The diff below fixes what seem to be errors in pcap.3,
either in factuality or markup or grammar.
Jan
--- pcap.3.orig Sun Mar 29 22:06:49 2015
+++ pcap.3 Sun Mar 29 22:16:50 2015
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ at packets on the network.
.Fa source
is a string that specifies the network device to open.
.Fa snaplen
-specifies the maximum number of bytes to capture.
+specifies the maximum number of bytes to capture from one packet.
.Fa promisc
specifies if the interface is to be put into promiscuous mode.
(Note that even if this parameter is false, the interface
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ for writing.
The name
.Ql -
is a synonym for
-.Dv stdin .
+.Dv stdout .
.Dv NULL
is returned on failure.
.Fa p
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ can be used to get the error text.
.Pp
.Fn pcap_dump_fopen
allows the use of savefile functions on the already-opened stream
-.Dq f .
+.Fa f .
.Pp
.Fn pcap_lookupdev
returns a pointer to a network device suitable for use with
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ pointer which is passed in from
.Fn pcap_dispatch ,
a pointer to the
.Fa pcap_pkthdr
-struct (which precede the actual network headers and data),
+struct (which precedes the actual network headers and data),
and a
.Fa u_char
pointer to the packet data.
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ return when live read timeouts occur.
Rather, specifying a non-zero read timeout to
.Fn pcap_open_live
and then calling
-.Fn pcap_dispatch
+.Fn pcap_loop
allows the reception and processing of any packets that arrive when the
timeout occurs.
A negative
@@ -490,10 +490,11 @@ It is typically used when just using libpcap for compi
.Pp
.Fn pcap_fopen_offline
may be used to read dumped data from an existing open stream
-.Dq fp .
+.Fa fp .
.Pp
.Fn pcap_lib_version
returns a string describing the version of libpcap.
+.Pp
.Fn pcap_datalink_val_to_name
and
.Fn pcap_datalink_val_to_description
