From 6c1544c1325437c9d1dc53c73c6c5fe72d3f62b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:05:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] syscalls.2, uname.2, boot.7: Global fix: s/OS/operating system/ Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/syscalls.2 | 3 ++- man2/uname.2 | 4 ++-- man7/boot.7 | 2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2 index 421fab186..b9abf394e 100644 --- a/man2/syscalls.2 +++ b/man2/syscalls.2 @@ -638,7 +638,8 @@ There are many exceptions, however, mostly because older system calls were superseded by newer ones, and this has been treated somewhat unsystematically. On platforms with -proprietary OS emulation, such as parisc, sparc, sparc64 and alpha, +proprietary operating-system emulation, +such as parisc, sparc, sparc64 and alpha, there are many additional system calls; mips64 also contains a full set of 32-bit system calls. diff --git a/man2/uname.2 b/man2/uname.2 index c1621796e..7fde910e8 100644 --- a/man2/uname.2 +++ b/man2/uname.2 @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ struct utsname { char sysname[]; /* Operating system name (e.g., "Linux") */ char nodename[]; /* Name within "some implementation-defined network" */ - char release[]; /* OS release (e.g., "2.6.28") */ - char version[]; /* OS version */ + char release[]; /* Operating system release (e.g., "2.6.28") */ + char version[]; /* Operating system version */ char machine[]; /* Hardware identifier */ #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE char domainname[]; /* NIS or YP domain name */ diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7 index 112e231b8..b1a863b7f 100644 --- a/man7/boot.7 +++ b/man7/boot.7 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ boot-scripts \- General description of boot sequence .LP The boot sequence varies in details among systems but can be roughly divided to the following steps: -(i) hardware boot, (ii) OS loader, +(i) hardware boot, (ii) operating system (OS) loader, (iii) kernel startup, (iv) init and inittab, (v) boot scripts. We will describe each of these in more detail below.