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--- a/doc/man/openpam_readline.3
+++ b/doc/man/openpam_readline.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\"-
.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
-.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
+.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $P4$
+.\" $Id$
.\"
-.Dd December 21, 2007
+.Dd December 18, 2011
.Dt OPENPAM_READLINE 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -58,13 +58,19 @@ in a NUL-terminated buffer allocated with
The
.Nm
function performs a certain amount of processing
-on the data it reads.
+on the data it reads:
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
Comments (introduced by a hash sign) are stripped, as is leading and
trailing whitespace.
+.It
Any amount of linear whitespace is collapsed to a single space.
+.It
Blank lines are ignored.
-If a line ends in a backslash, the backslash is stripped and the next
-line is appended.
+.It
+If a line ends in a backslash, the backslash is stripped and the
+next line is appended.
+.El
.Pp
If
.Fa lineno
@@ -102,7 +108,8 @@ The
.Nm
function and this manual page were developed for the
.Fx
-Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
+Project by
+ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under
DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
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