
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ between output and input, unless an input operation encounters end-of-file.
 result of writes other than the most recent.)
 Therefore it is good practice (and indeed sometimes necessary
 under Linux) to put an
-.B fseek
+.BR fseek ()
 or
-.B fgetpos
+.BR fgetpos ()
 operation between write and read operations on such a stream.  This
 operation may be an apparent no-op (as in \fIfseek(..., 0L,
 SEEK_CUR)\fR called for its synchronizing side effect.
diff --git a/man3/getline.3 b/man3/getline.3
index ee7822f3b9..1a83fc0dff 100644
--- a/man3/getline.3
+++ b/man3/getline.3
@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@ the
 routine will allocate a buffer for containing the line, which must be freed
 by the user program.
 Alternatively, before calling
-.BR "getline()" ,
+.BR getline (),
 .IR "*lineptr"
 can contain a pointer to a
-.BR "malloc()"\-allocated
+.BR malloc ()\-allocated
 buffer
 .IR "*n"
 bytes in size. If the buffer is not large enough to hold the line read in,
 .BR getline ()
 resizes the buffer to fit with
-.BR "realloc()" ,
+.BR realloc (),
 updating
 .IR "*lineptr"
 and
@@ -73,19 +73,19 @@ will be updated to reflect the buffer address and size respectively.
 
 .BR getdelim ()
 works like
-.BR "getline()" ,
+.BR getline (),
 except a line delimiter other than newline can be specified as the
 .IR delimiter
 argument. As with
-.BR "getline()" ,
+.BR getline (),
 a delimiter character is not added if one was not present
 in the input before end of file was reached.
 
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success,
-.B "getline()"
+.BR getline ()
 and
-.B "getdelim()"
+.B getdelim ()
 return the number of characters read, including the delimiter character,
 but not including the terminating null character. This value can be used
 to handle embedded null characters in the line read.
diff --git a/man3/gets.3 b/man3/gets.3
index 1927b3be52..386d34d8cc 100644
--- a/man3/gets.3
+++ b/man3/gets.3
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ more than once.
 is equivalent to
 .BI "getc(" stdin ) \fR.
 .PP
-.BR gets() " reads"
-a line from
+.BR gets () 
+reads a line from
 .I stdin
 into the buffer pointed to by
 .I s
@@ -107,7 +107,10 @@ library for the same input stream.
 For non-locking counterparts, see
 .BR unlocked_stdio (3).
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-.BR fgetc() , " getc() " and " getchar()"
+.BR fgetc (), 
+.BR getc () 
+and 
+.BR getchar ()
 return the character read as an
 .B unsigned char
 cast to an
@@ -116,7 +119,9 @@ or
 .B EOF
 on end of file or error.
 .PP
-.BR gets() " and " fgets()
+.BR gets() 
+and 
+.BR fgets()
 return
 .I s
 on success, and
diff --git a/man3/glob.3 b/man3/glob.3
index 00d9070ada..0e284968a1 100644
--- a/man3/glob.3
+++ b/man3/glob.3
@@ -157,7 +157,10 @@ a pointer to the path which failed, and
 the value of
 .I errno
 as returned from one of the calls to
-.BR opendir() ", " readdir() ", or " stat() .
+.BR opendir (), 
+.BR readdir (), 
+or 
+.BR stat().
 If 
 .I errfunc
 returns non-zero, or if
@@ -226,7 +229,9 @@ POSIX.2
 The
 .BR glob ()
 function may fail due to failure of underlying function calls, such as
-.BR malloc() " or " opendir() .
+.BR malloc () 
+or
+.BR opendir ().
 These will store their error code in
 .IR errno .
 .SH NOTES
diff --git a/man3/inet_pton.3 b/man3/inet_pton.3
index 4419ae738c..973a52cb21 100644
--- a/man3/inet_pton.3
+++ b/man3/inet_pton.3
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ bytes long.
 Certain legacy hex and octal formats of
 .B AF_INET
 addresses are not supported by
-.IR inet_pton ,
+.IR inet_pton (),
 which rejects them.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 .BR inet_pton ()
diff --git a/man3/isalpha.3 b/man3/isalpha.3
index 12dfe81c18..9754df3f0c 100644
--- a/man3/isalpha.3
+++ b/man3/isalpha.3
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ or
 .BR EOF ,
 falls into a certain character class according to the current locale.
 .TP 
-.B "isalnum()"
+.BR isalnum ()
 checks for an alphanumeric character; it is equivalent to
 .BI "(isalpha(" c ") || isdigit(" c "))" \fR.
 .TP
-.B "isalpha()"
+.BR isalpha ()
 checks for an alphabetic character; in the standard \fB"C"\fP 
 locale, it is equivalent to
 .BI "(isupper(" c ") || islower(" c "))" \fR.
@@ -83,36 +83,36 @@ In some locales, there may be additional characters for which
 is true\(emletters which are neither upper case nor lower
 case.  
 .TP
-.B "isascii()"
+.BR isascii ()
 checks whether \fIc\fP is a 7-bit
 .I unsigned char
 value that fits into
 the ASCII character set.  This function is a BSD extension
 and is also an SVID extension.
 .TP
-.B "isblank()"
+.BR isblank ()
 checks for a blank character; that is, a space or a tab.
 .TP
-.B "iscntrl()"
+.BR iscntrl ()
 checks for a control character.
 .TP
-.B "isdigit()"
+.BR isdigit ()
 checks for a digit (0 through 9).
 .TP
-.B "isgraph()"
+.BR isgraph ()
 checks for any printable character except space.
 .TP
-.B "islower()"
+.BR islower ()
 checks for a lower-case character.
 .TP
-.B "isprint()"
+.BR isprint ()
 checks for any printable character including space.
 .TP
-.B "ispunct()"
+.BR ispunct ()
 checks for any printable character which is not a space or an
 alphanumeric character.
 .TP
-.B "isspace()"
+.BR isspace ()
 checks for white-space characters.  In the
 .B """C"""
 and
@@ -128,10 +128,10 @@ horizontal tab
 and vertical tab
 .RB ( '\ev' ).
 .TP
-.B "isupper()"
+.BR isupper ()
 checks for an uppercase letter.
 .TP
-.B "isxdigit()"
+.BR isxdigit ()
 checks for a hexadecimal digits, i.e. one of
 .nl
 .BR "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f A B C D E F" .
diff --git a/man3/lockf.3 b/man3/lockf.3
index 1564ea9e57..fca468a4f2 100644
--- a/man3/lockf.3
+++ b/man3/lockf.3
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ On Linux, this call is just an interface for
 (In general, the relation between
 .BR lockf ()
 and
-.B fcntl
+.BR fcntl ()
 is unspecified.)
 .LP
 Valid operations are given below:
diff --git a/man3/malloc.3 b/man3/malloc.3
index 85b2c3325a..fa3348911b 100644
--- a/man3/malloc.3
+++ b/man3/malloc.3
@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ If the area pointed to was moved, a
 is done.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 For
-.BR calloc() " and " malloc() ,
+.BR calloc () 
+and 
+.BR malloc (),
 the value returned is a pointer to the allocated memory, which is suitably
 aligned for any kind of variable, or
 .B NULL
diff --git a/man3/mpool.3 b/man3/mpool.3
index 10ef507a61..56e105a1b3 100644
--- a/man3/mpool.3
+++ b/man3/mpool.3
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ of files.
 The buffers may be shared between processes.
 .PP
 The function
-.I mpool_open
+.IR mpool_open ()
 initializes a memory pool.
 The
 .I key
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ buffers, but will be the largest value specified by any of the processes
 sharing the file.
 .PP
 The
-.I mpool_filter
+.IR mpool_filter ()
 function is intended to make transparent input and output processing of the
 pages possible.
 If the
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Both functions are called with the
 pointer, the page number and a pointer to the page to being read or written.
 .PP
 The function
-.I mpool_new
+.IR mpool_new ()
 takes an MPOOL pointer and an address as arguments.
 If a new page can be allocated, a pointer to the page is returned and
 the page number is stored into the
@@ -129,21 +129,21 @@ address.
 Otherwise, NULL is returned and errno is set.
 .PP
 The function
-.I mpool_get
+.IR mpool_get ()
 takes a MPOOL pointer and a page number as arguments.
 If the page exists, a pointer to the page is returned.
 Otherwise, NULL is returned and errno is set.
 The flags parameter is not currently used.
 .PP
 The function
-.I mpool_put
+.IR mpool_put ()
 unpins the page referenced by
 .IR pgaddr .
 .I Pgaddr
 must be an address previously returned by
-.I mpool_get
+.IR mpool_get ()
 or
-.IR mpool_new .
+.IR mpool_new ().
 The flag value is specified by
 .IR or 'ing
 any of the following values:
@@ -151,35 +151,35 @@ any of the following values:
 MPOOL_DIRTY
 The page has been modified and needs to be written to the backing file.
 .PP
-.I Mpool_put
+.IR Mpool_put ()
 returns 0 on success and \-1 if an error occurs.
 .PP
 The function
-.I mpool_sync
+.IR mpool_sync ()
 writes all modified pages associated with the MPOOL pointer to the
 backing file.
-.I Mpool_sync
+.IR Mpool_sync ()
 returns 0 on success and \-1 if an error occurs.
 .PP
 The
-.I mpool_close
+.IR mpool_close ()
 function free's up any allocated memory associated with the memory pool
 cookie.
 Modified pages are
 .B not
 written to the backing file.
-.I Mpool_close
+.IR Mpool_close ()
 returns 0 on success and \-1 if an error occurs.
 .SH ERRORS
 The
-.I mpool_open
+.IR mpool_open ()
 function may fail and set
 .I errno
 for any of the errors specified for the library routine
 .IR malloc (3).
 .PP
 The
-.I mpool_get
+.IR mpool_get ()
 function may fail and set
 .I errno
 for the following:
@@ -188,9 +188,9 @@ for the following:
 The requested record doesn't exist.
 .PP
 The
-.I mpool_new
+.IR mpool_new ()
 and
-.I mpool_get
+.IR mpool_get ()
 functions may fail and set
 .I errno
 for any of the errors specified for the library routines
@@ -200,14 +200,14 @@ and
 .IR malloc (3).
 .PP
 The
-.I mpool_sync
+.IR mpool_sync ()
 function may fail and set
 .I errno
 for any of the errors specified for the library routine
 .IR write (2).
 .PP
 The
-.I mpool_close
+.IR mpool_close ()
 function may fail and set
 .I errno
 for any of the errors specified for the library routine
diff --git a/man3/nan.3 b/man3/nan.3
index 19b55f34e5..8ca190ae27 100644
--- a/man3/nan.3
+++ b/man3/nan.3
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ The call
 is equivalent to 
 .I strtod ("NAN(char-sequence)",NULL)
 and similarly calls to
-.I nanf
+.IR nanf ()
 and
-.I nanl
+.IR nanl ()
 are equivalent to analogous calls to
-.I strtof
+.IR strtof ()
 and
-.IR strtold .
+.IR strtold ().
 .PP
 The argument
 .I tagp
diff --git a/man3/popen.3 b/man3/popen.3
index 680b2a2f03..64b58178a3 100644
--- a/man3/popen.3
+++ b/man3/popen.3
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The
 .BR pclose ()
 function waits for the associated process to terminate and returns the exit
 status of the command as returned by
-.BR wait4 .
+.BR wait4 ().
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 The
 .BR popen ()
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ function returns \-1 if
 .\" is not associated with a ``popened'' command, if
 .\".I stream
 .\" already ``pclosed'', or if
-.B wait4
+.BR wait4 ()
 returns an error, or some other error is detected.
 .SH ERRORS
 The
@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ The
 function does not set
 .I errno
 if memory allocation fails.  If the underlying
-.BR fork() " or " pipe()
+.BR fork () 
+or 
+.BR pipe ()
 fails,
 .I errno
 is set appropriately.  If the
diff --git a/man3/posix_memalign.3 b/man3/posix_memalign.3
index becde50e2d..dd86523342 100644
--- a/man3/posix_memalign.3
+++ b/man3/posix_memalign.3
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ reclaimed with
 .IR free ().
 
 GNU libc
-.BR "malloc()"
+.BR malloc ()
 always returns 8-byte aligned memory addresses, so these routines are only
 needed if you require larger alignment values.
 
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3
index 0517311d40..e7d271e72a 100644
--- a/man3/printf.3
+++ b/man3/printf.3
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ modifier is present, the
 .I wint_t
 (wide character) argument is converted to a multibyte sequence by a call
 to the
-.B wcrtomb
+.BR wcrtomb ()
 function, with a conversion state starting in the initial state, and the
 resulting multibyte string is written.
 .TP
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ modifier is present: The
 argument is expected to be a pointer to an array of wide characters.
 Wide characters from the array are converted to multibyte characters
 (each by a call to the
-.B wcrtomb
+.BR wcrtomb ()
 function, with a conversion state starting in the initial state before
 the first wide character), up to and including a terminating null
 wide character. The resulting multibyte characters are written up to
@@ -875,9 +875,9 @@ and
 .BR vsnprintf (),
 and the length modifier q.
 FreeBSD also has functions
-.I asprintf
+.IR asprintf ()
 and
-.IR vasprintf ,
+.IR vasprintf (),
 that allocate a buffer large enough for
 .BR sprintf ().
 In glibc there are functions
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ Use
 and
 .BR vsnprintf ()
 instead (or
-.B asprintf
+.BR asprintf ()
 and
 .BR vasprintf ).
 .PP
diff --git a/man3/puts.3 b/man3/puts.3
index d5c6386289..4852c06075 100644
--- a/man3/puts.3
+++ b/man3/puts.3
@@ -80,7 +80,10 @@ library for the same output stream.
 For non-locking counterparts, see
 .BR unlocked_stdio (3).
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-.BR fputc() , " putc() " and " putchar()"
+.BR fputc (), 
+.BR putc () 
+and
+.BR putchar ()
 return the character written as an
 .B unsigned char
 cast to an
@@ -89,7 +92,9 @@ or
 .B EOF
 on error.
 .PP
-.BR puts() " and " fputs()
+.BR puts () 
+and 
+.BR fputs ()
 return a non-negative number on success, or
 .B EOF
 on error.
diff --git a/man3/qsort.3 b/man3/qsort.3
index f73a2557c1..f8dd521040 100644
--- a/man3/qsort.3
+++ b/man3/qsort.3
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ SVID 3, POSIX, 4.3BSD, ISO 9899
 Library routines suitable for use as the
 .I compar
 argument include
-.IR strcmp ,
-.IR alphasort ,
+.IR strcmp (),
+.IR alphasort (),
 and
-.IR versionsort .
+.IR versionsort ().
 .SH EXAMPLE
 For an example of use, see the example on the
 .BR bsearch (3)
diff --git a/man3/remove.3 b/man3/remove.3
index 1fb8d2e8c8..a47eb760bf 100644
--- a/man3/remove.3
+++ b/man3/remove.3
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ remove \- delete a name and possibly the file it refers to
 .BR remove ()
 deletes a name from the filesystem.
 It calls
-.I unlink
+.IR unlink ()
 for files, and
-.I rmdir
+.IR rmdir ()
 for directories.
 
 If the removed name was the
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ disappearance of files which are still being used.
 .SH NOTE
 Under libc4 and libc5,
 .BR remove ()
-was an alias for unlink (and hence would not remove directories).
+was an alias for
+.BR unlink ()
+(and hence would not remove directories).
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR rm (1),
 .BR link (2),
diff --git a/man3/rpc.3 b/man3/rpc.3
index 80a663c2a9..2ef694d0b4 100644
--- a/man3/rpc.3
+++ b/man3/rpc.3
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ if the program does not have a standard error (as a program
 running as a server quite likely does not), or if the
 programmer
 does not want the message to be output with
-.BR printf ,
+.BR printf (),
 or if a message format different than that supported by
 .BR clnt_perrno ()
 is to be used.
@@ -1000,13 +1000,13 @@ A global variable reflecting the
 service side's
 read file descriptor bit mask; it is suitable as a parameter
 to the
-.B select
+.BR select ()
 system call. This is only of interest
 if a service implementor does not call
 .BR svc_run (),
 but rather does his own asynchronous event processing.
 This variable is read-only (do not pass its address to
-.BR select !),
+.BR select ()!),
 yet it may change after calls to
 .BR svc_getreqset ()
 or any creation routines.
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ does not call
 .BR svc_run (),
 but instead implements custom asynchronous event processing.
 It is called when the
-.B select
+.BR select ()
 system call has determined that an
 .SM RPC
 request has arrived on some
diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index d2619743fa..aea5ed2f91 100644
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -116,9 +116,9 @@ The
 function scans a variable argument list from the standard input and the
 .BR vsscanf ()
 function scans it from a string; these are analogous to the
-.B vprintf
+.BR vprintf ()
 and
-.B vsprintf
+.BR vsprintf ()
 functions respectively.
 .PP
 The
diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3
index 545766177b..bbc6b3729c 100644
--- a/man3/setlocale.3
+++ b/man3/setlocale.3
@@ -149,9 +149,11 @@ for locale-dependent information, by using the multi-byte and wide
 character functions for text processing if
 .BR "MB_CUR_MAX > 1" ,
 and by using
-.BR strcoll() ", " wcscoll()
+.BR strcoll () ,
+.BR wcscoll ()
 or 
-.BR strxfrm() ", " wcsxfrm()
+.BR strxfrm (), 
+.BR wcsxfrm ()
 to compare strings.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 A successful call to
diff --git a/man3/strptime.3 b/man3/strptime.3
index 8f5888498e..806b422ed5 100644
--- a/man3/strptime.3
+++ b/man3/strptime.3
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ int main() {
 For reasons of symmetry, glibc tries to support for
 .BR strptime ()
 the same format characters as for
-.BR strftime .
+.BR strftime ().
 (In most cases the corresponding fields are parsed, but no field in \fItm\fP
 is changed.)
 This leads to
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ An RFC-822/ISO 8601 standard time zone specification.
 .B %Z
 The timezone name.
 .LP
-Similarly, because of GNU extensions to \fIstrftime\fP,
+Similarly, because of GNU extensions to \fIstrftime\fP(),
 %k is accepted as a synonym for %H, and %l should be accepted
 as a synonym for %I, and %P is accepted as a synonym for %p.
 Finally
diff --git a/man3/strverscmp.3 b/man3/strverscmp.3
index 3697f78b3e..fb45d53ab6 100644
--- a/man3/strverscmp.3
+++ b/man3/strverscmp.3
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ which again uses
 Thus, the task of
 .BR strverscmp ()
 is to compare two strings and find the "right" order, while
-.B strcmp
+.BR strcmp ()
 only finds the lexicographic order. This function does not use
 the locale category LC_COLLATE, so is meant mostly for situations
 where the strings are expected to be in ASCII.
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ while directly after it there is a difference.
 Find the largest consecutive digit strings containing (or starting at,
 or ending at) this position. If one or both of these is empty,
 then return what
-.B strcmp
+.BR strcmp ()
 would have returned (numerical ordering of byte values).
 Otherwise, compare both digit strings numerically, where digit strings with
 one or more leading zeroes are interpreted as if they have a decimal point
diff --git a/man3/wprintf.3 b/man3/wprintf.3
index 045b37ca1a..a579f4644e 100644
--- a/man3/wprintf.3
+++ b/man3/wprintf.3
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ If no
 modifier is present, the
 .I int
 argument is converted to a wide character by a call to the
-.B btowc
+.BR btowc ()
 function, and the resulting wide character is written.
 If an
 .B l
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ argument is expected to be a pointer to an array of character type
 (pointer to a string) containing a multibyte character sequence beginning
 in the initial shift state. Characters from the array are converted to
 wide characters (each by a call to the
-.B mbrtowc
+.BR mbrtowc ()
 function with a conversion state starting in the initial state before
 the first byte). The resulting wide characters are written up to
 (but not including) the terminating null wide character. If a precision is
@@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ of the form \\unnnn does not solve this problem.) Therefore, in
 internationalized programs, the \fIformat\fP string should consist of ASCII
 wide characters only, or should be constructed at run time in an
 internationalized way (e.g. using
-.B gettext
+.BR gettext ()
 or
-.BR iconv ,
+.BR iconv (),
 followed by
-.BR mbstowcs ).
+.BR mbstowcs ()).
diff --git a/man3/xdr.3 b/man3/xdr.3
index 5c4014d564..a3e2c92b10 100644
--- a/man3/xdr.3
+++ b/man3/xdr.3
@@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ is called.  Similarly, when a stream's input buffer is empty,
 is called.  The behavior of these two routines is similar to
 the
 system calls
-.B read
+.BR read ()
 and
-.BR write ,
+.BR write (),
 except that
 .I handle
 is passed to the former routines as the first parameter.
author	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>	2005-10-19 07:29:28 +0000
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