docs/72375: prototype error in signal(3)

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed Oct 6 15:00:42 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/72375; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/72375: prototype error in signal(3)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:59:11 +0300

 On 2004-10-06 14:18, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy at gmail.com> wrote:
 > Well the visual ugliness in the current manual page arises from the
 > fact that the .Ft macro forces a line break after its idea of the
 > "type" of the function.
 >
 > Using .Xo/.Xc suppresses this, and puts the whole declaration on
 > one line.
 >
 > I don't know how to suppress the inter-argument spaces inserted by
 > ".Ft".  There is probably still scope for improvement of the patch
 > below.
 
 Hah!  I think we have a winner.
 It looks ok here :-)
 



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