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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-18 05:12:14 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-18 05:12:14 +0000
commitf29d8bd9c9c901b81d8fadc341786c43528e63c1 (patch)
treea5fc4e4696d058bee8f5a8c5498044c06a963bda /lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
parent906e3d9014b754421b64647e705b3cca2e9a7c01 (diff)
Another round of man page cleanup, this time to remove more hard sentence
breaks and getting rid of short lines, making these files easier to work with.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/_exit.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/_exit.217
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2 b/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
index a59cf5f27d2..78902b87c66 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/_exit.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: _exit.2,v 1.9 1999/09/22 22:03:59 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: _exit.2,v 1.10 2000/10/18 05:12:08 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: _exit.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:31:34 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn _exit
-function
-terminates a process with the following consequences:
+function terminates a process with the following consequences:
.Bl -bullet
.It
All open file descriptors in the calling process are closed.
@@ -57,18 +56,15 @@ A process in this state may not be killed, as it is already dying.
.It
If the parent process of the calling process has an outstanding
.Xr wait 2
-call
-or catches the
+call or catches the
.Dv SIGCHLD
-signal,
-it is notified of the calling process's termination and
+signal, it is notified of the calling process's termination and
.Fa status
is set as defined by
.Xr wait 2 .
.It
The parent process ID of all of the calling process's existing child
-processes are set to 1; the initialization process
-(see the
+processes are set to 1; the initialization process (see the
.Sx DEFINITIONS
section of
.Xr intro 2 )
@@ -80,8 +76,7 @@ of the group have now exited; see
.Sx Orphaned Process Group
in
.Xr intro 2 ) ,
-and if any member of the orphaned group is stopped,
-the
+and if any member of the orphaned group is stopped, the
.Dv SIGHUP
and
.Dv SIGCONT