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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-10-21 08:04:42 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-10-24 14:53:33 +0200
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downloadman-pages-7fac88a949c7fdf554cc048bd9b47059830ebb68.tar.gz
eventfd.2, futex.2, mmap2.2, open.2, pciconfig_read.2, ptrace.2, reboot.2, request_key.2, sched_rr_get_interval.2, splice.2, stat.2, sync_file_range.2, syscalls.2, timer_create.2, vm86.2, pthread_attr_setscope.3, core.5, proc.5, aio.7, futex.7, netlink.7, time.7: Global fix: "userspace" ==> "user space" or "user-space"
Existing pages variously use "userspace or "user space". But, "userspace" is not quite an English word. So change "userspace" to "user space" or, when used attributively, "user-space". Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/timer_create.2 b/man2/timer_create.2
index 7e08911b9b..0d6360253b 100644
--- a/man2/timer_create.2
+++ b/man2/timer_create.2
@@ -238,12 +238,12 @@ is implemented within glibc, rather than the kernel.
The timer IDs presented at user level are maintained by glibc,
which maps these IDs to the timer IDs employed by the kernel.
.\" See the glibc source file kernel-posix-timers.h for the structure
-.\" that glibc uses to map userspace timer IDs to kernel timer IDs
+.\" that glibc uses to map user-space timer IDs to kernel timer IDs
.\" The kernel-level timer ID is exposed via siginfo.si_tid.
.PP
The POSIX timers system calls first appeared in Linux 2.6.
Prior to this,
-glibc provided an incomplete userspace implementation
+glibc provided an incomplete user-space implementation
.RB ( CLOCK_REALTIME
timers only) using POSIX threads,
and current glibc falls back to this implementation on systems