1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index 1c1a878467..31994d482a 100644
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ open, creat \- open and possibly create a file or device
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Given a
-.IR pathname
+.I pathname
 for a file,
 .BR open ()
 returns a file descriptor, a small, non-negative integer
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Specifying this flag permits a program to avoid an additional
 .BR fcntl (2)
 .B F_SETFD
 operation to set the
-.BR FD_CLOEXEC
+.B FD_CLOEXEC
 flag.
 Additionally,
 use of this flag is essential in some multithreaded programs
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ since using a separate
 .BR fcntl (2)
 .B F_SETFD
 operation to set the
-.BR FD_CLOEXEC
+.B FD_CLOEXEC
 flag does not suffice to avoid race conditions
 where one thread opens a file descriptor at the same
 time as another thread does a
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ returned will cause the calling process to wait.
 For the handling of FIFOs (named pipes), see also
 .BR fifo (7).
 For a discussion of the effect of
-.BR O_NONBLOCK
+.B O_NONBLOCK
 in conjunction with mandatory file locks and with file leases, see
 .BR fcntl (2).
 .TP
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ The argument
 specifies the permissions to use in case a new file is created.
 It is
 modified by the process's
-.IR umask
+.I umask
 in the usual way: the permissions of the created file are
 .IR "(mode & ~umask)" .
 Note that this mode only applies to future accesses of the
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ already exists and
 were used.
 .TP
 .B EFAULT
-.IR pathname
+.I pathname
 points outside your accessible address space.
 .TP
 .B EFBIG
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ was a symbolic link.
 The process already has the maximum number of files open.
 .TP
 .B ENAMETOOLONG
-.IR pathname
+.I pathname
 was too long.
 .TP
 .B ENFILE
@@ -532,12 +532,12 @@ The
 .BR O_DIRECTORY ,
 .BR O_NOATIME ,
 and
-.BR O_NOFOLLOW
+.B O_NOFOLLOW
 flags are Linux specific.
 One may have to define the
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 macro to get their definitions.
-.BR O_DIRECT
+.B O_DIRECT
 is not specified in POSIX; one has to define
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 to get its definition.