[PATCH] utmp.5: Oxford comma

[PATCH] utmp.5: Oxford comma

[Alejandro Colomar]

Found using:
$ grep -rn '\\f., [^ ]*\\f. and' man?

I also updated the markup in that paragraph: \f -> .

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man5/utmp.5 | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man5/utmp.5 b/man5/utmp.5
index 3b8340858..3b8afc199 100644
--- a/man5/utmp.5
+++ b/man5/utmp.5
@@ -176,9 +176,18 @@ records may be located by
 .PP
 When
 .BR init (1)
-finds that a process has exited, it locates its utmp
-entry by \fIut_pid\fP, sets \fIut_type\fP to \fBDEAD_PROCESS\fP, and
-clears \fIut_user\fP, \fIut_host\fP and \fIut_time\fP with null bytes.
+finds that a process has exited, it locates its utmp entry by
+.IR ut_pid ,
+sets
+.I ut_type
+to
+.BR DEAD_PROCESS ,
+and clears
+.IR ut_user ,
+.IR ut_host ,
+and
+.I ut_time
+with null bytes.
 .PP
 .BR xterm (1)
 and other terminal emulators directly create a
-- 
2.29.2

Re: [PATCH] utmp.5: Oxford comma

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 11/21/20 6:39 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Found using:
> $ grep -rn '\\f., [^ ]*\\f. and' man?
> 
> I also updated the markup in that paragraph: \f -> .
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

Thanks, ALex.

Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man5/utmp.5 | 15 ++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man5/utmp.5 b/man5/utmp.5
> index 3b8340858..3b8afc199 100644
> --- a/man5/utmp.5
> +++ b/man5/utmp.5
> @@ -176,9 +176,18 @@ records may be located by
>  .PP
>  When
>  .BR init (1)
> -finds that a process has exited, it locates its utmp
> -entry by \fIut_pid\fP, sets \fIut_type\fP to \fBDEAD_PROCESS\fP, and
> -clears \fIut_user\fP, \fIut_host\fP and \fIut_time\fP with null bytes.
> +finds that a process has exited, it locates its utmp entry by
> +.IR ut_pid ,
> +sets
> +.I ut_type
> +to
> +.BR DEAD_PROCESS ,
> +and clears
> +.IR ut_user ,
> +.IR ut_host ,
> +and
> +.I ut_time
> +with null bytes.
>  .PP
>  .BR xterm (1)
>  and other terminal emulators directly create a
> 


-- 
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