inet_ntop.3: Rework text describing 'size' argument

(After a suggestion by Vegard Nossum.)
Also made a few other small rewordings to in the initial
paragraph.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-11-11 15:10:53 -05:00
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@ -36,11 +36,13 @@ This function converts the network address structure
.I src
in the
.I af
address family into a character string, which is copied to a character buffer
address family into a character string.
The resulting string is copied to the buffer pointed to by
.IR dst ,
which is
.I size
bytes long.
which must be a non-NULL pointer.
The caller specifies the number of bytes available in this buffer in
the argument
.IR size .
.PP
.BR inet_ntop ()
extends the