From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:16:16 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: open.2: Minor wording fixes
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open.2: Minor wording fixes

Add some paragraph breaks to the discussion of 'mode' to make
the details a bit easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index 2227f2159a..f83326cbc3 100644
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -303,12 +303,16 @@ nor
 is specified, then
 .I mode
 is ignored.
+.IP
 The effective mode is modified by the process's
 .I umask
 in the usual way: in the absence of a default ACL, the mode of the
 created file is
 .IR "(mode\ &\ ~umask)" .
-Note that this mode applies only to future accesses of the
+.IP
+Note that
+.I mode
+applies only to future accesses of the
 newly created file; the
 .BR open ()
 call that creates a read-only file may well return a read/write