repairs

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/signal.3 b/lib/libc/gen/signal.3
index cf0471db3ec..4cf084a1126 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/signal.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/signal.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: signal.3,v 1.10 1999/05/27 20:49:33 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: signal.3,v 1.11 1999/05/29 21:24:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -59,7 +59,10 @@ copies of itself (children). There are two general types of signals:
 those that cause termination of a process and those that do not.
 Signals which cause termination of a program might result from
 an irrecoverable error or might be the result of a user at a terminal
-typing the `interrupt' character.
+typing the
+.Dq interrupt
+character.
+.Pp
 Signals are used when a process is stopped because it wishes to access
 its control terminal while in the background (see
 .Xr tty 4 ) .
@@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ if no action
 is taken; some signals instead cause the process receiving them
 to be stopped, or are simply discarded if the process has not
 requested otherwise.
+.Pp
 Except for the
 .Dv SIGKILL
 and
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ an interrupt.
 These signals are defined in the file
 .Aq Pa signal.h :
 .Bl -column SIGVTALARMXX "create core imagexxx"
-.It Sy "  Name	" "	  Default Action  " "		      Description"
+.It Sy "Name	Default Action	Description"
 .It Dv SIGHUP No "	terminate process" "	terminal line hangup"
 .It Dv SIGINT No "	terminate process" "	interrupt program"
 .It Dv SIGQUIT No "	create core image" "	quit program"
@@ -119,21 +123,21 @@ is possible on a descriptor (see
 .Xr setitimer 2 )
 .It Dv SIGPROF No "	terminate process" "	profiling timer alarm (see"
 .Xr setitimer 2 )
-.It Dv SIGWINCH No "	discard signal" "	Window size change"
+.It Dv SIGWINCH No "	discard signal" "	window size change"
 .It Dv SIGINFO No "	discard signal" "	status request from keyboard"
-.It Dv SIGUSR1 No "	terminate process" "	User defined signal 1"
-.It Dv SIGUSR2 No "	terminate process" "	User defined signal 2"
+.It Dv SIGUSR1 No "	terminate process" "	user-defined signal 1"
+.It Dv SIGUSR2 No "	terminate process" "	user-defined signal 2"
 .El
 .Pp
 The
 .Fa func
-function allows a user to choose the action upon receipt of the signal,
+argument is a function to be called as the action upon receipt of the signal
 .Fa sigcatch .
 The function will be called with one argument,
 .Fa sigraised ,
-which is the signal raised.  (thus the same function,
+which is the signal raised (thus the same function,
 .Fa func ,
-can be used by more than one signal.)
+can be used by more than one signal).
 To set the default action of the signal to occur as listed above,
 .Fa func
 should be
@@ -175,10 +179,10 @@ The affected system calls include
 .Xr write 2 ,
 .Xr sendto 2 ,
 .Xr recvfrom 2 ,
-.Xr sendmsg 2
+.Xr sendmsg 2 ,
 and
 .Xr recvmsg 2
-on a communications channel or a low speed device
+on a communications channel or a low-speed device
 and during a
 .Xr ioctl 2
 or
@@ -206,7 +210,7 @@ will fail and no action will take place if one of the
 following occur:
 .Bl -tag -width Er
 .It Bq Er EINVAL
-.Em Sig
+A specified signal
 is not a valid signal number.
 .It Bq Er EINVAL
 An attempt is made to ignore or supply a handler for
@@ -226,6 +230,6 @@ or
 .Xr tty 4
 .Sh HISTORY
 This
-.Nm signal
+.Fn signal
 facility appeared in 
 .Bx 4.0 .