user_namespaces.7: Minor rewordings of recently added text

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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
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-.TH FIFO 7 2016-12-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FIFO 7 2017-11-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fifo \- first-in first-out special file, named pipe
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ until the other end is opened also.
 .PP
 A process can open a FIFO in nonblocking mode.
 In this
-case, opening for read-only succeeds even if no-one has
+case, opening for read-only succeeds even if no one has
 opened on the write side yet and opening for write-only
 fails with
 .B ENXIO
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ A process
 that uses both ends of the connection in order to communicate
 with itself should be very careful to avoid deadlocks.
 .SH NOTES
+For details of the semantics of I/O on FIFOs, see
+.BR pipe (7).
+.PP
 When a process tries to write to a FIFO that is not opened
 for read on the other side, the process is sent a
 .B SIGPIPE