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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-08-07 15:48:51 +0000
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mdoc(7) police:
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text. Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the entire enclosed block.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/mbuf.9 b/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
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--- a/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/mbuf.9
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
An mbuf is a basic unit of memory management in the kernel IPC subsystem.
Network packets and socket buffers are stored in mbufs.
A network packet may span multiple mbufs arranged into a chain
-.Pq linked list ,
+(linked list),
which allows adding or trimming
network headers with little overhead.
.Pp
@@ -279,10 +279,8 @@ is set to
a failed allocation will result in the caller being put
to sleep for a designated
kern.ipc.mbuf_wait
-.Po
-.Xr sysctl 8
-tunable
-.Pc
+.Xr ( sysctl 8
+tunable)
number of ticks.
A number of other mbuf-related
functions and macros have the same argument because they may
@@ -303,7 +301,7 @@ This macro operates on an mbuf chain.
It is an optimized wrapper for
.Fn m_prepend
that can make use of possible empty space before data
-.Pq "e.g. left after trimming of a link-layer header" .
+(e.g. left after trimming of a link-layer header).
The new chain pointer or
.Dv NULL
is in
@@ -404,7 +402,7 @@ so they are accessible with
Return the new chain on success,
.Dv NULL
on failure
-.Pq the chain is freed in this case .
+(the chain is freed in this case).
.Sy Note :
It doesn't allocate any clusters, so
.Fa len
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