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.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2
index 57925f7f989..9ede4ff66dd 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: chmod.2,v 1.9 2000/04/15 11:46:02 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: chmod.2,v 1.10 2000/10/18 05:12:08 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: chmod.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:32:06 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -51,28 +51,22 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The function
 .Fn chmod
-sets the file permission bits
-of the file
-specified by the pathname
+sets the file permission bits of the file specified by the pathname
 .Fa path
 to
 .Fa mode .
 .Fn fchmod
-sets the permission bits of the specified
-file descriptor
+sets the permission bits of the specified file descriptor
 .Fa fd .
 .Fn chmod
-verifies that the process owner (user) either owns
-the file specified by
+verifies that the process owner (user) either owns the file specified by
 .Fa path
 (or
 .Fa fd ) ,
-or
-is the superuser.
+or is the superuser.
 A mode is created from
 .Em or'd
-permission bit masks
-defined in
+permission bit masks defined in
 .Aq Pa sys/stat.h :
 .Pp
 .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
@@ -102,26 +96,25 @@ The
 .Em sticky bit )
 indicates to the system which executable files are shareable (the
 default) and the system maintains the program text of the files
-in the swap area. The sticky bit may only be set by the super user
-on shareable executable files.
+in the swap area.
+The sticky bit may only be set by the superuser on shareable executable files.
 .Pp
 If mode
 .Dv ISVTX
-(the `sticky bit') is set on a directory,
-an unprivileged user may not delete or rename
-files of other users in that directory. The sticky bit may be
-set by any user on a directory which the user owns or has appropriate
-permissions.
+(the
+.Dq sticky bit )
+is set on a directory, an unprivileged user may not delete or rename
+files of other users in that directory.
+The sticky bit may be set by any user on a directory which the user owns
+or has appropriate permissions.
 For more details of the properties of the sticky bit, see
 .Xr sticky 8 .
 .Pp
-Writing or changing the owner of a file
-turns off the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits
-unless the user is the superuser.
-This makes the system somewhat more secure
-by protecting set-user-ID (set-group-ID) files
-from remaining set-user-ID (set-group-ID) if they are modified,
-at the expense of a degree of compatibility.
+Writing or changing the owner of a file turns off the set-user-ID and
+set-group-ID bits unless the user is the superuser.
+This makes the system somewhat more secure by protecting
+set-user-ID (set-group-ID) files from remaining set-user-ID (set-group-ID)
+if they are modified, at the expense of a degree of compatibility.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
 Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
@@ -190,6 +183,5 @@ function is expected to conform to
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn fchmod
-function call
-appeared in
+function call appeared in
 .Bx 4.2 .