[PATCH v3 4/6] man2/select.2: add C digit separators to clarify POSIX feature release dates or use IEC or ISO multiples to clarify long numeric digit strings

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---
 man2/select.2 | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/select.2 b/man2/select.2
index 7718b75067ab..bb7a252ade80 100644
--- a/man2/select.2
+++ b/man2/select.2
@@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
 .PP
 .BR pselect ():
 .nf
-    _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
+    _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 2001\[aq]12L
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR "WARNING" :
 .BR select ()
 can monitor only file descriptors numbers that are less than
 .B FD_SETSIZE
-(1024)\[em]an unreasonably low limit for many modern applications\[em]and
+(1Ki)\[em]an unreasonably low limit for many modern applications\[em]and
 this limitation will not change.
 All modern applications should instead use
 .BR poll (2)
@@ -639,10 +639,10 @@ The Linux kernel imposes no fixed limit, but the glibc implementation makes
 .I fd_set
 a fixed-size type, with
 .B FD_SETSIZE
-defined as 1024, and the
+defined as 1Ki, and the
 .BR FD_* ()
 macros operating according to that limit.
-To monitor file descriptors greater than 1023, use
+To monitor file descriptors greater than 1Ki-1, use
 .BR poll (2)
 or
 .BR epoll (7)
-- 
2.39.0




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