openpty.3: Minor wording improvements

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man3/openpty.3 b/man3/openpty.3
index d07db6436ca79af91ed42a7743ca0ee16b7bb4db..8f3bafda5b1b904b2be150ead47b2985b41b94be 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/openpty.3
+++ b/man3/openpty.3
@@ -99,10 +99,11 @@ and
 to create a new process operating in a pseudoterminal.
 The file
 descriptor of the master side of the pseudoterminal is returned in
-.IR amaster ,
-and the filename of the slave in
+.IR amaster .
+If
 .I name
-if it is not NULL.
+is not NULL, the buffer it points to is used to return the
+the filename of the slave.
 The
 .I termp
 and