On 2023-07-28 19:58, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Clean up in preparation for "MR sed". > > From 0421c8301f29c2c7aeb2ebe82a72fc716617ea19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:52:34 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH 2/6] vfork.2: ffix > > * Use typographer's quotation marks. > * Quote the 4.2BSD vfork(2) page _exactly_, including font styling. > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.2BSD/usr/man/man2/vfork.2 > > This is to remove a false positive in preparation for a sed(1)-driven > update of man page cross references to use the groff 1.23.0 `MR` macro. > > Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/vfork.2 | 9 ++++----- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2 > index 3a65010ca..d5ea876e3 100644 > --- a/man2/vfork.2 > +++ b/man2/vfork.2 > @@ -149,13 +149,12 @@ .SH VERSIONS > Some consider the semantics of > .BR vfork () > to be an architectural blemish, and the 4.2BSD man page stated: > -"This system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing mechanisms > -are implemented. > +\[lq]This system call will be eliminated when proper system sharing > +mechanisms are implemented. Error: write poems, not prose. I've amended that ;-) <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=47b6b10ec8a61dade7f50d6ec2a2ff7001fb19af> Cheers, Alex > Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of > -.BR vfork () > +.I vfork > as it will, in that case, be made synonymous to > -.BR fork (2).\c > -" > +.IR fork .\[rq] > However, even though modern memory management hardware > has decreased the performance difference between > .BR fork (2) -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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