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 .B SCM_RIGHTS
 Send or receive a set of open file descriptors from another process.
 The data portion contains an integer array of the file descriptors.
+.IP
 Commonly, this operation is referred to as "passing a file descriptor"
 to another process.
 However, more accurately,