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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 02:17:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <roam@FreeBSD.org>
To:        roam@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: misc/28929: [patch] No man page for pfind()
Message-ID:  <200107130917.f6D9HYS47772@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Synopsis: [patch] No man page for pfind()

Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-doc
Responsible-Changed-By: roam
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jul 13 02:11:48 PDT 2001
Responsible-Changed-Why: 
I believe this to be a doc issue.
The manpage does need some mdoc(7) corrections, like, for instance..

--- pfind.9.orig        Fri Jul 13 12:17:00 2001
+++ pfind.9     Fri Jul 13 12:18:08 2001
@@ -37,11 +37,12 @@
 .Fn pfind "pid_t"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Pp
-pfind takes a pid as its argument and returns a pointer to the proc structure w
h
-o's PID is the pid
-specified in the argument
+.Nm
+takes a pid as its argument and returns a pointer to the proc structure with
+the specified process ID.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
-pfind returns a pointer to a proc structure on success and a NULL on failure.
+.Nm
+returns a pointer to a proc structure on success and a null pointer on failure.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 This man page was written by
-Evan Sarmiento.
+.An Evan Sarmiento .

Also, the comments in the audit trail about the actual content seem relevant.

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