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@@ -320,25 +320,29 @@ See
 .BR socket (7).
 .TP
 .B SO_PEERCRED
-Return the credentials of the peer process connected to this socket.
-This is possible only for connected
-.B AF_UNIX
-stream sockets and
-.B AF_UNIX
-stream and datagram socket pairs created using
-.BR socketpair (2).
+This read-only socket option returns the
+credentials of the peer process connected to this socket.
 The returned credentials are those that were in effect at the time
 of the call to
 .BR connect (2)
 or
 .BR socketpair (2).
-The argument is a
+.IP
+The argument to
+.BR getsockopt (2)
+is a pointer to a
 .I ucred
 structure; define the
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 feature test macro to obtain the definition of that structure from
 .IR <sys/socket.h> .
-This socket option is read-only.
+.IP
+The use of this option is possible only for connected
+.B AF_UNIX
+stream sockets and for
+.B AF_UNIX
+stream and datagram socket pairs created using
+.BR socketpair (2).
 .\"
 .SS Autobind feature
 If a