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authorJared Yanovich <jaredy@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-07-26 03:30:26 +0000
committerJared Yanovich <jaredy@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-07-26 03:30:26 +0000
commit56efb7874536df9516efc1b361f89bd7c6ae87ee (patch)
tree343b9a8fce5816c9a3d7c7161079c3882ec756b9 /lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3
parent03ed4d1150e07efa307ccba0948c2a9ba9452e27 (diff)
- typos, punctuation, spacing, macro, layout, etc. fixes
- avoid first person ok jmc
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdio/stdio.332
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3
index 1bc1b265068..e69b5da2ac8 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: stdio.3,v 1.17 2004/06/20 21:09:30 jfb Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: stdio.3,v 1.18 2005/07/26 03:30:25 jaredy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ associated with the stream is positioned at the start of the file (byte
zero), unless the file is opened with append mode.
If append mode
is used, the position indicator will be placed at the end-of-file.
-The position indicator is maintained by subsequent reads, writes
+The position indicator is maintained by subsequent reads, writes,
and positioning requests.
All input occurs as if the characters
were read by successive calls to the
@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ Other methods of program termination may not close files properly and hence
buffered output may be lost.
In particular,
.Xr _exit 2
-does not flush stdio files.
+does not flush
+.Nm
+files.
Neither does an exit due to a signal.
Buffers are flushed by
.Xr abort 3
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ The
.Tn SYNOPSIS
sections of the following manual pages indicate which include files
are to be used, what the compiler declaration for the function
-looks like and which external variables are of interest.
+looks like, and which external variables are of interest.
.Pp
The following are defined as macros;
these names may not be re-used
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@ without first removing their current definitions with
.Dv NULL ,
.Dv SEEK_END ,
.Dv SEEK_SET ,
-.Dv SEE_CUR ,
+.Dv SEEK_CUR ,
.Dv TMP_MAX ,
.Dv clearerr ,
.Dv feof ,
@@ -197,15 +199,15 @@ without first removing their current definitions with
.Dv stdin ,
.Dv stdout .
Function versions of the macro functions
-.Xr feof ,
-.Xr ferror ,
-.Xr clearerr ,
-.Xr fileno ,
-.Xr getc ,
-.Xr getchar ,
-.Xr putc ,
+.Xr feof 3 ,
+.Xr ferror 3 ,
+.Xr clearerr 3 ,
+.Xr fileno 3 ,
+.Xr getc 3 ,
+.Xr getchar 3 ,
+.Xr putc 3 ,
and
-.Xr putchar
+.Xr putchar 3
exist and will be used if the macro
definitions are explicitly removed.
.Sh LIST OF FUNCTIONS
@@ -289,6 +291,6 @@ library conforms to
.Sh BUGS
The standard buffered functions do not interact well with certain other
library and system functions, especially
-.Xr vfork
+.Xr vfork 2
and
-.Xr abort .
+.Xr abort 3 .