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authorBenno Schulenberg2014-04-30 10:38:12 +0200
committerKarel Zak2014-05-06 11:12:13 +0200
commitaa06617f6ef8dceff939bdd233fa7df382344ecf (patch)
tree8b9561a85288311deb7ec26224cec964d17fcccb /sys-utils/ipcrm.c
parentdocs: grammarize the usage howto (diff)
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textual: remove square brackets from around three dots
Also improve some option descriptions here and there. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/ipcrm.c')
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/ipcrm.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/ipcrm.c b/sys-utils/ipcrm.c
index 46c299729..aa58172d8 100644
--- a/sys-utils/ipcrm.c
+++ b/sys-utils/ipcrm.c
@@ -43,20 +43,20 @@ typedef enum type_id {
static int verbose = 0;
-/* print the new usage */
+/* print the usage */
static void __attribute__ ((__noreturn__)) usage(FILE * out)
{
fprintf(out, USAGE_HEADER);
fprintf(out, " %s [options]\n", program_invocation_short_name);
- fprintf(out, " %s <shm|msg|sem> <id> [...]\n", program_invocation_short_name);
+ fprintf(out, " %s shm|msg|sem <id>...\n", program_invocation_short_name);
fprintf(out, USAGE_OPTIONS);
- fputs(_(" -m, --shmem-id <id> remove shared memory segment by shmid\n"), out);
+ fputs(_(" -m, --shmem-id <id> remove shared memory segment by id\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -M, --shmem-key <key> remove shared memory segment by key\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -q, --queue-id <id> remove message queue by id\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -Q, --queue-key <key> remove message queue by key\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -s, --semaphore-id <id> remove semaphore by id\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -S, --semaphore-key <key> remove semaphore by key\n"), out);
- fputs(_(" -a, --all[=<shm|msg|sem>] remove all\n"), out);
+ fputs(_(" -a, --all[=shm|msg|sem] remove all (in the specified category)\n"), out);
fputs(_(" -v, --verbose explain what is being done\n"), out);
fprintf(out, USAGE_SEPARATOR);
fprintf(out, USAGE_HELP);