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diff --git a/man/man7/inotify.7 b/man/man7/inotify.7
index 8ce99a6d18..05dbae20b0 100644
--- a/man/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man/man7/inotify.7
@@ -134,10 +134,10 @@ The
field counts all of the bytes in
.IR name ,
including the null bytes;
-the length of each
+the size of each
.I inotify_event
structure is thus
-.IR "sizeof(struct inotify_event)+len" .
+.IR "sizeof(struct inotify_event)+size" .
.P
The behavior when the buffer given to
.BR read (2)
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ Listening for events stopped.
\&
/* Read all available inotify events from the file descriptor \[aq]fd\[aq].
wd is the table of watch descriptors for the directories in argv.
- argc is the length of wd and argv.
+ argc is the size of wd and argv.
argv is the list of watched directories.
Entry 0 of wd and argv is unused. */
\&
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ handle_events(int fd, int *wd, int argc, char* argv[])
char buf[4096]
__attribute__ ((aligned(__alignof__(struct inotify_event))));
const struct inotify_event *event;
- ssize_t len;
+ ssize_t size;
\&
/* Loop while events can be read from inotify file descriptor. */
\&
@@ -934,8 +934,8 @@ handle_events(int fd, int *wd, int argc, char* argv[])
\&
/* Read some events. */
\&
- len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
- if (len == \-1 && errno != EAGAIN) {
+ size = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+ if (size == \-1 && errno != EAGAIN) {
perror("read");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
@@ -944,12 +944,12 @@ handle_events(int fd, int *wd, int argc, char* argv[])
it returns \-1 with errno set to EAGAIN. In that case,
we exit the loop. */
\&
- if (len <= 0)
+ if (size <= 0)
break;
\&
/* Loop over all events in the buffer. */
\&
- for (char *ptr = buf; ptr < buf + len;
+ for (char *ptr = buf; ptr < buf + size;
ptr += sizeof(struct inotify_event) + event\->len) {
\&
event = (const struct inotify_event *) ptr;