36 files changed, 94 insertions, 95 deletions
diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7
index 30f7d4a094..ad1aef3a69 100644
--- a/man7/arp.7
+++ b/man7/arp.7
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ If that fails and an old MAC address is known, a unicast probe is sent
 times.
 If that fails too, it will broadcast a new ARP
 request to the network.
-Requests are only sent when there is data queued
+Requests are sent only when there is data queued
 for sending.
 
 Linux will automatically add a nonpermanent proxy arp entry when it
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ struct arpreq {
 .BR SIOCSARP ", " SIOCDARP " and " SIOCGARP
 respectively set, delete and get an ARP mapping.
 Setting and deleting ARP maps are privileged operations and may
-only be performed by a process with the
+be performed only by a process with the
 .B CAP_NET_ADMIN
 capability or an effective UID of 0.
 
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 44f61b7341..fcdcbb10f7 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ name[=value_1][,value_2]...[,value_10]
 .LP
 where 'name' is a unique keyword that is used to identify what part of
 the kernel the associated values (if any) are to be given to.
-Note the limit of 10 is real, as the present code only handles 10 comma
+Note the limit of 10 is real, as the present code handles only 10 comma
 separated parameters per keyword.
 (However, you can reuse the same
 keyword with up to an additional 10 parameters in unusually
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ keeps all device drivers except the driver for 'blah' from probing
 .TP
 .B "'mem=...'"
 The BIOS call defined in the PC specification that returns
-the amount of installed memory was only designed to be able
+the amount of installed memory was designed only to be able
 to report up to 64MB.
 Linux uses this BIOS call at boot to
 determine how much memory is installed.
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ The AdvanSys driver can accept up to four i/o addresses that will be
 probed for an AdvanSys SCSI card.
 Note that these values (if used) do
 not effect EISA or PCI probing in any way.
-They are only used for
+They are used only for
 probing ISA and VLB cards.
 In addition, if the driver has been
 compiled with debugging enabled, the level of debugging output can be
@@ -839,9 +839,9 @@ is identified automatically, but if it isn't then this may help.
 .B "Standard ST-506 Disk Driver Options ('hd=')"
 The standard disk driver can accept geometry arguments for the disks
 similar to the IDE driver.
-Note however that it only expects three
+Note however that it expects only three
 values (C/H/S); any more or any less and it will silently ignore you.
-Also, it only accepts 'hd=' as an argument, that is, 'hda='
+Also, it accepts only 'hd=' as an argument, that is, 'hda='
 and so on are not valid here.
 The format is as follows:
 .IP
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ things like shared memory address, interface selection, DMA channel
 and the like.
 
 The most common use of this parameter is to force probing for a second
-ethercard, as the default is to only probe for one.
+ethercard, as the default is to probe only for one.
 This can be accomplished with a simple:
 .IP
 ether=0,0,eth1
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ wdt=io,irq
 .SS Mouse drivers
 .TP
 .B "'bmouse=irq'"
-The busmouse driver only accepts one parameter, that being the
+The busmouse driver accepts only one parameter, that being the
 hardware IRQ value to be used.
 .TP
 .B "'msmouse=irq'"
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index 1dfcd329e1..e3cfdf84a4 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ A thread can determine if a capability is in its bounding set using the
 .B PR_CAPBSET_READ
 operation.
 
-Removing capabilities from the bounding set is only supported if file
+Removing capabilities from the bounding set is supported only if file
 capabilities are compiled into the kernel.
 In kernels before Linux 2.6.33,
 file capabilities were an optional feature configurable via the
diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7
index 0cd91bb4b4..e6cc907e11 100644
--- a/man7/charsets.7
+++ b/man7/charsets.7
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Skolt Sami still
 needs a few more accents than these.
 .TP
 8859-11
-This only exists as a rejected draft standard.
+This exists only as a rejected draft standard.
 The draft standard
 was identical to TIS-620, which is used under Linux for Thai.
 .TP
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ recent version selected by ESC & @ ESC $ B.
 .LP
 ISO 4873 stipulates a narrower use of character sets, where G0
 is fixed (always ASCII), so that G1, G2 and G3
-can only be invoked for codes with the high order bit set.
+can be invoked only for codes with the high order bit set.
 In particular, \fB^N\fP and \fB^O\fP are not used anymore, ESC ( xx
 can be used only with xx=B, and ESC ) xx, ESC * xx, ESC + xx
 are equivalent to ESC \- xx, ESC . xx, ESC / xx, respectively.
diff --git a/man7/cpuset.7 b/man7/cpuset.7
index 4a066cc2ff..407dc05ae2 100644
--- a/man7/cpuset.7
+++ b/man7/cpuset.7
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The directories and files representing cpusets have normal
 file-system permissions.
 .PP
 Every process in the system belongs to exactly one cpuset.
-A process is confined to only run on the CPUs in
+A process is confined to run only on the CPUs in
 the cpuset it belongs to, and to allocate memory only
 on the memory nodes in that cpuset.
 When a process
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ section, below.
 .TP
 .IR cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled " (since Linux 2.6.16)"
 Flag (0 or 1).
-This file is only present in the root cpuset, normally
+This file is present only in the root cpuset, normally
 .IR /dev/cpuset .
 If set (1), the
 .I memory_pressure
@@ -788,13 +788,13 @@ balancing off the software clock described in
 .IR time (7).
 The setting of
 .I sched_relax_domain_level
-only applies to immediate load balancing.
+applies only to immediate load balancing.
 Regardless of the
 .I sched_relax_domain_level
 setting, periodic load balancing is attempted over all CPUs
 (unless disabled by turning off
 .IR sched_load_balance .)
-In any case, of course, tasks will only be scheduled to run on
+In any case, of course, tasks will be scheduled to run only on
 CPUs allowed by their cpuset, as modified by
 .BR sched_setaffinity (2)
 system calls.
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ The
 .I sched_relax_domain_level
 value of zero (0) always means
 don't perform immediate load balancing,
-hence that load balancing is only done periodically,
+hence that load balancing is done only periodically,
 not immediately when a CPU becomes available or another task becomes
 runnable.
 .PP
@@ -928,13 +928,13 @@ The following rules apply to each cpuset:
 Its CPUs and memory nodes must be a (possibly equal)
 subset of its parent's.
 .IP *
-It can only be marked
+It can be marked
 .IR cpu_exclusive
-if its parent is.
+only if its parent is.
 .IP *
-It can only be marked
+It can be marked
 .IR mem_exclusive
-if its parent is.
+only if its parent is.
 .IP *
 If it is
 .IR cpu_exclusive ,
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ there as well.
 In general, the kernel prefers to violate cpuset placement,
 rather than starving a process that has had all its allowed CPUs or
 memory nodes taken offline.
-User code should reconfigure cpusets to only refer to online CPUs
+User code should reconfigure cpusets to refer only to online CPUs
 and memory nodes when using hot-plug to add or remove such resources.
 .PP
 A few kernel-critical, internal memory-allocation requests, marked
diff --git a/man7/ddp.7 b/man7/ddp.7
index 2057763b90..b1c37d8a6a 100644
--- a/man7/ddp.7
+++ b/man7/ddp.7
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ For
 you must specify
 .BR ATPROTO_DDP .
 .PP
-Raw sockets may be only opened by a process with effective user ID 0
+Raw sockets may be opened only by a process with effective user ID 0
 or when the process has the
 .B CAP_NET_RAW
 capability.
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ A kernel subsystem was not configured.
 Invalid socket option passed.
 .TP
 .B ENOTCONN
-The operation is only defined on a connected socket, but the socket wasn't
+The operation is defined only on a connected socket, but the socket wasn't
 connected.
 .TP
 .B EPERM
diff --git a/man7/epoll.7 b/man7/epoll.7
index 98bea748b9..7ba2eed222 100644
--- a/man7/epoll.7
+++ b/man7/epoll.7
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ will probably hang despite the available data still present in the file
 input buffer;
 meanwhile the remote peer might be expecting a response based on the
 data it already sent.
-The reason for this is that edge-triggered mode only
-delivers events when changes occur on the monitored file descriptor.
+The reason for this is that edge-triggered mode
+delivers events only when changes occur on the monitored file descriptor.
 So, in step
 .B 5
 the caller might end up waiting for some data that is already present inside
diff --git a/man7/feature_test_macros.7 b/man7/feature_test_macros.7
index ec2acadcc1..ed5c2b59b9 100644
--- a/man7/feature_test_macros.7
+++ b/man7/feature_test_macros.7
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ definitions for POSIX.2-1992.
 .IP \(bu
 The value 199309L or greater additionally exposes
 definitions for POSIX.1b (real-time extensions).
-.\" 199506L functionality is only available since glibc 2.1
+.\" 199506L functionality is available only since glibc 2.1
 .IP \(bu
 The value 199506L or greater additionally exposes
 definitions for POSIX.1c (threads).
diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7
index 103d9f57ee..31d91a1339 100644
--- a/man7/futex.7
+++ b/man7/futex.7
@@ -38,12 +38,12 @@ it is a counter that can be incremented and decremented atomically;
 processes can wait for the value to become positive.
 .PP
 Futex operation is entirely user space for the noncontended case.
-The kernel is only involved to arbitrate the contended case.
+The kernel is involved only to arbitrate the contended case.
 As any sane design will strive for noncontention,
 futexes are also optimized for this situation.
 .PP
 In its bare form, a futex is an aligned integer which is
-only touched by atomic assembler instructions.
+touched only by atomic assembler instructions.
 Processes can share this integer using
 .BR mmap (2),
 via shared memory segments or because they share memory space,
diff --git a/man7/hier.7 b/man7/hier.7
index 1c0abe9fc5..05cd13f3d5 100644
--- a/man7/hier.7
+++ b/man7/hier.7
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ single user mode and to bring the system up or repair it.
 .TP
 .I /boot
 Contains static files for the boot loader.
-This directory only holds
+This directory holds only
 the files which are needed during the boot process.
 The map installer
 and configuration files should go to
diff --git a/man7/icmp.7 b/man7/icmp.7
index 5f4c6c0d55..2c06546b75 100644
--- a/man7/icmp.7
+++ b/man7/icmp.7
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ should not be relied on in portable programs.
 .PP
 .B ICMP_REDIRECT
 packets are not sent when Linux is not acting as a router.
-They are also only accepted from the old gateway defined in the
+They are also accepted only from the old gateway defined in the
 routing table and the redirect routes are expired after some time.
 .PP
 The 64-bit timestamp returned by
diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 1d6f6a7623..78bb885091 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ contains bits that describe the event that occurred (see below).
 
 .I cookie
 is a unique integer that connects related events.
-Currently this is only used for rename events, and
+Currently this is used only for rename events, and
 allows the resulting pair of
 .B IN_MOVED_FROM
 and
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ is set to 0.
 
 The
 .I name
-field is only present when an event is returned
+field is present only when an event is returned
 for a file inside a watched directory;
 it identifies the file pathname relative to the watched directory.
 This pathname is null-terminated,
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ The required library interfaces were added to glibc in version 2.4.
 .BR IN_MASK_ADD ,
 and
 .B IN_ONLYDIR
-were only added in version 2.5.)
+were added in version 2.5.)
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 The inotify API is Linux-specific.
 .SH NOTES
diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7
index 9bef3bf19d..ffabff08a0 100644
--- a/man7/ip.7
+++ b/man7/ip.7
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ capability) may
 .BR bind (2)
 to these sockets.
 Note that the raw IPv4 protocol as such has no concept of a
-port, they are only implemented by higher protocols like
+port, they are implemented only by higher protocols like
 .BR tcp (7)
 and
 .BR udp (7).
@@ -197,11 +197,11 @@ and multicast addresses.
 Unicast addresses specify a single interface of a host,
 broadcast addresses specify all hosts on a network and multicast
 addresses address all hosts in a multicast group.
-Datagrams to broadcast addresses can be only sent or received when the
+Datagrams to broadcast addresses can be sent or received only when the
 .B SO_BROADCAST
 socket flag is set.
-In the current implementation, connection-oriented sockets are only allowed
-to use unicast addresses.
+In the current implementation, connection-oriented sockets are allowed
+to use only unicast addresses.
 .\" Leave a loophole for XTP @)
 
 Note that the address and the port are always stored in
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ refer to RFC 3376.
 .BR IP_MTU " (since Linux 2.2)"
 .\" Precisely: 2.1.124
 Retrieve the current known path MTU of the current socket.
-Only valid when the socket has been connected.
+Valid only when the socket has been connected.
 Returns an integer.
 Only valid as a
 .BR getsockopt (2).
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ Argument is an integer.
 .BR IP_NODEFRAG " (since Linux 2.6.36)"
 If enabled (argument is nonzero),
 the reassembly of outgoing packets is disabled in the netfilter layer.
-This option is only valid for
+This option is valid only for
 .B SOCK_RAW
 sockets.
 The argument is an integer.
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ A kernel subsystem was not configured.
 Invalid socket option passed.
 .TP
 .B ENOTCONN
-The operation is only defined on a connected socket, but the socket wasn't
+The operation is defined only on a connected socket, but the socket wasn't
 connected.
 .TP
 .B EPERM
diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7
index ab7f721fbc..366ae140b7 100644
--- a/man7/ipv6.7
+++ b/man7/ipv6.7
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ is the 128-bit IPv6 address.
 .I sin6_scope_id
 is an ID depending on the scope of the address.
 It is new in Linux 2.4.
-Linux only supports it for link-local addresses, in that case
+Linux supports it only for link-local addresses, in that case
 .I sin6_scope_id
 contains the interface index (see
 .BR netdevice (7))
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ socket into a socket of a different address family.
 Only
 .B AF_INET
 is currently supported for that.
-It is only allowed for IPv6 sockets
+It is allowed only for IPv6 sockets
 that are connected and bound to a v4-mapped-on-v6 address.
 The argument is a pointer to an integer containing
 .BR AF_INET .
@@ -246,8 +246,7 @@ between 0 and 255.
 .TP
 .B IPV6_MULTICAST_IF
 Set the device for outgoing multicast packets on the socket.
-This is only allowed
-for
+This is allowed only for
 .B SOCK_DGRAM
 and
 .B SOCK_RAW
diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 229d5c6e10..516dbd58af 100644
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ then the SYNOPSIS should indicate this, as described in
 .TP
 .B CONFIGURATION
 Configuration details for a device.
-This section normally only appears in Section 4 pages.
+This section normally appears only in Section 4 pages.
 .TP
 .B DESCRIPTION
 gives an explanation of what the program, function, or format does.
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ section.
 .B OPTIONS
 describes the command-line options accepted by a
 program and how they change its behavior.
-This section should only appear for Section 1 and 8 manual pages.
+This section should appear only for Section 1 and 8 manual pages.
 .\" .TP
 .\" .B USAGE
 .\" describes the grammar of any sublanguage this implements.
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ This section should only appear for Section 1 and 8 manual pages.
 .B EXIT STATUS
 lists the possible exit status values of a program and
 the conditions that cause these values to be returned.
-This section should only appear for Section 1 and 8 manual pages.
+This section should appear only for Section 1 and 8 manual pages.
 .TP
 .B RETURN VALUE
 For Section 2 and 3 pages, this section gives a
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ many existing manual pages don't include this information
 (since there was no policy to do so when they were written).
 Patches to remedy this are welcome,
 but, from the perspective of programmers writing new code,
-this information probably only matters in the case of kernel
+this information probably matters only in the case of kernel
 interfaces that have been added in Linux 2.4 or later
 (i.e., changes since kernel 2.2),
 and library functions that have been added to glibc since version 2.1
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ However, note the following:
 Example programs should be written in C.
 .TP
 *
-An example program is only necessary and useful if it demonstrates
+An example program is necessary and useful only if it demonstrates
 something beyond what can easily be provided in a textual
 description of the interface.
 An example program that does nothing
diff --git a/man7/mdoc.7 b/man7/mdoc.7
index 3d241dff16..7cebd3044b 100644
--- a/man7/mdoc.7
+++ b/man7/mdoc.7
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ Unless stated, manual domain macros share a common syntax:
 .Pp
 .Sy Note :
 Opening and closing
-punctuation characters are only recognized as such if they are presented
+punctuation characters are recognized as such only if they are presented
 one at a time.
 The string
 .Ql "),"
diff --git a/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index cd7018f4ac..7f5fbc7126 100644
--- a/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -1504,7 +1504,7 @@ If formatted with
 .Xr nroff ,
 a quoted literal is always quoted.
 If formatted with
-troff, an item is only quoted if the width
+troff, an item is quoted only if the width
 of the item is less than three constant width characters.
 This is to make short strings more visible where the font change
 to literal (constant width) is less noticeable.
diff --git a/man7/netdevice.7 b/man7/netdevice.7
index b81779892d..42e43be731 100644
--- a/man7/netdevice.7
+++ b/man7/netdevice.7
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ Changes the name of the interface specified in
 to
 .IR ifr_newname .
 This is a privileged operation.
-It is only allowed when the interface
+It is allowed only when the interface
 is not up.
 .TP
 .B SIOCGIFCONF
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ These are not described here.
 .SH NOTES
 Strictly speaking,
 .B SIOCGIFCONF
-and the other ioctls that only accept or return
+and the other ioctls that accept or return only
 .B AF_INET
 socket addresses,
 are IP specific and belong in
diff --git a/man7/netlink.7 b/man7/netlink.7
index f577851661..7d007f958c 100644
--- a/man7/netlink.7
+++ b/man7/netlink.7
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ processes and an internal kernel API for kernel modules.
 The internal kernel interface is not documented in this manual page.
 There is also an obsolete netlink interface
 via netlink character devices; this interface is not documented here
-and is only provided for backward compatibility.
+and is provided only for backward compatibility.
 
 Netlink is a datagram-oriented service.
 Both
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Generic netlink family for simplified netlink usage.
 Netlink messages consist of a byte stream with one or multiple
 .I nlmsghdr
 headers and associated payload.
-The byte stream should only be accessed with the standard
+The byte stream should be accessed only with the standard
 .B NLMSG_*
 macros.
 See
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ identifies a netlink socket, not a process.
 If a process owns several netlink
 sockets, then
 .I nl_pid
-can only be equal to the process ID for at most one socket.
+can be equal to the process ID only for at most one socket.
 There are two ways to assign
 .I nl_pid
 to a netlink socket.
diff --git a/man7/numa.7 b/man7/numa.7
index 31a86a54c2..e3c250b932 100644
--- a/man7/numa.7
+++ b/man7/numa.7
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The number of pages allocated on
 includes only pages currently mapped by the process.
 Page migration and memory reclaim may have temporarily unmapped pages
 associated with this memory range.
-These pages may only show up again after the process has
+These pages may show up again only after the process has
 attempted to reference them.
 If the memory range represents a shared memory area or file mapping,
 other processes may currently have additional pages mapped in a
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Number of pages that have an associated entry on a swap device.
 .TP
 .I active=<pages>
 The number of pages on the active list.
-This field is only shown if different from the number of pages in this range.
+This field is shown only if different from the number of pages in this range.
 This means that some inactive pages exist in the memory range that may be
 removed from memory by the swapper soon.
 .TP
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ No standards govern NUMA interfaces.
 .SH NOTES
 The Linux NUMA system calls and
 .I /proc
-interface are only available
+interface are available only
 if the kernel was configured and built with the
 .BR CONFIG_NUMA
 option.
diff --git a/man7/packet.7 b/man7/packet.7
index 006f2ac339..abb1f07bae 100644
--- a/man7/packet.7
+++ b/man7/packet.7
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ destination address before they are queued.
 
 By default all packets of the specified protocol type
 are passed to a packet socket.
-To only get packets from a specific interface use
+To get packets only from a specific interface use
 .BR bind (2)
 specifying an address in a
 .I struct sockaddr_ll
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ in promiscuous mode, and
 .B PACKET_OUTGOING
 for a packet originated from the local host that is looped back to a packet
 socket.
-These types make only sense for receiving.
+These types make sense only for receiving.
 .I sll_addr
 and
 .I sll_halen
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ For portable programs it is suggested to use
 .B AF_PACKET
 via
 .BR pcap (3);
-although this only covers a subset of the
+although this covers only a subset of the
 .B AF_PACKET
 features.
 
diff --git a/man7/path_resolution.7 b/man7/path_resolution.7
index 14db6709b3..46c1c29c53 100644
--- a/man7/path_resolution.7
+++ b/man7/path_resolution.7
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Two capabilities are relevant for file permissions checks:
 (A process has these capabilities if its fsuid is 0.)
 
 The \fBCAP_DAC_OVERRIDE\fP capability overrides all permission checking,
-but only grants execute permission when at least one
+but grants execute permission only when at least one
 of the file's three execute permission bits is set.
 
 The \fBCAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH\fP capability grants read and search permission
diff --git a/man7/posixoptions.7 b/man7/posixoptions.7
index b3b79d3ca3..73c685bc37 100644
--- a/man7/posixoptions.7
+++ b/man7/posixoptions.7
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ The following functions are present:
 .\" C development.
 .SS --- - POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
 If this option is in effect (as it always is under POSIX.1-2001)
-then only root may change the owner of a file, and nonroot can only
-set the group of a file to one of the groups it belongs to.
+then only root may change the owner of a file, and nonroot can
+set the group of a file only to one of the groups it belongs to.
 This affects the functions
 .IR chown (),
 .IR fchown ().
diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7
index 4ebfa4edd3..0c4c07bb37 100644
--- a/man7/pthreads.7
+++ b/man7/pthreads.7
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ This identifier is returned to the caller of
 .BR pthread_create (3),
 and a thread can obtain its own thread identifier using
 .BR pthread_self (3).
-Thread IDs are only guaranteed to be unique within a process.
+Thread IDs are guaranteed to be unique only within a process.
 A thread ID may be reused after a terminated thread has been joined,
 or a detached thread has terminated.
 In all pthreads functions that accept a thread ID as an argument,
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ According to POSIX.1, a process-directed signal (sent using
 for example) should be handled by a single,
 arbitrarily selected thread within the process.
 LinuxThreads does not support the notion of process-directed signals:
-signals may only be sent to specific threads.
+signals may be sent only to specific threads.
 .IP \- 3
 Threads have distinct alternate signal stack settings.
 However, a new thread's alternate signal stack settings
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ Threads do not share a common nice value.
 .\" "make setpriority POSIX compliant; introduce PRIO_THREAD extension"
 .\" Monitor this to see if it makes it into mainline.
 .PP
-Some NPTL nonconformances only occur with older kernels:
+Some NPTL nonconformances occur only with older kernels:
 .IP \- 3
 The information returned by
 .BR times (2)
diff --git a/man7/raw.7 b/man7/raw.7
index 2408abf657..aa4a0e5270 100644
--- a/man7/raw.7
+++ b/man7/raw.7
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ for more information.
 
 In Linux 2.2, all IP header fields and options can be set using
 IP socket options.
-This means raw sockets are usually only needed for new
+This means raw sockets are usually needed only for new
 protocols or protocols with no user interface (like ICMP).
 
 When a packet is received, it is passed to any raw sockets which have
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ In addition, all
 .B IPPROTO_IP
 socket options valid for datagram sockets are supported.
 .SS Error handling
-Errors originating from the network are only passed to the user when the
+Errors originating from the network are passed to the user only when the
 socket is connected or the
 .B IP_RECVERR
 flag is enabled.
diff --git a/man7/rtld-audit.7 b/man7/rtld-audit.7
index 108d08ba0c..43ec73a92c 100644
--- a/man7/rtld-audit.7
+++ b/man7/rtld-audit.7
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ invocations for this symbol return different values,
 then the maximum returned value is used.
 The
 .BR la_pltenter ()
-function is only called if this buffer is
+function is called only if this buffer is
 explicitly set to a suitable value.
 
 The return value of
diff --git a/man7/rtnetlink.7 b/man7/rtnetlink.7
index 21d2a80e4f..57b1f759f0 100644
--- a/man7/rtnetlink.7
+++ b/man7/rtnetlink.7
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct rtattr {
 .fi
 .in
 
-These attributes should be only manipulated using the RTA_* macros
+These attributes should be manipulated using only the RTA_* macros
 or libnetlink, see
 .BR rtnetlink (3).
 .SS Messages
diff --git a/man7/sem_overview.7 b/man7/sem_overview.7
index b030cf9cf7..e9de67453a 100644
--- a/man7/sem_overview.7
+++ b/man7/sem_overview.7
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ the semaphore should be destroyed using
 The remainder of this section describes some specific details
 of the Linux implementation of POSIX semaphores.
 .SS Versions
-Prior to kernel 2.6, Linux only supported unnamed,
+Prior to kernel 2.6, Linux supported only unnamed,
 thread-shared semaphores.
 On a system with Linux 2.6 and a glibc that provides the NPTL
 threading implementation,
diff --git a/man7/sigevent.7 b/man7/sigevent.7
index fb58610f91..9cec77e6e8 100644
--- a/man7/sigevent.7
+++ b/man7/sigevent.7
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The definition shown in the SYNOPSIS is approximate:
 some of the fields in the
 .I sigevent
 structure may be defined as part of a union.
-Programs should only employ those fields relevant
+Programs should employ only those fields relevant
 to the value specified in
 .IR sigev_notify .
 .PP
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7
index bee9c3ec9b..97e5a8c108 100644
--- a/man7/socket.7
+++ b/man7/socket.7
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ tells the socket that new connections shall be accepted, and
 .BR accept (2)
 is used to get a new socket with a new incoming connection.
 .BR socketpair (2)
-returns two connected anonymous sockets (only implemented for a few
+returns two connected anonymous sockets (implemented only for a few
 local families like
 .BR AF_UNIX )
 .PP
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ interface name string with the maximum size of
 If a socket is bound to an interface,
 only packets received from that particular interface are processed by the
 socket.
-Note that this only works for some socket types, particularly
+Note that this works only for some socket types, particularly
 .B AF_INET
 sockets.
 It is not supported for packet sockets (use normal
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ This socket option is read-only.
 Expects an integer.
 .TP
 .B SO_DONTROUTE
-Don't send via a gateway, only send to directly connected hosts.
+Don't send via a gateway, send only to directly connected hosts.
 The same effect can be achieved by setting the
 .B MSG_DONTROUTE
 flag on a socket
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ capability.
 .B SO_OOBINLINE
 If this option is enabled,
 out-of-band data is directly placed into the receive data stream.
-Otherwise out-of-band data is only passed when the
+Otherwise out-of-band data is passed only when the
 .B MSG_OOB
 flag is set during receiving.
 .\" don't document it because it can do too much harm.
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ For more information see
 .TP
 .B SO_PEERCRED
 Return the credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket.
-This is only possible for connected
+This is possible only for connected
 .B AF_UNIX
 stream sockets and
 .B AF_UNIX
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ See
 for a description of
 .IR "struct timeval" .
 .\"
-This ioctl should only be used if the socket option
+This ioctl should be used only if the socket option
 .B SO_TIMESTAMP
 is not set on the socket.
 Otherwise, it returns the timestamp of the
diff --git a/man7/spufs.7 b/man7/spufs.7
index ba3a461b29..fef727cbfa 100644
--- a/man7/spufs.7
+++ b/man7/spufs.7
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ flag.
 .I /mbox
 The first SPU-to-CPU communication mailbox.
 This file is read-only and can be read in units of 4 bytes.
-The file can only be used in nonblocking mode \- even
+The file can be used only in nonblocking mode \- even
 .BR poll (2)
 cannot be used to block on this file.
 The only possible operation on an open
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ The contents of these files are:
 .RS
 .TP 16
 .I npc
-Next Program Counter \- only valid when the SPU is in a stopped state.
+Next Program Counter \- valid only when the SPU is in a stopped state.
 .TP
 .I decr
 SPU Decrementer
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index 3f9564be09..aaa8fb758f 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ socket option is enabled, urgent data is put into the normal
 data stream (a program can test for its location using the
 .B SIOCATMARK
 ioctl described below),
-otherwise it can be only received when the
+otherwise it can be received only when the
 .B MSG_OOB
 flag is set for
 .BR recv (2)
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ TCP is built on top of IP (see
 The address formats defined by
 .BR ip (7)
 apply to TCP.
-TCP only supports point-to-point
-communication; broadcasting and multicasting are not
+TCP supports point-to-point communication only;
+broadcasting and multicasting are not
 supported.
 .SS /proc interfaces
 System-wide TCP parameter settings can be accessed by files in the directory
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ no response is obtained from the other end.
 .\" Since 2.1.43
 The number of seconds a connection needs to be idle
 before TCP begins sending out keep-alive probes.
-Keep-alives are only sent when the
+Keep-alives are sent only when the
 .B SO_KEEPALIVE
 socket option is enabled.
 The default value is 7200 seconds (2 hours).
diff --git a/man7/udp.7 b/man7/udp.7
index dd2332c6dc..1e925d39b6 100644
--- a/man7/udp.7
+++ b/man7/udp.7
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ is not supported.
 
 IP options may be sent or received using the socket options described in
 .BR ip (7).
-They are only processed by the kernel when the appropriate
+They are processed by the kernel only when the appropriate
 .I /proc
 parameter
 is enabled (but still passed to the user even when it is turned off).
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ See
 When the
 .B MSG_DONTROUTE
 flag is set on sending, the destination address must refer to a local
-interface address and the packet is only sent to that interface.
+interface address and the packet is sent only to that interface.
 
 By default, Linux UDP does path MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) discovery.
 This means the kernel
diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7
index ba139f4b08..f143e9d86a 100644
--- a/man7/unicode.7
+++ b/man7/unicode.7
@@ -302,8 +302,8 @@ and sometimes even simple overstriking combining characters, but
 usually does not include support for scripts with right-to-left
 writing direction or ligature substitution requirements such as
 Hebrew, Arabic, or the Indic scripts.
-These scripts are currently only
-supported in certain GUI applications (HTML viewers, word processors)
+These scripts are currently
+supported only in certain GUI applications (HTML viewers, word processors)
 with sophisticated text rendering engines.
 .\" .SH AUTHOR
 .\" Markus Kuhn <mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk>
diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index c3c53b29bf..d372331d14 100644
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ Such heuristics may
 change over time, particularly when new schemes are introduced.
 Since an abbreviated URI has the same syntax as a relative URL path,
 abbreviated URI references cannot be used where relative URIs are
-permitted, and can only be used when there is no defined base
+permitted, and can be used only when there is no defined base
 (such as in dialog boxes).
 Don't use abbreviated URIs as hypertext links inside a document;
 use the standard format as described here.
@@ -634,8 +634,8 @@ There is no general guarantee that a URL, which at one time
 located a given resource, will continue to do so.
 Nor is there any
 guarantee that a URL will not locate a different resource at some
-later point in time; such a guarantee can only be
-obtained from the person(s) controlling that namespace and the
+later point in time; such a guarantee can be
+obtained only from the person(s) controlling that namespace and the
 resource in question.
 .PP
 It is sometimes possible to construct a URL such that an attempt to
diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index 1cb8b3a14d..3cdd615a15 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ encoded
 characters may be up to six bytes long, however the
 .B Unicode
 standard specifies no characters above 0x10ffff, so Unicode characters
-can only be up to four bytes long in
+can be only up to four bytes long in
 .BR UTF-8 .
 .SS Encoding
 The following byte sequences are used to represent a character.