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, 21 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/write.2 b/lib/libc/sys/write.2
index e2bf3d95162..860932e0d59 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/write.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/write.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: write.2,v 1.20 2000/04/20 06:34:37 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: write.2,v 1.21 2000/10/18 05:12:12 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: write.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:39:43 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ of data to the object referenced by the descriptor
 from the buffer pointed to by
 .Fa buf .
 .Fn writev
-performs the same action, but gathers the output data
-from the
+performs the same action, but gathers the output data from the
 .Fa iovcnt
 buffers specified by the members of the
 .Fa iov
@@ -98,13 +97,11 @@ in memory from which data should be written.
 .Fn writev
 and
 .Fn pwritev
-will always write a complete area before proceeding
-to the next.
+will always write a complete area before proceeding to the next.
 .Pp
 On objects capable of seeking, the
 .Fn write
-starts at a position
-given by the pointer associated with
+starts at a position given by the pointer associated with
 .Fa d
 (see
 .Xr lseek 2 ) .
@@ -113,17 +110,15 @@ Upon return from
 the pointer is incremented by the number of bytes which were written.
 .Pp
 Objects that are not capable of seeking always write from the current
-position.  The value of the pointer associated with such an object
-is undefined.
+position.
+The value of the pointer associated with such an object is undefined.
 .Pp
 If the real user is not the superuser, then
 .Fn write
 clears the set-user-ID bit on a file.
-This prevents penetration of system security
-by a user who
+This prevents penetration of system security by a user who
 .Dq captures
-a writable set-user-ID file
-owned by the superuser.
+a writable set-user-ID file owned by the superuser.
 .Pp
 If
 .Fn write
@@ -136,8 +131,7 @@ to flow control,
 .Fn write
 and
 .Fn writev
-may write fewer bytes than requested;
-the return value must be noted,
+may write fewer bytes than requested; the return value must be noted,
 and the remainder of the operation should be retried when possible.
 .Pp
 Note that
@@ -150,7 +144,8 @@ exceedes the constant
 .Dv IOV_MAX .
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion the number of bytes which were written
-is returned.  Otherwise, a \-1 is returned and the global variable
+is returned.
+Otherwise, a \-1 is returned and the global variable
 .Va errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .Sh ERRORS
@@ -179,16 +174,15 @@ The pointer associated with
 .Fa d
 was negative.
 .It Bq Er ENOSPC
-There is no free space remaining on the file system
-containing the file.
+There is no free space remaining on the file system containing the file.
 .It Bq Er EDQUOT
-The user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
-containing the file has been exhausted.
+The user's quota of disk blocks on the file system containing the file
+has been exhausted.
 .It Bq Er EIO
 An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
 .It Bq Er EAGAIN
-The file was marked for non-blocking I/O,
-and no data could be written immediately.
+The file was marked for non-blocking I/O, and no data could be
+written immediately.
 .El
 .Pp
 In addition,
@@ -200,8 +194,8 @@ may return the following error:
 .It Bq Er EFAULT
 Part of
 .Fa iov
-or data to be written to the file
-points outside the process's allocated address space.
+or data to be written to the file points outside the process's
+allocated address space.
 .It Bq Er EINVAL
 .Fa nbytes
 was larger than
@@ -273,18 +267,15 @@ Proper loops should use
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Fn pwritev
-function call
-appeared in
+function call appeared in
 .Ox 2.7 .
 The
 .Fn pwrite
-function call
-appeared in
+function call appeared in
 .At V.4 .
 The
 .Fn writev
-function call
-appeared in
+function call appeared in
 .Bx 4.2 .
 The
 .Fn write