LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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diff --git a/original/man3/swab.3 b/original/man3/swab.3
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--- a/original/man3/swab.3
+++ b/original/man3/swab.3
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
 .\"

+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)

 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.


@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.

+.\" %%%LICENSE_END

 .\"
 .\" References consulted:
 .\"     Linux libc source code
 .\"
 .\" References consulted:
 .\"     Linux libc source code


@@ -26,12 +28,12 @@
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:52:15 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified 2001-12-15, aeb
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:52:15 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified 2001-12-15, aeb

-.TH SWAB 3  2001-12-15 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SWAB 3  2014-02-25 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

 .SH NAME
 swab \- swap adjacent bytes
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .SH NAME
 swab \- swap adjacent bytes
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf

-.B #define _XOPEN_SOURCE
+.BR "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" "       /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"

 .B #include <unistd.h>
 .sp
 .BI "void swab(const void *" from ", void *" to ", ssize_t " n );
 .B #include <unistd.h>
 .sp
 .BI "void swab(const void *" from ", void *" to ", ssize_t " n );


@@ -39,22 +41,49 @@ swab \- swap adjacent bytes
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR swab ()
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR swab ()

-function copies \fIn\fP bytes from the array pointed
-to by \fIfrom\fP to the array pointed to by \fIto\fP, exchanging
+function copies
+.I n
+bytes from the array pointed
+to by
+.I from
+to the array pointed to by
+.IR to ,
+exchanging

 adjacent even and odd bytes.
 This function is used to exchange data
 between machines that have different low/high byte ordering.
 .LP
 adjacent even and odd bytes.
 This function is used to exchange data
 between machines that have different low/high byte ordering.
 .LP

-This function does nothing when \fIn\fP is negative.
-When \fIn\fP is positive and odd, it handles \fIn\-1\fP bytes
+This function does nothing when
+.I n
+is negative.
+When
+.I n
+is positive and odd, it handles
+.I n\-1
+bytes

 as above, and does something unspecified with the last byte.
 as above, and does something unspecified with the last byte.

-(In other words, \fIn\fP should be even.)
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+(In other words,
+.I n
+should be even.)
+.SH RETURN VALUE

 The
 .BR swab ()
 function returns no value.
 The
 .BR swab ()
 function returns no value.

-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR swab ()
+function is thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO

 SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
 SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR bstring (3),
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR bstring (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.