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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/lseek.2 | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/inet_pton.3 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/tzfile.5 | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/lseek.2 b/man2/lseek.2 index 9e62bc682d..a7c435c717 100644 --- a/man2/lseek.2 +++ b/man2/lseek.2 @@ -126,12 +126,12 @@ This can be useful for applications such as file backup tools, which can save space when creating backups and preserve holes, if they have a mechanism for discovering holes. -For the purposes of these operations, a hole is a sequence of zeroes that +For the purposes of these operations, a hole is a sequence of zeros that (normally) has not been allocated in the underlying file storage. However, a file system is not obliged to report holes, so these operations are not a guaranteed mechanism for mapping the storage space actually allocated to a file. -(Furthermore, a sequence of zeroes that actually has been written +(Furthermore, a sequence of zeros that actually has been written to the underlying storage may not be reported as a hole.) In the simplest implementation, a file system can support the operations by making @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ return (i.e., even if the location referred to by .I offset is a hole, -it can be considered to consist of data that is a sequence of zeroes). +it can be considered to consist of data that is a sequence of zeros). .\" https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/22/79 .\" http://lwn.net/Articles/440255/ .\" http://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data diff --git a/man3/inet_pton.3 b/man3/inet_pton.3 index dfc879f2a0..a2054cb4e6 100644 --- a/man3/inet_pton.3 +++ b/man3/inet_pton.3 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ For example, the loopback address .I 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 can be abbreviated as .IR ::1 . -The wildcard address, consisting of all zeroes, can be written as +The wildcard address, consisting of all zeros, can be written as .IR :: . .IP 3. An alternate format is useful for expressing IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. diff --git a/man5/tzfile.5 b/man5/tzfile.5 index 51a1c8eefd..3b938dd7f0 100644 --- a/man5/tzfile.5 +++ b/man5/tzfile.5 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as timezone information files, followed by a character identifying the version of the file's format (as of 2005, either an ASCII NUL ('\\0') or a '2') -followed by fifteen bytes containing zeroes reserved for future use, +followed by fifteen bytes containing zeros reserved for future use, followed by six four-byte values of type .IR long , written in a "standard" byte order |