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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>2021-01-09 22:45:02 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2021-01-10 09:15:48 +0100
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Various pages: srcfix: Remove redundant .PP
.PP are redundant just after .SH or .SS. Remove them. $ find man? -type f \ |xargs sed -i '/^\.S[HS]/{n;/\.PP/d}'; Plus a couple manual edits. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
-rw-r--r--man7/boot.72
-rw-r--r--man7/credentials.71
-rw-r--r--man7/futex.74
-rw-r--r--man7/mailaddr.73
-rw-r--r--man7/sigevent.71
-rw-r--r--man7/time_namespaces.72
-rw-r--r--man7/uri.75
7 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7
index cb861932c7..25d7b6a7c9 100644
--- a/man7/boot.7
+++ b/man7/boot.7
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
.SH NAME
boot \- System bootup process based on UNIX System V Release 4
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
The \fBbootup process\fR (or "\fBboot sequence\fR") varies in details
among systems, but can be roughly divided into phases controlled by
the following components:
@@ -215,7 +214,6 @@ A boot script in \fI/etc/init.d\fR reads and includes its configuration
file (that is, it "\fBsources\fR" its configuration file) and then uses
the variable values.
.SH FILES
-.PP
.IR /etc/init.d/ ,
.IR /etc/rc[S0\-6].d/ ,
.I /etc/sysconfig/
diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7
index 2d966a15c2..f2acf4cfcc 100644
--- a/man7/credentials.7
+++ b/man7/credentials.7
@@ -284,7 +284,6 @@ that the process may create (see
.BR inotify (7)).
.\"
.SS Modifying process user and group IDs
-.PP
Subject to rules described in the relevant manual pages,
a process can use the following APIs to modify its user and group IDs:
.TP
diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7
index f59725b614..155c494405 100644
--- a/man7/futex.7
+++ b/man7/futex.7
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ futex \- fast user-space locking
.B #include <linux/futex.h>
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
The Linux kernel provides futexes ("Fast user-space mutexes")
as a building block for fast user-space
locking and semaphores.
@@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ Processes can share this integer using
via shared memory segments, or because they share memory space,
in which case the application is commonly called multithreaded.
.SS Semantics
-.PP
Any futex operation starts in user space,
but it may be necessary to communicate with the kernel using the
.BR futex (2)
@@ -90,12 +88,10 @@ for
more details.
The same holds for asynchronous futex waiting.
.SH VERSIONS
-.PP
Initial futex support was merged in Linux 2.5.7
but with different semantics from those described above.
Current semantics are available from Linux 2.5.40 onward.
.SH NOTES
-.PP
To reiterate, bare futexes are not intended as an easy-to-use
abstraction for end users.
Implementors are expected to be assembly literate and to have read
diff --git a/man7/mailaddr.7 b/man7/mailaddr.7
index 25502e35de..94eeb6eb01 100644
--- a/man7/mailaddr.7
+++ b/man7/mailaddr.7
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ The name may have to be quoted using "", for example, if it contains ".":
.PP
"John Q. Doe" <john.doe@monet.example.com>
.SS Abbreviation
-.PP
Some mail systems let users abbreviate the domain name.
For instance,
users at example.com may get away with "john.doe@monet" to
@@ -85,7 +84,6 @@ send mail to John Doe.
.I "This behavior is deprecated."
Sometimes it works, but you should not depend on it.
.SS Route-addrs
-.PP
In the past, sometimes one had to route a message through
several hosts to get it to its final destination.
Addresses which show these relays are termed "route-addrs".
@@ -102,7 +100,6 @@ They occur sometimes in old mail archives.
It is generally possible to ignore all but the "user@hostc"
part of the address to determine the actual address.
.SS Postmaster
-.PP
Every site is required to have a user or user alias designated
"postmaster" to which problems with the mail system may be
addressed.
diff --git a/man7/sigevent.7 b/man7/sigevent.7
index f95c1da71d..87736be65e 100644
--- a/man7/sigevent.7
+++ b/man7/sigevent.7
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ struct sigevent {
};
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
The
.I sigevent
structure is used by various APIs
diff --git a/man7/time_namespaces.7 b/man7/time_namespaces.7
index 3291ba0069..d4f3a9d5f1 100644
--- a/man7/time_namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/time_namespaces.7
@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ the contents of the
.I timens_offsets
file are inherited from the time namespace of the creating process.
.SH NOTES
-.PP
Use of time namespaces requires a kernel that is configured with the
.B CONFIG_TIME_NS
option.
@@ -211,7 +210,6 @@ The motivation for adding time namespaces was to allow
the monotonic and boot-time clocks to maintain consistent values
during container migration and checkpoint/restore.
.SH EXAMPLES
-.PP
The following shell session demonstrates the operation of time namespaces.
We begin by displaying the inode number of the time namespace
of a shell in the initial time namespace:
diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 97c4f9cb7f..facd435ccd 100644
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ absolute_path = "/" path_segments
relative_path = relative_segment [ absolute_path ]
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a short string of characters
identifying an abstract or physical resource (for example, a web page).
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI
@@ -487,7 +486,6 @@ URNs are to be supported by the urn: scheme, with a hierarchical name space
URNs are not widely implemented.
Not all tools support all schemes.
.SS Character encoding
-.PP
URIs use a limited number of characters so that they can be
typed in and used in a variety of situations.
.PP
@@ -582,7 +580,6 @@ permitted, and can be used only when there is no defined base
Don't use abbreviated URIs as hypertext links inside a document;
use the standard format as described here.
.SH CONFORMING TO
-.PP
.UR http://www.ietf.org\:/rfc\:/rfc2396.txt
(IETF RFC\ 2396)
.UE ,
@@ -628,7 +625,6 @@ will converge to common URI formats, and a future
version of this man page will describe the converged result.
Efforts to aid this convergence are encouraged.
.SS Security
-.PP
A URI does not in itself pose a security threat.
There is no general guarantee that a URL, which at one time
located a given resource, will continue to do so.
@@ -671,7 +667,6 @@ In particular, the use of a password within
the "userinfo" component of a URI is strongly recommended against except
in those rare cases where the "password" parameter is intended to be public.
.SH BUGS
-.PP
Documentation may be placed in a variety of locations, so there
currently isn't a good URI scheme for general online documentation
in arbitrary formats.