Module Name: src
Committed By: uwe
Date: Wed May 30 23:24:13 UTC 2018
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: signal.7
Log Message:
Shorten pleonastic "by the tty driver tty(4)".
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.23 -r1.24 src/share/man/man7/signal.7
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Index: src/share/man/man7/signal.7
diff -u src/share/man/man7/signal.7:1.23 src/share/man/man7/signal.7:1.24
--- src/share/man/man7/signal.7:1.23 Mon May 28 15:48:23 2018
+++ src/share/man/man7/signal.7 Wed May 30 23:24:13 2018
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: signal.7,v 1.23 2018/05/28 15:48:23 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: signal.7,v 1.24 2018/05/30 23:24:13 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2016 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ Detailed descriptions of these signals f
.Bl -tag -width "aaa"
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGHUP No (Hangup)
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
to indicate a hangup condition on a process's controlling terminal:
the user has disconnected.
Accordingly, the default action is to terminate the process.
@@ -169,8 +170,9 @@ The number for
is 1, which is quite well known.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGINT No (Interrupt)
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when the user presses the interrupt character, normally control-C.
The default action is to terminate the process.
The number for
@@ -178,8 +180,9 @@ The number for
is 2.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGQUIT No (Quit)
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when the user presses the quit character, normally control-backspace.
The default action is to terminate the process and dump core.
The number for
@@ -369,8 +372,9 @@ The number for
is 17.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGTSTP No (Suspended)
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when the user presses the stop character, normally control-Z.
The default action is to stop the process.
The number for
@@ -417,8 +421,9 @@ in old System V versions and today many
spellings.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGTTIN No (Stopped (tty input))
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when a process that is not in the foreground of its controlling
terminal attempts to read from this terminal.
The default action is to stop the process.
@@ -427,8 +432,9 @@ The number for
is 21.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGTTOU No (Stopped (tty output))
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when a process that is not in the foreground of its controlling
terminal attempts to write to this terminal, if the terminal is
configured accordingly, which is not the default.
@@ -515,8 +521,9 @@ The number for
is 27.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGWINCH No (Window size changed)
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when the stored window size of the process's controlling terminal has
changed.
The default action is to do nothing.
@@ -525,8 +532,9 @@ The number for
is 28.
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGINFO No (Information request)
-This signal is generated by the tty driver
+This signal is generated by the
.Xr tty 4
+driver
when the user presses the status request character, normally
control-T.
The default action is to do nothing.
