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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 17:58:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2010-01-16 17:58:03 +0100 |
| commit | fb0e9c48094617892cdc765d81dd81cbae5442d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 36c3d875b852d33e593bc0d23a3a79e2877a3aab | |
| parent | ffa1b462e46338b5a2139169108833cd5a4dc1e5 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fb0e9c48094617892cdc765d81dd81cbae5442d7.tar.gz | |
mincore.2, remap_file_pages.2, random.3: Global fix: s/non-linear/nonlinear/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/mincore.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/remap_file_pages.2 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/random.3 | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/mincore.2 b/man2/mincore.2 index f9ab0ed9d5..16dcc79bfa 100644 --- a/man2/mincore.2 +++ b/man2/mincore.2 @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Before kernel 2.6.21, .BR mincore () did not return correct information for .B MAP_PRIVATE -mappings, or for non-linear mappings (established using +mappings, or for nonlinear mappings (established using .BR remap_file_pages (2)). .\" Linux (up to now, 2.6.5), .\" .B mincore diff --git a/man2/remap_file_pages.2 b/man2/remap_file_pages.2 index 3039a1452d..9a6e066eb2 100644 --- a/man2/remap_file_pages.2 +++ b/man2/remap_file_pages.2 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" .TH REMAP_FILE_PAGES 2 2008-04-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -remap_file_pages \- create a non-linear file mapping +remap_file_pages \- create a nonlinear file mapping .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #define _GNU_SOURCE @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ remap_file_pages \- create a non-linear file mapping .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR remap_file_pages () -system call is used to create a non-linear mapping, that is, a mapping +system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, that is, a mapping in which the pages of the file are mapped into a non-sequential order in memory. The advantage of using @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ over using repeated calls to is that the former approach does not require the kernel to create additional VMA (Virtual Memory Area) data structures. -To create a non-linear mapping we perform the following steps: +To create a nonlinear mapping we perform the following steps: .TP 3 1. Use diff --git a/man3/random.3 b/man3/random.3 index cb326a21f0..7568dc1b46 100644 --- a/man3/random.3 +++ b/man3/random.3 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 .SH DESCRIPTION The .BR random () -function uses a non-linear additive feedback random +function uses a nonlinear additive feedback random number generator employing a default table of size 31 long integers to return successive pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to \fBRAND_MAX\fR. |