[PATCH] wfix: accept4(2) SOCK_NONBLOCK flag

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The description of SOCK_NONBLOCK is a bit confusing:
"description" versus "descriptor", "open file" instead of "new file".

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man/man2/accept.2 | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/accept.2 b/man/man2/accept.2
index afc04603c..65a56e37f 100644
--- a/man/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man/man2/accept.2
@@ -124,12 +124,13 @@ The following values can be bitwise ORed in
 to obtain different behavior:
 .TP 16
 .B SOCK_NONBLOCK
-Set the
-.B O_NONBLOCK
-file status flag on the open file description (see
-.BR open (2))
-referred to by the new file descriptor.
-Using this flag saves extra calls to
+Set the non-blocking
+.B ( O_NONBLOCK )
+file status flag on the new file descriptor.
+See the description of this flag in
+.BR open (2)
+for details.
+Using this flag saves an extra call to
 .BR fcntl (2)
 to achieve the same result.
 .TP
-- 
2.45.2

-- 
| Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at {fi.muni.cz - work | yenya.net - private}> |
| https://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/                        GPG: 4096R/A45477D5 |
    We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
    when it's necessary to compromise.                     --Larry Wall




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