RFC references are now always writen as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or

"RFCnnn").

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index d0004f3b038f9e6333b0abce6a35d515c200d3fb..bccec94ce0308940d5a61eb5a46540f8a658ff64 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Apologies if I missed anyone!
 Global changes
 --------------
 
+RFC references are now always writen as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or 
+"RFCnnn").
+
 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
 places.
 

diff --git a/man2/adjtimex.2 b/man2/adjtimex.2
index 5e6542e033a87d3b47d90ffbecf54ce113fc73f9..f15f67af1d46ba15e2e9568316d1378bca4683aa 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/adjtimex.2
+++ b/man2/adjtimex.2
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ adjtimex \- tune kernel clock
 .sp
 .BI "int adjtimex(struct timex *" "buf" );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Linux uses David L. Mills' clock adjustment algorithm (see RFC 1305).
+Linux uses David L. Mills' clock adjustment algorithm (see RFC\ 1305).
 The system call
 .B adjtimex
 reads and optionally sets adjustment parameters for this algorithm.

diff --git a/man3/cmsg.3 b/man3/cmsg.3
index 6f1d981a7812e131fbd492a8c870efee1b44dba3..42370a1a5f85f7ae6c9142a4b3e28a88a8331787 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/cmsg.3
+++ b/man3/cmsg.3
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ this could be used to declare the size of global
 variables. This may be not portable, however.
 .SH "CONFORMS TO"
 This ancillary data model conforms to the POSIX.1003.1g draft, 4.4BSD-Lite,
-the IPv6 advanced API described in RFC2292 and the Single Unix specification v2.
+the IPv6 advanced API described in RFC\ 2292 and the Single Unix specification v2.
 .B
 CMSG_ALIGN 
 is a Linux extension. 
@@ -216,4 +216,4 @@ is a Linux extension.
 .BR recvmsg (2),
 .BR sendmsg (2)
 .PP
-RFC 2292
+RFC\ 2292

diff --git a/man3/getaddrinfo.3 b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
index eb48aeeb454178e7098ffe3e640d9db5708a024c..657c045ebcd0a7d05c77bd324f64bb3a5c07c072 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/getaddrinfo.3
+++ b/man3/getaddrinfo.3
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ suitable for error reporting.
 POSIX 1003.1-2003.
 The
 .B getaddrinfo()
-function is documented in RFC 2553.
+function is documented in RFC\ 2553.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR getipnodebyaddr (3),
 .BR getipnodebyname (3)

diff --git a/man3/gethostbyname.3 b/man3/gethostbyname.3
index 9c1347fb7361b5589756f02cca7135abc626f14b..f55d2543730fcccdcccd3e3ed2c2c120cf206485 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/gethostbyname.3
+++ b/man3/gethostbyname.3
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Here
 .I name
 is either a host name, or an IPv4 address in standard dot notation,
 or an IPv6 address in colon (and possibly dot) notation.
-(See RFC 1884 for the description of IPv6 addresses.)
+(See RFC\ 1884 for the description of IPv6 addresses.)
 If
 .I name
 is an IPv4 or IPv6 address, no lookup is performed and

diff --git a/man3/getipnodebyname.3 b/man3/getipnodebyname.3
index 264a39d3a4d8c39b15823fb18d2bfece713ba7aa..da737ef85853e92a52226101facb11bf823cfbd2 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/getipnodebyname.3
+++ b/man3/getipnodebyname.3
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ These functions have been present in glibc 2.1.91-95, but were
 removed again. Several Unix-like systems support them, but all
 call them deprecated.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-RFC 2553.
+RFC\ 2553.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR getaddrinfo (3),
 .BR getnameinfo (3),

diff --git a/man3/getnameinfo.3 b/man3/getnameinfo.3
index e9a942f2795305ec49087740efd1cac593c42b34..ce4fee6ee5fbef07d9862eec921db7cec4bd370e 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/getnameinfo.3
+++ b/man3/getnameinfo.3
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ reverse address mapping.
 .fi
 .RE
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-RFC 2553. (See also XNS, issue 5.2.)
+RFC\ 2553. (See also XNS, issue 5.2.)
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR getaddrinfo (3),
 .BR gethostbyaddr (3),
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ RFC 2553. (See also XNS, issue 5.2.)
 .LP
 R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound and W. Stevens,
 .IR "Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6" ,
-RFC 2553, March 1999.
+RFC\ 2553, March 1999.
 .LP
 Tatsuya Jinmei and Atsushi Onoe,
 .IR "An Extension of Format for IPv6 Scoped Addresses" ,

diff --git a/man3/getnetent.3 b/man3/getnetent.3
index 872964a6b456381861b1a9d75b26ef9867c1e247..0a1fde0a59644afed638c93ed4251015263c6f7b 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/getnetent.3
+++ b/man3/getnetent.3
@@ -108,4 +108,4 @@ networks database file
 .BR getservent (3),
 .BR networks (5)
 .br
-RFC 1101
+RFC\ 1101

diff --git a/man3/inet_ntop.3 b/man3/inet_ntop.3
index ae9d963f2ff1d3c0da5693eaadeba30debfd6218..7a53d3bf42301a8102ddc6fda73a80ccf7597459 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/inet_ntop.3
+++ b/man3/inet_ntop.3
@@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ given by the
 argument.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX 1003.1-2001.
-Note that RFC 2553 defines a prototype where the last parameter
+Note that RFC\ 2553 defines a prototype where the last parameter
 .I cnt
 is of type
 .BR size_t .
-Many systems follow RFC 2553.
+Many systems follow RFC\ 2553.
 Glibc 2.0 and 2.1 have size_t, but 2.2 has socklen_t.
 .\" 2.1.3: size_t, 2.1.91: socklen_t
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

diff --git a/man3/rpc.3 b/man3/rpc.3
index 8ff8ca406e04ac40b0812a0011ade0b49a442de3..4ca75bb12a4a1c080e63262c14d6ae3f916ab776 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/rpc.3
+++ b/man3/rpc.3
@@ -1739,5 +1739,5 @@ rpcgen Programming Guide
 .ft R
 .RE
 .IR "\s-1RPC\s0: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification" ,
-.SM RFC1050, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
+.SM RFC\ 1050, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
 .SM USC-ISI\s0.

diff --git a/man3/rtime.3 b/man3/rtime.3
index 9f2d81e5e1762641384ae1e04710b5090e71c6ca..c5aed9caf39614dd2b3140d9a17c793d5b3a42ec 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/rtime.3
+++ b/man3/rtime.3
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ rtime \- get time from a remote machine
 .sp
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This function uses the Time Server Protocol as described in
-RFC 868 to obtain the time from a remote machine.
+RFC\ 868 to obtain the time from a remote machine.
 .LP
 The Time Server Protocol gives the time in seconds since midnight 1900-01-01,
 and this function subtracts the appropriate constant in order to

diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3
index 96d77a81c96dcf9bd18f01654ecfb7b7f272f8ff..e35a37e62da6a76b50bf0626028fce97a15688d7 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/strftime.3
+++ b/man3/strftime.3
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ The year as a decimal number including the century.
 .TP
 .B %z
 The time-zone as hour offset from GMT.
-Required to emit RFC822-conformant dates
+Required to emit RFC\ 822-conformant dates
 (using "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z"). (GNU)
 .TP
 .B %Z

diff --git a/man3/xdr.3 b/man3/xdr.3
index 77ca1865fc38c891fe22bf15881d7034827b5720..ccca59efcc39a2856b866ef658d853ac97bd685a 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/xdr.3
+++ b/man3/xdr.3
@@ -818,5 +818,5 @@ eXternal Data Representation: Sun Technical Notes
 .ft R
 .br
 .IR "\s-1XDR\s0: External Data Representation Standard" ,
-.SM RFC1014, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
+.SM RFC\ 1014, Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
 .SM USC-ISI\s0.

diff --git a/man4/random.4 b/man4/random.4
index c94f07049e8a3e933c05049f78b0f24444890a6a..4dbe4d07b12de66fd0677bda7ee2b4db191e0aff 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/random.4
+++ b/man4/random.4
@@ -144,4 +144,4 @@ Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu).
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 mknod (1)
 .br
-RFC 1750, "Randomness Recommendations for Security"
+RFC\ 1750, "Randomness Recommendations for Security"

diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5
index 05dd1be6df65c10fef2aa69f0975cb1682e70079..5b7ba23d6fac2626353b82a83ae893149c14e724 100644 (file)
--- a/man5/hosts.5
+++ b/man5/hosts.5
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ advantage.
 Modifications to this file normally take effect immediately,
 except in cases where the file is cached by applications.
 .SH "HISTORICAL NOTES"
-RFC 952 gave the original format for the host table, though it has
+RFC\ 952 gave the original format for the host table, though it has
 since changed.
 
 Before the advent of DNS, the host table was the only way of resolving
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ historical hosts.txt files on the WWW. I just found three, from 92,
 .BR resolver (5),
 .BR hostname (7),
 .BR named (8),
-Internet RFC 952
+Internet RFC\ 952
 .SH AUTHOR
 This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>,
 for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 0dbc1d7b80eb6e7eba683170c3641b82586aa17d..2481cbb493b10bc117e7a79c653397ecde51b9aa 100644 (file)
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -614,7 +614,8 @@ IP address     HW type   Flags     HW address          Mask   Device
 .in
 
 Here 'IP address' is the IPv4 address of the machine and the 'HW type'
-is the hardware type of the address from RFC 826. The flags are the internal 
+is the hardware type of the address from RFC\ 826. 
+The flags are the internal 
 flags of the ARP structure (as defined in /usr/include/linux/if_arp.h) and
 the 'HW address' is the data link layer mapping for that IP address if
 it is known.

diff --git a/man5/services.5 b/man5/services.5
index 25fcb728f4f5e66655fa46b9635d11545ade9197..5469dc59372056dce2dd000fc029da18af628452 100644 (file)
--- a/man5/services.5
+++ b/man5/services.5
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Definition of
 .BR protocols (5),
 .BR inetd (8)
 
-Assigned Numbers RFC, most recently RFC 1700, (AKA STD0002)
+Assigned Numbers RFC, most recently RFC\ 1700, (AKA STD0002)
 
 Guide to Yellow Pages Service
 

diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7
index 9ec14bc089ad81e84a1fe130d60074deccf4b2a7..c1b95ce1dccf9323376f129f38ac721087016763 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/arp.7
+++ b/man7/arp.7
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 arp \- Linux ARP kernel module. 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This kernel protocol module implements the Address Resolution
-Protocol defined in RFC 826.
+Protocol defined in RFC\ 826.
 It is used to convert between Layer2 hardware addresses
 and IPv4 protocol addresses on directly connected networks. 
 The user normally doesn't interact directly with this module except to 

diff --git a/man7/koi8-r.7 b/man7/koi8-r.7
index 8e60a5b82fedbb747e7d8980e93ca8a5622ebda6..aa7c56c07171fc886e433de66cd72762d8148959 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/koi8-r.7
+++ b/man7/koi8-r.7
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ many Unix-like operation systems.  KOI8-R is a successor for KOI-8, a
 de-facto standard for Internet Mail, News, WWW and other interactive
 services at least all over the ex-SU territory.
 .PP
-KOI8-R is defined by RFC1489 (Registration of a Cyrillic Character
+KOI8-R is defined by RFC\ 1489 (Registration of a Cyrillic Character
 Set).
 
 .SH NOTE
@@ -191,5 +191,5 @@ _
 .BR ascii (7),
 .BR iso-8859-7 (7)
 (not yet written),
-RFC1489,
+RFC\ 1489,
 http://koi8.pp.ru/

diff --git a/man7/mailaddr.7 b/man7/mailaddr.7
index f2f624a368e7acf2940aaa97cacb104e0f69d5a7..c07901478126efd567fb445c1140a721d2384a54 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/mailaddr.7
+++ b/man7/mailaddr.7
@@ -111,4 +111,4 @@ addressed.  The "postmaster" address is not case sensitive.
 .BR sendmail (8),
 .BR vrfy (8)
 
-RFC2822 (Internet Message Format)
+RFC\ 2822 (Internet Message Format)

diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7
index 464d8573b26d6d22e676ea1fe3077f9e3123ab06..9aa1ac93acc723ee10f173483293293040d42b77 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/packet.7
+++ b/man7/packet.7
@@ -397,9 +397,9 @@ is present since glibc2.1. Older systems need
 .BR raw (7),
 .BR socket (7)
 
-RFC 894 for the standard IP Ethernet encapsulation.
+RFC\ 894 for the standard IP Ethernet encapsulation.
 
-RFC 1700 for the IEEE 802.3 IP encapsulation.
+RFC\ 1700 for the IEEE 802.3 IP encapsulation.
 
 The 
 .I <linux/if_ether.h>

diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index ebbe59b8c77c209681efec4c2ccb5bf30aa09d83..759b5f2bf11bb84dda2168d7c345721faa3fba7c 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ minimum limit of 100 seconds is typically deemed too
 short.
 .TP
 .BR tcp_rfc1337 " (Boolean; default: disabled)"
-Enable TCP behaviour conformant with RFC 1337.
+Enable TCP behaviour conformant with RFC\ 1337.
 When disabled,
 if a RST is received in TIME_WAIT state, we close 
 the socket immediately without waiting for the end

diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 2df7f0d3b5a324586fef0ee766c91e2857d493a9..48419b1eec02246bf0f61f11939fcd77dc79e8a3 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ A
 .I message-id
 corresponds to the Message-ID of
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1036.txt
-IETF RFC 1036,
+IETF RFC\ 1036,
 .UE
 without the enclosing "<"
 and ">"; it takes the form
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ a set of servers for hierarchically-organized information
 (such as people and computing resources).
 More information on the LDAP URL scheme is available in
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2255.txt
-RFC 2255.
+RFC\ 2255.
 .UE
 The components of this URL are:
 .IP hostport 12
@@ -361,12 +361,13 @@ If empty, the client determines which the LDAP server to use.
 the LDAP Distinguished Name, which identifies
 the base object of the LDAP search (see
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2253.txt
-RFC 2253
+RFC\ 2253
 .UE
 section 3).
 .IP attributes
 a comma-separated list of attributes to be returned;
-see RFC 2251 section 4.1.5.  If omitted, all attributes should be returned.
+see RFC\ 2251 section 4.1.5.  
+If omitted, all attributes should be returned.
 .IP scope
 specifies the scope of the search, which can be one of
 "base" (for a base object search), "one" (for a one-level search),
@@ -376,7 +377,7 @@ specifies the search filter (subset of entries
 to return). If omitted, all entries should be returned.
 See
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2254.txt
-RFC 2254
+RFC\ 2254
 .UE
 section 4.
 .IP extensions
@@ -412,7 +413,7 @@ ldap://host.com:6666/o=University%20of%20Michigan,c=US??sub?(cn=Babs%20Jensen)
 This scheme designates a WAIS database, search, or document
 (see
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1625.txt
-IETF RFC 1625
+IETF RFC\ 1625
 .UE
 for more information on WAIS).
 Hostport is the hostname, optionally followed by a colon and port number
@@ -482,9 +483,9 @@ path, but the two are equivalent for an http URL.
 .PP
 For URIs which must handle characters outside the US ASCII character set,
 the HTML 4.01 specification (section B.2) and
-IETF RFC 2718 (section 2.2.5) recommend the following approach:
+IETF RFC\ 2718 (section 2.2.5) recommend the following approach:
 .IP 1. 4
-translate the character sequences into UTF-8 (IETF RFC 2279) \(em see
+translate the character sequences into UTF-8 (IETF RFC\ 2279) \(em see
 .BR utf-8 (7)
 \(em and then
 .IP 2.
@@ -613,7 +614,7 @@ in those rare cases where the 'password' parameter is intended to be public.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 .PP
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
-IETF RFC 2396,
+IETF RFC\ 2396,
 .UE
 .UR http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40
 HTML 4.0.
@@ -656,5 +657,5 @@ David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@dwheeler.com) wrote this man page.
 .BR mailaddr (7),
 .BR utf-8 (7)
 .UR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2255.txt
-IETF RFC 2255.
+IETF RFC\ 2255.
 .UE

diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index dae5bd0d0f4593079c10f4fd814393287db780a9..2568afd54426b13e0be28d9d77719b0d2252630c 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ ways to represent these things in a non-shortest
 .B UTF-8
 encoding.
 .SH STANDARDS
-ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC 2279, Plan 9.
+ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 2279, Plan 9.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Markus Kuhn <mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk>
 .SH "SEE ALSO"