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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 2004 12:46:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/67884: Fix a clause in ioctl.2
Message-ID:  <200406121646.i5CGkbKe074437@prophecy.dyndns.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200406121650.i5CGoObX069671@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         67884
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Fix a clause in ioctl.2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 12 16:50:23 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Christopher Nehren
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD prophecy.dyndns.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sun Jun 6 16:04:08 EDT 2004 root@prophecy.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROPHECY i386


	
>Description:

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, by Kenneth G. Wilson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. www.bartleby.com/68/. [Date of Printout] states that adverbial clauses shall be delimited by commas from the clauses that they preceed. This patch fixes ioctl.2 to follow that rule.

>How-To-Repeat:
man ioctl | col -bx | grep however

>Fix:

--- /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/ioctl.2	Wed Sep 10 15:24:33 2003
+++ ioctl.2	Sat Jun 12 12:36:33 2004
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 Most uses of
 .Fn ioctl
 in
-.Fx 3.0
+.Fx 3.0 ,
 however, require the third argument to be a
 .Vt caddr_t
 or an
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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