mincore.2, remap_file_pages.2, random.3: Global fix: s/non-linear/nonlinear/

The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2010-01-16 17:58:03 +01:00
parent ffa1b462e4
commit fb0e9c4809
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@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Before kernel 2.6.21,
.BR mincore ()
did not return correct information for
.B MAP_PRIVATE
mappings, or for non-linear mappings (established using
mappings, or for nonlinear mappings (established using
.BR remap_file_pages (2)).
.\" Linux (up to now, 2.6.5),
.\" .B mincore

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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.TH REMAP_FILE_PAGES 2 2008-04-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
remap_file_pages \- create a non-linear file mapping
remap_file_pages \- create a nonlinear file mapping
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #define _GNU_SOURCE
@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ remap_file_pages \- create a non-linear file mapping
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR remap_file_pages ()
system call is used to create a non-linear mapping, that is, a mapping
system call is used to create a nonlinear mapping, that is, a mapping
in which the pages of the file are mapped into a non-sequential order
in memory.
The advantage of using
@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ over using repeated calls to
is that the former approach does not require the kernel to create
additional VMA (Virtual Memory Area) data structures.
To create a non-linear mapping we perform the following steps:
To create a nonlinear mapping we perform the following steps:
.TP 3
1.
Use

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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR random ()
function uses a non-linear additive feedback random
function uses a nonlinear additive feedback random
number generator employing a default table of size 31 long integers to
return successive pseudo-random numbers in
the range from 0 to \fBRAND_MAX\fR.