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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/vfork.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/vfork.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/vfork.217
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2 b/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
index 351a2f3324f..0d0dd3cdf95 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/vfork.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: vfork.2,v 1.12 1999/09/27 02:00:13 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vfork.2,v 1.13 2000/10/18 05:12:12 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vfork.2,v 1.8 1997/07/10 07:54:13 mikel Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@
.Fn vfork
was originally used to create new processes without fully copying the address
space of the old process, which is horrendously inefficient in a paged
-environment. It was useful when the purpose of
+environment.
+It was useful when the purpose of
.Xr fork 2
would have been to create a new system context for an
.Xr execve 2 .
@@ -83,17 +84,13 @@ The
function call appeared in
.Bx 2.9 .
.Sh BUGS
-To avoid a possible deadlock situation,
-processes that are children in the middle
-of a
+To avoid a possible deadlock situation, processes that are children
+in the middle of a
.Fn vfork
are never sent
.Dv SIGTTOU
or
.Dv SIGTTIN
-signals; rather,
-output or
+signals; rather, output or
.Xr ioctl 2
-calls
-are allowed
-and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication.
+calls are allowed and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication.