From 434f5778077845cd7ab5f211536ba418240f0513 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 02:02:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use ellipsis in the synopsis, and an appropriate explanation
 in the text of the manual page.

Suggested by: bde
---
 lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2 | 8 ++++++--
 lib/libc/sys/open.2  | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2 b/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
index 877e830cc34..fdf1941d3cb 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Fd #include <fcntl.h>
 .Ft int
-.Fn fcntl "int fd" "int cmd" "int arg"
+.Fn fcntl "int fd" "int cmd" "..."
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Fn Fcntl
 provides for control over descriptors.
@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ The argument
 .Fa fd
 is a descriptor to be operated on by
 .Fa cmd
-as follows:
+as described below.  Depending on the value of
+.Fa cmd ,
+.Nm
+can take an additional third argument
+.Fa "int arg" .
 .Bl -tag -width F_GETOWNX
 .It Dv F_DUPFD
 Return a new descriptor as follows:
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/open.2 b/lib/libc/sys/open.2
index 73435287d16..15a4ef6f63f 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/open.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/open.2
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Fd #include <fcntl.h>
 .Ft int
-.Fn open "const char *path" "int flags" "mode_t mode"
+.Fn open "const char *path" "int flags" "..."
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The file name specified by
 .Fa path
@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ The
 argument may indicate the file is to be
 created if it does not exist (by specifying the
 .Dv O_CREAT
-flag), in which case the file is created with mode
+flag).  In this case 
+.Nm
+requires a third argument
+.Fa "mode_t mode" ,
+and the file is created with mode
 .Fa mode
 as described in
 .Xr chmod 2