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-rw-r--r--man5/elf.52
-rw-r--r--man5/filesystems.54
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.510
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5
index 7fed2167fb..c36c3ad192 100644
--- a/man5/elf.5
+++ b/man5/elf.5
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ All data structures that the file format defines follow the
size and alignment guidelines for the relevant class.
If necessary,
data structures contain explicit padding to ensure 4-byte alignment
-for 4-byte objects, to force structure sizes to a multiple of 4, etc.
+for 4-byte objects, to force structure sizes to a multiple of 4, and so on.
.PP
The ELF header is described by the type
.I Elf32_Ehdr
diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5
index 2b5081c21b..34d2aa1659 100644
--- a/man5/filesystems.5
+++ b/man5/filesystems.5
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ Below a short description of a few of the available filesystems.
.B "minix"
is the filesystem used in the Minix operating system, the first to run
under Linux.
-It has a number of shortcomings: a 64MB partition size
-limit, short filenames, a single timestamp, etc.
+It has a number of shortcomings, including a 64MB partition size
+limit, short filenames, and a single timestamp.
It remains useful for floppies and RAM disks.
.TP
.B ext
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 457b0951a5..296cf36a9e 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ option can be used to locate the file.
This is a subdirectory containing one entry for each file which the
process has open, named by its file descriptor, and which is a
symbolic link to the actual file.
-Thus, 0 is standard input, 1 standard output, 2 standard error, etc.
+Thus, 0 is standard input, 1 standard output, 2 standard error, and so on.
For file descriptors for pipes and sockets,
the entries will be symbolic links whose content is the
@@ -1524,9 +1524,9 @@ file that resulted when configuring the kernel (using
.IR "make config" ,
or similar).
The file contents are compressed; view or search them using
-.BR zcat (1),
-.BR zgrep (1),
-etc.
+.BR zcat (1)
+and
+.BR zgrep (1).
As long as no changes have been made to the following file,
the contents of
.I /proc/config.gz
@@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ Every host-file is named after the number the host was assigned during
initialization.
Reading these files will usually show driver and host configuration,
-statistics, etc.
+statistics, and so on.
Writing to these files allows different things on different hosts.
For example, with the \fIlatency\fP and \fInolatency\fP commands,