From a43eed0cdc30fc09125c4129d60c491b66116a23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:17:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Hyphenation fixes --- man2/_exit.2 | 2 +- man2/mprotect.2 | 2 +- man3/alloca.3 | 2 +- man3/btree.3 | 2 +- man3/iconv_open.3 | 2 +- man3/setlocale.3 | 2 +- man3/strtod.3 | 2 +- man3/wctrans.3 | 2 +- man3/wctype.3 | 2 +- man3/wprintf.3 | 2 +- man5/utmp.5 | 2 +- man7/arp.7 | 4 ++-- man7/signal.7 | 2 +- 13 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/_exit.2 b/man2/_exit.2 index f0bd16cd3..d2e0fb7b7 100644 --- a/man2/_exit.2 +++ b/man2/_exit.2 @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ or Whether it flushes standard I/O buffers and removes temporary files created with .BR tmpfile (3) -is implementation dependent. +is implementation-dependent. On the other hand, .BR _exit () does close open file descriptors, and this may cause an unknown delay, diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2 index c1d175ff5..33e6774cd 100644 --- a/man2/mprotect.2 +++ b/man2/mprotect.2 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Whether .B PROT_EXEC has any effect different from .B PROT_READ -is architecture and kernel version dependent. +is architecture- and kernel version-dependent. On some hardware architectures (e.g., i386), .B PROT_WRITE implies diff --git a/man3/alloca.3 b/man3/alloca.3 index f56b8eebe..615b8cc69 100644 --- a/man3/alloca.3 +++ b/man3/alloca.3 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Thus, there is no NULL error return. .SH BUGS The .BR alloca () -function is machine and compiler dependent. +function is machine- and compiler- dependent. On many systems its implementation is buggy. Its use is discouraged. diff --git a/man3/btree.3 b/man3/btree.3 index af9cfc16d..01fe43bed 100644 --- a/man3/btree.3 +++ b/man3/btree.3 @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ If specified, this routine must return the number of bytes of the second key argument which are necessary to determine that it is greater than the first key argument. If the keys are equal, the key length should be returned. -Note, the usefulness of this routine is very data dependent, but, in some +Note, the usefulness of this routine is very data-dependent, but, in some data sets can produce significantly reduced tree sizes and search times. If .I prefix diff --git a/man3/iconv_open.3 b/man3/iconv_open.3 index ec7421dea..0842d326a 100644 --- a/man3/iconv_open.3 +++ b/man3/iconv_open.3 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ for converting byte sequences from character encoding \fIfromcode\fP to character encoding \fItocode\fP. .PP The values permitted for \fIfromcode\fP and \fItocode\fP and the supported -combinations are system dependent. +combinations are system-dependent. For the GNU C library, the permitted values are listed by the \fBiconv \-\-list\fP command, and all combinations of the listed values are supported. diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3 index d77d9c485..6ddae067f 100644 --- a/man3/setlocale.3 +++ b/man3/setlocale.3 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ is .BR """""" , each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the environment variables. -The details are implementation dependent. +The details are implementation-dependent. For glibc, first .\" [This is false on my system - must check which library versions do this] .\" if diff --git a/man3/strtod.3 b/man3/strtod.3 index 1fe1c27cd..de61761f3 100644 --- a/man3/strtod.3 +++ b/man3/strtod.3 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ or (iii) an infinity, or (iv) a NAN (not-a-number). A .I "decimal number" consists of a nonempty sequence of decimal digits -possibly containing a radix character (decimal point, locale dependent, +possibly containing a radix character (decimal point, locale-dependent, usually '.'), optionally followed by a decimal exponent. A decimal exponent consists of an 'E' or 'e', followed by an optional plus or minus sign, followed by a nonempty sequence of diff --git a/man3/wctrans.3 b/man3/wctrans.3 index 5ad9dc007..e79cf74fc 100644 --- a/man3/wctrans.3 +++ b/man3/wctrans.3 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ wctrans \- wide-character translation mapping The \fIwctrans_t\fP type represents a mapping which can map a wide character to another wide character. -Its nature is implementation dependent, but the special +Its nature is implementation-dependent, but the special value \fI(wctrans_t)\ 0\fP denotes an invalid mapping. Nonzero \fIwctrans_t\fP values can be passed to the diff --git a/man3/wctype.3 b/man3/wctype.3 index 5c7a21c92..9ee15c2a9 100644 --- a/man3/wctype.3 +++ b/man3/wctype.3 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ wctype \- wide-character classification The \fBwctype_t\fP type represents a property which a wide character may or may not have. In other words, it represents a class of wide characters. -This type's nature is implementation dependent, but the special value +This type's nature is implementation-dependent, but the special value \fI(wctype_t) 0\fP denotes an invalid property. Nonzero \fBwctype_t\fP values can be passed to the diff --git a/man3/wprintf.3 b/man3/wprintf.3 index 029cb4db4..6222c998b 100644 --- a/man3/wprintf.3 +++ b/man3/wprintf.3 @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ category of the current locale at compile time. This is because the .I wchar_t -representation is platform and locale dependent. +representation is platform- and locale-dependent. (The glibc represents wide characters using their Unicode (ISO-10646) code point, but other platforms don't do this. diff --git a/man5/utmp.5 b/man5/utmp.5 index dcbebd29e..bda3527f2 100644 --- a/man5/utmp.5 +++ b/man5/utmp.5 @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ Because of this, binaries using the old libc5 struct will corrupt .IR /var/run/utmp " and/or " /var/log/wtmp . .SH NOTES -The file format is machine dependent, so it is recommended that it be +The file format is machine-dependent, so it is recommended that it be processed only on the machine architecture where it was created. .PP Note that on platforms which can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7 index a44ed64e8..e3a234806 100644 --- a/man7/arp.7 +++ b/man7/arp.7 @@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ The .I neigh/* sysctls did not exist before Linux 2.2. .SH BUGS -Some timer settings are specified in jiffies, which is architecture -and kernel version dependent; see +Some timer settings are specified in jiffies, which is architecture- +and kernel version-dependent; see .BR time (7). There is no way to signal positive feedback from user space. diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7 index 370eff721..7449772a8 100644 --- a/man7/signal.7 +++ b/man7/signal.7 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ the calling thread. .SS "Standard Signals" Linux supports the standard signals listed below. Several signal numbers -are architecture dependent, as indicated in the "Value" column. +are architecture-dependent, as indicated in the "Value" column. (Where three values are given, the first one is usually valid for alpha and sparc, the middle one for i386, ppc and sh, and the last one for mips.