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This is preferred practice in Great Britain, and normative in various European languages. See "Hart's Rules", and the "Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors". Found using: $ find man? -type f \ |grep -n '^[^.].*[^."]\."' \ |less; Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar --- man2/access.2 | 2 +- man2/mknod.2 | 2 +- man2/mmap.2 | 2 +- man2/shmget.2 | 2 +- man2/vfork.2 | 2 +- man3/cfree.3 | 2 +- man3/ctime.3 | 2 +- man3/lseek64.3 | 2 +- man3/rcmd.3 | 2 +- man5/passwd.5 | 2 +- man7/man.7 | 2 +- man7/pthreads.7 | 2 +- man7/uri.7 | 2 +- 13 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/access.2 b/man2/access.2 index 7f796d00a..454dc1cda 100644 --- a/man2/access.2 +++ b/man2/access.2 @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Only access bits are checked, not the file type or contents. Therefore, if a directory is found to be writable, it probably means that files can be created in the directory, and not that the directory can be written as a file. -Similarly, a DOS file may be found to be "executable," but the +Similarly, a DOS file may be found to be "executable", but the .BR execve (2) call will still fail. .PP diff --git a/man2/mknod.2 b/man2/mknod.2 index fad459d8c..8df261311 100644 --- a/man2/mknod.2 +++ b/man2/mknod.2 @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ or .I dev is not 0, the behavior of .BR mknod () -is unspecified." +is unspecified.". However, nowadays one should never use .BR mknod () for this purpose; one should use diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2 index 132a5b14f..79f7d060d 100644 --- a/man2/mmap.2 +++ b/man2/mmap.2 @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ at which point touching the "guard" page will result in a signal. .TP .BR MAP_HUGETLB " (since Linux 2.6.32)" -Allocate the mapping using "huge pages." +Allocate the mapping using "huge pages". See the Linux kernel source file .I Documentation/admin\-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for further information, as well as NOTES, below. diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2 index fade94c7f..b145b4cf8 100644 --- a/man2/shmget.2 +++ b/man2/shmget.2 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ to ensure that this call creates the segment. If the segment already exists, the call fails. .TP .BR SHM_HUGETLB " (since Linux 2.6)" -Allocate the segment using "huge pages." +Allocate the segment using "huge pages". See the Linux kernel source file .I Documentation/admin\-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for further information. diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2 index dbb803b66..930dafa7d 100644 --- a/man2/vfork.2 +++ b/man2/vfork.2 @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ or .B SIGTTIN signals; rather, output or .IR ioctl s -are allowed and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication." +are allowed and input attempts result in an end-of-file indication.". .\" .\" As far as I can tell, the following is not true in 2.6.19: .\" Currently (Linux 2.3.25), diff --git a/man3/cfree.3 b/man3/cfree.3 index ff4bba318..45db549b9 100644 --- a/man3/cfree.3 +++ b/man3/cfree.3 @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Answer: use An SCO manual writes: "The cfree routine is provided for compliance to the iBCSe2 standard and simply calls free. The num and size -arguments to cfree are not used." +arguments to cfree are not used.". .SH RETURN VALUE The SunOS version of .BR cfree () diff --git a/man3/ctime.3 b/man3/ctime.3 index 89107975b..9178c809a 100644 --- a/man3/ctime.3 +++ b/man3/ctime.3 @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ functions shall return values in one of two static objects: a broken-down time structure and an array of type .IR char . Execution of any of the functions may overwrite the information returned -in either of these objects by any of the other functions." +in either of these objects by any of the other functions.". This can occur in the glibc implementation. .PP In many implementations, including glibc, a 0 in diff --git a/man3/lseek64.3 b/man3/lseek64.3 index f6bab174d..1f9a4f787 100644 --- a/man3/lseek64.3 +++ b/man3/lseek64.3 @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ When users complained about data loss caused by a miscompilation of glibc 2.1.3 added the link-time warning .PP .in +4n -"the \`llseek\' function may be dangerous; use \`lseek64\' instead." +"the \`llseek\' function may be dangerous; use \`lseek64\' instead.". .in .PP This makes this function unusable if one desires a warning-free diff --git a/man3/rcmd.3 b/man3/rcmd.3 index 9f0b72a6f..5dbb31447 100644 --- a/man3/rcmd.3 +++ b/man3/rcmd.3 @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ On failure, it returns \-1 and sets to indicate the error. The error code .BR EAGAIN -is overloaded to mean "All network ports in use." +is overloaded to mean "All network ports in use". .PP For information on the return from .BR ruserok () diff --git a/man5/passwd.5 b/man5/passwd.5 index 469d29260..ee8b9311b 100644 --- a/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/man5/passwd.5 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Dennis Ritchie has reported: "Sometimes we sent printer output or batch jobs to the GCOS machine. The gcos field in the password file was a place to stash the information for the $IDENTcard. -Not elegant." +Not elegant.". .TP .I directory This is the user's home directory: diff --git a/man7/man.7 b/man7/man.7 index 2fa944c94..03518738f 100644 --- a/man7/man.7 +++ b/man7/man.7 @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ of text. Below are other relevant macros and predefined strings. Unless noted otherwise, all macros cause a break (end the current line of text). -Many of these macros set or use the "prevailing indent." +Many of these macros set or use the "prevailing indent". The "prevailing indent" value is set by any macro with the parameter .I i below; diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7 index 4696bde3e..1c29efd4c 100644 --- a/man7/pthreads.7 +++ b/man7/pthreads.7 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ the same process as the caller.) The system may reuse a thread ID after a terminated thread has been joined, or a detached thread has terminated. POSIX says: "If an application attempts to use a thread ID whose -lifetime has ended, the behavior is undefined." +lifetime has ended, the behavior is undefined.". .SS Thread-safe functions A thread-safe function is one that can be safely (i.e., it will deliver the same results regardless of whether it is) diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7 index 44d1cb6cb..f20390cb8 100644 --- a/man7/uri.7 +++ b/man7/uri.7 @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ A more portable syntax is to use an empty string as the server name, for example, ; this form does the same thing and is easily recognized by pattern matchers and older programs as a URI. -Note that if you really mean to say "start from the current location," don't +Note that if you really mean to say "start from the current location", don't specify the scheme at all; use a relative address like <../test.txt>, which has the side-effect of being scheme-independent. An example of this scheme is . -- 2.30.0