Module Name: src
Committed By: jdf
Date: Tue Jun 12 21:06:43 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man9: panic.9
Log Message:
* decapitalize NAME section's line
* improve wording
* make RETURN VALUES section consistent with other man pages' (e.g. exit(3) and
abort(3)
Patch provided by Bug Hunting.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 src/share/man/man9/panic.9
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Index: src/share/man/man9/panic.9
diff -u src/share/man/man9/panic.9:1.20 src/share/man/man9/panic.9:1.21
--- src/share/man/man9/panic.9:1.20 Thu Sep 29 20:55:49 2011
+++ src/share/man/man9/panic.9 Tue Jun 12 21:06:43 2012
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: panic.9,v 1.20 2011/09/29 20:55:49 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: panic.9,v 1.21 2012/06/12 21:06:43 jdf Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm panic
-.Nd Bring down system on fatal error
+.Nd bring down system on fatal error
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/systm.h
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ the system is rebooted immediately witho
.Fn panic
is meant to be used in situations where something unexpected has happened
and it is difficult to recover the system to a stable state, or in
-situations where proceeding might make the things worse, leading to
-data corruption/loss.
+situations where proceeding might make things worse, leading to data
+corruption and/or loss.
It is not meant to be used in scenarios where the system could easily
ignore and/or isolate the condition/subsystem and proceed.
.Pp
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ calls in the kernel to improve stability
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn panic
-function does not return.
+function never returns.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sysctl 3 ,
.Xr ddb 4 ,
