s/current process/calling process/

man2/_exit.2

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH _EXIT 2 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-_exit, _Exit \- terminate the current process
+_exit, _Exit \- terminate the calling process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B #include <unistd.h>
 .sp

man2/chroot.2

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ chroot \- change root directory
 changes the root directory to that specified in
 .IR path .
 This directory will be used for pathnames beginning with \fI/\fP.
-The root directory is inherited by all children of the current process.
+The root directory is inherited by all children of the calling process.
 
 Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the
 .B CAP_SYS_CHROOT

man2/getgid.2

@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ getgid, getegid \- get group identity
 .B gid_t getegid(void);
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR getgid ()
-returns the real group ID of the current process.
+returns the real group ID of the calling process.
 
 .BR getegid ()
-returns the effective group ID of the current process.
+returns the effective group ID of the calling process.
 .SH ERRORS
 These functions are always successful.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"

man2/getpid.2

@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ getpid, getppid \- get process identification
 .B pid_t getppid(void);
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR getpid ()
-returns the process ID of the current process.
+returns the process ID of the calling process.
 (This is often used by
 routines that generate unique temporary filenames.)
 
 .BR getppid ()
-returns the process ID of the parent of the current process.
+returns the process ID of the parent of the calling process.
 .SH ERRORS
 These functions are always successful.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"

man2/getrusage.2

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ of either
 .B RUSAGE_SELF
 or
 .BR RUSAGE_CHILDREN .
-The former asks for resources used by the current process,
+The former asks for resources used by the calling process,
 the latter for resources used by those of its children
 that have terminated and have been waited for.
 .PP

man2/getsid.2

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ is set appropriately.
 .B EPERM
 A process with process ID
 .I p
-exists, but it is not in the same session as the current process,
+exists, but it is not in the same session as the calling process,
 and the implementation considers this an error.
 .TP
 .B ESRCH

man2/gettid.2

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ gettid \- get thread identification
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR gettid ()
-returns the thread ID of the current process.
+returns the thread ID of the calling process.
 This is equal
 to the process ID (as returned by
 .BR getpid (2)),
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ system call).
 All processes in the same thread group
 have the same PID, but each one has a unique TID.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
-On success, returns the thread ID of the current process.
+On success, returns the thread ID of the calling process.
 .SH ERRORS
 This call is always successful.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"

man2/getuid.2

@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ getuid, geteuid \- get user identity
 .B uid_t geteuid(void);
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR getuid ()
-returns the real user ID of the current process.
+returns the real user ID of the calling process.
 
 .BR geteuid ()
-returns the effective user ID of the current process.
+returns the effective user ID of the calling process.
 .SH ERRORS
 These functions are always successful.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"

man2/iopl.2

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ iopl \- change I/O privilege level
 .BI "int iopl(int " level );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR iopl ()
-changes the I/O privilege level of the current process, as specified in
+changes the I/O privilege level of the calling process, as specified in
 .IR level .
 
 This call is necessary to allow 8514-compatible X servers to run under

man2/kill.2

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ can be used to send any signal to any process group or process.
 If \fIpid\fP is positive, then signal \fIsig\fP is sent to \fIpid\fP.
 .PP
 If \fIpid\fP equals 0, then \fIsig\fP is sent to every process in the
-process group of the current process.
+process group of the calling process.
 .PP
 If \fIpid\fP equals \-1, then \fIsig\fP is sent to every process
 for which the calling process has permission to send signals,
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ This is done to assure the
 system is not brought down accidentally.
 .LP
 POSIX.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP
-to all processes that the current process may send signals to,
+to all processes that the calling process may send signals to,
 except possibly for some implementation-defined system processes.
 Linux allows a process to signal itself, but on Linux the call
-\fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP does not signal the current process.
+\fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP does not signal the calling process.
 .LP
 POSIX.1-2001 requires that if a process sends a signal to itself,
 and the sending thread does not have the signal blocked,

man2/personality.2

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ equals 0xffffffff.
 Otherwise, it will make the execution domain
 referenced by
 .I persona
-the new execution domain of the current process.
+the new execution domain of the calling process.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success, the previous
 .I persona

man2/ptrace.2

@@ -352,10 +352,10 @@ to terminate it.
 .B PTRACE_ATTACH
 Attaches to the process specified in
 .IR pid ,
-making it a traced "child" of the current process;
+making it a traced "child" of the calling process;
 the behavior of the child is as if it had done a
 .BR PTRACE_TRACEME .
-The current process actually becomes the parent of the child
+The calling process actually becomes the parent of the child
 process for most purposes (e.g., it will receive
 notification of child events and appears in
 .BR ps (1)

man2/sched_setparam.2

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ sched_setparam, sched_getparam \- set and get scheduling parameters
 sets the scheduling parameters associated with the scheduling policy
 for the process identified by \fIpid\fP.
 If \fIpid\fP is zero, then
-the parameters of the current process are set.
+the parameters of the calling process are set.
 The interpretation of
 the parameter \fIparam\fP depends on the scheduling
 policy of the process identified by
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ for a description of the scheduling policies supported under Linux.
 retrieves the scheduling parameters for the
 process identified by \fIpid\fP.
 If \fIpid\fP is zero, then the parameters
-of the current process are retrieved.
+of the calling process are retrieved.
 
 .BR sched_setparam ()
 checks the validity of \fIparam\fP for the scheduling policy of the

man2/sched_setscheduler.2

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ priority range for a scheduling policy in a portable way on all
 POSIX.1-2001 conforming systems.
 
 All scheduling is preemptive: If a process with a higher static
-priority gets ready to run, the current process will be preempted and
+priority gets ready to run, the calling process will be preempted and
 returned into its wait list.
 The scheduling policy only determines the
 ordering within the list of runnable processes with equal static

man2/sched_yield.2

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ A process can relinquish the processor voluntarily without blocking by calling
 The process will then be moved to the end of the queue for its static
 priority and a new process gets to run.
 
-Note: If the current process is the only process in the highest
+Note: If the calling process is the only process in the highest
 priority list at that time, this process will continue to run after a
 call to
 .BR sched_yield ().

man2/seteuid.2

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ _BSD_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600
 .ad b
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR seteuid ()
-sets the effective user ID of the current process.
+sets the effective user ID of the calling process.
 Unprivileged user processes may only set the effective user ID to the
 real user ID, the effective user ID or the saved set-user-ID.
 
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ with "group" instead of "user".
 .\" When
 .\" .I euid
 .\" equals \-1, nothing is changed.
+.\" (This is an artifact of the implementation in glibc of seteuid()
+.\" using setresuid(2).)
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success, zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ is set appropriately.
 .\" .B EINVAL
 .TP
 .B EPERM
-The current process is not privileged (Linux: does not have the
+The calling process is not privileged (Linux: does not have the
 .B CAP_SETUID
 capability in the case of
 .BR seteuid (),
@@ -96,7 +98,7 @@ Under libc4, libc5 and glibc 2.0
 is equivalent to
 .BI setreuid(\-1, " euid" )
 and hence may change the saved set-user-ID.
-Under glibc2.1 it is equivalent to
+Under glibc 2.1 iand later it is equivalent to
 .BI setresuid(\-1, " euid" ", \-1)"
 and hence does not change the saved set-user-ID.
 Similar remarks hold for

man2/setgid.2

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ setgid \- set group identity
 .BI "int setgid(gid_t " gid );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR setgid ()
-sets the effective group ID of the current process.
+sets the effective group ID of the calling process.
 If the caller is the
 superuser, the real GID and saved set-group-ID are also set.
 

man2/setpgid.2

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ to
 .IR pgid .
 If
 .I pid
-is zero, the process ID of the current process is used.
+is zero, the process ID of the calling process is used.
 If
 .I pgid
 is zero, the process ID of the process specified by
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ returns the PGID of the process specified by
 .IR pid .
 If
 .I pid
-is zero, the process ID of the current process is used.
+is zero, the process ID of the calling process is used.
 (Retrieving the PGID of a process other than the caller is rarely
 necessary, and the POSIX.1
 .BR getpgrp ()
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ does not match any process.
 For
 .BR setpgid ():
 .I pid
-is not the current process and not a child of the current process.
+is not the calling process and not a child of the calling process.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 .BR setpgid ()
 and the version of

man2/setresuid.2

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ setresuid, setresgid \- set real, effective and saved user or group ID
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR setresuid ()
 sets the real user ID, the effective user ID, and the
-saved set-user-ID of the current process.
+saved set-user-ID of the calling process.
 
 Unprivileged user processes
 may change the real UID,
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ value as the (possibly new) effective UID.
 Completely analogously,
 .BR setresgid ()
 sets the real GID, effective GID, and saved set-group-ID
-of the current process (and always modifies the file system GID
+of the calling process (and always modifies the file system GID
 to be the same as the effective GID),
 with the same restrictions for non-privileged processes.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"

man2/setreuid.2

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
 _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR setreuid ()
-sets real and effective user IDs of the current process.
+sets real and effective user IDs of the calling process.
 
 Supplying a value of \-1 for either the real or effective user ID forces
 the system to leave that ID unchanged.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the saved set-user-ID will be set to the new effective user ID.
 
 Completely analogously,
 .BR setregid ()
-sets real and effective group ID's of the current process,
+sets real and effective group ID's of the calling process,
 and all of the above holds with "group" instead of "user".
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success, zero is returned.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EPERM
-The current process is not privileged
+The calling process is not privileged
 (Linux: does not have the
 .B CAP_SETUID
 capability in the case of

man2/setuid.2

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ setuid \- set user identity
 .BI "int setuid(uid_t " uid );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR setuid ()
-sets the effective user ID of the current process.
+sets the effective user ID of the calling process.
 If the effective UID of the caller is root,
 the real UID and saved set-user-ID are also set.
 .PP
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Linux has the concept of filesystem user ID, normally equal to the
 effective user ID.
 The
 .BR setuid ()
-call also sets the filesystem user ID of the current process.
+call also sets the filesystem user ID of the calling process.
 See
 .BR setfsuid (2).
 .PP

man2/unlink.2

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ is not, in fact, a directory.
 .B EPERM
 The system does not allow unlinking of directories,
 or unlinking of directories requires privileges that the
-current process doesn't have.
+calling process doesn't have.
 (This is the POSIX prescribed error return;
 as noted above, Linux returns
 .B EISDIR

man2/wait.2

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ calls is termed
 .SS "wait() and waitpid()"
 The
 .BR wait ()
-system call suspends execution of the current process until one of its
+system call suspends execution of the calling process until one of its
 children terminates.
 The call
 .I wait(&status)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ is equivalent to:
 
 The
 .BR waitpid ()
-system call suspends execution of the current process until a
+system call suspends execution of the calling process until a
 child specified by
 .I pid
 argument has changed state.

man3/openpty.3

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ returned by
 .BR openpty ())
 by creating a new session, making
 .I fd
-the controlling terminal for the current process, setting
+the controlling terminal for the calling process, setting
 .I fd
 to be the standard input, output, and error streams of the current
 process, and closing
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ will fail if
 .BR ioctl (2)
 fails to set
 .I fd
-to the controlling terminal of the current process.
+to the controlling terminal of the calling process.
 .LP
 .BR forkpty ()
 will fail if either

man3/raise.3

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH RAISE 3  1995-08-31 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-raise \- send a signal to the current process
+raise \- send a signal to the calling process
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .B #include <signal.h>
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ raise \- send a signal to the current process
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR raise ()
-function sends a signal to the current process.
+function sends a signal to the calling process.
 It is equivalent to
 .sp
 .RS

man3/setlogmask.3

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ The initial mask is such that logging is enabled for all priorities.
 .LP
 The
 .BR setlogmask ()
-function sets this logmask for the current process,
+function sets this logmask for the calling process,
 and returns the previous mask.
 If the mask argument is 0, the current logmask is not modified.
 .LP

man3/sleep.3

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ sleep \- Sleep for the specified number of seconds
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .BR sleep ()
-makes the current process sleep until
+makes the calling process sleep until
 .I seconds
 seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"

man3/ttyslot.3

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ call to find the number of the line in
 .SS "The semantics of ttyslot"
 Thus, the function
 .BR ttyslot ()
-returns the index of the controlling terminal of the current process
+returns the index of the controlling terminal of the calling process
 in the file
 .IR /etc/ttys ,
 and that is (usually) the same as the index of the entry for the

man3/ulimit.3

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ see
 
 The
 .BR ulimit ()
-call will get or set some limit for the current process.
+call will get or set some limit for the calling process.
 The
 .I cmd
 argument can have one of the following values.

man4/tty.4

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ requests supported by the device that
 .BR ioctl (2)
 request \fBTIOCNOTTY\fP is supported.
 .SS TIOCNOTTY
-Detach the current process from its controlling terminal.
+Detach the calling process from its controlling terminal.
 .sp
 If the process is the session leader,
 then

man4/tty_ioctl.4

@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ or
 .SS "Controlling tty"
 .TP
 .BI "TIOCSCTTY	int " arg
-Make the given tty the controlling tty of the current process.
+Make the given tty the controlling tty of the calling process.
-The current process must be a session leader and not have a
+The calling process must be a session leader and not have a
 controlling tty already.
 If this tty is already the controlling tty
 of a different session group then the ioctl fails with
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ equals 1, in which case the tty is stolen, and all processes that had
 it as controlling tty lose it.
 .TP
 .B TIOCNOTTY	void
-If the given tty was the controlling tty of the current process,
+If the given tty was the controlling tty of the calling process,
 give up this controlling tty.
 If the process was session leader,
 then send

man7/path_resolution.7

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Some Unix/Linux system calls have as parameter one or more filenames.
 A filename (or pathname) is resolved as follows.
 .SS "Step 1: Start of the resolution process"
 If the pathname starts with the '/' character, the starting lookup directory
-is the root directory of the current process.
+is the root directory of the calling process.
 (A process inherits its
 root directory from its parent.
 Usually this will be the root directory
@@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ The permission bits of a file consist of three groups of three bits, cf.\&
 and
 .BR stat (2).
 The first group of three is used when the effective user ID of
-the current process equals the owner ID of the file.
+the calling process equals the owner ID of the file.
 The second group
 of three is used when the group ID of the file either equals the
-effective group ID of the current process, or is one of the
+effective group ID of the calling process, or is one of the
-supplementary group IDs of the current process (as set by
+supplementary group IDs of the calling process (as set by
 .BR setgroups (2)).
 When neither holds, the third group is used.