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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-26 13:08:52 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-26 13:08:52 +0200
commit329ad271422c79377b20057863694c5570fbdfc3 (patch)
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downloadman-pages-329ad271422c79377b20057863694c5570fbdfc3.tar.gz
acct.2, chmod.2, fcntl.2, mmap.2, mprotect.2, rmdir.2, times.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
-rw-r--r--man2/acct.22
-rw-r--r--man2/chmod.22
-rw-r--r--man2/fcntl.22
-rw-r--r--man2/mmap.22
-rw-r--r--man2/mprotect.22
-rw-r--r--man2/rmdir.22
-rw-r--r--man2/times.22
7 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/acct.2 b/man2/acct.2
index 7f0e247696..b54676c975 100644
--- a/man2/acct.2
+++ b/man2/acct.2
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ is not in fact a directory.
.TP
.B EPERM
The calling process has insufficient privilege to enable process accounting.
-On Linux the
+On Linux, the
.B CAP_SYS_PACCT
capability is required.
.TP
diff --git a/man2/chmod.2 b/man2/chmod.2
index 4a9908d2c1..649d72ee58 100644
--- a/man2/chmod.2
+++ b/man2/chmod.2
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ but this will not cause an error to be returned.
As a security measure, depending on the filesystem,
the set-user-ID and set-group-ID execution bits
may be turned off if a file is written.
-(On Linux this occurs if the writing process does not have the
+(On Linux, this occurs if the writing process does not have the
.B CAP_FSETID
capability.)
On some filesystems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit,
diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index a28812b94f..9e30632227 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ and file creation flags
in
.I arg
are ignored.
-On Linux this command can change only the
+On Linux, this command can change only the
.BR O_APPEND ,
.BR O_ASYNC ,
.BR O_DIRECT ,
diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 9ee950d729..90cabc1a1e 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ wrapper function invokes
with a suitably adjusted value for
.IR offset .
.SH BUGS
-On Linux there are no guarantees like those suggested above under
+On Linux, there are no guarantees like those suggested above under
.BR MAP_NORESERVE .
By default, any process can be killed
at any moment when the system runs out of memory.
diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2
index ae305f6f32..8b124c07b9 100644
--- a/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ is unspecified if it is applied to a region of memory that
was not obtained via
.BR mmap (2).
.SH NOTES
-On Linux it is always permissible to call
+On Linux, it is always permissible to call
.BR mprotect ()
on any address in a process's address space (except for the
kernel vsyscall area).
diff --git a/man2/rmdir.2 b/man2/rmdir.2
index 24656c5d64..caf2144020 100644
--- a/man2/rmdir.2
+++ b/man2/rmdir.2
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ did not allow search permission.
.I pathname
is currently in use by the system or some process that prevents its
removal.
-On Linux this means
+On Linux, this means
.I pathname
is currently used as a mount point
or is the root directory of the calling process.
diff --git a/man2/times.2 b/man2/times.2
index 83f489bf98..6787ac4bb3 100644
--- a/man2/times.2
+++ b/man2/times.2
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ not the clock ticks used by
On Linux, the "arbitrary point in the past" from which the return value of
.BR times ()
is measured has varied across kernel versions.
-On Linux 2.4 and earlier this point is the moment the system was booted.
+On Linux 2.4 and earlier, this point is the moment the system was booted.
Since Linux 2.6, this point is \fI(2^32/HZ) \- 300\fP
seconds before system boot time.
This variability across kernel versions (and across UNIX implementations),