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-rw-r--r--man2/execve.24
-rw-r--r--man2/io_submit.25
-rw-r--r--man2/llseek.23
-rw-r--r--man2/msgctl.23
-rw-r--r--man2/msgop.23
-rw-r--r--man2/semctl.23
6 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 7e40e918b4..b3301b38ea 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -444,8 +444,8 @@ With Unix V6 the argument list of an
call was ended by 0,
while the argument list of
.I main
-was ended by \-1. Thus, this
-argument list was not directly usable in a further
+was ended by \-1.
+Thus, this argument list was not directly usable in a further
.BR exec ()
call.
Since Unix V7 both are NULL.
diff --git a/man2/io_submit.2 b/man2/io_submit.2
index 2521f731c0..01796b789c 100644
--- a/man2/io_submit.2
+++ b/man2/io_submit.2
@@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ on failure, it returns one of the errors listed under ERRORS.
.TP
.B EINVAL
The \fIaio_context\fR specified by \fIctx_id\fR is invalid.
-\fInr\fR is less than 0. The \fIiocb\fR at *iocbpp[0] is not properly
-initialized, or the operation specified is invalid for the file descriptor
+\fInr\fR is less than 0.
+The \fIiocb\fR at *iocbpp[0] is not properly initialized,
+or the operation specified is invalid for the file descriptor
in the \fIiocb\fR.
.TP
.B EFAULT
diff --git a/man2/llseek.2 b/man2/llseek.2
index 623282eaec..5603b0bbd2 100644
--- a/man2/llseek.2
+++ b/man2/llseek.2
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ It returns the resulting file position in the argument
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
Upon successful completion,
.BR _llseek ()
-returns 0. Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
+returns 0.
+Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
diff --git a/man2/msgctl.2 b/man2/msgctl.2
index 0591fb1a83..f759d0cd00 100644
--- a/man2/msgctl.2
+++ b/man2/msgctl.2
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ In the future these may modified or moved to a /proc file system
interface.
Various fields in the \fIstruct msqid_ds\fP were shorts under Linux 2.2
-and have become longs under Linux 2.4. To take advantage of this,
+and have become longs under Linux 2.4.
+To take advantage of this,
a recompilation under glibc-2.1.91 or later should suffice.
(The kernel distinguishes old and new calls by an IPC_64 flag in
.IR cmd .)
diff --git a/man2/msgop.2 b/man2/msgop.2
index e251dc2fb7..1a9ae8a9c9 100644
--- a/man2/msgop.2
+++ b/man2/msgop.2
@@ -388,7 +388,8 @@ SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
The
.I msgp
argument is declared as \fIstruct msgbuf *\fP with
-libc4, libc5, glibc 2.0, glibc 2.1. It is declared as \fIvoid *\fP
+libc4, libc5, glibc 2.0, glibc 2.1.
+It is declared as \fIvoid *\fP
with glibc 2.2 and later, as required by SUSv2 and SUSv3.
The following limits on message queue resources affect the
diff --git a/man2/semctl.2 b/man2/semctl.2
index 055d18d5dd..20de357dcb 100644
--- a/man2/semctl.2
+++ b/man2/semctl.2
@@ -471,7 +471,8 @@ In the future these may modified or moved to a /proc file system
interface.
.LP
Various fields in a \fIstruct semid_ds\fP were shorts under Linux 2.2
-and have become longs under Linux 2.4. To take advantage of this,
+and have become longs under Linux 2.4.
+To take advantage of this,
a recompilation under glibc-2.1.91 or later should suffice.
(The kernel distinguishes old and new calls by an IPC_64 flag in
.IR cmd .)