time.1, get_kernel_syms.2, getitimer.2, open.2, perf_event_open.2, wait.2, alloca.3, bcmp.3, catopen.3, fputwc.3, iconv.3, iswalnum.3, iswalpha.3, iswblank.3, iswcntrl.3, iswctype.3, iswdigit.3, iswgraph.3, iswlower.3, iswprint.3, iswpunct.3, iswspace.3, iswupper.3, iswxdigit.3, mbsinit.3, putwchar.3, rcmd.3, rexec.3, sigqueue.3, strverscmp.3, wctrans.3, wctype.3, wcwidth.3, console_codes.4, initrd.4, st.4, elf.5, nss.5, ip.7, netdevice.7, path_resolution.7, socket.7, udp.7, ld.so.8: grfix: s/Otherwise /Otherwise, /

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

man1/time.1

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ If
 .I command
 was invoked, the exit status is that of
 .IR command .
-Otherwise it is 127 if
+Otherwise, it is 127 if
 .I command
 could not be found, 126 if it could be found but could not be invoked,
 and some other nonzero value (1-125) if something else went wrong.

man2/get_kernel_syms.2

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ If
 is NULL,
 .BR get_kernel_syms ()
 returns the number of symbols available for query.
-Otherwise it fills in a table of structures:
+Otherwise, it fills in a table of structures:
 .PP
 .in +4n
 .nf

man2/getitimer.2

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Upon expiration, a signal will be generated and the timer reset.
 If the timer expires while the process is active (always true for
 .BR ITIMER_VIRTUAL ),
 the signal will be delivered immediately when generated.
-Otherwise the
+Otherwise, the
 delivery will be offset by a small time dependent on the system loading.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success, zero is returned.

man2/open.2

@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ it will be truncated to length 0.
 If the file is a FIFO or terminal device file, the
 .B O_TRUNC
 flag is ignored.
-Otherwise the effect of
+Otherwise, the effect of
 .B O_TRUNC
 is unspecified.
 .SS creat()

man2/perf_event_open.2

@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ fork/exit notifications are included in the ring buffer.
 If set, have a sampling interrupt happen when we cross the
 .I wakeup_watermark
 boundary.
-Otherwise interrupts happen after
+Otherwise, interrupts happen after
 .I wakeup_events
 samples.
 .TP

man2/wait.2

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ if a wait is not performed, then the terminated child remains in
 a "zombie" state (see NOTES below).
 
 If a child has already changed state, then these calls return immediately.
-Otherwise they block until either a child changes state or
+Otherwise, they block until either a child changes state or
 a signal handler interrupts the call (assuming that system calls
 are not automatically restarted using the
 .B SA_RESTART

man3/alloca.3

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ option is given
 the header
 .I <alloca.h>
 is not included.
-Otherwise (without an \-ansi or \-std=c* option) the glibc version of
+Otherwise, (without an \-ansi or \-std=c* option) the glibc version of
 .I <stdlib.h>
 includes
 .I <alloca.h>

man3/bcmp.3

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ If they are equal, and in particular if
 is zero,
 .BR bcmp ()
 returns 0.
-Otherwise it returns a nonzero result.
+Otherwise, it returns a nonzero result.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR bcmp ()

man3/catopen.3

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ If it is set to
 .BR NL_CAT_LOCALE ,
 then it will use the current locale setting for
 .BR LC_MESSAGES .
-Otherwise it will use the
+Otherwise, it will use the
 .B LANG
 environment variable.
 .LP

man3/fputwc.3

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ If
 If a wide-character conversion error occurs,
 it sets \fIerrno\fP to \fBEILSEQ\fP and returns
 .BR WEOF .
-Otherwise it returns \fIwc\fP.
+Otherwise, it returns \fIwc\fP.
 .PP
 The
 .BR putwc ()

man3/iconv.3

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ At most \fI*outbytesleft\fP bytes, starting at \fI*outbuf\fP, will be written.
 If the output buffer has no more room for this reset sequence, it sets
 \fIerrno\fP to \fBE2BIG\fP and returns
 .IR (size_t)\ \-1 .
-Otherwise it increments
+Otherwise, it increments
 \fI*outbuf\fP and decrements \fI*outbytesleft\fP by the number of bytes
 written.
 .PP

man3/iswalnum.3

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "alnum".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
 The

man3/iswalpha.3

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "alpha".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
 The

man3/iswblank.3

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The
 function returns nonzero
 if \fIwc\fP is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "blank".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
 The

man3/iswcntrl.3

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ function returns nonzero if
 .I wc
 is a
 wide character belonging to the wide-character class "cntrl".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
 The

man3/iswctype.3

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ is a wide character having the character property designated by
 the
 .BR iswctype ()
 function returns nonzero.
-Otherwise it
+Otherwise, it
 returns zero.
 If
 .I wc
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ the
 .I wc
 has the designated
 property.
-Otherwise it returns 0.
+Otherwise, it returns 0.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
 The

man3/iswdigit.3

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "digit".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswgraph.3

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "graph".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswlower.3

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "lower".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswprint.3

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ function returns nonzero if
 .I wc
 is a
 wide character belonging to the wide-character class "print".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswpunct.3

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ if
 .I wc
 is a wide-character
 belonging to the wide-character class "punct".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswspace.3

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ function returns nonzero if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "space".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswupper.3

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ function returns nonzero if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "upper".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/iswxdigit.3

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ function returns nonzero if
 .I wc
 is a wide character
 belonging to the wide-character class "xdigit".
-Otherwise it returns zero.
+Otherwise, it returns zero.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 C99.
 .SH NOTES

man3/mbsinit.3

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ returns nonzero if
 is an initial state, or if
 .I ps
 is NULL.
-Otherwise it returns 0.
+Otherwise, it returns 0.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
 The

man3/putwchar.3

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ to
 .B EILSEQ
 and returns
 .BR WEOF .
-Otherwise it returns
+Otherwise, it returns
 .IR wc .
 .PP
 For a nonlocking counterpart, see

man3/rcmd.3

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ looks up the host
 using
 .BR gethostbyname (3),
 returning \-1 if the host does not exist.
-Otherwise
+Otherwise,
 .I *ahost
 is set to the standard name of the host
 and a connection is established to a server

man3/rexec.3

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ looks up the host
 using
 .BR gethostbyname (3),
 returning \-1 if the host does not exist.
-Otherwise
+Otherwise,
 .IR *ahost
 is set to the standard name of the host.
 If a username and password are both specified, then these

man3/sigqueue.3

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ On success,
 .BR sigqueue ()
 returns 0, indicating that the signal was successfully
 queued to the receiving process.
-Otherwise \-1 is returned and
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned and
 .I errno
 is set to indicate the error.
 .SH ERRORS

man3/strverscmp.3

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ where the strings are expected to be in ASCII.
 
 What this function does is the following.
 If both strings are equal, return 0.
-Otherwise find the position
+Otherwise, find the position
 between two bytes with the property that before it both strings are equal,
 while directly after it there is a difference.
 Find the largest consecutive digit strings containing (or starting at,

man3/wctrans.3

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ The
 function returns a mapping descriptor if the
 .I name
 is valid.
-Otherwise it returns
+Otherwise, it returns
 .IR "(wctrans_t)\ 0" .
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

man3/wctype.3

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ function returns a property descriptor
 if the
 .I name
 is valid.
-Otherwise it returns
+Otherwise, it returns
 .IR "(wctype_t) 0" .
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 .SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))

man3/wcwidth.3

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ is at least 0.
 If
 .I c
 is null wide character (L\(aq\\0\(aq), the value is 0.
-Otherwise \-1 is returned.
+Otherwise, \-1 is returned.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR wcwidth ()

man4/console_codes.4

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ the code used for processing to the code used for printing.
 .LP
 If the console is in UTF-8 mode, then the incoming bytes are
 first assembled into 16-bit Unicode codes.
-Otherwise each byte is transformed according to the current mapping table
+Otherwise, each byte is transformed according to the current mapping table
 (which translates it to a Unicode value).
 See the \fBCharacter Sets\fP section below for discussion.
 .LP

man4/initrd.4

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ is moved from
 .IR /
 to
 .IR /initrd .
-Otherwise if the directory
+Otherwise, if the directory
 .IR /initrd
 does not exist, the device
 .I /dev/ram0

man4/st.4

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Go to the end of the recorded media (for appending files).
 Erase tape.
 With 2.6 kernel, short erase (mark tape empty) is performed if the
 argument is zero.
-Otherwise long erase (erase all) is done.
+Otherwise, long erase (erase all) is done.
 .TP
 .B MTFSF
 Forward space over
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ and
 .B MTIOCPOS
 commands and when changing tape
 partition).
-Otherwise the device-specific addresses are used.
+Otherwise, the device-specific addresses are used.
 It is highly advisable to set this option if the drive supports the
 logical addresses because they count also filemarks.
 There are some
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ drives that support only the logical block addresses.
 .BR MT_ST_SYSV " (Default: false)"
 When this option is enabled, the tape devices use the SystemV
 semantics.
-Otherwise the BSD semantics are used.
+Otherwise, the BSD semantics are used.
 The most important
 difference between the semantics is what happens when a device used
 for reading is closed: in System V semantics the tape is spaced forward

man5/elf.5

@@ -1409,7 +1409,7 @@ has a loadable segment that includes relocation, the section's attributes
 will include the
 .BR SHF_ALLOC
 bit.
-Otherwise the bit will be off.
+Otherwise, the bit will be off.
 By convention,
 "NAME"
 is supplied by the section to which the relocations apply.
@@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ has a loadable segment that includes relocation, the section's attributes
 will include the
 .BR SHF_ALLOC
 bit.
-Otherwise the bit will be off.
+Otherwise, the bit will be off.
 By convention,
 "NAME"
 is supplied by the section to which the relocations apply.
@@ -1470,7 +1470,7 @@ segment that includes the symbol string table, the section's attributes
 will include the
 .BR SHF_ALLOC
 bit.
-Otherwise the bit will be off.
+Otherwise, the bit will be off.
 This section is of type
 .BR SHT_STRTAB .
 .TP
@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ that includes the symbol table, the section's attributes will include
 the
 .BR SHF_ALLOC
 bit.
-Otherwise the bit will be off.
+Otherwise, the bit will be off.
 This section is of type
 .BR SHT_SYMTAB .
 .TP

man5/nss.5

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ hand out the requests one by one from memory with every corresponding
 or
 .BR getgrent (3)
 call respectively.
-Otherwise each
+Otherwise, each
 .BR getpwent (3)
 or
 .BR getgrent (3)

man7/ip.7

@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ about to be forwarded.
 Only enable if running either a firewall that is the sole link
 to your network or a transparent proxy; never ever use it for a
 normal router or host.
-Otherwise fragmented communication can be disturbed
+Otherwise, fragmented communication can be disturbed
 if the fragments travel over different links.
 Defragmentation also has a large memory and CPU time cost.
 

man7/netdevice.7

@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ is NULL,
 returns the necessary buffer size in bytes
 for receiving all available addresses in
 .IR ifc_len .
-Otherwise
+Otherwise,
 .I ifc_req
 contains a pointer to an array of
 .I ifreq

man7/path_resolution.7

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ outside of the filesystem hierarchy on "dev".
 .SS Trailing slashes
 If a pathname ends in a \(aq/\(aq, that forces resolution of the preceding
 component as in Step 2: it has to exist and resolve to a directory.
-Otherwise a trailing \(aq/\(aq is ignored.
+Otherwise, a trailing \(aq/\(aq is ignored.
 (Or, equivalently, a pathname with a trailing \(aq/\(aq is equivalent to
 the pathname obtained by appending \(aq.\(aq to it.)
 .SS Final symlink

man7/socket.7

@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ 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 passed only 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.

man7/udp.7

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ or
 In order to receive packets, the socket can be bound to a local
 address first by using
 .BR bind (2).
-Otherwise the socket layer will automatically assign
+Otherwise, the socket layer will automatically assign
 a free local port out of the range defined by
 .I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
 and bind the socket to

man8/ld.so.8

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ handles a.out binaries, a format used long ago;
 .B ld-linux.so*
 handles ELF (\fI/lib/ld-linux.so.1\fP for libc5, \fI/lib/ld-linux.so.2\fP
 for glibc2), which everybody has been using for years now.
-Otherwise both have the same behavior, and use the same
+Otherwise, both have the same behavior, and use the same
 support files and programs
 .BR ldd (1),
 .BR ldconfig (8)