Various minor clarifications.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/man3/getline.3 b/man3/getline.3
index 12fedd2b4..79ad7482f 100644
--- a/man3/getline.3
+++ b/man3/getline.3
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
 .\" License.
-.TH GETLINE 3  2001-10-07 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETLINE 3  2006-05-17 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getline, getdelim \- delimited string input
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -34,19 +34,19 @@ getline, getdelim \- delimited string input
 .BI "ssize_t getdelim(char **" lineptr ", size_t *" n ", int " delim ", FILE *" stream );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR getline ()
-reads an entire line, storing the address of the buffer containing
-the text into
+reads an entire line from \fIstream\fP, 
+storing the address of the buffer containing the text into
 .IR "*lineptr" .
-The buffer is null-terminated and includes the newline character, if a
-newline delimiter was found.
+The buffer is null-terminated and includes the newline character, if
+one was found.
 
 .\" FIXME what happens if *lineptr is NULL but *n isn't zero ?
 .\" Answer: *n is ignored and a new buffer is allocated
 If
 .IR "*lineptr"
-is NULL, then the
+is NULL, then
 .BR getline ()
-routine will allocate a buffer for containing the line, which must be freed
+will allocate a buffer for storing the line, which should be freed
 by the user program.
 Alternatively, before calling
 .BR getline (),
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ can contain a pointer to a
 .BR malloc ()\-allocated
 buffer
 .IR "*n"
-bytes in size. If the buffer is not large enough to hold the line read in,
+bytes in size. If the buffer is not large enough to hold the line,
 .BR getline ()
-resizes the buffer to fit with
+resizes it with
 .BR realloc (),
 updating
 .IR "*lineptr"
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ as necessary. In either case, on a successful call,
 .IR "*lineptr"
 and
 .IR "*n"
-will be updated to reflect the buffer address and size respectively.
+will be updated to reflect the buffer address and allocated size respectively.
 
 .BR getdelim ()
 works like
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ argument. As with
 .BR getline (),
 a delimiter character is not added if one was not present
 in the input before end of file was reached.
-
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success,
 .BR getline ()
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ to handle embedded null bytes in the line read.
 
 Both functions return \-1  on failure to read a line (including end of file
 condition).
-
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
@@ -101,7 +99,6 @@ or
 is NULL, or
 .I stream
 is not valid).
-
 .SH "EXAMPLE"
 .nf
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
@@ -133,7 +130,6 @@ and
 .BR getdelim () 
 are GNU extensions.
 They are available since libc 4.6.27.
-
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR read (2),
 .BR fgets (3),