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-rw-r--r--man3/drand48_r.32
-rw-r--r--man3/ether_aton.32
-rw-r--r--man3/fmemopen.32
-rw-r--r--man3/getopt.32
-rw-r--r--man3/strverscmp.36
-rw-r--r--man3/timeradd.32
6 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man3/drand48_r.3 b/man3/drand48_r.3
index eb976bd21e..ab25da0d3a 100644
--- a/man3/drand48_r.3
+++ b/man3/drand48_r.3
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ the supplied data
.IR buffer .
Before the first use, this struct must be initialized, for example,
-by filling it with zeroes, or by calling one of the functions
+by filling it with zeros, or by calling one of the functions
.BR srand48_r (),
.BR seed48_r (),
or
diff --git a/man3/ether_aton.3 b/man3/ether_aton.3
index 8326209188..4b495ec118 100644
--- a/man3/ether_aton.3
+++ b/man3/ether_aton.3
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ The
.BR ether_ntoa ()
function converts the Ethernet host address
\fIaddr\fP given in network byte order to a string in standard
-hex-digits-and-colons notation, omitting leading zeroes.
+hex-digits-and-colons notation, omitting leading zeros.
The string is returned in a statically allocated buffer,
which subsequent calls will overwrite.
.PP
diff --git a/man3/fmemopen.3 b/man3/fmemopen.3
index 7af6b543cd..faddae91ff 100644
--- a/man3/fmemopen.3
+++ b/man3/fmemopen.3
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ included in the size value stored at
.\" .BR fseeko (3).
.\" Moving the file position past the end
.\" of the data already written fills the intervening space with
-.\" zeroes.
+.\" zeros.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
Upon successful completion
.BR fmemopen ()
diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3
index 1d9da03139..5761bdfb63 100644
--- a/man3/getopt.3
+++ b/man3/getopt.3
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ option is found, but left unchanged if the option is not found.
is the value to return, or to load into the variable pointed
to by \fIflag\fP.
.PP
-The last element of the array has to be filled with zeroes.
+The last element of the array has to be filled with zeros.
.PP
If \fIlongindex\fP is not NULL, it
points to a variable which is set to the index of the long option relative to
diff --git a/man3/strverscmp.3 b/man3/strverscmp.3
index 8919fa1bad..18e4f16a12 100644
--- a/man3/strverscmp.3
+++ b/man3/strverscmp.3
@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ then return what
.BR strcmp (3)
would have returned (numerical ordering of byte values).
Otherwise, compare both digit strings numerically, where digit strings with
-one or more leading zeroes are interpreted as if they have a decimal point
-in front (so that in particular digit strings with more leading zeroes
-come before digit strings with fewer leading zeroes).
+one or more leading zeros are interpreted as if they have a decimal point
+in front (so that in particular digit strings with more leading zeros
+come before digit strings with fewer leading zeros).
Thus, the ordering is
.IR 000 ", " 00 ", " 01 ", " 010 ", " 09 ", " 0 ", " 1 ", " 9 ", " 10 .
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
diff --git a/man3/timeradd.3 b/man3/timeradd.3
index e7d7efe827..377972b46b 100644
--- a/man3/timeradd.3
+++ b/man3/timeradd.3
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ The result is normalized such that
has a value in the range 0 to 999,999.
.BR timerclear ()
-zeroes out the
+zeros out the
.I timeval
structure pointed to by
.IR tvp ,