From a4b155d7a2170a500eb79b46959eef4018441062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ru <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:22:32 +0000
Subject: mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language.

Stop calling system calls "function calls".

Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".

When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
---
 lib/libc/sys/aio_read.2 | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib/libc/sys/aio_read.2')

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/aio_read.2 b/lib/libc/sys/aio_read.2
index e1256ce..8090963 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/aio_read.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/aio_read.2
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn aio_read
-function allows the calling process to read
+system call allows the calling process to read
 .Fa iocb->aio_nbytes
 from the descriptor
 .Fa iocb->aio_fildes
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The
 .Fa iocb->aio_lio_opcode
 is ignored by the
 .Fn aio_read
-call.
+system call.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fa iocb
@@ -110,26 +110,26 @@ None.
 .Sh ERRORS
 The
 .Fn aio_read
-function will fail if:
+system call will fail if:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 .It Bq Er EAGAIN
 The request was not queued because of system resource limitations.
 .It Bq Er ENOSYS
 The
 .Fn aio_read
-call is not supported.
+system call is not supported.
 .El
 .Pp
 The following conditions may be synchronously detected when the
 .Fn aio_read
-call is made, or asynchronously, at any time thereafter.  If they
+system call is made, or asynchronously, at any time thereafter.  If they
 are detected at call time,
 .Fn aio_read
 returns -1 and sets
 .Va errno
 appropriately; otherwise the
 .Fn aio_return
-function must be called, and will return -1, and
+system call must be called, and will return -1, and
 .Fn aio_error
 must be called to determine the actual calue that would have been
 returned in
@@ -160,13 +160,13 @@ offset maximum.
 If the request is successfully enqueued, but subsequently cancelled
 or an error occurs, the value returned by the
 .Fn aio_return
-function is per the
+system call is per the
 .Xr read 2
-call, and the value returned by the
+system call, and the value returned by the
 .Fn aio_error
-function is either one of the error returns from the
+system call is either one of the error returns from the
 .Xr read 2
-call, or one of:
+system call, or one of:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 .It Bq Er EBADF
 .Fa iocb->aio_fildes
@@ -190,13 +190,13 @@ would be invalid.
 .Sh STANDARDS
 The
 .Fn aio_read
-call is expected to conform to the
+system call is expected to conform to the
 .St -p1003.2
 standard.
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
-.Nm
-function first appeared in
+.Fn aio_read
+system call first appeared in
 .Fx 3.0 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 This
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