From e5227524a6e8f304873101160f383cc9945c7414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 02:02:50 +0000
Subject: Use ellipsis in the synopsis, and an appropriate explanation in the
 text of the manual page.

Suggested by: bde
---
 lib/libc/sys/open.2 | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/open.2 b/lib/libc/sys/open.2
index 7343528..15a4ef6 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/open.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/open.2
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Fd #include <fcntl.h>
 .Ft int
-.Fn open "const char *path" "int flags" "mode_t mode"
+.Fn open "const char *path" "int flags" "..."
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The file name specified by
 .Fa path
@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ The
 argument may indicate the file is to be
 created if it does not exist (by specifying the
 .Dv O_CREAT
-flag), in which case the file is created with mode
+flag).  In this case 
+.Nm
+requires a third argument
+.Fa "mode_t mode" ,
+and the file is created with mode
 .Fa mode
 as described in
 .Xr chmod 2
-- 
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