docs/67884: Fix a clause in ioctl.2
Christopher Nehren
apeiron at comcast.net
Sat Jun 12 16:51:54 UTC 2004
>Number: 67884
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Fix a clause in ioctl.2
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 12 16:50:23 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christopher Nehren
>Release: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD prophecy.dyndns.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sun Jun 6 16:04:08 EDT 2004 root at prophecy.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROPHECY i386
>Description:
The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, by Kenneth G. Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. www.bartleby.com/68/. [Date of Printout] states that adverbial clauses shall be delimited by commas from the clauses that they preceed. This patch fixes ioctl.2 to follow that rule.
>How-To-Repeat:
man ioctl | col -bx | grep however
>Fix:
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/ioctl.2 Wed Sep 10 15:24:33 2003
+++ ioctl.2 Sat Jun 12 12:36:33 2004
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
Most uses of
.Fn ioctl
in
-.Fx 3.0
+.Fx 3.0 ,
however, require the third argument to be a
.Vt caddr_t
or an
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