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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-24 00:31:01 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-24 00:31:01 +0000
commitb1044a070b87b20a73f593b1087fae3a062d5920 (patch)
treedaa375c4c5a8cf9fabd0f0657b2141fbb899ef71 /lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.3
parent89891a551cfa28139f6165de0c822d75e1035761 (diff)
Various repairs, mostly to get rid of short lines.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.322
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.3 b/lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.3
index 29a1e4cf63d..e0c59efb852 100644
--- a/lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.3
+++ b/lib/libc/net/rcmdsh.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rcmdsh.3,v 1.7 2000/02/23 17:28:25 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rcmdsh.3,v 1.8 2000/12/24 00:30:56 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -44,10 +44,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn rcmdsh
-function
-is used by normal users to execute a command on
-a remote machine using an authentication scheme based
-on reserved port numbers using
+function is used by normal users to execute a command on a remote machine
+using an authentication scheme based on reserved port numbers using
.Xr rshd 8
or the value of
.Fa rshprog
@@ -55,17 +53,15 @@ or the value of
.Pp
The
.Fn rcmdsh
-function
-looks up the host
+function looks up the host
.Fa *ahost
using
.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
returning \-1 if the host does not exist.
Otherwise
.Fa *ahost
-is set to the standard name of the host
-and a connection is established to a server
-residing at the well-known Internet port
+is set to the standard name of the host and a connection is established to
+a server residing at the well-known Internet port
.Li shell/tcp
(or whatever port is used by
.Fa rshprog ) .
@@ -74,8 +70,7 @@ The parameter
is ignored; it is only included to provide an interface similar to
.Xr rcmd 3 .
.Pp
-If the connection succeeds,
-a socket in the
+If the connection succeeds, a socket in the
.Tn UNIX
domain of type
.Dv SOCK_STREAM
@@ -84,8 +79,7 @@ command as stdin and stdout, and stderr.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The
.Fn rcmdsh
-function
-returns a valid socket descriptor on success.
+function returns a valid socket descriptor on success.
It returns \-1 on error and prints a diagnostic message on the standard error.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rsh 1 ,