- punctuation & wording

- fix up RETURN VALUES section

ok jmc

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/acct.2 b/lib/libc/sys/acct.2
index a6d120720f3..fac00d64c4d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/acct.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/acct.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: acct.2,v 1.12 2005/03/26 13:31:35 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: acct.2,v 1.13 2005/08/10 01:09:22 jaredy Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: acct.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:31:47 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -51,13 +51,13 @@ is
 accounting is disabled.
 If
 .Fa file
-is an existing, NUL-terminated pathname, record collection is enabled
+is an existing, NUL-terminated pathname, record collection is enabled,
 and for every process initiated which terminates under normal conditions
 an accounting record is appended to
 .Fa file .
 Abnormal conditions of termination are reboots or other
 fatal system problems.
-Records for processes which never terminate can not be produced by
+Records for processes which never terminate cannot be produced by
 .Fn acct .
 .Fn acct
 is only available on kernels compiled with the
@@ -77,8 +77,10 @@ Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
 accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
 space once again becomes available.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
-On error \-1 is returned.
-The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the superuser.
+On success, zero is returned.
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned and
+.Va errno
+is set to indicate the error.
 .Sh ERRORS
 .Fn acct
 will fail if one of the following is true: