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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-06-08 11:56:22 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-06-08 11:56:22 +0000
commit75b94dc35ca88fc72d0381c72c535180851bf08f (patch)
tree107dfea45855463eaa970ccff1b6074c305ac09a /man7
parentca7b3c180c14583f36bf24c7f31cc8ba342e23d8 (diff)
downloadman-pages-75b94dc35ca88fc72d0381c72c535180851bf08f.tar.gz
Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
Change "i.e. " to i.e.., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
-rw-r--r--man7/arp.72
-rw-r--r--man7/bootparam.78
-rw-r--r--man7/epoll.72
-rw-r--r--man7/feature_test_macros.72
-rw-r--r--man7/glob.72
-rw-r--r--man7/hier.72
-rw-r--r--man7/ip.72
-rw-r--r--man7/mailaddr.72
-rw-r--r--man7/mdoc.samples.74
-rw-r--r--man7/netlink.72
-rw-r--r--man7/packet.74
-rw-r--r--man7/posixoptions.72
-rw-r--r--man7/raw.72
-rw-r--r--man7/regex.712
-rw-r--r--man7/rtnetlink.72
-rw-r--r--man7/socket.72
-rw-r--r--man7/suffixes.74
-rw-r--r--man7/uri.73
-rw-r--r--man7/utf-8.74
19 files changed, 32 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7
index 15dece4751..07bf10eb43 100644
--- a/man7/arp.7
+++ b/man7/arp.7
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ There is no way to signal positive feedback from user space.
This means connection oriented protocols implemented in user space
will generate excessive ARP traffic, because ndisc will regularly
reprobe the MAC address.
-The same problem applies for some kernel protocols (e.g. NFS over UDP).
+The same problem applies for some kernel protocols (e.g., NFS over UDP).
This man page mashes IPv4 specific and shared between IPv4 and IPv6
functionality together.
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 2636b3279a..a39a34dbd3 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ as `readonly' so that filesystem consistency check programs (fsck)
can do their work on a quiescent file system.
No processes can
write to files on the filesystem in question until it is `remounted'
-as read/write capable, e.g., by `mount \-w \-n \-o remount /'.
+as read/write capable, for example, by `mount \-w \-n \-o remount /'.
(See also
.BR mount (8).)
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ and an initial ramdisk; then the kernel converts initrd into
a "normal" ramdisk, which is mounted read-write as root device;
then /linuxrc is executed; afterwards the "real" root file system is mounted,
and the initrd filesystem is moved over to /initrd; finally
-the usual boot sequence (e.g. invocation of /sbin/init) is performed.
+the usual boot sequence (e.g., invocation of /sbin/init) is performed.
For a detailed description of the initrd feature, see
.IR /usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt .
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ The standard disk driver can accept geometry arguments for the disks
similar to the IDE driver.
Note however that it only expects three
values (C/H/S); any more or any less and it will silently ignore you.
-Also, it only accepts `hd=' as an argument, i.e. `hda='
+Also, it only accepts `hd=' as an argument, that is, `hda='
and so on are not valid here.
The format is as follows:
.IP
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ You can tell the printer driver what ports to use and what ports not
to use.
The latter comes in handy if you don't want the printer driver
to claim all available parallel ports, so that other drivers
-(e.g. PLIP, PPA) can use them instead.
+(e.g., PLIP, PPA) can use them instead.
The format of the argument is multiple port names.
For example,
diff --git a/man7/epoll.7 b/man7/epoll.7
index 2d5d7edcd6..ac04369ef7 100644
--- a/man7/epoll.7
+++ b/man7/epoll.7
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Its interface should be finalized in Linux kernel 2.5.66.
.SH CONFORMING TO
The epoll API is Linux specific.
Some other systems provide similar
-mechanisms, e.g., FreeBSD has
+mechanisms, for example, FreeBSD has
.IR kqueue ,
and Solaris has
.IR /dev/poll .
diff --git a/man7/feature_test_macros.7 b/man7/feature_test_macros.7
index 5153d51dcf..d46fd62ab6 100644
--- a/man7/feature_test_macros.7
+++ b/man7/feature_test_macros.7
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ unless they are also explicitly defined.
is not otherwise defined,
then it is always defined with the value 200112
(199506 in glibc versions before 2.4),
-unless the compiler is invoked in one of its standard modes, e.g., the
+unless the compiler is invoked in one of its standard modes, for example, the
.I -std=c99
flag.)
Multiple macros can be defined; the results are additive.
diff --git a/man7/glob.7 b/man7/glob.7
index 23e51b7300..29a701b709 100644
--- a/man7/glob.7
+++ b/man7/glob.7
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Note that wildcard patterns are not regular expressions,
although they are a bit similar.
First of all, they match
filenames, rather than text, and secondly, the conventions
-are not the same: e.g., in a regular expression `*' means zero or
+are not the same: for example, in a regular expression `*' means zero or
more copies of the preceding thing.
Now that regular expressions have bracket expressions where
diff --git a/man7/hier.7 b/man7/hier.7
index 1be0c6624a..dae176d86f 100644
--- a/man7/hier.7
+++ b/man7/hier.7
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ device lock files is
where
.I <device>
is the device's name in the filesystem.
-The format used is that of HDU UUCP lock files, i.e. lock files
+The format used is that of HDU UUCP lock files, that is, lock files
contain a PID as a 10-byte ASCII decimal number, followed by a newline
character.
.TP
diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7
index 78ed900107..9e84faa22b 100644
--- a/man7/ip.7
+++ b/man7/ip.7
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ When it is connected to a specific peer with
.BR connect (2)
the currently known path MTU can be retrieved conveniently using the
.B IP_MTU
-socket option (e.g. after a
+socket option (e.g., after a
.B EMSGSIZE
error occurred).
It may change over time.
diff --git a/man7/mailaddr.7 b/man7/mailaddr.7
index db1e5c537d..9071ee5c46 100644
--- a/man7/mailaddr.7
+++ b/man7/mailaddr.7
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The real-name part ("Eric Allman") can either be placed before
<>, or in () at the end.
(Strictly speaking the two aren't the same,
but the difference is beyond the scope of this page.)
-The name may have to be quoted using "", e.g. if it contains ".":
+The name may have to be quoted using "", for example, if it contains ".":
.PP
"Eric P. Allman" <eric@monet.berkeley.edu>
.SS Abbreviation.
diff --git a/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index da4c2d0686..5972b4b796 100644
--- a/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -556,14 +556,14 @@ for sections 2, 3, 4, and 5.
.\" LOC UNIX Local Manual
.It Li \&.Os operating_system release#
The name of the operating system
-should be the common acronym, e.g.
+should be the common acronym, for example,
.Tn BSD
or
.Tn FreeBSD
or
.Tn ATT .
The release should be the standard release
-nomenclature for the system specified, e.g. 4.3, 4.3+Tahoe, V.3,
+nomenclature for the system specified, for example, 4.3, 4.3+Tahoe, V.3,
V.4.
Unrecognized arguments are displayed as given in the page footer.
For instance, a typical footer might be:
diff --git a/man7/netlink.7 b/man7/netlink.7
index e23232ec4b..62fb052d60 100644
--- a/man7/netlink.7
+++ b/man7/netlink.7
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ struct nlmsgerr {
.in -0.25i
A netlink family usually specifies more message types, see the
-appropriate manual pages for that, e.g.
+appropriate manual pages for that, for example,
.BR rtnetlink (7)
for
.BR NETLINK_ROUTE .
diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7
index de608b7478..a6cd6a9cc1 100644
--- a/man7/packet.7
+++ b/man7/packet.7
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ These types make only sense for receiving.
.B sll_addr
and
.B sll_halen
-contain the physical layer (e.g. IEEE 802.3) address and its length.
+contain the physical layer (e.g., IEEE 802.3) address and its length.
The exact interpretation depends on the device.
When you send packets it is enough to specify
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ is the IEEE 802.3 protocol type as defined in
.I <sys/if_ether.h>
and
.B spkt_device
-is the device name as a null terminated string, e.g. eth0.
+is the device name as a null terminated string, for example, eth0.
This structure is obsolete and should not be used in new code.
.SH BUGS
diff --git a/man7/posixoptions.7 b/man7/posixoptions.7
index 91c3d89409..1ffe180b9c 100644
--- a/man7/posixoptions.7
+++ b/man7/posixoptions.7
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ is present.
This option describes support for process creation in a context where
it is difficult or impossible to use
.IR fork (),
-e.g. because no MMU is present.
+for example, because no MMU is present.
If _POSIX_SPAWN is in effect, then the include file
.I <spawn.h>
and the functions
diff --git a/man7/raw.7 b/man7/raw.7
index 103081b904..d763047611 100644
--- a/man7/raw.7
+++ b/man7/raw.7
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ protocols or protocols with no user interface (like ICMP).
When a packet is received, it is passed to any raw sockets which have
been bound to its protocol before it is passed to other protocol handlers
-(e.g. kernel protocol modules).
+(e.g., kernel protocol modules).
.SS Address Format
Raw sockets use the standard
.I sockaddr_in
diff --git a/man7/regex.7 b/man7/regex.7
index 6c9ea612e7..77f04f8538 100644
--- a/man7/regex.7
+++ b/man7/regex.7
@@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ it matches any single character
If two characters in the list are separated by `\-', this is shorthand
for the full \fIrange\fR of characters between those two (inclusive) in the
collating sequence,
-e.g. `[0\-9]' in ASCII matches any decimal digit.
+for example, `[0\-9]' in ASCII matches any decimal digit.
It is illegal\*(dg for two ranges to share an
-endpoint, e.g. `a-c-e'.
+endpoint, for example, `a-c-e'.
Ranges are very collating-sequence-dependent,
and portable programs should avoid relying on them.
.PP
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ sequence of characters of that collating element.
The sequence is a single element of the bracket expression's list.
A bracket expression containing a multi-character collating element
can thus match more than one character,
-e.g. if the collating sequence includes a `ch' collating element,
+for example, if the collating sequence includes a `ch' collating element,
then the RE `[[.ch.]]*c' matches the first five characters
of `chchcc'.
.PP
@@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ alphabet.
When an alphabetic that exists in multiple cases appears as an
ordinary character outside a bracket expression, it is effectively
transformed into a bracket expression containing both cases,
-e.g. `x' becomes `[xX]'.
+for example, `x' becomes `[xX]'.
When it appears inside a bracket expression, all case counterparts
-of it are added to the bracket expression, so that (e.g.) `[x]'
+of it are added to the bracket expression, so that, for example, `[x]'
becomes `[xX]' and `[^x]' becomes `[^xX]'.
.PP
No particular limit is imposed on the length of REs\*(dg.
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ matches the same sequence of characters
matched by the \fId\fRth parenthesized subexpression
(numbering subexpressions by the positions of their opening parentheses,
left to right),
-so that (e.g.) `\e([bc]\e)\e1' matches `bb' or `cc' but not `bc'.
+so that, for example, `\e([bc]\e)\e1' matches `bb' or `cc' but not `bc'.
.SH BUGS
Having two kinds of REs is a botch.
.PP
diff --git a/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man7/rtnetlink.7
index a7e42e515f..2b5fa00892 100644
--- a/man7/rtnetlink.7
+++ b/man7/rtnetlink.7
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ RTA_CACHEINFO::
.TP
.BR RTM_NEWNEIGH ", " RTM_DELNEIGH ", " RTM_GETNEIGH
Add, remove or receive information about a neighbor table
-entry (e.g. an ARP entry).
+entry (e.g., an ARP entry).
The message contains an
.B ndmsg
structure.
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7
index cb6b7f5bc7..ada7e37fd6 100644
--- a/man7/socket.7
+++ b/man7/socket.7
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ See
.BR fcntl (2)
for more information.
.PP
-Under some circumstances (e.g. multiple processes accessing a
+Under some circumstances (e.g., multiple processes accessing a
single socket), the condition that caused the
.B SIGIO
may have already disappeared when the process reacts to the signal.
diff --git a/man7/suffixes.7 b/man7/suffixes.7
index 7023557693..6f558f0ebc 100644
--- a/man7/suffixes.7
+++ b/man7/suffixes.7
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Suffix File type
.ph Perl header file
.php PHP program file
.php3 PHP3 program file
- .pid File to store daemon PID (e.g. crond.pid)
+ .pid File to store daemon PID (e.g., crond.pid)
.pl TeX property list file or Perl library file
.pm Perl module
.png Portable Network Graphics file
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Suffix File type
.zip \fBzip\fP(1) archive
.zoo \fBzoo\fP(1) archive
~ Emacs or \fBpatch\fP(1) backup file
- rc startup (`run control') file, e.g. \fI.newsrc\fP
+ rc startup (`run control') file, e.g., \fI.newsrc\fP
.TE
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
General UNIX conventions.
diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index cefc354798..5c394494d9 100644
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ is a correct format for referring to
a local file.
However, older standards did not permit this format,
and some programs don't recognize this as a URI.
-A more portable syntax is to use an empty string as the server name, e.g.,
+A more portable syntax is to use an empty string as the server name,
+for example,
<file:///etc/passwd>; this form does the same thing
and is easily recognized by pattern matchers and older programs as a URI.
Note that if you really mean to say "start from the current location," don't
diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 40661760b8..bed5cb9eea 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ All
characters > 0x7f are encoded as a multi-byte sequence
consisting only of bytes in the range 0x80 to 0xfd, so no ASCII
byte can appear as part of another character and there are no
-problems with e.g. '\\0' or '/'.
+problems with, for example, '\\0' or '/'.
.TP
*
The lexicographic sorting order of
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ The
.BR Unicode " and " UCS
standards require that producers of
.B UTF-8
-shall use the shortest form possible, e.g., producing a two-byte
+shall use the shortest form possible, for example, producing a two-byte
sequence with first byte 0xc0 is non-conforming.
.B Unicode 3.1
has added the requirement that conforming programs must not accept
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