Fix typos and spelling mistakes

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Michael Kerrisk 2005-04-18 14:25:45 +00:00
parent 704a18f06d
commit d301ee6c72
8 changed files with 9 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ On success
.B madvise
returns zero. On error, it returns \-1 and
.I errno
is set appropiately.
is set appropriately.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EAGAIN

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@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ The following symbolic constants are provided for
00004 others have read permission
.TP
.B S_IWOTH
00002 others have write permisson
00002 others have write permission
.TP
.B S_IXOTH
00001 others have execute permission

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@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ the root of the filesystem hierarchy on the device "dev", and no
longer to whatever it referred to earlier.
One can walk out of a mounted filesystem: "path/.." refers to
the parent directy of "path", outside of the filesystem hierarchy on "dev".
the parent directory of "path",
outside of the filesystem hierarchy on "dev".
.SS "Trailing slashes"
If a pathname ends in a '/', that forces resolution of the preceding

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@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ See the BUGS section of
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
XPG4-UNIX.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The poll() systemcall was introduced in Linux 2.1.23.
The poll() system call was introduced in Linux 2.1.23.
The poll() library call was introduced in libc 5.4.28
(and provides emulation using select if your kernel does not
have a poll syscall).

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@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ get the maximum number of processors the calling process can use,
find out whether a specified process is currently blocked,
get or set the maximum stack size, etc., etc.
.SH AVAILABILITY
The prctl() systemcall was introduced in Linux 2.1.57.
The prctl() system call was introduced in Linux 2.1.57.
There is no prctl() library call as yet.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR signal (2)

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@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ follows:
select (0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
.fi
.PP
This is only guarenteed to work on Unix systems, however.
This is only guaranteed to work on Unix systems, however.
.SH RETURN VALUE

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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ field of that structure will be set to
On success,
.BR sigqueue ()
returns 0, indicating that the signal was successfully
queued to the receiving proces.
queued to the receiving process.
Otherwise \-1 is returned and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.

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@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ The kernel routine \fIprintk\fP() will only print a message on the
console, if it has a loglevel less than the value of the variable
.I console_loglevel
(initially DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL (7), but set to 10 if the
kernel commandline contains the word `debug', and to 15 in case
kernel command line contains the word `debug', and to 15 in case
of a kernel fault - the 10 and 15 are just silly, and equivalent to 8).
This variable is set (to a value in the range 1-8) by the call
.B syslog