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diff --git a/man5/proc_pid_fd.5 b/man5/proc_pid_fd.5
index 2e3341ad8..67f98768b 100644
--- a/man5/proc_pid_fd.5
+++ b/man5/proc_pid_fd.5
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ For file descriptors for pipes and sockets,
the entries will be symbolic links whose content is the
file type with the inode.
A
-.BR readlink (2)
+.MR readlink 2
call on this file returns a string in the format:
.IP
.in +4n
@@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ in one of the files under
.IP
For file descriptors that have no corresponding inode
(e.g., file descriptors produced by
-.BR bpf (2),
-.BR epoll_create (2),
-.BR eventfd (2),
-.BR inotify_init (2),
-.BR perf_event_open (2),
-.BR signalfd (2),
-.BR timerfd_create (2),
+.MR bpf 2 ,
+.MR epoll_create 2 ,
+.MR eventfd 2 ,
+.MR inotify_init 2 ,
+.MR perf_event_open 2 ,
+.MR signalfd 2 ,
+.MR timerfd_create 2 ,
and
-.BR userfaultfd (2)),
+.MR userfaultfd 2 ),
the entry will be a symbolic link with contents of the form
.IP
.in +4n
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ whose content is the string
In a multithreaded process, the contents of this directory
are not available if the main thread has already terminated
(typically by calling
-.BR pthread_exit (3)).
+.MR pthread_exit 3 ).
.IP
Programs that take a filename as a command-line argument,
but don't take input from standard input if no argument is supplied,
@@ -125,11 +125,12 @@ Thus the example command above could be written as:
.in
.IP
Permission to dereference or read
-.RB ( readlink (2))
+\%(\c
+.MR readlink 2 )
the symbolic links in this directory is governed by a ptrace access mode
.B PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS
check; see
-.BR ptrace (2).
+.MR ptrace 2 .
.IP
Note that for file descriptors referring to inodes
(pipes and sockets, see above),
@@ -158,4 +159,4 @@ does not have permission
to create a new file descriptor to read from that inode,
even though it can still read from its existing file descriptor 0.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR proc (5)
+.MR proc 5