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.Sh DESCRIPTION
During normal operation a process may encounter a
.Sy fault ,
-due to a hardware exception, identifying a problem with the running
-process. Hardware faults include things like executing illegal
-instructions, encountering a breakpoint, and arithmetic exceptions.
+due to a hardware exception, identifying a problem with the running process.
+Hardware faults include things like executing illegal instructions, encountering
+a breakpoint, and arithmetic exceptions.
Faults are discussed further in
.Xr proc 4 .
.Pp
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ The
.Fn Pclearfault
and
.Fn Lclearfault
-functions only have meaning for active processes. They will fail on process
-handles corresponding to zombie processes, ELF objects, and cores.
+functions only have meaning for active processes.
+They will fail on process handles corresponding to zombie processes, ELF
+objects, and cores.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the
.Fn Pclearfault