From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 21:48:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: string_copying.7: RETURN VALUE: ffix
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string_copying.7: RETURN VALUE: ffix

Put the text after the function names, like the rest of the page.

Suggested-by: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man7/string_copying.7 b/man7/string_copying.7
index 8ffbd7df55..ec5af944d1 100644
--- a/man7/string_copying.7
+++ b/man7/string_copying.7
@@ -508,64 +508,50 @@ The programmer is responsible for allocating a buffer large enough.
 It returns a pointer suitable for chaining.
 .\" ----- RETURN VALUE :: ---------------------------------------------/
 .SH RETURN VALUE
-The following functions return
-a pointer to the terminating null byte in the destination string.
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.PD 0
+.TP
 .BR stpcpy (3)
-.IP \[bu]
+.TQ
 .BR ustr2stp (3)
-.IP \[bu]
+.TQ
 .BR zustr2stp (3)
-.PD
-.P
-The following function returns
-a pointer to the terminating null byte in the destination string,
+A pointer to the terminating null byte in the destination string.
+.TP
+.BR stpecpy (3)
+A pointer to the terminating null byte in the destination string,
 except when truncation occurs;
 if truncation occurs,
 it returns a pointer to the end of the destination buffer.
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.BR stpecpy (3)
-.P
-The following function returns
-a pointer to one after the last character
+.TP
+.BR stpncpy (3)
+A pointer to one after the last character
 in the destination character sequence;
 if truncation occurs,
 that pointer is equivalent to
 a pointer to the end of the destination buffer.
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.BR stpncpy (3)
-.P
-The following functions return
-a pointer to one after the last character
-in the destination character sequence.
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.PD 0
+.TP
 .BR zustr2ustp (3)
-.IP \[bu]
+.TQ
 .BR ustpcpy (3)
-.PD
-.P
-The following functions return
-the length of the total string that they tried to create
-(as if truncation didn't occur).
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.BR strlcpy (3bsd),
+A pointer to one after the last character
+in the destination character sequence.
+.TP
+.BR strlcpy (3bsd)
+.TQ
 .BR strlcat (3bsd)
-.P
-The following functions return the
-.I dst
-pointer,
-which is useless.
-.IP \[bu] 3
-.PD 0
-.BR strcpy (3),
+The length of the total string that they tried to create
+(as if truncation didn't occur).
+.TP
+.BR strcpy (3)
+.TQ
 .BR strcat (3)
-.IP \[bu]
+.TQ
 .BR strncpy (3)
-.IP \[bu]
+.TQ
 .BR strncat (3)
-.PD
+The
+.I dst
+pointer,
+which is useless.
 .\" ----- NOTES :: strscpy(9) -----------------------------------------/
 .SH NOTES
 The Linux kernel has an internal function for copying strings,