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Drop trailing whitespace, and some mdoc fixes and improvements.

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.\" $NetBSD: kqueue.2,v 1.5 2002/09/24 11:38:16 jdolecek Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: kqueue.2,v 1.6 2002/09/25 00:55:16 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Jonathan Lemon
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -42,9 +42,9 @@
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/event.h>
.Fd #include <sys/time.h>
.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/types.h\*[Gt]
.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/event.h\*[Gt]
.Fd #include \*[Lt]sys/time.h\*[Gt]
.Ft int
.Fn kqueue "void"
.Ft int
@ -111,14 +111,20 @@ determines the size of
.Fa eventlist .
If
.Fa timeout
is a non-NULL pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to wait
is a
.No non- Ns Dv NULL
pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to wait
for an event, which will be interpreted as a struct timespec. If
.Fa timeout
is a NULL pointer,
is a
.Dv NULL
pointer,
.Fn kevent
waits indefinitely. To effect a poll, the
.Fa timeout
argument should be non-NULL, pointing to a zero-valued
argument should be
.No non- Ns Dv NULL ,
pointing to a zero-valued
.Va timespec
structure. The same array may be used for the
.Fa changelist
@ -202,9 +208,7 @@ See
.Sx RETURN VALUES
below.
.El
.Pp
.Ss Filters
.Pp
Filters are identified by a number.
There are two types of filters; pre-defined filters which
are described below, and third-party filters that may be added with
@ -214,7 +218,7 @@ kernel modules.
.Pp
As a third-party filter is referenced by a well-known name instead
of a statically assigned number, two
.Xr ioctl 2 s
.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s
are supported on the file descriptor returned by
.Fn kqueue
to map a filter name to a filter number, and vice-versa (passing
@ -311,7 +315,7 @@ returning.
.It EVFILT_WRITE
Takes a descriptor as the identifier, and returns whenever
it is possible to write to the descriptor. For sockets, pipes,
fifos and ttys,
fifos, and ttys,
.Va data
will contain the amount of space remaining in the write buffer.
The filter will set EV_EOF when the reader disconnects, and for
@ -429,7 +433,7 @@ This filter automatically sets the EV_CLEAR flag internally.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Fn kqueue
creates a new kernel event queue and returns a file descriptor.
If there was an error creating the kernel event queue, a value of -1 is
If there was an error creating the kernel event queue, a value of \-1 is
returned and errno set.
.Pp
.Fn kevent
@ -450,7 +454,7 @@ set in
and the system error in
.Va data .
Otherwise,
.Dv -1
.Dv \-1
will be returned, and
.Dv errno
will be set to indicate the error condition.
@ -505,8 +509,8 @@ The specified process to attach to does not exist.
.Xr sigaction 2 ,
.Xr write 2 ,
.Xr signal 3 ,
.Xr kfilter_register 9 .
.Xr knote 9 .
.Xr kfilter_register 9 ,
.Xr knote 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn kqueue