Formatting and punctuation improvements.

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wiz 2017-05-14 12:35:46 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: signalname.3,v 1.1 2017/05/09 11:14:16 kre Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: signalname.3,v 1.2 2017/05/14 12:35:46 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Available to all and sundry, without restriction on use, or other
.\" limitations, and without fee. Also without any warranty of fitness
@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
.Dt SIGNALNAME 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm signalname
.Nm signalnumber
.Nm signalname ,
.Nm signalnumber ,
.Nm signalnext
.Nd convert between signal numbers and names
.Sh LIBRARY
@ -43,16 +43,21 @@ and returns the name of that signal.
The name returned is locale independent,
and can be the string representation of one of the
signal names from
.In signal.h
such as SIGHUP, SIGSTOP, SIGKILL,
.In signal.h
such as
.Dv SIGHUP ,
.Dv SIGSTOP ,
.Dv SIGKILL ,
or some similar name,
but does not contain the leading
.Dq SIG
.Dq Dv SIG
prefix.
.Pp
The return value of
.Fn signalname
is NULL if
is
.Dv NULL
if
.Fa sig
does not represent a valid signal number,
or if the signal number given has no name.
@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ The
.Fa name
is handled in a case-insensitive manner.
Any leading
.Dq SIG
.Dq Dv SIG
prefix in
.Fa name
is ignored.
@ -90,7 +95,7 @@ The
.Fn signalnext
function returns minus one (\-1) on error, if the given signal
.Fa sig
is neither a valid signal number, nor zero.
is neither a valid signal number nor zero.
It returns zero when the input signal number,
.Fa sig ,
is the biggest available signal number.
@ -126,7 +131,7 @@ is invalid.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn signalname ,
.Fn signalnext
.Fn signalnext ,
and
.Fn signalnumber
functions first appeared in