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| author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2023-07-28 12:58:55 -0500 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-07-28 22:55:03 +0200 |
| commit | 47b6b10ec8a61dade7f50d6ec2a2ff7001fb19af (patch) | |
| tree | b9d082e091105b5f7954973dff895d0b62f8d1a7 | |
| parent | 8baa2d238cfb8f4317329ebe4b1a2560623010b6 (diff) | |
vfork.2: ffix
[Clean up in preparation for "MR sed".]
* Use typographer's quotation marks.
* Quote the 4.2BSD vfork(2) page _exactly_, including font styling.
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/usr/man/man2/vfork.2
This is to remove a false positive in preparation for a sed(1)-driven
update of man page cross references to use the groff 1.23.0 `MR` macro.
Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/vfork.2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2 index 3a65010ca..c2b18fcf2 100644 --- a/man2/vfork.2 +++ b/man2/vfork.2 @@ -149,13 +149,12 @@ and cannot rely on any specific behavior with respect to shared memory. Some consider the semantics of .BR vfork () to be an architectural blemish, and the 4.2BSD man page stated: -"This system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing mechanisms -are implemented. +\[lq]This system call will be eliminated +when proper system sharing mechanisms are implemented. Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of -.BR vfork () +.I vfork as it will, in that case, be made synonymous to -.BR fork (2).\c -" +.IR fork .\[rq] However, even though modern memory management hardware has decreased the performance difference between .BR fork (2) |