Various pages: wfix

Fixes: b324e17d3208 ("Many pages: wfix")
Reported-by: Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: Mario Blaettermann <mario.blaettermann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

diff --git a/man2/access.2 b/man2/access.2
index 1f5809b4011b2a8b630b4bf89265b3916a3e0863..19c44ac543f6c8dc57e3cc755b47a2a93dcfef7f 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/access.2
+++ b/man2/access.2
@@ -418,8 +418,8 @@ then
 .BR access ()
 returns 0 for such files.
 .\" This behavior appears to have been an implementation accident.
-Early 2.6 kernels (up to and including 2.6.3)
-also behaved in the same way as kernel 2.4.
+Early Linux 2.6 (up to and including Linux 2.6.3)
+also behaved in the same way as Linux 2.4.
 .PP
 Before Linux 2.6.20,
 these calls ignored the effect of the

diff --git a/man2/adjtimex.2 b/man2/adjtimex.2
index 96bfa6846af9746f6f42677e5bb5f5fba442d561..df7d27cd4e5e914a576d35b13c210a508e81ecd0 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/adjtimex.2
+++ b/man2/adjtimex.2
@@ -468,14 +468,14 @@ to indicate the error.
 .I buf
 does not point to writable memory.
 .TP
-.BR EINVAL " (kernels before Linux 2.6.26)"
+.BR EINVAL " (before Linux 2.6.26)"
 An attempt was made to set
 .I buf.freq
 to a value outside the range (\-33554432, +33554432).
 .\" From a quick glance, it appears there was no clamping or range check
 .\" for buf.freq before Linux 2.0
 .TP
-.BR EINVAL " (kernels before Linux 2.6.26)"
+.BR EINVAL " (before Linux 2.6.26)"
 An attempt was made to set
 .I buf.offset
 to a value outside the permitted range.

diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2
index 0f43624c16e21a0be77da5243e3dc684139f4c23..861122a688ea5acfb4b35c0674eebf5d481f5d17 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/getdents.2
+++ b/man2/getdents.2
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ field is implemented since Linux 2.6.4.
 It occupies a space that was previously a zero-filled padding byte in the
 .I linux_dirent
 structure.
-Thus, on kernels up to and including 2.6.3,
+Thus, on kernels up to and including Linux 2.6.3,
 attempting to access this field always provides the value 0
 .RB ( DT_UNKNOWN ).
 .PP

diff --git a/man2/ioctl_console.2 b/man2/ioctl_console.2
index 2d4feb88b643a9d6ebb1d7473b805d7d77a8f0aa..89f794c1956cb8b0256623166188a86b68ee3025 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/ioctl_console.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_console.2
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ struct vt_stat {
 For each vt in use, the corresponding bit in the
 .I v_state
 member is set.
-(Kernels 1.0 through 1.1.92.)
+(Linux 1.0 through Linux 1.1.92.)
 .TP
 .B VT_RELDISP
 Release a display.
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ variable
 .BR TIOCLINUX ", " subcode = 8
 Dump screen width and height, cursor position, and all the
 character-attribute pairs.
-(Kernels 1.1.67 through 1.1.91 only.
+(Linux 1.1.67 through Linux 1.1.91 only.
 With Linux 1.1.92 or later, read from
 .I /dev/vcsa*
 instead.)
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ instead.)
 .BR TIOCLINUX ", " subcode = 9
 Restore screen width and height, cursor position, and all the
 character-attribute pairs.
-(Kernels 1.1.67 through 1.1.91 only.
+(Linux 1.1.67 through Linux 1.1.91 only.
 With Linux 1.1.92 or later, write to
 .I /dev/vcsa*
 instead.)

diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2
index 368be7c1e999d96f84c4818faf81313c9c10d60c..fb2a49e849692279f690bee5228d990da80f222a 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/mlock.2
+++ b/man2/mlock.2
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ This bug was fixed
 .\" commit 0cf2f6f6dc605e587d2c1120f295934c77e810e8
 in Linux 4.9.
 .PP
-In the 2.4 series Linux kernels up to and including 2.4.17,
+In Linux 2.4 series of kernels up to and including Linux 2.4.17,
 a bug caused the
 .BR mlockall ()
 .B MCL_FUTURE

diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2
index ce743fcb29e45d65b2caf6edea554fdcb91561e7..ebd98b86c1603ee5ed1946991f83f7008b543f85 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/mount.2
+++ b/man2/mount.2
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ this mount option requires the
 capability and a kernel configured with the
 .B CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
 option.
-Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in v5.15 kernels, so
+Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in Linux 5.15, so
 this flag should be considered deprecated.
 .TP
 .B MS_NOATIME

diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index 5f9ee77dd45e5f9f44e16c4d27f1bc4ff7e2b962..fc796e25537d1299c6c50da037432819d3c66ec9 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@ flag value.
 This ensures that applications compiled against
 new headers get at least
 .B O_DSYNC
-semantics on pre-2.6.33 kernels.
+semantics before Linux 2.6.33.
 .\"
 .SS C library/kernel differences
 Since glibc 2.26,

diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
index dfb0466cd966c7e92539fd8fbc1b60822410f708..cdb2d3bee4b51e8eb1999fbe35676767885d4872 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/shmget.2
+++ b/man2/shmget.2
@@ -375,8 +375,8 @@ since Linux 2.4, the default value is 4096.
 .IP
 On Linux, this limit can be read and modified via
 .IR /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni .
-.\" Kernels between 2.4.x and 2.6.8 had an off-by-one error that meant
-.\" that we could create one more segment than SHMMNI -- MTK
+.\" Kernels between Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.6.8 had an off-by-one error
+.\" that meant that we could create one more segment than SHMMNI -- MTK
 .\" This /proc file is not available in Linux 2.2 and earlier -- MTK
 .PP
 The implementation has no specific limits for the per-process maximum

diff --git a/man2/timer_create.2 b/man2/timer_create.2
index ea87e0743a3c4a52e251e696a5909d3f5810794c..a7c4f93f9eb300b82ae7ad93e160e7714764b625 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/timer_create.2
+++ b/man2/timer_create.2
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ timers only) using POSIX threads,
 and before glibc 2.17,
 .\" glibc commit 93a78ac437ba44f493333d7e2a4b0249839ce460
 the implementation falls back to this technique on systems
-running pre-2.6 Linux kernels.
+running kernels older than Linux 2.6.
 .SH EXAMPLES
 The program below takes two arguments: a sleep period in seconds,
 and a timer frequency in nanoseconds.

diff --git a/man4/vcs.4 b/man4/vcs.4
index 12ad4b500c9c744bf3affeaa7db9d069ffa7f564..dd80628c28137f867e6bb2b92673bbfac058de9a 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/vcs.4
+++ b/man4/vcs.4
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ the 9th bit position can be fetched by applying the
 .BR ioctl (2)
 .B VT_GETHIFONTMASK
 operation
-(available in Linux kernels 2.6.18 and above)
+(available since Linux 2.6.18)
 on
 .IR /dev/tty[1\-63] ;
 the value is returned in the

diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7
index 3cfaace9ac02d82e8500d7f86df819fd2c2d92e2..f69af1b322b34c8eac1b2c530b2c8f7aadefb25d 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/ip.7
+++ b/man7/ip.7
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ in
 .I msg_name
 by
 .BR recvmsg (2)
-does not work in some 2.2 kernels.
+does not work in some Linux 2.2 kernels.
 .\" .SH AUTHORS
 .\" This man page was written by Andi Kleen.
 .SH SEE ALSO

diff --git a/man7/time.7 b/man7/time.7
index c10e0a0873595c10809d97c970b2894dc48fdd91..b70b60218e82b4d108914188d021290cf4344d42 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/time.7
+++ b/man7/time.7
@@ -63,16 +63,18 @@ The value of
 .I HZ
 varies across kernel versions and hardware platforms.
 On i386 the situation is as follows:
-on kernels up to and including 2.4.x, HZ was 100,
+on kernels up to and including Linux 2.4.x,
+HZ was 100,
 giving a jiffy value of 0.01 seconds;
-starting with 2.6.0, HZ was raised to 1000, giving a jiffy of
-0.001 seconds.
+starting with Linux 2.6.0,
+HZ was raised to 1000,
+giving a jiffy of 0.001 seconds.
 Since Linux 2.6.13, the HZ value is a kernel
 configuration parameter and can be 100, 250 (the default) or 1000,
 yielding a jiffies value of, respectively, 0.01, 0.004, or 0.001 seconds.
 Since Linux 2.6.20, a further frequency is available:
-300, a number that divides evenly for the common video
-frame rates (PAL, 25 Hz; NTSC, 30 Hz).
+300, a number that divides evenly for the common video frame rates
+(PAL, 25 Hz; NTSC, 30 Hz).
 .PP
 The
 .BR times (2)