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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-28 03:20:37 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-11-28 03:20:37 +0000
commit9bb6028fe02a280e61b8f862f447486ce6b5f72a (patch)
treeebd1056cace973776cd01330a93779596980ef88 /bin/sync/sync.8
parenteecdb9deb4317c0e37ed8d58ba92503563912fed (diff)
start killing redundant .Nm macro arguments (mandoc ``remembers'' the first one
it's given)
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/sync/sync.8')
-rw-r--r--bin/sync/sync.810
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sync/sync.8 b/bin/sync/sync.8
index efb04601dd8..4c3d6cefe8b 100644
--- a/bin/sync/sync.8
+++ b/bin/sync/sync.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sync.8,v 1.5 1998/09/23 00:13:50 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sync.8,v 1.6 1998/11/28 03:20:36 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sync.8,v 1.6 1995/03/21 09:11:35 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
.Nm sync
.Nd force completion of pending disk writes (flush cache)
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm sync
+.Nm
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm sync
+.Nm
can be called to ensure that all disk writes have been completed before the
processor is halted in a way not suitably done by
.Xr reboot 8
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ such as resynchronizing the hardware clock
and flushing internal caches before performing a final
.Nm sync .
.Pp
-.Nm sync
+.Nm
utilizes the
.Xr sync 2
function call.
@@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ function call.
.Xr update 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
-.Nm sync
+.Nm
command appeared in
.At v6 .