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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libkvm/kvm_open.315
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
index 2e2794f..a289a7e 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ and
return a descriptor used to access kernel virtual memory
via the
.Xr kvm 3
-library routines. Both active kernels and crash dumps are accessible
+library routines.
+Both active kernels and crash dumps are accessible
through this interface.
.Pp
The
@@ -121,9 +122,11 @@ other provides an improved error reporting framework.
.Pp
The
.Fn kvm_open
-function is the Sun kvm compatible open call. Here, the
+function is the Sun kvm compatible open call.
+Here, the
.Fa errstr
-argument indicates how errors should be handled. If it is
+argument indicates how errors should be handled.
+If it is
.Dv NULL ,
no errors are reported and the application cannot know the
specific nature of the failed kvm call.
@@ -164,7 +167,8 @@ Thus,
.Fn kvm_openfiles
will place any error message in the
.Fa errbuf
-argument. This buffer should be _POSIX2_LINE_MAX characters large (from
+argument.
+This buffer should be _POSIX2_LINE_MAX characters large (from
<limits.h>).
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
@@ -185,7 +189,8 @@ The
.Fn kvm_close
function returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.
.Sh BUGS
-There should not be two open calls. The ill-defined error semantics
+There should not be two open calls.
+The ill-defined error semantics
of the Sun library and the desire to have a backward-compatible library
for
.Bx
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