14 files changed, 31 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/man2/capget.2 b/man2/capget.2
index ba44870a1f..913cf8fbc3 100644
--- a/man2/capget.2
+++ b/man2/capget.2
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The calls will return
 and set the
 .I version
 field of
-.I hdr
+.I hdrp
 to
 .B _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION
 when another version was specified.
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ when another version was specified.
 The calls operate on the capabilities of the thread specified by the
 .I pid
 field of
-.I hdr
+.I hdrp
 when that is non-zero, or on the capabilities of the calling thread if
 .I pid
 is 0.
diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
index bddfa2791d..9539c7eb16 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ error
 Do not make the pages in this range available to the child after a
 .BR fork (2).
 This is useful to prevent copy-on-write semantics from changing
-the physical location of a pagei(s) if the parent writes to it after a
+the physical location of a page(s) if the parent writes to it after a
 .BR fork (2).
 (Such page relocations cause problems for hardware that
 DMAs into the page(s).)
diff --git a/man2/pciconfig_read.2 b/man2/pciconfig_read.2
index 29578a75c2..8c5b64f802 100644
--- a/man2/pciconfig_read.2
+++ b/man2/pciconfig_read.2
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ the IO base for PIO cycles, or the ISA holes if any.
 .BR pciconfig_read ()
 On success zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned and
-,I errno
+.I errno
 is set appropriately.
 .TP
 .BR pciconfig_write ()
diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index a02f1acd4a..404e1d96c1 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Reads a word at offset
 .I addr
 in the child's USER area,
 which holds the registers and other information about the process
-(see \fI<linux/user.h>\fP and <sys/user.h>).
+(see \fI<linux/user.h>\fP and \fI<sys/user.h>\fP).
 The word is returned as the result of the
 .BR ptrace ()
 call.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Copies a \fIsiginfo_t\fP structure (see
 from the child to location \fIdata\fP in the parent.
 (\fIaddr\fP is ignored.)
 .TP
-.BR PTRACE_SETREGS " , " PTRACE_SETFPREGS
+.BR PTRACE_SETREGS ", " PTRACE_SETFPREGS
 Copies the child's general purpose or floating-point registers,
 respectively, from location \fIdata\fP in the parent.
 As for
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ and inspect the return value of
 the system call at the second stop.
 (\fIaddr\fP is ignored.)
 .TP
-.BR PTRACE_SYSEMU " , " PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP " (since Linux 2.6.14)"
+.BR PTRACE_SYSEMU ", " PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP " (since Linux 2.6.14)"
 For
 .BR PTRACE_SYSEMU ,
 continue and stop on entry to the next syscall,
diff --git a/man2/sigaction.2 b/man2/sigaction.2
index dea88862e1..891773b096 100644
--- a/man2/sigaction.2
+++ b/man2/sigaction.2
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ fills in
 .I si_code
 is a value (not a bit mask)
 indicating why this signal was sent.
-The following list shows the values can be placed in
+The following list shows the values which can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for any signal, along with reason that the signal was generated.
 .RS 4
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ or
 .\" through to 2.5.24 and then was backed out.
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGILL
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ coprocessor error
 internal stack error
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGFPE
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ floating point invalid operation
 subscript out of range
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGSEGV
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ address not mapped to object
 invalid permissions for mapped object
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGBUS
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ non-existent physical address
 object specific hardware error
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGTRAP
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ process breakpoint
 process trace trap
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGCHLD
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ child has stopped
 stopped child has continued (since Linux 2.6.9)
 .RE
 .PP
-The following values can be place in
+The following values can be placed in
 .I si_code
 for a
 .B SIGPOLL
diff --git a/man3/setaliasent.3 b/man3/setaliasent.3
index 808ad71c14..bd5bf4ef10 100644
--- a/man3/setaliasent.3
+++ b/man3/setaliasent.3
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ is defined in
 .nf
 
 struct aliasent {
-    char    *alias_name;              /* alias name */
+    char    *alias_name;             /* alias name */
     size_t   alias_members_len;
     char   **alias_members;           /* alias name list */
     int      alias_local;
diff --git a/man5/locale.5 b/man5/locale.5
index ad3dbef575..b3b8a77b62 100644
--- a/man5/locale.5
+++ b/man5/locale.5
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ if the
 .I currency_symbol
 or
 .I int_curr_symbol
- should precede the formatted monetary quantity or set to
+should precede the formatted monetary quantity or set to
 .B 0
 if the symbol succeeds the value.
 .TP
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index f822becaec..afe7db7ee5 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ use
 apart from debugging.
 The 'sl' value is the kernel hash slot for the
 socket,
-the 'local address' is the local address and protocol number pair."St" is
+the 'local_address' is the local address and protocol number pair. "St" is
 the internal status of the socket.
 The "tx_queue" and "rx_queue" are the
 outgoing and incoming data queue in terms of kernel memory usage.
@@ -902,8 +902,8 @@ Holds a dump of the TCP socket table.
 Much of the information is not
 of use apart from debugging.
 The "sl" value is the kernel hash slot
-for the socket, the "local address" is the local address and port number pair.
-The "remote address" is the remote address and port number pair
+for the socket, the "local_address" is the local address and port number pair.
+The "rem_address" is the remote address and port number pair
 (if connected). 'St' is the internal status of the socket.
 The 'tx_queue' and 'rx_queue' are the
 outgoing and incoming data queue in terms of kernel memory usage.
@@ -917,8 +917,8 @@ Holds a dump of the UDP socket table.
 Much of the information is not of
 use apart from debugging.
 The "sl" value is the kernel hash slot for the
-socket, the "local address" is the local address and port number pair.
-The "remote address" is the remote address and port number pair
+socket, the "local_address" is the local address and port number pair.
+The "rem_address" is the remote address and port number pair
 (if connected). "St" is the internal status of the socket.
 The "tx_queue" and "rx_queue" are the outgoing and incoming data queue
 in terms of kernel memory usage.
diff --git a/man5/utmp.5 b/man5/utmp.5
index e7c7b4310f..b734184f11 100644
--- a/man5/utmp.5
+++ b/man5/utmp.5
@@ -94,12 +94,12 @@ struct utmp {
         int32_t tv_usec;        /* Microseconds */
     } ut_tv;                    /* Time entry was made */
 #else
-     long int ut_session;        /* Session ID, used for windowing */
-     struct timeval ut_tv;       /* Time entry was made */
+     long int ut_session;       /* Session ID, used for windowing */
+     struct timeval ut_tv;      /* Time entry was made */
 #endif
 
-    int32_t ut_addr_v6[4];       /* IP address of remote host */
-    char __unused[20];           /* Reserved for future use */
+    int32_t ut_addr_v6[4];      /* IP address of remote host */
+    char __unused[20];          /* Reserved for future use */
 };
 
 /* Backwards compatibility hacks.  */
diff --git a/man7/epoll.7 b/man7/epoll.7
index 59176baf1a..03e1fe4cd0 100644
--- a/man7/epoll.7
+++ b/man7/epoll.7
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ by asking to read a certain amount of data and
 returns a lower number of bytes,
 you can be sure of having exhausted the read
 I/O space for such file descriptor.
-The same is true when writing using the
+The same is true when writing using
 .BR write (2).
 .SS Possible Pitfalls and Ways to Avoid Them
 .TP
diff --git a/man7/posixoptions.7 b/man7/posixoptions.7
index 436c909203..6327bc8f18 100644
--- a/man7/posixoptions.7
+++ b/man7/posixoptions.7
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 posixoptions \- optional parts of the POSIX standard
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The POSIX standard (the information below is from POSIX.1-2001)
-describes a set of behavior and interfaces for a compliant system.
+describes a set of behaviors and interfaces for a compliant system.
 However, many interfaces are optional and there are feature test macros
 to test the availability of interfaces at compile time, and functions
 .BR sysconf (3),
diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index 3cccdcfe06..4c08c72ae9 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ A process can change the disposition of a signal using
 or (less portably)
 .BR signal (2).
 Using these system calls, a process can elect one of the
-following behavior to occur on delivery of the signal:
+following behaviors to occur on delivery of the signal:
 perform the default action; ignore the signal;
 or catch the signal with a
 .IR "signal handler" ,
diff --git a/man7/spufs.7 b/man7/spufs.7
index 738d3e4ceb..e28b629a16 100644
--- a/man7/spufs.7
+++ b/man7/spufs.7
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ previous setting.
 .B /fpcr
 This file provides access to the Floating Point Status and
 Control Register as a four-byte file.
-The operations on the
+The possible operations on the
 .I fpcr
 file are:
 .RS
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 577e9563e8..1ea909e10c 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ returns false.
 .B SIOCOUTQ
 Returns the amount of unsent data in the socket send queue.
 The socket must not be in LISTEN state, otherwise an error
-.BR ( EINVAL )
+.RB ( EINVAL )
 is returned.
 .SS Error Handling
 When a network error occurs, TCP tries to resend the packet.