From f0263d44f95807a91464fa7300de68376eae2dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 03:04:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] delete an ancient paragraph suggesting the wrong reason to
 use close(2) (and we all laughed a little)

---
 lib/libc/sys/close.2 | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/close.2 b/lib/libc/sys/close.2
index 0be284c67a9..d75d5a05e84 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/close.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/close.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: close.2,v 1.18 2014/12/10 19:19:00 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: close.2,v 1.19 2022/04/15 03:04:52 deraadt Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: close.2,v 1.5 1995/02/27 12:32:14 cgd Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993, 1994
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)close.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 10 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 15 2022 $
 .Dt CLOSE 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -68,13 +68,6 @@ are removed when
 .Em any
 file descriptor for that file is closed by that process.
 .Pp
-When a process exits,
-all associated file descriptors are freed, but since there is
-a limit on active descriptors per process, the
-.Fn close
-function call
-is useful when a large quantity of file descriptors are being handled.
-.Pp
 When a process forks (see
 .Xr fork 2 ) ,
 all descriptors for the new child process reference the same
-- 
2.20.1