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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-06-08 10:58:53 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-06-08 10:58:53 +0000
commiteb1af89677913d98bf55f3f83db318e4b9f31419 (patch)
treee610965ef687618ebfc6f43942684c9b552a81da
parentdd5f0c858af79df04ed8c7e1711b399a0c6e7e81 (diff)
downloadman-pages-eb1af89677913d98bf55f3f83db318e4b9f31419.tar.gz
Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
independent of fixes for American spelling).
Diffstat
-rw-r--r--man2/execve.22
-rw-r--r--man2/getxattr.22
-rw-r--r--man2/listxattr.22
-rw-r--r--man2/removexattr.22
-rw-r--r--man2/setxattr.22
-rw-r--r--man2/signal.22
-rw-r--r--man2/syscall.22
-rw-r--r--man3/aio_cancel.32
-rw-r--r--man3/bindresvport.32
-rw-r--r--man3/stdarg.32
-rw-r--r--man5/charmap.52
-rw-r--r--man7/bootparam.72
-rw-r--r--man7/ipv6.72
-rw-r--r--man7/man.74
-rw-r--r--man7/path_resolution.74
-rw-r--r--man7/uri.72
-rw-r--r--man8/nscd.82
17 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 82b6257bf7..4295064cf3 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ We can use the second program to exec the first as follows:
.nf
$ cc myecho.c -o myecho
$ cc execve.c -o execve
-$ ./exceve ./myecho
+$ ./execve ./myecho
argv[0]: ./myecho
argv[1]: hello
argv[2]: world
diff --git a/man2/getxattr.2 b/man2/getxattr.2
index e210981e26..932360013b 100644
--- a/man2/getxattr.2
+++ b/man2/getxattr.2
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ getxattr, lgetxattr, fgetxattr \- retrieve an extended attribute value
Extended attributes are
.IR name :\c
.I value
-pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
.BR stat (2)
diff --git a/man2/listxattr.2 b/man2/listxattr.2
index c5d40b7a1e..0d390543aa 100644
--- a/man2/listxattr.2
+++ b/man2/listxattr.2
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ listxattr, llistxattr, flistxattr \- list extended attribute names
.fam T
.SH DESCRIPTION
Extended attributes are name:value
-pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
.BR stat (2)
diff --git a/man2/removexattr.2 b/man2/removexattr.2
index 4ff1a8f8db..83a02e1ab5 100644
--- a/man2/removexattr.2
+++ b/man2/removexattr.2
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr \- remove an extended attribute
.SH DESCRIPTION
Extended attributes are
.IR name :\c
-value pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+value pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
.BR stat (2)
diff --git a/man2/setxattr.2 b/man2/setxattr.2
index bee5ddc166..9e55902ed9 100644
--- a/man2/setxattr.2
+++ b/man2/setxattr.2
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ setxattr, lsetxattr, fsetxattr \- set an extended attribute value
Extended attributes are
.IR name :\c
.I value
-pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symlinks, etc).
+pairs associated with inodes (files, directories, symbolic links, etc).
They are extensions to the normal attributes which are associated
with all inodes in the system (i.e. the
.BR stat (2)
diff --git a/man2/signal.2 b/man2/signal.2
index d1cb545a10..3b18415429 100644
--- a/man2/signal.2
+++ b/man2/signal.2
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ or the signal is blocked (see \fIPortability\fP below), and then
.I handler
is called with argument
.IR signum .
-If invokation of the handler caused the signal to be blocked,
+If invocation of the handler caused the signal to be blocked,
then the signal is unblocked upon return from the handler.
.PP
The signals
diff --git a/man2/syscall.2 b/man2/syscall.2
index 8972ed23ec..50981910f4 100644
--- a/man2/syscall.2
+++ b/man2/syscall.2
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ syscall \- indirect system call
.nf
.B "#define _BSD_SOURCE /* or _GNU_SOURCE or _SVID_SOURCE */"
.B #include <unistd.h>
-.B "#include <sys/syscall.h> /* For SYS_xxx definitons */"
+.B "#include <sys/syscall.h> /* For SYS_xxx definitions */"
.BI "int syscall(int " number ", ...);"
.fi
diff --git a/man3/aio_cancel.3 b/man3/aio_cancel.3
index bc8377d280..970589f8ed 100644
--- a/man3/aio_cancel.3
+++ b/man3/aio_cancel.3
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ is not NULL, and
differs from the file descriptor with which the asynchronous operation
was initiated, unspecified results occur.
.LP
-Which operations are cancelable is implementation-defined.
+Which operations are cancellable is implementation-defined.
.\" FreeBSD: not those on raw disk devices.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
This function returns AIO_CANCELED if all requests were successfully
diff --git a/man3/bindresvport.3 b/man3/bindresvport.3
index 640a44c87e..4ccc39f211 100644
--- a/man3/bindresvport.3
+++ b/man3/bindresvport.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ is 0 then an anonymous port in the range 600 to 1023
be chosen.
If the
.BR bind (2)
-perfomed by
+performed by
.BR bindresvport ()
is successful, then
.I sin\->sin_port
diff --git a/man3/stdarg.3 b/man3/stdarg.3
index dbbbc012d6..822f8ac96b 100644
--- a/man3/stdarg.3
+++ b/man3/stdarg.3
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ After the call
the variable
.I ap
is undefined.
-Multiple transversals of the list, each
+Multiple traversals of the list, each
bracketed by
.BR va_start ()
and
diff --git a/man5/charmap.5 b/man5/charmap.5
index aeefd444d1..ff23b955f4 100644
--- a/man5/charmap.5
+++ b/man5/charmap.5
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ This form defines exactly one character and its encoding.
.I <symbolic-name>...<symbolic-name> <encoding> <comments>
This form defines a couple of characters.
This is only useful for
-mutlibyte-characters, which are currently not implemented.
+multibyte-characters, which are currently not implemented.
.PP
The last line in a charmap-definition file must contain
.B END CHARMAP.
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index a1870bf53f..2636b3279a 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ it actually does have, bad things will happen: maybe not at once, but
surely eventually.''
You can also use the boot argument `mem=nopentium' to turn off 4 MB
-pagetables on kernels configured for IA32 systems with a pentium or newer
+page tables on kernels configured for IA32 systems with a pentium or newer
CPU.
.SS "`panic=N'"
By default the kernel will not reboot after a panic, but this option
diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7
index 2a930df8d9..4ac72c60a0 100644
--- a/man7/ipv6.7
+++ b/man7/ipv6.7
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ handling functions in libc.
IPv4 and IPv6 share the local port space.
When you get an IPv4 connection
or packet to a IPv6 socket its source address will be mapped
-to v6 and it'll be mapped to v6.
+to v6 and it will be mapped to v6.
.SS "Address Format"
.sp
.RS
diff --git a/man7/man.7 b/man7/man.7
index 380d51536c..c81f01b78c 100644
--- a/man7/man.7
+++ b/man7/man.7
@@ -357,9 +357,9 @@ Change to default font size
.IP \e*(Tm
Trademark Symbol: \*(Tm
.IP \e*(lq
-Left angled doublequote: \*(lq
+Left angled double quote: \*(lq
.IP \e*(rq
-Right angled doublequote: \*(rq
+Right angled double quote: \*(rq
.SS "Safe Subset"
Although technically
.B man
diff --git a/man7/path_resolution.7 b/man7/path_resolution.7
index 471481ec8f..7f0cf64750 100644
--- a/man7/path_resolution.7
+++ b/man7/path_resolution.7
@@ -84,13 +84,13 @@ the next component.
Note that the resolution process here involves recursion.
In order to protect the kernel against stack overflow, and also
to protect against denial of service, there are limits on the
-maximum recursion depth, and on the maximum number of symlinks
+maximum recursion depth, and on the maximum number of symbolic links
followed.
An ELOOP error is returned when the maximum is
exceeded ("Too many levels of symbolic links").
.\"
.\" presently: max recursion depth during symlink resolution: 5
-.\" max total number of symlinks followed: 40
+.\" max total number of symbolic links followed: 40
.\" _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX is 8
.SS "Step 3: Find the final entry"
The lookup of the final component of the pathname goes just like
diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 4cd8811870..cefc354798 100644
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ translate the character sequences into UTF-8 (IETF RFC\ 2279) \(em see
use the URI escaping mechanism, that is,
use the %HH encoding for unsafe octets.
.SH "WRITING A URI"
-When written, URIs should be placed inside doublequotes
+When written, URIs should be placed inside double quotes
(e.g., "http://www.kernelnotes.org"),
enclosed in angle brackets (e.g., <http://lwn.net>),
or placed on a line by themselves.
diff --git a/man8/nscd.8 b/man8/nscd.8
index f66b3c0834..ecbd9ba91c 100644
--- a/man8/nscd.8
+++ b/man8/nscd.8
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ calls remain uncached as a result.
.B "\-\-help"
will give you a list with all options and what they do.
.SH NOTES
-Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlaying protocols for a
+Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlying protocols for a
service.
This also means, that if you change
.I /etc/resolv.conf
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