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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-01-01 14:13:55 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-01-01 14:13:55 +0000
commitca92ce95a3cfd926997b31e22ca7ca788b2ba16f (patch)
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downloadman-pages-ca92ce95a3cfd926997b31e22ca7ca788b2ba16f.tar.gz
Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
-rw-r--r--man7/man-pages.710
-rw-r--r--man7/standards.718
-rw-r--r--man7/tcp.74
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 0e00666b9f..18ecf58548 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -124,11 +124,11 @@ Dates should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD.
.TP
.I source
The source of the command, function, or system call.
-.sp
+
For those few \fIman-pages\fP pages in Sections 1 and 8,
probably you just want to write
.IR GNU .
-.sp
+
For system calls, just write
.IR "Linux" .
(An earlier practice was to write the version number
@@ -136,15 +136,15 @@ of the kernel from which the manual page was being written/checked.
However, this was never done consistently, and so was
probably worse than including no version number.
Henceforth, avoid including a version number.)
-.sp
+
For library calls that are part of glibc or one of the
other common GNU libraries, just use
.IR "GNU C Library" ", " GNU ,
or an empty string.
-.sp
+
For Section 4 pages, use
.IR "Linux" .
-.sp
+
In cases of doubt, just write
.IR Linux ", or " GNU .
.TP
diff --git a/man7/standards.7 b/man7/standards.7
index d6dfc476ea..08e4f2b7a2 100644
--- a/man7/standards.7
+++ b/man7/standards.7
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ released by the University of California at Berkeley.
This was the first Berkeley release that contained a TCP/IP
stack and the sockets API.
4.2BSD was released in 1983.
-.sp
+
Earlier major BSD releases included \fI3BSD\fP (1980), \fI4BSD\fP (1980),
and \fI4.1BSD\fP (1981).
.TP
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ The standard is available online at
http://www.unix-systems.org/version3/ ,
and the interfaces that it describes are also available in the Linux
manual pages package under sections 1p and 3p (e.g., "man 3p open").
-.sp
+
The standard defines two levels of conformance:
.IR "POSIX conformance" ,
which is a baseline set of interfaces required of a conforming system;
@@ -201,27 +201,27 @@ XSI-conformant systems can be branded
(XSI conformance constitutes the
.I "Single UNIX Specification version 3"
.RI ( SUSv3 ).)
-.sp
+
The POSIX.1-2001 document is broken into four parts:
-.sp
+
.BR XBD :
Definitions, terms and concepts, header file specifications.
-.sp
+
.BR XSH :
Specifications of functions (i.e., system calls and library
functions in actual implementations).
-.sp
+
.BR XCU :
Specifications of commands and utilities
(i.e., the area formerly described by POSIX.2).
-.sp
+
.BR XRAT :
Informative text on the other parts of the standard.
-.sp
+
POSIX.1-2001 is aligned with C99, so that all of the
library functions standardized in C99 are also
standardized in POSIX.1-1001.
-.sp
+
Two Technical Corrigenda (minor fixes and improvements)
of the original 2001 standard have occurred:
TC1 in 2003 (referred to as
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 6aa6e81520..c97d001717 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ is returned.
Returns true (i.e.,
.I value
is nonzero) if the inbound data stream is at the urgent mark.
-.sp
+
If the
.B SO_OOBINLINE
socket option is set, and
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ next read from the socket will return the bytes following
the urgent data (to actually read the urgent data requires the
.B recv(MSG_OOB)
flag).
-.sp
+
Note that a read never reads across the urgent mark.
If an application is informed of the presence of urgent data via
.BR select (2)