hyphen/dash fixes

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Michael Kerrisk 2005-07-18 12:43:00 +00:00
parent 3413174560
commit df8a3cac32
21 changed files with 35 additions and 33 deletions

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@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ read the sources of the futex userspace library referenced below.
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
given here was introduced in Linux 2.5.40. In Linux 2.5.70 one parameter
was added. In Linux 2.6.7 a sixth parameter was added \- messy, especially
was added. In Linux 2.6.7 a sixth parameter was added \(em messy, especially
on the s390 architecture.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP

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@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ is interrogated in place of
An extended attribute
.I name
is a simple NULL-terminated string.
The name includes a namespace prefix \- there may be several, disjoint
The name includes a namespace prefix; there may be several, disjoint
namespaces associated with an individual inode.
The value of an extended attribute is a chunk of arbitrary textual or
binary data of specified length.

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@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ is interrogated in place of
A single extended attribute
.I name
is a simple NULL-terminated string.
The name includes a namespace prefix \- there may be several, disjoint
The name includes a namespace prefix; there may be several, disjoint
namespaces associated with an individual inode.
.PP
An empty buffer of

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@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ exceeded ("Too many levels of symbolic links").
The lookup of the final component of the pathname goes just like
that of all other components, as described in the previous step,
with two differences: (i) the final component need not be a
directory (at least as far as the path resolution process is concerned \-
directory (at least as far as the path resolution process is concerned \(em
it may have to be a directory, or a non-directory, because of
the requirements of the specific system call), and (ii) it
is not necessarily an error if the component is not found \-
is not necessarily an error if the component is not found \(em
maybe we are just creating it. The details on the treatment
of the final entry are described in the manual pages of the specific
system calls.

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@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ in place of
An extended attribute name is a simple NULL-terminated string.
The
.I name
includes a namespace prefix \- there may be several, disjoint
includes a namespace prefix; there may be several, disjoint
namespaces associated with an individual inode.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned.

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@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Furthermore, if
is specified for this operation, the system updates the process undo count
.RI ( semadj )
for this semaphore.
This operation can always proceed \- it never forces a process to wait.
This operation can always proceed \(em it never forces a process to wait.
The calling process must have alter permission on the semaphore set.
.PP
If

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@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ in place of
An extended attribute name is a simple NULL-terminated string.
The
.I name
includes a namespace prefix \- there may be several, disjoint
includes a namespace prefix; there may be several, disjoint
namespaces associated with an individual inode.
The
.I value

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@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ and if
.I op
is O_DSYNC, this call is the asynchronous analog of
.BR fdatasync (2).
Note that this is a request only \- this call does not wait
Note that this is a request only \(em this call does not wait
for I/O completion.
.LP
Apart from

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@ -57,10 +57,12 @@ Return a pointer to the payload associated with the passed
NLMSG_NEXT
Get the next
.I nlmsghdr
in a multipart message. The caller must check if the current nlmsghdr
didn't have the NLMSG_DONE set \- this function doesn't return NULL on end. The
length parameter is an lvalue containing the remaining length of the message
buffer. This macro decrements it by the length of the message header.
in a multipart message.
The caller must check if the current nlmsghdr didn't have the NLMSG_DONE
set \(em this function doesn't return NULL on end.
The length parameter is an lvalue containing the remaining length
of the message buffer.
This macro decrements it by the length of the message header.
.TP
NLMSG_OK
Return true if the netlink message is not truncated and ok to parse.

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@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ after program initialization, by using the values returned
from a
.B localeconv()
call
for locale \- dependent information, by using the multi-byte and wide
for locale-dependent information, by using the multi-byte and wide
character functions for text processing if
.BR "MB_CUR_MAX > 1" ,
and by using

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@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ A set of macro constants which can be used to define
is listed in
.BR open (2).
.sp
A new shared memory object initially has zero length \- the size of the
A new shared memory object initially has zero length \(em the size of the
object can be set using
.BR ftruncate (2).
The newly allocated bytes of a shared memory
@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ POSIX leaves the behavior of the combination of
and
.B O_TRUNC
unspecified. On Linux, this will successfully truncate an existing
shared memory object \- this may not be so on other Unices.
shared memory object \(em this may not be so on other Unices.
.LP
The POSIX shared memory object implementation on Linux 2.4 makes use
of a dedicated file system, which is normally

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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The century number (year/100) as a 2-digit integer. (SU)
The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31).
.TP
.B %D
Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (Yecch \- for Americans only.
Equivalent to %m/%d/%y. (Yecch \(em for Americans only.
Americans should note that in other countries %d/%m/%y is rather
common. This means that in international context this format is
ambiguous and should not be used.) (SU)

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@ -307,14 +307,14 @@ DECARM (default on): Set keyboard autorepreat on.
.TP
ESC [ ? 9 h
X10 Mouse Reporting (default off): Set reporting mode to 1 (or reset to
0) \- see below.
0) \(em see below.
.TP
ESC [ ? 25 h
DECCM (default on): Make cursor visible.
.TP
ESC [ ? 1000 h
X11 Mouse Reporting (default off): Set reporting mode to 2 (or reset
to 0) \- see below.
to 0) \(em see below.
.\"
.SS Linux Console Private CSI Sequences
.\"

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@ -454,8 +454,8 @@ driver. It contains a detailed installation HOWTO and describes all parameters o
.SH BUGS
Report any bugs to linux@syskonnect.de
.SH AUTHORS
Ralph Roesler \- rroesler@syskonnect.de
Ralph Roesler \(em rroesler@syskonnect.de
.br
Mirko Lindner \- mlindner@syskonnect.de
Mirko Lindner \(em mlindner@syskonnect.de
.SH "SEE ALSO"
modprobe(8), insmod(8), ifconfig(8).

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@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ driver are passed to the
driver.
The definitions below are from
.BR /usr/include/linux/mtio.h :
.SS "\s-1MTIOCTOP\s+1 \- Perform a tape operation"
.SS "\s-1MTIOCTOP\s+1 \(em Perform a tape operation"
.PP
This request takes an argument of type
.BR "(struct mtop *)" .
@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ is zero, the tape is formatted into one partition.
This command is not allowed for a drive unless the partition support
is enabled for the drive (see MT_ST_CAN_PARTITIONS below).
.IP MTNOP
No op \- flushes the driver's buffer as a side effect.
No op \(em flushes the driver's buffer as a side effect.
Should be used before reading status with \s-1MTIOCGET\s+1.
.IP MTOFFL
Rewind and put the drive off line.
@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ to look at and the bits 17-23 specify the bit pattern to look for.
If the bit pattern is zero, one or more bits under the mask indicate
the cleaning request. If the pattern is non-zero, the pattern must match
the masked sense data byte.
.SS "\s-1MTIOCGET\s+1 \- Get status"
.SS "\s-1MTIOCGET\s+1 \(em Get status"
.PP
This request takes an argument of type
.BR "(struct mtget *)" .
@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ This value is set to \-1 when the block number is unknown (e.g., after
\s-1MTBSF\s+1,
\s-1MTBSS\s+1, or \s-1MTSEEK\s+1).
.PD
.SS "\s-1MTIOCPOS\s+1 \- Get tape position"
.SS "\s-1MTIOCPOS\s+1 \(em Get tape position"
.PP
This request takes an argument of type
.B "(struct mtpos *)"

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@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
.\" AUTHOR part
.\"
.SH AUTHOR
Bruce Janson \- bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au
Bruce Janson \(em bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au
.br
Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Jean Tourrilhes \(em jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
.br
(and others; see source code for details)
.\"

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@ -559,9 +559,9 @@ definition ends with the string
See the POSIX.2 standard for details.
.SH FILES
/usr/lib/locale/
\- database for the current locale setting of that category
\(em database for the current locale setting of that category
.br
/usr/lib/nls/charmap/* \- charmap-files
/usr/lib/nls/charmap/* \(em charmap-files
.SH BUGS
The manpage isn't complete.
.\" .SH AUTHOR

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@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ is present.
Internet Protocol Version 6 is supported.
.SS "--- - _POSIX_JOB_CONTROL - _SC_JOB_CONTROL"
If this option is in effect (as it always is under POSIX 1003.1-2001)
then the system implements POSIX \- style job control, and the functions
then the system implements POSIX-style job control, and the functions
.br
.nf
.in +4

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@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ are new in Linux 2.2. They are Linux extensions
and should not be used in portable programs.
Linux 2.0 enabled some bug-to-bug compatibility with BSD in the raw socket code
when the SO_BSDCOMPAT flag was set \- that has been removed in 2.2.
when the SO_BSDCOMPAT flag was set \(em that has been removed in 2.2.
.SH BUGS
Transparent proxy extensions are not described.

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@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ level
.B IP_RECVERR
socket option. When this option is enabled, all incoming
errors are immediately passed to the user program. Use this
option with care \- it makes TCP less tolerant to routing
option with care \(em it makes TCP less tolerant to routing
changes and other normal network conditions.
.SH NOTES
.\" 14 Jul 05: Commented out the following unparsable sentence

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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ International Telecommunication Union's recommendation X.25
without an intermediate X.25 network (X.25 DTE-DTE mode) as described
in ISO-8208.
.PP
Message boundaries are preserved \- a
Message boundaries are preserved \(em a
.BR read (2)
from a socket will
retrieve the same chunk of data as output with the corresponding