Rewrite of wait/nowait information in light of identd(8) use of wait.

Removed some blank linkes that made bad formatting.  (PR 3647)
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)inetd.8 6.7 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
.\" $NetBSD: inetd.8,v 1.9 1997/01/12 06:55:42 mikel Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: inetd.8,v 1.10 1997/06/30 20:55:06 phil Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 16, 1991
.Dt INETD 8
@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ is the RPC version number. This
can simply be a single numeric argument or a range of versions.
A range is bounded by the low version to the high version \-
.Dq rusers/1-3 .
.Pp
The
.Em socket-type
@ -182,14 +181,14 @@ Rpc based services are specified with the
or
.Dq rpc/udp
service type.
.Pp
The
.Em wait/nowait
entry is applicable to datagram sockets only (other sockets should
have a
.Dq nowait
entry in this space). If a datagram server connects
entry is used to tell
.Nm
if it should wait for the server program to return,
or continue processing connections on the socket.
If a datagram server connects
to its peer, freeing the socket so
.Nm
can receive further messages on the socket, it is said to be
@ -231,6 +230,21 @@ within an interval of 60 seconds. When omitted,
.Dq max
defaults to 40.
.Pp
Stream servers are usually marked as
.Dq nowait
but if a single server process is to handle multiple connections, it may be
marked as
.Dq wait .
The master socket will then be passed as fd 0 to the server, which will then
need to accept the incoming connection. The server should eventually time
out and exit when no more connections are active.
.Nm
will continue to
listen on the master socket for connections, so the server should not close
it when it exits.
.Xr identd 8
is usually the only stream server marked as wait.
.Pp
The
.Em user
entry should contain the user name of the user as whom the server