1 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man3/syslog.3 b/man3/syslog.3
index cb5cf09a04..3a7c3d22c5 100644
--- a/man3/syslog.3
+++ b/man3/syslog.3
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ closelog, openlog, syslog \- send messages to the system logger
 .BI "void vsyslog(int " priority ", const char *" format ", va_list " ap );
 .br
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.B closelog()
+.BR closelog ()
 closes the descriptor being used to write to the system logger.  The use of
-.B closelog()
+.BR closelog ()
 is optional.
 .sp
-.B openlog()
+.BR openlog ()
 opens a connection to the system logger for a program.  The string pointed
 to by
 .I ident
@@ -61,27 +61,27 @@ is prepended to every message, and is typically set to the program name.
 The
 .I option
 argument specifies flags which control the operation of
-.B openlog()
+.BR openlog ()
 and subsequent calls to
-.BR syslog() .
+.BR syslog ().
 The
 .I facility
 argument establishes a default to be used if
 none is specified in subsequent calls to
-.BR syslog() .
+.BR syslog ().
 Values for
 .I option
 and
 .I facility
 are given below.  The use of 
-.B openlog()
+.BR openlog ()
 is optional; it will automatically be called by
-.B syslog()
+.BR syslog ()
 if necessary, in which case 
 .I ident
 will default to NULL.
 .sp
-.B syslog()
+.BR syslog ()
 generates a log message, which will be distributed by 
 .BR syslogd (8).
 The
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ the error message string
 A trailing newline is added when needed.
 
 The function
-.B vsyslog()
+.BR vsyslog ()
 performs the same task as
-.B syslog()
+.BR syslog ()
 with the difference that it takes a set of arguments which have
 been obtained using the
 .BR stdarg (3)
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ This section lists the parameters used to set the values of
 The
 .I option
 argument to 
-.B openlog()
+.BR openlog ()
 is an OR of any of these:
 .TP
 .B LOG_CONS
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ option has no effect on Linux.)
 The converse of
 .BR LOG_NDELAY ;
 opening of the connection is delayed until
-.B syslog()
+.BR syslog ()
 is called.  (This is the default, and need not be specified.)
 .TP
 .B LOG_PERROR
@@ -228,12 +228,12 @@ The function
 can be used to restrict logging to specified levels only.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 The functions
-.BR openlog() ,
-.BR closelog() ,
+.BR openlog (),
+.BR closelog (),
 and
-.BR syslog()
+.BR syslog ()
 (but not
-.BR vsyslog() )
+.BR vsyslog ())
 are specified in SUSv2 and POSIX 1003.1-2001.
 POSIX 1003.1-2001 specifies only the
 .B LOG_USER
@@ -274,10 +274,10 @@ mechanism, which is not compatible with
 The parameter
 .I ident
 in the call of
-.B openlog()
+.BR openlog ()
 is probably stored as-is. Thus, if the string it points to
 is changed,
-.B syslog()
+.BR syslog ()
 may start prepending the changed string, and if the string
 it points to ceases to exist, the results are undefined.
 Most portable is to use a string constant.