Thanks.  I noticed a few other ways to improve it, so I folded those in,
ending up with:

From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:30:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ovs-parse-leaks: Fix typos in manpage.

---
 utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8 |   12 +++++++-----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8 b/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8
index 23fef8a..e7bd1c5 100644
--- a/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8
+++ b/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .TH ovs\-parse\-leaks 8 "August 2010" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
 .
 .SH NAME
-Bovs\-parse\-leaks \- parses OVS leak checker log files
+ovs\-parse\-leaks \- parses OVS leak checker log files
 .
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 \fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR [\fIbinary\fR] \fB< \fIlog\fR
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@ argument.  For best results, the binary should have debug 
symbols.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 \fB\-\-help\fR
-Prints a help usage message and exits.
+Prints a usage message and exits.
 .SH BUGS
 The output can be hard to interpret, especially for a daemon that does
-not exit in normal operation.
+not exit in normal operation.  Using \fBovs\-appctl\fR(8) to invoke
+the \fBexit\fR command that some Open vSwitch daemons support
+sometimes helps with this.
 .PP
-\fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR usually incorrectly reports one or more "bad
-frees of not-allocated address" errors at the beginning of output.
+\fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR usually incorrectly reports one or more ``bad
+frees of not-allocated address'' errors at the beginning of output.
 These reflect frees of data that were allocated before the leak
 checker was turned on during program initialization.
-- 
1.7.2.5



On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 09:50:05AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> Looks good.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > ---
> > utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8 |    2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8 b/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8
> > index 23fef8a..b2393e3 100644
> > --- a/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8
> > +++ b/utilities/ovs-parse-leaks.8
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> > .TH ovs\-parse\-leaks 8 "August 2010" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
> > .
> > .SH NAME
> > -Bovs\-parse\-leaks \- parses OVS leak checker log files
> > +ovs\-parse\-leaks \- parses OVS leak checker log files
> > .
> > .SH SYNOPSIS
> > \fBovs\-parse\-leaks\fR [\fIbinary\fR] \fB< \fIlog\fR
> > -- 
> > 1.7.4.4
> > 
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> > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
> 
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