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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-11-14 07:56:07 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-11-14 07:56:27 +0100
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sigaction.2: Minor wording improvements
Restructure the sa_handler description as a list, for easier reading. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/sigaction.2 b/man2/sigaction.2
index 8e83da85b9..27419f137d 100644
--- a/man2/sigaction.2
+++ b/man2/sigaction.2
@@ -127,11 +127,15 @@ Some further details of the purpose of this field can be found in
.I sa_handler
specifies the action to be associated with
.I signum
-and may be
+and is be one of the following:
+.IP * 2
.B SIG_DFL
-for the default action,
+for the default action.
+.IP *
.B SIG_IGN
-to ignore this signal, or a pointer to a signal handling function.
+to ignore this signal.
+.IP *
+A pointer to a signal handling function.
This function receives the signal number as its only argument.
.PP
If