s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given

to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.

man2/alloc_hugepages.2

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Huge pages are locked into memory, and are not swapped.
 .LP
 The
 .I key
-parameter is an identifier.
+argument is an identifier.
 When zero the pages are private, and
 not inherited by children.
 When positive the pages are shared with other applications using the same
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ and inherited by child processes.
 .LP
 The
 .I addr
-parameter of
+argument of
 .BR free_hugepages ()
 tells which page is being freed: it was the return value of a
 call to
@@ -74,19 +74,19 @@ call to
 (The memory is first actually freed when all users have released it.)
 The
 .I addr
-parameter of
+argument of
 .BR alloc_hugepages ()
 is a hint, that the kernel may or may not follow.
 Addresses must be properly aligned.
 .LP
 The
 .I len
-parameter is the length of the required segment.
+argument is the length of the required segment.
 It must be a multiple of the huge page size.
 .LP
 The
 .I prot
-parameter specifies the memory protection of the segment.
+argument specifies the memory protection of the segment.
 It is one of
 .BR PROT_READ ,
 .BR PROT_WRITE ,
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ It is one of
 .LP
 The
 .I flag
-parameter is ignored, unless
+argument is ignored, unless
 .I key
 is positive.
 In that case, if

man2/brk.2

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ the
 memory allocation package is the
 portable and comfortable way of allocating memory.
 
-Various systems use various types for the parameter of
+Various systems use various types for the argument of
 .BR sbrk ().
 Common are \fIint\fP, \fIssize_t\fP, \fIptrdiff_t\fP, \fIintptr_t\fP.
 .\" One sees

man2/clone.2

@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ which is initially empty.
 .BR CLONE_SETTLS " (since Linux 2.5.32)"
 The
 .I newtls
-parameter is the new TLS (Thread Local Storage) descriptor.
+argument is the new TLS (Thread Local Storage) descriptor.
 (See
 .BR set_thread_area (2).)
 .TP
@@ -569,8 +569,8 @@ In this case, for correct operation, the
 .B CLONE_VM
 option should not be specified.
 
-Since Linux 2.5.49 the system call has five parameters.
-The two new parameters are
+Since Linux 2.5.49 the system call has five arguments.
+The two new arguments are
 .I parent_tidptr
 which points to the location (in parent and child memory) where
 the child thread ID will be written in case

man2/epoll_ctl.2

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ interface supports all file descriptors that support
 .BR poll (2).
 Valid values for the
 .I op
-parameter are :
+argument are :
 .RS
 .TP
 .B EPOLL_CTL_ADD

man2/epoll_wait.2

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ are returned by
 .BR epoll_wait ().
 The
 .I maxevents
-parameter must be greater than zero.
+argument must be greater than zero.
 Specifying a
 .I timeout
 of \-1 makes

man2/flock.2

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ flock \- apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Apply or remove an advisory lock on the open file specified by
 .IR fd .
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I operation
 is one of the following:
 .RS 4

man2/futex.2

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The
 argument needs to point to an aligned integer which stores the counter.
 The operation to execute is passed via the
 .I op
-parameter, along with a value
+argument, along with a value
 .IR val .
 .PP
 Five operations are currently defined:
@@ -238,11 +238,11 @@ Invalid operation specified in
 .PP
 Initial futex support was merged in Linux 2.5.7 but with different semantics
 from what was described above.
-A 4-parameter system call with the semantics
+A 4-argument system call with the semantics
 given here was introduced in Linux 2.5.40.
-In Linux 2.5.70 one parameter
+In Linux 2.5.70 one argument
 was added.
-In Linux 2.6.7 a sixth parameter was added \(em messy, especially
+In Linux 2.6.7 a sixth argument was added \(em messy, especially
 on the s390 architecture.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 This system call is Linux-specific.

man2/getdents.2

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ referred to by the open file descriptor
 .I fd
 into the buffer pointed to by
 .IR dirp .
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I count
 is the size of the memory area.
 .PP

man2/getpeername.2

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ returns the name of the peer connected to socket
 .IR s .
 The
 .I namelen
-parameter should be initialized to indicate the amount of space pointed to
+argument should be initialized to indicate the amount of space pointed to
 by
 .IR name .
 On return it contains the actual size of the name returned (in bytes).
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ is not a valid descriptor.
 .B EFAULT
 The
 .I name
-parameter points to memory not in a valid part of the
+argument points to memory not in a valid part of the
 process address space.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL

man2/getsockname.2

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ returns the current
 for the specified socket.
 The
 .I namelen
-parameter should be initialized to indicate
+argument should be initialized to indicate
 the amount of space pointed to by
 .IR name .
 On return it contains the actual size of the name
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ is not a valid descriptor.
 .B EFAULT
 The
 .I name
-parameter points to memory not in a valid part of the
+argument points to memory not in a valid part of the
 process address space.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL

man2/getsockopt.2

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ should be set to the protocol number of
 see
 .BR getprotoent (3).
 
-The parameters
+The arguments
 .I optval
 and
 .I optlen
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ requested option(s) are to be returned.
 For
 .BR getsockopt (),
 .I optlen
-is a value-result parameter, initially containing the
+is a value-result argument, initially containing the
 size of the buffer pointed to by
 .IR optval ,
 and modified on return to indicate the actual size of
@@ -118,11 +118,11 @@ entries in section 4 of the manual.
 
 Most socket-level options utilize an
 .I int
-parameter for
+argument for
 .IR optval .
 For
 .BR setsockopt (),
-the parameter should be non-zero to enable a boolean option, or zero if the
+the argument should be non-zero to enable a boolean option, or zero if the
 option is to be disabled.
 .PP
 For a description of the available socket options see

man2/ioctl_list.2

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ and
 They use
 .I sizeof(size)
 so that size is a
-misnomer here: this third parameter is a data type.
+misnomer here: this third argument is a data type.
 .LP
 Note that the size bits are very unreliable: in lots of cases
 they are wrong, either because of buggy macros using

man2/listen.2

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ file, and portable applications are probably wise to include it.
 
 The behavior of the
 .I backlog
-parameter on TCP sockets changed with Linux 2.2.
+argument on TCP sockets changed with Linux 2.2.
 Now it specifies the queue length for
 .I completely
 established sockets waiting to be accepted,

man2/madvise.2

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The kernel is free to ignore the advice.
 .LP
 The advice is indicated in the
 .I advice
-parameter which can be
+argument which can be
 .TP
 .B MADV_NORMAL
 No special treatment.

man2/mbind.2

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ All policy modes except
 .B MPOL_DEFAULT
 require the caller to specify via the
 .I nodemask
-parameter,
+argument,
 the node or nodes to which the mode applies.
 
 .I nodemask

man2/mkdir.2

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ mkdir \- create a directory
 attempts to create a directory named
 .IR pathname .
 
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I mode
 specifies the permissions to use.
 It is modified by the process's

man2/open.2

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ with any other process,
 but sharing may arise via
 .BR fork (2).
 .PP
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I flags
 must include one of the following
 .IR "access modes" :

man2/posix_fadvise.2

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2.
 POSIX.1-2001.
 Note that the type of the
 .I len
-parameter was changed from
+argument was changed from
 .I size_t
 to
 .I off_t

man2/prctl.2

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ prctl \- operations on a process
 .BR prctl ()
 is called with a first argument describing what to do
 (with values defined in \fI<linux/prctl.h>\fP), and further
-parameters with a significance depending on the first one.
+arguments with a significance depending on the first one.
 The first argument can be:
 .TP
 .BR PR_SET_PDEATHSIG " (since Linux 2.1.57)"

man2/readdir.2

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ referred to by the file descriptor
 .I fd
 into the buffer pointed to by
 .IR dirp .
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I count
 is ignored; at most one
 .I dirent

man2/readv.2

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ permitted maximum.
 and
 .BR writev ()
 functions first appeared in 4.2BSD), POSIX.1-2001.
-Linux libc5 used \fIsize_t\fP as the type of the \fIiovcnt\fP parameter,
+Linux libc5 used \fIsize_t\fP as the type of the \fIiovcnt\fP argument,
 and \fIint\fP as return type for these functions.
 .\" The readv/writev system calls were buggy before Linux 1.3.40.
 .\" (Says release.libc.)

man2/recv.2

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ this source address is filled in.
 .\" Kernel 2.4.18. (MTK, 22 Jul 02)]
 The argument
 .I fromlen
-is a value-result parameter, initialized to the size of the buffer
+is a value-result argument, initialized to the size of the buffer
 associated with
 .IR from ,
 and modified on return to indicate the actual size of the address stored
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ and is identical to
 .BR recvfrom ()
 with a NULL
 .I from
-parameter.
+argument.
 .PP
 All three routines return the length of the message on successful
 completion.
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ The
 .BR recvmsg ()
 call uses a
 .I msghdr
-structure to minimize the number of directly supplied parameters.
+structure to minimize the number of directly supplied arguments.
 This structure has the following form, as defined in
 .IR <sys/socket.h> :
 .in +4n

man2/sched_get_priority_max.2

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
-The parameter \fIpolicy\fP does not identify a defined scheduling policy.
+The argument \fIpolicy\fP does not identify a defined scheduling policy.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

man2/sched_setparam.2

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ for the process identified by \fIpid\fP.
 If \fIpid\fP is zero, then
 the parameters of the calling process are set.
 The interpretation of
-the parameter \fIparam\fP depends on the scheduling
+the argument \fIparam\fP depends on the scheduling
 policy of the process identified by
 .IR pid .
 See
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
-The parameter \fIparam\fP does not make sense for the current
+The argument \fIparam\fP does not make sense for the current
 scheduling policy.
 .TP
 .B EPERM

man2/semop.2

@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ time specified by the
 .I timespec
 structure whose address is passed in the
 .I timeout
-parameter.
+argument.
 If the specified time limit has been reached,
 .BR semtimedop ()
 fails with
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ set to
 is performed).
 If the
 .I timeout
-parameter is NULL,
+argument is NULL,
 then
 .BR semtimedop ()
 behaves exactly like
@@ -348,9 +348,9 @@ expired.
 .B EFAULT
 An address specified in either the
 .I sops
-or
+or the
 .I timeout
-parameters isn't accessible.
+argument isn't accessible.
 .TP
 .B EFBIG
 For some operation the value of

man2/send.2

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ is the presence of
 .IR flags .
 With zero
 .I flags
-parameter,
+argument,
 .BR send ()
 is equivalent to
 .BR write (2).
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Also,
 is equivalent to
 .RI sendto( s , buf , len , flags ,NULL,0).
 .PP
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I s
 is the file descriptor of the sending socket.
 .PP
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ If
 is used on a connection-mode
 .RB ( SOCK_STREAM ,
 .BR SOCK_SEQPACKET )
-socket, the parameters
+socket, the arguments
 .I to
 and
 .I tolen
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ call may be used to determine when it is possible to send more data.
 .PP
 The
 .I flags
-parameter is the bitwise OR
+argument is the bitwise OR
 of zero or more of the following flags.
 .\" FIXME ? document MSG_PROXY (which went away in 2.3.15)
 .TP
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Connection reset by peer.
 The socket is not connection-mode, and no peer address is set.
 .TP
 .B EFAULT
-An invalid user space address was specified for a parameter.
+An invalid user space address was specified for an argument.
 .TP
 .B EINTR
 A signal occurred before any data was transmitted; see

man2/set_mempolicy.2

@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ All modes except
 .B MPOL_DEFAULT
 require the caller to specify via the
 .I nodemask
-parameter
-one or more nodes.
+argument one or more nodes.
 
 .I nodemask
 points to a bit mask of node IDs that contains up to

man2/set_tid_address.2

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ flag,
 .I set_child_tid
 is set to
 .IR child_tidptr ,
-the fifth parameter of that system call.
+the fifth argument of that system call.
 .LP
 When
 .I set_child_tid
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ flag,
 .I clear_child_tid
 is set to
 .IR child_tidptr ,
-the fifth parameter of that system call.
+the fifth argument of that system call.
 .LP
 The system call
 .BR set_tid_address ()

man2/setresuid.2

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Privileged processes (on Linux, those having the \fBCAP_SETUID\fP capability)
 may set the real UID, effective UID, and
 saved set-user-ID to arbitrary values.
 
-If one of the parameters equals \-1, the corresponding value is not changed.
+If one of the arguments equals \-1, the corresponding value is not changed.
 
 Regardless of what changes are made to the real UID, effective UID,
 and saved set-user-ID, the file system UID is always set to the same

man2/setup.2

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Always, for a user process.
 This function is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs
 intended to be portable, or indeed in any programs at all.
 Since Linux 2.1.121, no such function exists anymore.
-The calling sequence varied: it has had a single parameter
+The calling sequence varied: it has had a single argument
 .I "void *BIOS"
-and at other times a single parameter
+and at other times a single argument
 .IR "int magic" .

man2/setxattr.2

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ binary data of specified length.
 .PP
 The
 .I flags
-parameter can be used to refine the semantics of the operation.
+argument can be used to refine the semantics of the operation.
 .B XATTR_CREATE
 specifies a pure create, which fails if the named
 attribute exists already.

man2/sigaction.2

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ This flag is only meaningful when establishing a signal handler.
 .PP
 The
 .I siginfo_t
-parameter to
+argument to
 .I sa_sigaction
 is a struct with the following elements:
 .sp

man2/socket.2

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ creates an endpoint for communication and returns a descriptor.
 .PP
 The
 .I domain
-parameter specifies a communication domain; this selects the protocol
+argument specifies a communication domain; this selects the protocol
 family which will be used for communication.
 These families are defined in
 .IR <sys/socket.h> .

man2/statfs.2

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ when NFS-exported, and giving it out is a security concern.
 .LP
 Under some OSes the
 .I fsid
-can be used as second parameter to the
+can be used as second argument to the
 .BR sysfs ()
 system call.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"

man2/syscalls.2

@@ -722,9 +722,9 @@ The
 .BR select (2)
 and
 .BR mmap (2)
-system calls use five or more parameters,
+system calls use five or more arguments,
 which caused problems the way
-parameter passing on the i386 used to be set up.
+argument passing on the i386 used to be set up.
 Thus, while other architectures have
 .IR sys_select ()
 and
@@ -738,8 +738,8 @@ on i386 one finds
 and
 .IR old_mmap ()
 (routines that use a pointer to a
-parameter block) instead.
-These days passing five parameters
+argument block) instead.
+These days passing five arguments
 is not a problem any more, and there is a
 .I __NR__newselect
 .\" (used by libc 6)

man2/syslog.2

@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ and \fIerrno\fP is set to indicate the error.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
-Bad parameters (e.g.,
+Bad arguments (e.g.,
 bad
 .IR type ;
 or for

man3/addseverity.3

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ _SVID_SOURCE
 This function allows the introduction of new severity classes
 which can be addressed by the
 .I severity
-parameter of the
+argument of the
 .BR fmtmsg (3)
 function.
 By default that latter function only knows how to

man3/asprintf.3

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ and
 .BR vsprintf (3),
 except that they allocate a string large enough to hold the output
 including the terminating null byte,
-and return a pointer to it via the first parameter.
+and return a pointer to it via the first argument.
 This pointer should be passed to
 .BR free (3)
 to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed.

man3/bcopy.3

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ This function is deprecated (marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001): use
 or
 .BR memmove (3)
 in new programs.
-Note that the first two parameters
+Note that the first two arguments
 are interchanged for
 .BR memcpy (3)
 and

man3/btree.3

@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ is 0 (no order is specified) the current host order is used.
 If the file already exists (and the
 .B O_TRUNC
 flag is not specified), the
-values specified for the parameters
+values specified for the arguments
 .IR flags ,
 .I lorder
 and

man3/dbopen.3

@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ opens
 .I file
 for reading and/or writing.
 Files never intended to be preserved on disk may be created by setting
-the file parameter to NULL.
+the
+.I file
+argument to NULL.
 .PP
 The
 .I flags
@@ -185,7 +187,7 @@ and 0 on success.
 .I del
 A pointer to a routine to remove key/data pairs from the database.
 .IP
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I flag
 may be set to the following value:
 .RS
@@ -241,7 +243,7 @@ was not in the file.
 .I put
 A pointer to a routine to store key/data pairs in the database.
 .IP
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I flag
 may be set to one of the following values:
 .RS

man3/des_crypt.3

@@ -58,23 +58,23 @@ Also, regularities in the clear text will
 not appear in the cipher text.
 .LP
 Here is how to use these routines.
-The first parameter,
+The first argument,
 .IR key ,
 is the 8-byte encryption key with parity.
 To set the key's parity, which for
 DES
 is in the low bit of each byte, use
 .BR des_setparity ().
-The second parameter,
+The second argument,
 .IR data ,
 contains the data to be encrypted or decrypted.
 The
-third parameter,
+third argument,
 .IR datalen ,
 is the length in bytes of
 .IR data ,
 which must be a multiple of 8.
-The fourth parameter,
+The fourth argument,
 .IR mode ,
 is formed by
 OR 'ing
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ in software and the routine returns
 .BR DESERR_NOHWDEVICE .
 For
 .BR cbc_crypt (),
-the parameter
+the argument
 .I ivec
 is the 8-byte initialization
 vector for the chaining.
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Encryption succeeded, but done in software instead of the requested hardware.
 An error occurred in the hardware or driver.
 .TP
 .BR DESERR_BADPARAM
-Bad parameter to routine.
+Bad argument to routine.
 .PD
 .LP
 Given a result status

man3/dprintf.3

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ next POSIX.1 revision.
 .\"
 .\" .BI "void dprintf(int level, const char *" format ", ...);"
 .\"
-.\" where the first parameter is a debugging level (and output is to
+.\" where the first argument is a debugging level (and output is to
 .\" .IR stderr ).
 .\" Moreover,
 .\" .BR dprintf ()

man3/encrypt.3

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ function sets the key used by
 .BR encrypt ().
 The
 .I key
-parameter used here is an array of 64 bytes, each of which has
+argument used here is an array of 64 bytes, each of which has
 numerical value 1 or 0.
 The bytes key[n] where n=8*i-1 are ignored,
 so that the effective key length is 56 bits.
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ The
 function modifies the passed buffer, encoding if
 .I edflag
 is 0, and decoding if 1 is being passed.
-Like the key parameter also
+Like the
+.I key
+argument, also
 .I block
 is a bit vector representation of the actual value that is encoded.
 The result is returned in that same vector.

man3/exec.3

@@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ The
 .BR execle ()
 function also specifies the environment of the executed process by following
 the NULL
-pointer that terminates the list of arguments in the parameter list or the
-pointer to the argv array with an additional parameter.
+pointer that terminates the list of arguments in the argument list or the
+pointer to the
+.I argv
+array with an additional argument.
 This additional
-parameter is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings and
+argument is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings and
 .I must
 be terminated by a NULL pointer.
 The other functions take the environment for the new process

man3/fmtmsg.3

@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ fmtmsg \- print formatted error messages
 .BI "           const char *" action ", const char *" tag );
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-This function displays a message described by its parameters on the device(s)
+This function displays a message described by its arguments on the device(s)
 specified in the
 .I classification
-parameter.
+argument.
 For messages written to
 .IR stderr ,
 the format depends on the
@@ -32,29 +32,29 @@ environment variable.
 .LP
 The
 .I label
-parameter identifies the source of the message.
+argument identifies the source of the message.
 The string must consist
 of two colon separated parts where the first part has not more
 than 10 and the second part not more than 14 characters.
 .LP
 The
 .I text
-parameter describes the condition of the error.
+argument describes the condition of the error.
 .LP
 The
 .I action
-parameter describes possible steps to recover from the error.
+argument describes possible steps to recover from the error.
 If it is printed, it is prefixed by "TO FIX: ".
 .LP
 The
 .I tag
-parameter is a reference to the online documentation where more
+argument is a reference to the online documentation where more
 information can be found.
 It should contain the
 .I label
 value and a unique identification number.
-.SS "Dummy parameters"
-Each of the parameters can have a dummy value.
+.SS "Dummy arguments"
+Each of the arguments can have a dummy value.
 The dummy classification value
 .B MM_NULLMC
 (0L) does not specify any output, so nothing is printed.
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ the empty string, and
 .B MM_NULLSEV
 is a synonym for
 .BR NO_SEV .
-.SS "The classification parameter"
+.SS "The classification argument"
 The
 .I classification
-parameter is the sum of values describing 4 types of information.
+argument is the sum of values describing 4 types of information.
 .br
 .sp
 The first value defines the output channel.
@@ -119,10 +119,10 @@ It is a recoverable error.
 .TP
 .B MM_NRECOV
 It is a non-recoverable error.
-.SS "The severity parameter"
+.SS "The severity argument"
 The
 .I severity
-parameter can take one of the following values:
+argument can take one of the following values:
 .TP 12n
 .B MM_NOSEV
 No severity is printed.
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ The severity-keyword part is not used by
 but it has to be present.
 The level part is a string representation of a number.
 The numeric value must be a number greater than 4.
-This value must be used in the severity parameter of
+This value must be used in the severity argument of
 .BR fmtmsg ()
 to select this class.
 It is not possible to overwrite

man3/getgrnam.3

@@ -103,9 +103,8 @@ The maximum needed size for
 .I buf
 can be found using
 .BR sysconf (3)
-with the
-.B _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX
-parameter.
+with the argument
+.BR _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX .
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 The
 .BR getgrnam ()

man3/gethostbyname.3

@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ was an
 .IR int .
 The SUSv2 standard is buggy and declares the
 .I len
-parameter of
+argument of
 .BR gethostbyaddr ()
 to be of type
 .IR size_t .

man3/getipnodebyname.3

@@ -88,33 +88,33 @@ function is used to release the dynamically allocated memory
 after the caller no longer needs the
 .I hostent
 structure.
-.SS getipnodebyname parameters
+.SS getipnodebyname() arguments
 The
 .BR getipnodebyname ()
 function
 looks up network addresses for the host
 specified by the
 .I name
-parameter.
+argument.
 The
 .I af
-parameter specifies one of the following values:
+argument specifies one of the following values:
 .TP
 .B AF_INET
 The
 .I name
-parameter points to a dotted-quad IPv4 address or a name
+argument points to a dotted-quad IPv4 address or a name
 of an IPv4 network host.
 .TP
 .B AF_INET6
 The
 .I name
-parameter points to a hexadecimal IPv6 address or a name
+argument points to a hexadecimal IPv6 address or a name
 of an IPv6 network host.
 .PP
 The
 .I flags
-parameter specifies additional options.
+argument specifies additional options.
 More than one option can be specified by logically OR-ing
 them together.
 .I flags
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ flag.
 .B AI_DEFAULT
 This flag is equivalent to
 .BR "(AI_ADDRCONFIG | AI_V4MAPPED)" .
-.SS getipnodebyaddr parameters
+.SS getipnodebyaddr() arguments
 The
 .BR getipnodebyaddr ()
 function
@@ -157,15 +157,15 @@ looks up the name of the host whose
 network address is
 specified by the
 .I addr
-parameter.
+argument.
 The
 .I af
-parameter specifies one of the following values:
+argument specifies one of the following values:
 .TP
 .B AF_INET
 The
 .I addr
-parameter points to a
+argument points to a
 .I struct in_addr
 and
 .I len
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ must be set to
 .B AF_INET6
 The
 .I addr
-parameter points to a
+argument points to a
 .I struct in6_addr
 and
 .I len
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ The array is terminated by a null pointer.
 .I h_addrtype
 This is a copy of the
 .I af
-parameter to
+argument to
 .BR getipnodebyname ()
 or
 .BR getipnodebyaddr ().
@@ -225,14 +225,14 @@ will always be
 .B AF_INET
 if the
 .I af
-parameter was
+argument was
 .BR AF_INET .
 .I h_addrtype
 will always be
 .B AF_INET6
 if the
 .I af
-parameter was
+argument was
 .BR AF_INET6 .
 .TP
 .I h_length

man3/getline.3

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ condition).
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
-Bad parameters
+Bad arguments
 .RI ( n
 or
 .I lineptr

man3/getpwent_r.3

@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ and
 The former reads the next passwd entry from the stream initialized by
 .BR setpwent (3).
 The latter reads the next passwd entry from the stream
-.I fp
-given as parameter.
+.IR fp .
 .PP
 The \fIpasswd\fP structure is defined in
 .I <pwd.h>

man3/getpwnam.3

@@ -117,9 +117,8 @@ The maximum needed size for
 .I buf
 can be found using
 .BR sysconf (3)
-with the
-.B _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX
-parameter.
+with the argument
+.BR _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX .
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 The
 .BR getpwnam ()

man3/getutent.3

@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ These functions are GNU extensions, analogs of the functions of the
 same name without the _r suffix.
 The
 .I ubuf
-parameter gives these functions a place to store their result.
+argument gives these functions a place to store their result.
 On success they return 0, and a pointer to the result is written in
 .IR *ubufp .
 On error these functions return \-1.

man3/glob.3

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ typedef struct {
 .PP
 Results are stored in dynamically allocated storage.
 .PP
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I flags
 is made up of the bitwise OR of zero or more the following symbolic
 constants, which modify the behavior of

man3/gsignal.3

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ then it does nothing and returns 1.
 Otherwise, it resets the action to
 .B SIG_DFL
 and calls
-the action function with parameter
+the action function with argument
 .IR signum ,
 and returns the value returned by that function.
 The range of possible values

man3/hsearch.3

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ The glibc implementation will return the following two errors.
 Table full with \fIaction\fP set to \fBENTER\fP.
 .TP
 .B ESRCH
-The \fIaction\fP parameter is \fBFIND\fP and no corresponding element
+The \fIaction\fP argument is \fBFIND\fP and no corresponding element
 is found in the table.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 The functions

man3/inet_ntop.3

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The converted address string would exceed the size given by
 .IR cnt .
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX.1-2001.
-Note that RFC\ 2553 defines a prototype where the last parameter
+Note that RFC\ 2553 defines a prototype where the last argument
 .I cnt
 is of type
 .IR size_t .

man3/lgamma.3

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Since using a constant location
 is not thread-safe, the functions
 .BR lgamma_r ()
 etc. have
-been introduced; they return this sign via the parameter
+been introduced; they return this sign via the argument
 .IR signp .
 .PP
 For non-positive integer values of \fIx\fP,

man3/mpool.3

@@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ If the page exists, a pointer to the page is returned.
 Otherwise, NULL is returned and
 .I errno
 is set.
-The flags parameter is not currently used.
+The
+.I flags
+argument is not currently used.
 .PP
 The function
 .BR mpool_put ()

man3/netlink.3

@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ The caller must check if the current
 didn't have the
 .B NLMSG_DONE
 set \(em this function doesn't return NULL on end.
-The length parameter is an lvalue containing the remaining length
+The
+.I len
+argument is an lvalue containing the remaining length
 of the message buffer.
 This macro decrements it by the length of the message header.
 .TP

man3/openpty.3

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The
 .I termp
 and
 .I winp
-parameters, if not NULL,
+arguments, if not NULL,
 will determine the terminal attributes and window size of the slave
 side of the pseudo-terminal.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"

man3/posix_memalign.3

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ is not set.
 .B EINVAL
 The
 .I alignment
-parameter was not a power of two, or was not a multiple of
+argument was not a power of two, or was not a multiple of
 .IR "sizeof(void *)" .
 .TP
 .B ENOMEM
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ matches the requirements detailed above.
 .BR memalign ()
 may not check that the
 .I boundary
-parameter is correct.
+argument is correct.
 
 POSIX requires that memory obtained from
 .BR posix_memalign ()

man3/regex.3

@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ The
 .I nmatch
 and
 .I pmatch
-parameters to
+arguments to
 .BR regexec ()
 are ignored if the pattern buffer supplied was compiled with this flag set.
 .TP

man3/setbuf.3

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ The
 function may be used on any open stream to change its buffer.
 The
 .I mode
-parameter must be one of the following three macros:
+argument must be one of the following three macros:
 .RS
 .TP
 .B _IONBF

man3/sigpause.3

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ same name was solved by the
 .BR \%sigsuspend (2)
 function, that takes a
 .I "sigset_t *"
-parameter (instead of an
+argument (instead of an
 .IR int ).
 .SS Linux Notes
 On Linux, this routine is a system call only on the Sparc (sparc64)

man3/stdarg.3

@@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ and
 .BR va_end (),
 and must be called first.
 .PP
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I last
-is the name of the last parameter before the variable argument list, that is,
-the last parameter of which the calling function knows the type.
+is the name of the last argument before the variable argument list, that is,
+the last argument of which the calling function knows the type.
 .PP
-Because the address of this parameter may be used in the
+Because the address of this argument may be used in the
 .BR va_start ()
 macro, it should not be declared as a register variable,
 or as a function or an array type.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The
 .BR va_arg ()
 macro expands to an expression that has the type and value of the next
 argument in the call.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I ap
 is the
 .I va_list
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Each call to
 modifies
 .I ap
 so that the next call returns the next argument.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I type
 is a type name specified so that the type of a pointer to an object that
 has the specified type can be obtained simply by adding a * to
@@ -174,11 +174,11 @@ va_list aq;
 
 .fi
 .in
-Finally, on systems where parameters are passed in registers,
+Finally, on systems where arguments are passed in registers,
 it may be necessary for
 .BR va_start ()
-to allocate memory, store the parameters there, and also
-an indication of which parameter is next, so that
+to allocate memory, store the arguments there, and also
+an indication of which argument is next, so that
 .BR va_arg ()
 can step through the list.
 Now

man3/stdio_ext.3

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ function can be used to select the desired type of locking on the stream.
 It returns the current type.
 The
 .I type
-parameter can take the following three values:
+argument can take the following three values:
 .TP
 .B FSETLOCKING_INTERNAL
 Perform implicit locking around every operation on the given stream

man3/sysconf.3

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ argument will be
 .SS "POSIX.1 Variables"
 We give the name of the variable, the name of the
 .BR sysconf ()
-parameter used to inquire about its value,
+argument used to inquire about its value,
 and a short description.
 .LP
 First, the POSIX.1 compatible values.

man3/syslog.3

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ been obtained using the
 .BR stdarg (3)
 variable argument list macros.
 
-The subsections below lists the parameters used to set the values of
+The subsections below list the parameters used to set the values of
 .IR option , " facility" ", and " priority .
 .SS option
 The
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ in most versions of Unix.
 .\" mechanism, which is not compatible with
 .\" .IR <stdarg.h> .
 .SH NOTES
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I ident
 in the call of
 .BR openlog ()

man3/tmpnam.3

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ or
 .LP
 Portable applications that use threads cannot call
 .BR tmpnam ()
-with NULL parameter if either
+with a NULL argument if either
 .B _POSIX_THREADS
 or
 .B _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS

man3/wordexp.3

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ initial NULLs in the array
 Don't do command substitution.
 .TP
 .B WRDE_REUSE
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I p
 resulted from a previous call to
 .BR wordexp (),

man3/xdr.3

@@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ type, see
 .IP
 A filter primitive that translates between variable-length arrays
 and their corresponding external representations.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I arrp
 is the address of the pointer to the array, while
 .I sizep
 is the address of the element count of the array;
 this element count cannot exceed
 .IR maxsize .
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I elsize
 is the
 .I sizeof
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ This routine returns one if it succeeds, zero otherwise.
 .IP
 A filter primitive that translates between counted byte
 strings and their external representations.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I sp
 is the address of the string pointer.
 The length of the
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ or
 .IP
 A filter primitive that translates between fixed size opaque data
 and its external representation.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I cp
 is the address of the opaque object, and
 .I cnt
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ and
 .BR write (2),
 except that
 .I handle
-is passed to the former routines as the first parameter.
+is passed to the former routines as the first argument.
 Note: the XDR stream's
 .I op
 field must be set by the caller.
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ This routine returns one if it succeeds, zero otherwise.
 .fi
 .IP
 A primitive that provides pointer chasing within structures.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I pp
 is the address of the pointer;
 .I size
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ instead.
 A macro that invokes the set position routine associated with
 the XDR stream
 .IR xdrs .
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I pos
 is a position value obtained from
 .BR xdr_getpos ().
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ The XDR stream data is written to, or read from, the
 .I stdio
 stream
 .IR file .
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I op
 determines the direction of the XDR stream (either
 .BR XDR_ENCODE ,
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ This discriminant is always an
 Next the union located at
 .I unp
 is translated.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I choices
 is a pointer to an array of
 .BR xdr_discrim ()
@@ -496,12 +496,12 @@ Returns one if it succeeds, zero otherwise.
 .IP
 A filter primitive that translates between fixed-length arrays
 and their corresponding external representations.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I arrp
 is the address of the pointer to the array, while
 .I size
 is the element count of the array.
-The parameter
+The argument
 .I elsize
 is the
 .I sizeof
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ This routine returns one if it succeeds, zero otherwise.
 .fi
 .IP
 This routine always returns one.
-It may be passed to RPC routines that require a function parameter,
+It may be passed to RPC routines that require a function argument,
 where nothing is to be done.
 .LP
 .nf
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ where
 is the maximum value of an unsigned integer.
 .BR xdr_wrapstring ()
 is handy because the RPC package passes a maximum of two XDR
-routines as parameters, and
+routines as arguments, and
 .BR xdr_string (),
 one of the most frequently used primitives, requires three.
 Returns one if it succeeds, zero otherwise.

man7/arp.7

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Three ioctls are available on all
 sockets.
 They take a pointer to a
 .I struct arpreq
-as their parameter.
+as their argument.
 
 .in +4n
 .nf

man7/socket.7

@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ bytes are available.
 .\" Implemented in 2.1.11 for getsockopt: always return a zero struct.
 .\" Implemented in 2.3.41 for setsockopt, and actually used.
 Specify the receiving or sending timeouts until reporting an error.
-The parameter is a
+The argument is a
 .IR "struct timeval" .
 If an input or output function blocks for this period of time, and
 data has been sent or received, the return value of that function

man7/utf-8.7

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ consists of a sequence of 16-bit words.
 Such strings can contain as
 parts of many 16-bit characters bytes
 like \(aq\\0\(aq or \(aq/\(aq which have a
-special meaning in filenames and other C library function parameters.
+special meaning in filenames and other C library function arguments.
 In addition, the majority of Unix tools expects ASCII files and can't
 read 16-bit words as characters without major modifications.
 For these reasons,

man7/x25.7

@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ The following X.25-specific socket options can be set by using
 .BR setsockopt (2)
 and read with
 .BR getsockopt (2)
-with the level parameter set to
+with the
+.I level
+argument set to
 .BR SOL_X25 .
 .TP
 .B X25_QBITINCL