iopl.2: Minor tweaks to Thomas Piekarski's patch

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

diff --git a/man2/iopl.2 b/man2/iopl.2
index be9acfd1ecda369195a0c154fd4c41214827cb36..1f82b0182e69545e70a50048ccfd3b69ec758bc4 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/iopl.2
+++ b/man2/iopl.2
@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ as specified by the two least significant bits in
 The I/O privilege level for a normal thread is 0.
 Permissions are inherited from parents to children.
 .PP
-This call is deprecated, significantly slower than
-.BR ioperm(2)
+This call is deprecated, is significantly slower than
+.BR ioperm (2),
 and is only provided for older X servers which require
-access to all 65536 I/O ports. It is mostly for the i386 architecture.
+access to all 65536 I/O ports.
+It is mostly for the i386 architecture.
 On many other architectures it does not exist or will always
 return an error.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -90,8 +91,8 @@ Avoid the latter, it is available on i386 only.
 Prior to Linux 5.5
 .BR iopl ()
 allowed the thread to disable interrupts while running
-at a higher I/O privilege level. This will probably crash
-the system, and is not recommended.
+at a higher I/O privilege level.
+This will probably crash the system, and is not recommended.
 .PP
 Prior to Linux 3.7,
 on some architectures (such as i386), permissions