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authorYuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@nexenta.com>2017-05-29 03:56:19 +0300
committerGordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>2017-06-07 11:12:34 -0400
commit72d3dbb9ab4481606cb93caca98ba3b3a8eb6ce2 (patch)
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8300 fix man page issues found by mandoc 1.14.1
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com> Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Approved by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>
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diff --git a/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc b/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc
index 575cea4a88..411dbb8aae 100644
--- a/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc
+++ b/usr/src/man/man3proc/Pwrite.3proc
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ starting at the address
.Fa address .
It writes at most
.Fa nbyte
-of data. The
+of data.
+The
.Fn Pwrite
function is logically analogous to the
.Xr pwrite 2
@@ -47,9 +48,10 @@ function.
For live processes, this function is equivalent to writing to the
/proc file system
.Sy as
-file for the process. For core files, it writes to the logical address
-space of what was once the process and not the corresponding offset in
-the on-disk file. ELF objects grabbed through
+file for the process.
+For core files, it writes to the logical address space of what was once the
+process and not the corresponding offset in the on-disk file.
+ELF objects grabbed through
.Xr Pgrab_file 3PROC
do not support being written to.
.Pp
@@ -70,7 +72,8 @@ Otherwise, it returns
.Sy -1
and
.Sy errno
-is set to indicate an error. For the full list of errors see the
+is set to indicate an error.
+For the full list of errors see the
.Sy DIAGNOSTICS
section in
.Xr proc 4