From 24b74457e757627287d4b57282f4281a1fd62cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:20:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] accept.2, access.2, acct.2, clock_nanosleep.2, mbind.2, mincore.2, remap_file_pages.2, sched_setscheduler.2, set_mempolicy.2, splice.2, stat.2, syslog.2, timer_create.2, timerfd_create.2, truncate.2, fenv.3, ferror.3, fflush.3, fgetwc.3, fgetws.3, flockfile.3, fputwc.3, fputws.3, fread.3, getopt.3, gets.3, getwchar.3, glob.3, iconv.3, longjmp.3, pow.3, printf.3, puts.3, putwchar.3, regex.3, rpc.3, scanf.3, setjmp.3, termios.3, unlocked_stdio.3, wcswidth.3, hd.4, rtc.4, st.4, core.5, dir_colors.5, elf.5, proc.5, arp.7, ascii.7, boot.7, bootparam.7, charsets.7, futex.7, ip.7, iso_8859-11.7, man-pages.7, man.7, mdoc.samples.7, path_resolution.7, pipe.7, posixoptions.7, unicode.7, unix.7, uri.7, utf-8.7, ld.so.8: s/non-/non/ The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes like "non-" etc. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/accept.2 | 2 +- man2/access.2 | 2 +- man2/acct.2 | 2 +- man2/clock_nanosleep.2 | 2 +- man2/mbind.2 | 4 ++-- man2/mincore.2 | 2 +- man2/remap_file_pages.2 | 2 +- man2/sched_setscheduler.2 | 2 +- man2/set_mempolicy.2 | 2 +- man2/splice.2 | 2 +- man2/stat.2 | 2 +- man2/syslog.2 | 2 +- man2/timer_create.2 | 2 +- man2/timerfd_create.2 | 2 +- man2/truncate.2 | 2 +- man3/fenv.3 | 4 ++-- man3/ferror.3 | 2 +- man3/fflush.3 | 2 +- man3/fgetwc.3 | 2 +- man3/fgetws.3 | 2 +- man3/flockfile.3 | 2 +- man3/fputwc.3 | 2 +- man3/fputws.3 | 2 +- man3/fread.3 | 2 +- man3/getopt.3 | 8 ++++---- man3/gets.3 | 2 +- man3/getwchar.3 | 2 +- man3/glob.3 | 2 +- man3/iconv.3 | 4 ++-- man3/longjmp.3 | 2 +- man3/pow.3 | 4 ++-- man3/printf.3 | 2 +- man3/puts.3 | 2 +- man3/putwchar.3 | 2 +- man3/regex.3 | 2 +- man3/rpc.3 | 2 +- man3/scanf.3 | 2 +- man3/setjmp.3 | 2 +- man3/termios.3 | 2 +- man3/unlocked_stdio.3 | 2 +- man3/wcswidth.3 | 2 +- man4/hd.4 | 2 +- man4/rtc.4 | 2 +- man4/st.4 | 6 +++--- man5/core.5 | 2 +- man5/dir_colors.5 | 4 ++-- man5/elf.5 | 6 +++--- man5/proc.5 | 4 ++-- man7/arp.7 | 2 +- man7/ascii.7 | 2 +- man7/boot.7 | 4 ++-- man7/bootparam.7 | 2 +- man7/charsets.7 | 2 +- man7/futex.7 | 6 +++--- man7/ip.7 | 2 +- man7/iso_8859-11.7 | 2 +- man7/man-pages.7 | 4 ++-- man7/man.7 | 4 ++-- man7/mdoc.samples.7 | 6 +++--- man7/path_resolution.7 | 4 ++-- man7/pipe.7 | 4 ++-- man7/posixoptions.7 | 2 +- man7/unicode.7 | 2 +- man7/unix.7 | 2 +- man7/uri.7 | 2 +- man7/utf-8.7 | 4 ++-- man8/ld.so.8 | 2 +- 67 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2 index f0b6ea435..3d69b87b9 100644 --- a/man2/accept.2 +++ b/man2/accept.2 @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ from the listening socket. This behavior differs from the canonical BSD sockets implementation. .\" Some testing seems to show that Tru64 5.1 and HP-UX 11 also .\" do not inherit file status flags -- MTK Jun 05 -Portable programs should not rely on inheritance or non-inheritance +Portable programs should not rely on inheritance or noninheritance of file status flags and always explicitly set all required flags on the socket returned from .BR accept (). diff --git a/man2/access.2 b/man2/access.2 index 2a2b9c7fe..20a3fd3ad 100644 --- a/man2/access.2 +++ b/man2/access.2 @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ In kernel 2.4 (and earlier) there is some strangeness in the handling of .B X_OK tests for superuser. If all categories of execute permission are disabled -for a non-directory file, then the only +for a nondirectory file, then the only .BR access () test that returns \-1 is when .I mode diff --git a/man2/acct.2 b/man2/acct.2 index 217cfb74d..622c1f951 100644 --- a/man2/acct.2 +++ b/man2/acct.2 @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ SVr4, 4.3BSD (but not POSIX). .\" currently being used). .SH NOTES No accounting is produced for programs running when a system crash occurs. -In particular, non-terminating processes are never accounted for. +In particular, nonterminating processes are never accounted for. The structure of the records written to the accounting file is described in .BR acct (5). diff --git a/man2/clock_nanosleep.2 b/man2/clock_nanosleep.2 index 44c6fa436..87711cf24 100644 --- a/man2/clock_nanosleep.2 +++ b/man2/clock_nanosleep.2 @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ This argument can have one of the following values: A settable system-wide real-time clock. .TP .BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC -A non-settable, monotonically increasing clock that measures time +A nonsettable, monotonically increasing clock that measures time since some unspecified point in the past that does not change after system startup. .\" On Linux this clock measures time since boot. diff --git a/man2/mbind.2 b/man2/mbind.2 index 0c8b5f56a..70dbbfce5 100644 --- a/man2/mbind.2 +++ b/man2/mbind.2 @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ and contains memory. The .B MPOL_DEFAULT -mode requests that any non-default policy be removed, +mode requests that any nondefault policy be removed, restoring default behavior. When applied to a range of memory via .BR mbind (), @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ any pages subsequently allocated for that range will use the process's policy, as set by .BR set_mempolicy (2). This effectively removes the explicit policy from the -specified range, "falling back" to a possibly non-default +specified range, "falling back" to a possibly nondefault policy. To select explicit "local allocation" for a memory range, specify a diff --git a/man2/mincore.2 b/man2/mincore.2 index 16dcc79bf..d827267d9 100644 --- a/man2/mincore.2 +++ b/man2/mincore.2 @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ mappings, or for nonlinear mappings (established using .\" for a MAP_PRIVATE mapping of .\" .IR /dev/zero , .\" .B mincore -.\" always reports pages as non-resident; +.\" always reports pages as nonresident; .\" and for a MAP_PRIVATE, MAP_ANONYMOUS mapping, .\" .B mincore .\" always fails with the error diff --git a/man2/remap_file_pages.2 b/man2/remap_file_pages.2 index 9a6e066eb..9610fdc22 100644 --- a/man2/remap_file_pages.2 +++ b/man2/remap_file_pages.2 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ remap_file_pages \- create a nonlinear file mapping The .BR remap_file_pages () system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, that is, a mapping -in which the pages of the file are mapped into a non-sequential order +in which the pages of the file are mapped into a nonsequential order in memory. The advantage of using .BR remap_file_pages () diff --git a/man2/sched_setscheduler.2 b/man2/sched_setscheduler.2 index 60090d664..4e796a78c 100644 --- a/man2/sched_setscheduler.2 +++ b/man2/sched_setscheduler.2 @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ so that this process is mildly disfavored in scheduling decisions. .\" The following paragraph is drawn largely from the text that .\" accompanied Ingo Molnar's patch for the implementation of .\" SCHED_BATCH. -This policy is useful for workloads that are non-interactive, +This policy is useful for workloads that are noninteractive, but do not want to lower their nice value, and for workloads that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing extra preemptions (between the workload's tasks). diff --git a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/man2/set_mempolicy.2 index 7b65da78e..c265d574a 100644 --- a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 +++ b/man2/set_mempolicy.2 @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ cpuset context includes one or more of the nodes specified by The .B MPOL_DEFAULT -mode specifies that any non-default process memory policy be removed, +mode specifies that any nondefault process memory policy be removed, so that the memory policy "falls back" to the system default policy. The system default policy is "local allocation"-- i.e., allocate memory on the node of the CPU that triggered the allocation. diff --git a/man2/splice.2 b/man2/splice.2 index 6751e5150..ff2745e6e 100644 --- a/man2/splice.2 +++ b/man2/splice.2 @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ target file is opened in append mode; .\" The append-mode error is given since 2.6.27; in earlier kernels, .\" splice() in append mode was broken neither of the descriptors refers to a pipe; or -offset given for non-seekable device. +offset given for nonseekable device. .TP .B ENOMEM Out of memory. diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2 index 796eb6937..8a436897a 100644 --- a/man2/stat.2 +++ b/man2/stat.2 @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ e000 S_IFWHT w% 160000 BSD whiteout (not used for inode) 0200 S_ISVTX 001000 sticky bit: save swapped text even after use (V7) reserved (SVID-v2) - On non-directories: don't cache this + On nondirectories: don't cache this file (SunOS) On directories: restricted deletion flag (SVID-v4.2) diff --git a/man2/syslog.2 b/man2/syslog.2 index e93d53364..c5d01bbf9 100644 --- a/man2/syslog.2 +++ b/man2/syslog.2 @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ reads The call .I syslog(3,buf,len) -will read the last \fIlen\fP bytes from the log buffer (non-destructively), +will read the last \fIlen\fP bytes from the log buffer (nondestructively), but will not read more than was written into the buffer since the last "clear ring buffer" command (which does not clear the buffer at all). It returns the number of bytes read. diff --git a/man2/timer_create.2 b/man2/timer_create.2 index 4d3e9a6a0..54323cf7b 100644 --- a/man2/timer_create.2 +++ b/man2/timer_create.2 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ It can be specified as one of the following values: A settable system-wide real-time clock. .TP .B CLOCK_MONOTONIC -A non-settable monotonically increasing clock that measures time +A nonsettable monotonically increasing clock that measures time from some unspecified point in the past that does not change after system startup. .\" Note: the CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW clock added for clock_gettime() diff --git a/man2/timerfd_create.2 b/man2/timerfd_create.2 index 788bd31bd..c09e0309d 100644 --- a/man2/timerfd_create.2 +++ b/man2/timerfd_create.2 @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ or .B CLOCK_REALTIME is a settable system-wide clock. .B CLOCK_MONOTONIC -is a non-settable clock that is not affected +is a nonsettable clock that is not affected by discontinuous changes in the system clock (e.g., manual changes to system time). The current value of each of these clocks can be retrieved using diff --git a/man2/truncate.2 b/man2/truncate.2 index 047a41c75..bb261fae8 100644 --- a/man2/truncate.2 +++ b/man2/truncate.2 @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ is not specified at all in such an environment): either returning an error, or extending the file. Like most Unix implementations, Linux follows the XSI requirement when dealing with native file systems. -However, some non-native file systems do not permit +However, some nonnative file systems do not permit .BR truncate () and .BR ftruncate () diff --git a/man3/fenv.3 b/man3/fenv.3 index 2e95f6e44..180ff9189 100644 --- a/man3/fenv.3 +++ b/man3/fenv.3 @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ The default environment is denoted by (of type .IR "const fenv_t *" ). This is the environment setup at program start and it is defined by -ISO C to have round to nearest, all exceptions cleared and a non-stop +ISO C to have round to nearest, all exceptions cleared and a nonstop (continue on exceptions) mode. .LP The @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ function saves the current floating-point environment in the object The .BR feholdexcept () function does the same, then clears all exception flags, -and sets a non-stop (continue on exceptions) mode, +and sets a nonstop (continue on exceptions) mode, if available. It returns zero when successful. .LP diff --git a/man3/ferror.3 b/man3/ferror.3 index e2b841241..55f2a1a1d 100644 --- a/man3/ferror.3 +++ b/man3/ferror.3 @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ examines the argument .I stream and returns its integer descriptor. .PP -For non-locking counterparts, see +For nonlocking counterparts, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH ERRORS These functions should not fail and do not set the external variable diff --git a/man3/fflush.3 b/man3/fflush.3 index 35c58e3f6..07c208e4f 100644 --- a/man3/fflush.3 +++ b/man3/fflush.3 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ flushes .I all open output streams. .PP -For a non-locking counterpart, see +For a nonlocking counterpart, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" Upon successful completion 0 is returned. diff --git a/man3/fgetwc.3 b/man3/fgetwc.3 index 5194b5d0c..18fa532e9 100644 --- a/man3/fgetwc.3 +++ b/man3/fgetwc.3 @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ It may be implemented as a macro, and may evaluate its argument more than once. There is no reason ever to use it. .PP -For non-locking counterparts, see +For nonlocking counterparts, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man3/fgetws.3 b/man3/fgetws.3 index c8120e7e4..3a7d7a643 100644 --- a/man3/fgetws.3 +++ b/man3/fgetws.3 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ It also stops when end of stream is reached. The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least \fIn\fP wide characters at \fIws\fP. .PP -For a non-locking counterpart, see +For a nonlocking counterpart, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man3/flockfile.3 b/man3/flockfile.3 index b048e48ff..af6798502 100644 --- a/man3/flockfile.3 +++ b/man3/flockfile.3 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ This prevents other threads from coming in between. If the reason for doing this was to achieve greater efficiency, one does the I/O with -the non-locking versions of the stdio functions: with +the nonlocking versions of the stdio functions: with .BR getc_unlocked (3) and .BR putc_unlocked (3) diff --git a/man3/fputwc.3 b/man3/fputwc.3 index 79c791482..9823407c1 100644 --- a/man3/fputwc.3 +++ b/man3/fputwc.3 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ It may be implemented as a macro, and may evaluate its argument more than once. There is no reason ever to use it. .PP -For non-locking counterparts, see +For nonlocking counterparts, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man3/fputws.3 b/man3/fputws.3 index 7a3c9fd5e..eaca0c367 100644 --- a/man3/fputws.3 +++ b/man3/fputws.3 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function. It writes the wide-character string starting at \fIws\fP, up to but not including the terminating L\(aq\\0\(aq character, to \fIstream\fP. .PP -For a non-locking counterpart, see +For a nonlocking counterpart, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man3/fread.3 b/man3/fread.3 index c2c1a9364..581232e04 100644 --- a/man3/fread.3 +++ b/man3/fread.3 @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ bytes long, to the stream pointed to by obtaining them from the location given by .IR ptr . .PP -For non-locking counterparts, see +For nonlocking counterparts, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" .BR fread () diff --git a/man3/getopt.3 b/man3/getopt.3 index 0612ad4ce..f131558a9 100644 --- a/man3/getopt.3 +++ b/man3/getopt.3 @@ -150,15 +150,15 @@ glibc 2. By default, .BR getopt () permutes the contents of \fIargv\fP as it -scans, so that eventually all the non-options are at the end. +scans, so that eventually all the nonoptions are at the end. Two other modes are also implemented. If the first character of \fIoptstring\fP is \(aq+\(aq or the environment variable .B POSIXLY_CORRECT -is set, then option processing stops as soon as a non-option argument is +is set, then option processing stops as soon as a nonoption argument is encountered. If the first character of \fIoptstring\fP is \(aq\-\(aq, then -each non-option \fIargv\fP-element is handled as if it were the argument of +each nonoption \fIargv\fP-element is handled as if it were the argument of an option with character code 1. (This is used by programs that were written to expect options and other \fIargv\fP-elements in any order and that care about the ordering of the two.) @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ ambiguous match or an extraneous parameter. .SH ENVIRONMENT .TP .B POSIXLY_CORRECT -If this is set, then option processing stops as soon as a non-option +If this is set, then option processing stops as soon as a nonoption argument is encountered. .TP .B __GNU_nonoption_argv_flags_ diff --git a/man3/gets.3 b/man3/gets.3 index 359771418..f4949e4e6 100644 --- a/man3/gets.3 +++ b/man3/gets.3 @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ calls to other input functions from the .I stdio library for the same input stream. .PP -For non-locking counterparts, see +For nonlocking counterparts, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" .BR fgetc (), diff --git a/man3/getwchar.3 b/man3/getwchar.3 index 2777d73cb..6f6a0a4f9 100644 --- a/man3/getwchar.3 +++ b/man3/getwchar.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ If a wide-character conversion error occurs, it sets \fIerrno\fP to \fBEILSEQ\fP and returns .BR WEOF . .PP -For a non-locking counterpart, see +For a nonlocking counterpart, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man3/glob.3 b/man3/glob.3 index a4bae1b23..53fbf976f 100644 --- a/man3/glob.3 +++ b/man3/glob.3 @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ to .BR glob () that the caller is interested only in directories that match the pattern. If the implementation can easily determine file-type information, -then non-directory files are not returned to the caller. +then nondirectory files are not returned to the caller. However, the caller must still check that returned files are directories. (The purpose of this flag is merely to optimize performance when diff --git a/man3/iconv.3 b/man3/iconv.3 index 2830ba7fd..8e1880d02 100644 --- a/man3/iconv.3 +++ b/man3/iconv.3 @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ that is, \fI*inbytesleft\fP has gone down to 0. In this case .BR iconv () returns the number of -non-reversible conversions performed during this call. +nonreversible conversions performed during this call. .PP 3. An incomplete multibyte sequence is encountered in the input, and the input byte sequence terminates after it. @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ function sets \fIcd\fP's conversion state to the initial state. The .BR iconv () function returns the number of characters converted in a -non-reversible way during this call; reversible conversions are not counted. +nonreversible way during this call; reversible conversions are not counted. In case of error, it sets \fIerrno\fP and returns .IR (size_t)\ \-1 . .SH ERRORS diff --git a/man3/longjmp.3 b/man3/longjmp.3 index 5b57ae10b..f26702c96 100644 --- a/man3/longjmp.3 +++ b/man3/longjmp.3 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" " .TH LONGJMP 3 2009-01-13 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -longjmp, siglongjmp \- non-local jump to a saved stack context +longjmp, siglongjmp \- nonlocal jump to a saved stack context .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include diff --git a/man3/pow.3 b/man3/pow.3 index 12e794755..dad07b7bb 100644 --- a/man3/pow.3 +++ b/man3/pow.3 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ If .I x is a finite value less than 0, and .I y -is a finite non-integer, a domain error occurs, +is a finite noninteger, a domain error occurs, .\" The domain error is generated at least as far back as glibc 2.4 and a NaN is returned. @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ when calling these functions. .PP The following errors can occur: .TP -Domain error: \fIx\fP is negative, and \fIy\fP is a finite non-integer +Domain error: \fIx\fP is negative, and \fIy\fP is a finite noninteger .I errno is set to .BR EDOM . diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index 361de795a..897bcf135 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ The default precision suffices for an exact representation of the value if an exact representation in base 2 exists and otherwise is sufficiently large to distinguish values of type .IR double . -The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for non-normalized +The digit before the decimal point is unspecified for nonnormalized numbers, and nonzero but otherwise unspecified for normalized numbers. .TP .B c diff --git a/man3/puts.3 b/man3/puts.3 index fd555e479..0784b4ce6 100644 --- a/man3/puts.3 +++ b/man3/puts.3 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ calls to other output functions from the .I stdio library for the same output stream. .PP -For non-locking counterparts, see +For nonlocking counterparts, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" .BR fputc (), diff --git a/man3/putwchar.3 b/man3/putwchar.3 index b57875f9b..79406e6a6 100644 --- a/man3/putwchar.3 +++ b/man3/putwchar.3 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ conversion error occurs, it sets \fIerrno\fP to \fBEILSEQ\fP and returns .BR WEOF . Otherwise it returns \fIwc\fP. .PP -For a non-locking counterpart, see +For a nonlocking counterpart, see .BR unlocked_stdio (3). .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3 index 280758b58..f915e09f3 100644 --- a/man3/regex.3 +++ b/man3/regex.3 @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ are ignored if the pattern buffer supplied was compiled with this flag set. .B REG_NEWLINE Match-any-character operators don't match a newline. -A non-matching list +A nonmatching list .RB ( [^...] ) not containing a newline does not match a newline. diff --git a/man3/rpc.3 b/man3/rpc.3 index 89a4cb32f..6d87f44c5 100644 --- a/man3/rpc.3 +++ b/man3/rpc.3 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ is undefined after calling .fi .IP Create and return an RPC -authentication handle that passes non-usable authentication +authentication handle that passes nonusable authentication information with each remote procedure call. This is the default authentication used by RPC. .LP diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3 index 90b3eaada..7662003d4 100644 --- a/man3/scanf.3 +++ b/man3/scanf.3 @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ it can also be used as such in the GNU implementation). An optional decimal integer which specifies the .IR "maximum field width" . Reading of characters stops either when this maximum is reached or -when a non-matching character is found, whichever happens first. +when a nonmatching character is found, whichever happens first. Most conversions discard initial white space characters (the exceptions are noted below), and these discarded characters don't count towards the maximum field width. diff --git a/man3/setjmp.3 b/man3/setjmp.3 index b81cc2e4d..b23d7fb93 100644 --- a/man3/setjmp.3 +++ b/man3/setjmp.3 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" " .TH SETJMP 3 2009-06-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -setjmp, sigsetjmp \- save stack context for non-local goto +setjmp, sigsetjmp \- save stack context for nonlocal goto .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include .sp diff --git a/man3/termios.3 b/man3/termios.3 index 4df84435b..3d096c1c8 100644 --- a/man3/termios.3 +++ b/man3/termios.3 @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ Lower modem control lines after last process closes the device (hang up). Ignore modem control lines. .TP .B LOBLK -(not in POSIX) Block output from a non-current shell layer. +(not in POSIX) Block output from a noncurrent shell layer. For use by \fBshl\fP (shell layers). (Not implemented on Linux.) .TP .B CIBAUD diff --git a/man3/unlocked_stdio.3 b/man3/unlocked_stdio.3 index 325685fdd..1af590308 100644 --- a/man3/unlocked_stdio.3 +++ b/man3/unlocked_stdio.3 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .TH UNLOCKED_STDIO 3 2008-08-29 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getc_unlocked, getchar_unlocked, putc_unlocked, -putchar_unlocked \- non-locking stdio functions +putchar_unlocked \- nonlocking stdio functions .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include diff --git a/man3/wcswidth.3 b/man3/wcswidth.3 index 0d4131e41..c1f0c0ab4 100644 --- a/man3/wcswidth.3 +++ b/man3/wcswidth.3 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ function returns the number of columns needed to represent the wide-character string pointed to by \fIs\fP, but at most \fIn\fP wide characters. -If a non-printable wide character occurs among these characters, +If a nonprintable wide character occurs among these characters, \-1 is returned. .SH "RETURN VALUE" The diff --git a/man4/hd.4 b/man4/hd.4 index cf99e8290..76da22e95 100644 --- a/man4/hd.4 +++ b/man4/hd.4 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The first form, .BI hd X, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order the partitions -are discovered, and only nonempty, non-extended partitions +are discovered, and only nonempty, nonextended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions), diff --git a/man4/rtc.4 b/man4/rtc.4 index ad87f9f8f..02e9f5f2f 100644 --- a/man4/rtc.4 +++ b/man4/rtc.4 @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Some RTCs support periodic interrupts with periods that are multiples of a second rather than fractions of a second; multiple alarms; programmable output clock signals; -non-volatile memory; +nonvolatile memory; and other hardware capabilities that are not currently exposed by this API. .SH "SEE ALSO" diff --git a/man4/st.4 b/man4/st.4 index d5020fd36..0eee5f342 100644 --- a/man4/st.4 +++ b/man4/st.4 @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The options can be changed with explicit .BR ioctl (2) calls and remain in effect when the device is closed and reopened. -Setting the options affects both the auto-rewind and the non-rewind +Setting the options affects both the auto-rewind and the nonrewind device. .PP Different options can be specified for the different devices within @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ selectively cleared. .IP "" The default options for a tape device are set with .BR MT_ST_DEFBOOLEANS . -A non-active tape device (e.g., device with +A nonactive tape device (e.g., device with minor 32 or 160) is activated when the default options for it are defined the first time. An activated device inherits from the device @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ when the tape in the drive is write-protected. the auto-rewind SCSI tape devices .TP 12 .I /dev/nst* -the non-rewind SCSI tape devices +the nonrewind SCSI tape devices .\" .SH AUTHOR .\" The driver has been written by Kai M\(:akisara (Kai.Makisara@metla.fi) .\" starting from a driver written by Dwayne Forsyth. diff --git a/man5/core.5 b/man5/core.5 index 0c3bcfec2..8e0c60766 100644 --- a/man5/core.5 +++ b/man5/core.5 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The process does not have permission to write the core file. and is created in the current working directory. See below for details on naming.) Writing the core file will fail if the directory in which -it is to be created is non-writable, +it is to be created is nonwritable, or if a file with the same name exists and is not writable or is not a regular file diff --git a/man5/dir_colors.5 b/man5/dir_colors.5 index 6d0a3f5b4..93e9b935b 100644 --- a/man5/dir_colors.5 +++ b/man5/dir_colors.5 @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Note that does not verify the validity of these options. .TP .B NORMAL \fIcolor-sequence\fR -Specifies the color used for normal (non-filename) text. +Specifies the color used for normal (nonfilename) text. .TP .B FILE \fIcolor-sequence\fR Specifies the color used for a regular file. @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ uses the following defaults: .RS +.2i .ta 1.0i 2.5i .nf -\fBNORMAL\fR 0 Normal (non-filename) text +\fBNORMAL\fR 0 Normal (nonfilename) text \fBFILE\fR 0 Regular file \fBDIR\fR 32 Directory \fBLINK\fR 36 Symbolic link diff --git a/man5/elf.5 b/man5/elf.5 index 72d2b499d..20ed3d8e6 100644 --- a/man5/elf.5 +++ b/man5/elf.5 @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ This section is of type .TP .IR .rodata This section holds read-only data that typically contributes to a -non-writable segment in the process image. +nonwritable segment in the process image. This section is of type .BR SHT_PROGBITS . The attribute used is @@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ The attribute used is .TP .IR .rodata1 This section holds read-only data that typically contributes to a -non-writable segment in the process image. +nonwritable segment in the process image. This section is of type .BR SHT_PROGBITS . The attribute used is @@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@ Type of reloc the PLT refers (Rela or Rel) Undefined use for debugging .TP .BR DT_TEXTREL -Absence of this indicates no relocs should apply to a non-writable segment +Absence of this indicates no relocs should apply to a nonwritable segment .TP .BR DT_JMPREL Address of reloc entries solely for the PLT diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 09b2ce512..8c20d215c 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ interface for PCI It became optional in Linux 2.2 (available with .B CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC set at kernel compilation). -It became once more non-optionally enabled in Linux 2.4. +It became once more nonoptionally enabled in Linux 2.4. Next, it was deprecated in Linux 2.6 (still available with .B CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC set), and finally removed altogether since Linux 2.6.17. @@ -2376,7 +2376,7 @@ to free dentries and inodes, use to free pagecache, dentries and inodes, use .IR "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" . -Because this is a non-destructive operation and dirty objects +Because this is a nondestructive operation and dirty objects are not freeable, the user should run .BR sync (8) diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7 index 775831e35..59973aef8 100644 --- a/man7/arp.7 +++ b/man7/arp.7 @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ request to the network. Requests are only sent when there is data queued for sending. -Linux will automatically add a non-permanent proxy arp entry when it +Linux will automatically add a nonpermanent proxy arp entry when it receives a request for an address it forwards to and proxy arp is enabled on the receiving interface. When there is a reject route for the target, no proxy arp entry is added. diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7 index ce8c2486d..88e282f15 100644 --- a/man7/ascii.7 +++ b/man7/ascii.7 @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968. .\" designated X3.2.4. In 1966, ASA became the United States of America .\" Standards Institute (USASI) and published ASCII in 1968. It became the .\" American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1969 and is the -.\" U.S. member body of ISO; private and non-profit. +.\" U.S. member body of ISO; private and nonprofit. .\" .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR iso_8859-1 (7), diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7 index d8436c9ac..2b2ec17ac 100644 --- a/man7/boot.7 +++ b/man7/boot.7 @@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ PROM). In PC we usually call this program the \fBBIOS\fR. This program normally makes a basic self-test of the -machine and accesses non-volatile memory to read +machine and accesses nonvolatile memory to read further parameters. This memory in the PC is battery-backed CMOS memory, so most people refer to it as the \fBCMOS\fR, although outside of the PC world, it is usually called \fBnvram\fR -(non-volatile ram). +(nonvolatile ram). The parameters stored in the nvram vary between systems, but as a minimum, the hardware boot program diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7 index 6ef31003e..932c379de 100644 --- a/man7/bootparam.7 +++ b/man7/bootparam.7 @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ For the function of the assigned values, see .IP .BI ncr53c406a= iobase[,irq[,fastpio]] .IP -Specify irq = 0 for non-interrupt driven mode. +Specify irq = 0 for noninterrupt driven mode. Set fastpio = 1 for fast pio mode, 0 for slow mode. .TP .B "Pro Audio Spectrum configuration" diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7 index 0c28f8c5c..71eeeed50 100644 --- a/man7/charsets.7 +++ b/man7/charsets.7 @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ was identical to TIS-620, which is used under Linux for Thai. 8859-12 This set does not exist. While Vietnamese has been suggested for this -space, it does not fit within the 96 (non-combining) characters ISO +space, it does not fit within the 96 (noncombining) characters ISO 8859 offers. UTF-8 is the preferred character set for Vietnamese use under Linux. diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7 index 2f7e5f7f7..ae8a9c556 100644 --- a/man7/futex.7 +++ b/man7/futex.7 @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ In its bare form, a futex has semaphore semantics; 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 userspace for the non-contended case. +Futex operation is entirely userspace for the noncontended case. The kernel is only involved to arbitrate the contended case. -As any sane design will strive for non-contention, +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 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ To "up" a futex, execute the proper assembler instructions that will cause the host CPU to atomically increment the integer. Afterwards, check if it has in fact changed from 0 to 1, in which case there were no waiters and the operation is done. -This is the non-contended case which is fast and should be common. +This is the noncontended case which is fast and should be common. .PP In the contended case, the atomic increment changed the counter from \-1 (or some other negative number). diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7 index fc1334463..34f7e8050 100644 --- a/man7/ip.7 +++ b/man7/ip.7 @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ to the network. .\" Precisely: patch-2.4.0-test10 If set, allows processes to .BR bind (2) -to non-local IP addresses, +to nonlocal IP addresses, which can be quite useful, but may break some applications. .\" .\" The following is from 2.6.12: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt diff --git a/man7/iso_8859-11.7 b/man7/iso_8859-11.7 index 48113b0ef..023a30490 100644 --- a/man7/iso_8859-11.7 +++ b/man7/iso_8859-11.7 @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ _ .SH NOTES ISO 8859-11 is the same as TIS (Thai Industrial Standard) 620-2253, commonly known as TIS-620, except for the character in position a0: -ISO 8859-11 defines this as "non-breaking space", +ISO 8859-11 defines this as "nonbreaking space", while TIS 620 leaves it undefined. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR ascii (7) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 55b1b8422..261e5568c 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -435,14 +435,14 @@ man 7 man-pages If the command is short, then it can be included inline in the text, in italic format, for example, .IR "man 7 man-pages" . -In this case, it may be worth using non-breaking spaces +In this case, it may be worth using nonbreaking spaces ("\e\ ") at suitable places in the command. Command options should be written in italics, e.g., .IR \-l . .PP Expressions, if not written on a separate indented line, should be specified in italics. -Again, the use of non-breaking spaces may be appropriate +Again, the use of nonbreaking spaces may be appropriate if the expression is inlined with normal text. .PP Any reference to the subject of the current manual page diff --git a/man7/man.7 b/man7/man.7 index f05069196..db35c2c27 100644 --- a/man7/man.7 +++ b/man7/man.7 @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ macros may omit in which case the current prevailing indent will be used. As a result, successive indented paragraphs can use the same indent without re-specifying the indent value. -A normal (non-indented) paragraph resets the prevailing indent value +A normal (nonindented) paragraph resets the prevailing indent value to its default value (0.5 inches). By default a given indent is measured in ens; try to use ens or ems as units for @@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ If you include URLs, use the full URL can automatically find the URLs. .PP Tools processing these files should open the file and examine the first -non-whitespace character. +nonwhitespace character. A period (.) or single quote (') at the beginning of a line indicates a troff-based file (such as man or mdoc). A left angle bracket (<) indicates an SGML/XML-based diff --git a/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/man7/mdoc.samples.7 index 877a44706..46ab00046 100644 --- a/man7/mdoc.samples.7 +++ b/man7/mdoc.samples.7 @@ -2576,7 +2576,7 @@ by the process to pages not loaded in core. numerical user-id of process owner .It PPID numerical ID of parent of process process priority -(nonpositive when in non-interruptible wait) +(nonpositive when in noninterruptible wait) .El .Pp The raw text: @@ -2593,7 +2593,7 @@ The raw text: \&numerical user ID of process owner \&.It PPID \&numerical ID of parent of process process priority -\&(nonpositive when in non-interruptible wait) +\&(nonpositive when in noninterruptible wait) \&.El .Ed .Pp @@ -2729,7 +2729,7 @@ This is sufficient for the internal register names also. .\" w[0-9] width tag/label stack .\" .Ed .\" .Pp -If a non-escaped register name is given in the argument list of a request +If a nonescaped register name is given in the argument list of a request unpredictable behavior will occur. In general, any time huge portions of text do not appear where expected in the output, or small strings diff --git a/man7/path_resolution.7 b/man7/path_resolution.7 index 11d8cc87f..7c10c712e 100644 --- a/man7/path_resolution.7 +++ b/man7/path_resolution.7 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Pathnames starting with a \(aq/\(aq character are called absolute pathnames. Pathnames not starting with a \(aq/\(aq are called relative pathnames. .SS "Step 2: Walk along the path" Set the current lookup directory to the starting lookup directory. -Now, for each non-final component of the pathname, where a component +Now, for each nonfinal component of the pathname, where a component is a substring delimited by \(aq/\(aq characters, this component is looked up in the current lookup directory. @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ The lookup of the final component of the pathname goes just like that of all other components, as described in the previous step, with two differences: (i) the final component need not be a directory (at least as far as the path resolution process is concerned \(em -it may have to be a directory, or a non-directory, because of +it may have to be a directory, or a nondirectory, because of the requirements of the specific system call), and (ii) it is not necessarily an error if the component is not found \(em maybe we are just creating it. diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7 index 6e23ef642..14bc45210 100644 --- a/man7/pipe.7 +++ b/man7/pipe.7 @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ bytes must be atomic: the output data is written to the pipe as a contiguous sequence. Writes of more than .B PIPE_BUF -bytes may be non-atomic: the kernel may interleave the data +bytes may be nonatomic: the kernel may interleave the data with data written by other processes. POSIX.1-2001 requires .B PIPE_BUF @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ set to .BR EAGAIN . .TP \fBO_NONBLOCK\fP disabled, \fIn\fP > \fBPIPE_BUF\fP -The write is non-atomic: the data given to +The write is nonatomic: the data given to .BR write (2) may be interleaved with .BR write (2)s diff --git a/man7/posixoptions.7 b/man7/posixoptions.7 index 21c21e61f..5833417d2 100644 --- a/man7/posixoptions.7 +++ b/man7/posixoptions.7 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ 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 non-root can only +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. This affects the functions .IR chown (), diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7 index 15127f6bc..b4e413156 100644 --- a/man7/unicode.7 +++ b/man7/unicode.7 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Some code points in .B UCS have been assigned to .IR "combining characters" . -These are similar to the non-spacing accent keys on a typewriter. +These are similar to the nonspacing accent keys on a typewriter. A combining character just adds an accent to the previous character. The most important accented characters have codes of their own in UCS, however, the combining character mechanism allows us to add accents diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index ee41f73c9..ad48c2e0a 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ reference to it is closed. To pass file descriptors or credentials over a .BR SOCK_STREAM , you need -to send or receive at least one byte of non-ancillary data in the same +to send or receive at least one byte of nonancillary data in the same .BR sendmsg (2) or .BR recvmsg (2) diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7 index b139375b8..6711b6bef 100644 --- a/man7/uri.7 +++ b/man7/uri.7 @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ a comma-separated list of type=value pairs, where the =value portion may be omitted for options not requiring it. An extension prefixed with a \(aq!\(aq is critical -(must be supported to be valid), otherwise it is non-critical (optional). +(must be supported to be valid), otherwise it is noncritical (optional). .PP LDAP queries are easiest to explain by example. Here's a query that asks ldap.itd.umich.edu for information about diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7 index 13c881cac..326da6c75 100644 --- a/man7/utf-8.7 +++ b/man7/utf-8.7 @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ which can represent the code number of the character can be used. The .B UCS code values 0xd800\(en0xdfff (UTF-16 surrogates) as well as 0xfffe and -0xffff (UCS non-characters) should not appear in conforming +0xffff (UCS noncharacters) should not appear in conforming .B UTF-8 streams. .SS Example @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ in .B UTF-8 mode also support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean .B double-width characters -as well as non-spacing +as well as nonspacing .BR "combining characters" , outputting a single character does not necessarily advance the cursor by one position as it did in diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8 index db0d8ef4c..84278d06c 100644 --- a/man8/ld.so.8 +++ b/man8/ld.so.8 @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ is ignored for set-user-ID/set-group-ID binaries. By default (i.e., if this variable is not defined) executables and prelinked shared objects will honor base addresses of their dependent libraries -and (non-prelinked) position-independent executables (PIEs) +and (nonprelinked) position-independent executables (PIEs) and other shared objects will not honor them. If .B LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS