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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-07-09 15:36:44 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2008-07-09 15:36:44 +0000
commit87174b3ae29314a0f44fce17853f5c794dcf95f7 (patch)
tree496ef254fbf7766108167365e0c783b036176732
parent8d998d01528e2a366fa6c6621470f207bc55e222 (diff)
downloadman-pages-87174b3ae29314a0f44fce17853f5c794dcf95f7.tar.gz
Small wording fixes
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.52
-rw-r--r--man7/bootparam.72
-rw-r--r--man7/utf-8.72
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 4ba914f9cb..5c1e64d71e 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ When the value in this file is 0, Ctrl-Alt-Del is trapped and
sent to the
.BR init (8)
program to handle a graceful restart.
-When the value is > 0, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan
+When the value is greater than zero, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan
Nerve Pinch (tm) will be an immediate reboot, without even
syncing its dirty buffers.
Note: when a program (like dosemu) has the keyboard in "raw"
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index a50f8d0b17..8b623e8548 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ CPU.
.TP
.B "'panic=N'"
By default the kernel will not reboot after a panic, but this option
-will cause a kernel reboot after N seconds (if N > 0).
+will cause a kernel reboot after N seconds (if N is greater than zero 0).
This panic timeout can also be set by "echo N > /proc/sys/kernel/panic".
.TP
.B "'reboot=[warm|cold][,[bios|hard]]'"
diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 8df18119fc..c312effdf4 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ and
*
All
.B UCS
-characters > 0x7f are encoded as a multi-byte sequence
+characters greater than 0x7f are encoded as a multi-byte sequence
consisting only of bytes in the range 0x80 to 0xfd, so no ASCII
byte can appear as part of another character and there are no
problems with, for example, \(aq\\0\(aq or \(aq/\(aq.