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lseek.2, inet_pton.3, tzfile.5: tfix 

Please find attach a consistency fix: there were only five
"zeroes" but twenty four "zeros" in those manual pages.
(Make all instances "zeros".)

Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
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David Prévot 2011-09-22 21:51:30 -04:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
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man2/lseek.2
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@ -126,12 +126,12 @@ This can be useful for applications such as file backup tools,
which can save space when creating backups and preserve holes,
if they have a mechanism for discovering holes.
For the purposes of these operations, a hole is a sequence of zeroes that
For the purposes of these operations, a hole is a sequence of zeros that
(normally) has not been allocated in the underlying file storage.
However, a file system is not obliged to report holes,
so these operations are not a guaranteed mechanism for
mapping the storage space actually allocated to a file.
(Furthermore, a sequence of zeroes that actually has been written
(Furthermore, a sequence of zeros that actually has been written
to the underlying storage may not be reported as a hole.)
In the simplest implementation,
a file system can support the operations by making
@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ return
(i.e., even if the location referred to by
.I offset
is a hole,
it can be considered to consist of data that is a sequence of zeroes).
it can be considered to consist of data that is a sequence of zeros).
.\" https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/22/79
.\" http://lwn.net/Articles/440255/
.\" http://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data

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man3/inet_pton.3
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@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ For example, the loopback address
.I 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
can be abbreviated as
.IR ::1 .
The wildcard address, consisting of all zeroes, can be written as
The wildcard address, consisting of all zeros, can be written as
.IR :: .
.IP 3.
An alternate format is useful for expressing IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses.

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man5/tzfile.5
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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as
timezone information files,
followed by a character identifying the version of the file's format
(as of 2005, either an ASCII NUL ('\\0') or a '2')
followed by fifteen bytes containing zeroes reserved for future use,
followed by fifteen bytes containing zeros reserved for future use,
followed by six four-byte values of type
.IR long ,
written in a "standard" byte order