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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2010-01-16 17:44:48 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2010-01-16 17:44:48 +0100
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_syscall.2, accept.2, epoll_create.2, inotify_add_watch.2, ioctl.2, msgget.2, msgop.2, open.2, prctl.2, sched_setscheduler.2, semctl.2, semget.2, swapon.2, addseverity.3, cacosh.3, csqrt.3, dirfd.3, drand48.3, fputws.3, mq_send.3, posix_openpt.3, puts.3, sched_getcpu.3, shm_open.3, sqrt.3, sysconf.3, tgamma.3, ulimit.3, credentials.7, svipc.7: Global fix: s/non-negative/nonnegative/
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>
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Do not make this device the controlling terminal for the process.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
On success,
.BR posix_openpt ()
-returns a non-negative file descriptor which is the lowest
+returns a nonnegative file descriptor which is the lowest
numbered unused descriptor.
On failure, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno