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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2005-09-26 10:54:46 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2005-09-26 10:54:46 +0000
commit72a37764e092ec25f7090f02feb58c6d48bfbc4c (patch)
tree9644731cc5a09fea8164355dcce29c53b4c4b291 /lib/libc
parent7f4f9fe0442f5e73480d786862091eec93571c69 (diff)
Punctuation nits; grammar fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/ttyname.332
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.317
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3 b/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
index 1683472b437..ac12972bd02 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/ttyname.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: ttyname.3,v 1.18 2005/09/25 20:43:54 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: ttyname.3,v 1.19 2005/09/26 10:54:46 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ typedef, but refer to the special device files found in
.Pa /dev
and named
.Pa /dev/tty Ns Em xx
-and for which an entry exists
-in the initialization file
+and for which an entry exists in the initialization file
.Pa /etc/ttys
(see
.Xr ttys 5 ) ,
@@ -74,14 +73,12 @@ The
function
determines if the file descriptor
.Fa fd
-refers to a valid
-terminal type device.
+refers to a valid terminal type device.
.Pp
The
.Fn ttyname
-function
-gets the related device name of
-a file descriptor for which
+function gets the related device name of a file descriptor for
+which
.Fn isatty
is true.
The
@@ -89,10 +86,8 @@ The
is the reentrant version of the above, and it places the results in
.Fa buf .
If there is not enough space to place the results (indicated by
-.Fa len ),
-then it returns
-.Dv -1
-and
+.Fa len ) ,
+then it returns \-1 and
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Pp
@@ -105,14 +100,15 @@ file entry.
If the terminal is a pseudo-terminal, and there is no special entry
in the
.Xr ttys 5
-file for it, the slot number returned is 1 + (last slot number) + minor(tty).
+file for it, the slot number returned is 1 + (last slot number) +
+minor(tty).
This will return a consistent and unique number for each pseudo-terminal
device without requiring one to enumerate all of them in
.Xr ttys 5 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn ttyname
-function returns the NUL terminated name if the device is found and
+function returns the NUL-terminated name if the device is found and
.Fn isatty
is true; otherwise
a
@@ -123,7 +119,7 @@ is set to indicate the error.
.Pp
The
.Fn ttyname_r
-functions returns 0 on success and -1 on failure with
+functions returns 0 on success and \-1 on failure with
.Va errno
set to indicate the error.
.Pp
@@ -147,7 +143,7 @@ the value zero is returned.
.El
.Sh ERRORS
The
-.Fn ttyname ,
+.Fn ttyname ,
.Fn ttyname_r ,
and
.Fn isatty
@@ -183,13 +179,11 @@ and
functions conform to
.St -p1003.1-90 .
.Sh HISTORY
-A
.Fn isatty ,
.Fn ttyname ,
and
.Fn ttyslot
-function
-appeared in
+functions appeared in
.At v7 .
.Sh BUGS
The
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
index cbd1cf0772a..80e68f8d437 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: getenv.3,v 1.18 2005/09/25 20:08:01 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getenv.3,v 1.19 2005/09/26 10:56:54 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -75,30 +75,27 @@ except for
.Pp
The
.Fn getenv
-function obtains the current value of the environment variable,
+function obtains the current value of the environment variable
.Ar name .
If the variable
.Ar name
-is not in the current environment,
-a
+is not in the current environment, a
.Dv NULL
pointer is returned.
.Pp
The
.Fn getenv_r
-function obtains the current value of the environment variable,
+function obtains the current value of the environment variable
.Fa name
-and copies it in
+and copies it to
.Fa buf .
-If
+If
.Fa name
is not in the current environment, or the string length of the value of
.Fa name
is longer than
.Fa len
-characters, then
-.Dv -1
-is returned and
+characters, then \-1 is returned and
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
.Pp