Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.17-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hello,

The attached patch fixes a formatting error in the stdin.3 man page, which
resulted in a missing word.

The .BR is a roff macro, not available in the mdoc set.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral
diff -rauN ../orig/manpages-2.17/man3/stdin.3 ./manpages-2.17/man3/stdin.3
--- ../orig/manpages-2.17/man3/stdin.3  2005-10-20 17:11:10.000000000 +0200
+++ ./manpages-2.17/man3/stdin.3        2006-03-19 10:54:05.000000000 +0100
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 in detail how this interaction is supposed to work.)
 A general rule is that file descriptors are handled in the kernel,
 while stdio is just a library. This means for example, that after an
-.BR exec (), 
+.Fn exec , 
 the child inherits all open file descriptors, but all old streams
 have become inaccessible. 
 .Pp

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