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| -rw-r--r-- | man1/iconv.1 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/fcntl.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/open.2 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/bootparam.7 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/charsets.7 | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man8/iconvconfig.8 | 2 |
7 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/man1/iconv.1 b/man1/iconv.1 index 4198c61bf0..c6a5e6d286 100644 --- a/man1/iconv.1 +++ b/man1/iconv.1 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ modules (dynamically loaded shared libraries) to convert to and from a character set. Before calling .BR iconv (3), -the +the .B iconv program must first allocate a conversion descriptor using .BR iconv_open (3). diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 index ccfdae99e6..b73fdc3724 100644 --- a/man2/fcntl.2 +++ b/man2/fcntl.2 @@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ On a Linux NFS server, this can be determined by looking at which expresses the period in seconds. The default value for this file is 90.) .\" -.\" Jeff Layton: +.\" Jeff Layton: .\" Note that this is not a firm timeout. The server runs a job .\" periodically to clean out expired stateful objects, and it's likely .\" that there is some time (maybe even up to another whole lease period) diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index 97c0d52d92..475d9e4059 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ flag, its st_ctime and st_mtime fields are set to the current time. .SS Open file descriptions The term open file description is the one used by POSIX to refer to the entries in the system-wide table of open files. -In other contexts, this object is +In other contexts, this object is variously also called an "open file object", a "file handle", an "open file table entry", or\(emin kernel-developer parlance\(ema @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ and the two file descriptors consequently share the file offset and file status flags. Such sharing can also occur between processes: a child process created via -.BR fork (2) +.BR fork (2) inherits duplicates of its parent's file descriptors, and those duplicates refer to the same open file descriptions. diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 4c02b52293..1a91c2195c 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ Then filesystems contained in this file are tried .TP .I /proc/fs .\" FIXME Much more needs to be said about /proc/fs -.\" +.\" Contains subdirectories that in turn contain files with information about (certain) mounted filesystems. .TP diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7 index 3a9c8f42bc..77e41615aa 100644 --- a/man7/bootparam.7 +++ b/man7/bootparam.7 @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ is major 8, minor 3, so you could use 'root=0x803' as an alternative.) .TP .BR "'rootdelay='" -This parameter sets the delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting +This parameter sets the delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to mount the root filesystem. .TP .BR "'rootflags=...'" diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7 index b1133e745e..300d8198d4 100644 --- a/man7/charsets.7 +++ b/man7/charsets.7 @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ This is a variant of Latin-1 that replaces Icelandic letters with Turkish ones. .TP 8859-10 (Latin-6) -Latin-6 added the Inuit (Greenlandic) and Sami (Lappish) letters that were +Latin-6 added the Inuit (Greenlandic) and Sami (Lappish) letters that were missing in Latin-4 to cover the entire Nordic area. .TP 8859-11 @@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ In the same fashion as the ISO 8859 series, Thai characters are mapped into Unicode (ISO 10646) is a standard which aims to unambiguously represent every character in every human language. Unicode's structure permits 20.1 bits to encode every character. -Since most computers don't include 20.1-bit integers, Unicode is -usually encoded as 32-bit integers internally and either a series of -16-bit integers (UTF-16) (needing two 16-bit integers only when +Since most computers don't include 20.1-bit integers, Unicode is +usually encoded as 32-bit integers internally and either a series of +16-bit integers (UTF-16) (needing two 16-bit integers only when encoding certain rare characters) or a series of 8-bit bytes (UTF-8). .LP Linux represents Unicode using the 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format @@ -302,9 +302,9 @@ or Greek texts, this expands ordinary text files by 100%, since text in those languages is mostly outside of ASCII. For Japanese users this means that the 16-bit codes now in common use will take three bytes. -While there are algorithmic conversions from some character sets -(especially ISO 8859-1) to Unicode, general conversion requires -carrying around conversion tables, which can be quite large for 16-bit +While there are algorithmic conversions from some character sets +(especially ISO 8859-1) to Unicode, general conversion requires +carrying around conversion tables, which can be quite large for 16-bit codes. .LP Note that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing: 10xxxxxx is a tail, any other @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Rendering of Unicode data streams is typically handled through "subfont" tables which map a subset of Unicode to glyphs. Internally the kernel uses Unicode to describe the subfont loaded in video RAM. -This means that in the Linux console in UTF-8 mode, one can use a character +This means that in the Linux console in UTF-8 mode, one can use a character set with 512 different symbols. This is not enough for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, but it is enough for most other purposes. diff --git a/man8/iconvconfig.8 b/man8/iconvconfig.8 index 87c293119c..75821de68d 100644 --- a/man8/iconvconfig.8 +++ b/man8/iconvconfig.8 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The .B iconvconfig program reads iconv module configuration files and writes a fast-loading gconv module configuration cache file. -In addition to the system provided gconv modules, the user can specify +In addition to the system provided gconv modules, the user can specify custom gconv module directories with the environment variable .BR GCONV_PATH . However, iconv module configuration caching is only used when |