Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.

diff --git a/man2/msgop.2 b/man2/msgop.2
index 402064d2503907c819c71ceacf79bba66a5b1a81..c5bbabd4b8cfb2bb9b4c62439a6c1141cd3431da 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/msgop.2
+++ b/man2/msgop.2
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"    Language and formatting clean-ups
 .\"    Added notes on /proc files
 .\"
-.TH MSGOP 2 2006-02-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MSGOP 2 2008-04-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 msgop, msgrcv, msgsnd \- message operations
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ used by the receiving process for message selection
 (see the description of
 .BR msgrcv ()
 below).
-.PP
+.SS msgsnd()
 The
 .BR msgsnd ()
 system call appends a copy of the message pointed to by
@@ -122,18 +122,22 @@ then the call instead fails with the error
 
 A blocked
 .BR msgsnd ()
-call may also fail if the queue is removed
-(in which case the system call fails with
+call may also fail if:
+.IP * 2
+the queue is removed, 
+in which case the system call fails with
 .I errno
 set to
-.BR EIDRM ),
-or a signal is caught (in which case the system call fails
+.BR EIDRM ;
+or
+.IP *
+a signal is caught, in which case the system call fails
 with
 .I errno
 set to
-.BR EINTR ).
-.RB ( msgsnd " and " msgrcv
-are never automatically restarted after being interrupted by a
+.BR EINTR .
+.RB ( msgsnd ()
+is never automatically restarted after being interrupted by a
 signal handler, regardless of the setting  of the
 .B SA_RESTART
 flag when establishing a signal handler.)
@@ -149,10 +153,10 @@ is incremented by 1.
 .IP
 .I msg_stime
 is set to the current time.
-.PP
-The system call
+.SS msgrcv()
+The
 .BR msgrcv ()
-removes a message from the queue specified by
+system call removes a message from the queue specified by
 .I msqid
 and places it in the buffer
 pointed to by
@@ -187,12 +191,12 @@ set to
 The argument
 .I msgtyp
 specifies the type of message requested as follows:
-.IP
+.IP * 2
 If
 .I msgtyp
 is 0,
 then the first message in the queue is read.
-.IP
+.IP *
 If
 .I msgtyp
 is greater than 0,
@@ -206,7 +210,7 @@ in which case
 the first message in the queue of type not equal to
 .I msgtyp
 will be read.
-.IP
+.IP *
 If
 .I msgtyp
 is less than 0,
@@ -245,20 +249,25 @@ If no message of the requested type is available and
 isn't specified in
 .IR msgflg ,
 the calling process is blocked until one of the following conditions occurs:
-.IP
+.IP * 2
 A message of the desired type is placed in the queue.
-.IP
+.IP *
 The message queue is removed from the system.
 In this case the system call fails with
 .I errno
 set to
 .BR EIDRM .
-.IP
+.IP *
 The calling process catches a signal.
 In this case the system call fails with
 .I errno
 set to
 .BR EINTR .
+.RB ( msgrcv ()
+is never automatically restarted after being interrupted by a
+signal handler, regardless of the setting  of the
+.B SA_RESTART
+flag when establishing a signal handler.)
 .PP
 Upon successful completion the message queue data structure is updated
 as follows: