Spelling/typo fixes

diff --git a/man3/crypt.3 b/man3/crypt.3
index 251ab7bf6aac63fcd7aa905d90ca7f595e28cb3a..54dac7ec8f83fd00f5e869cf042c9aebf131b73b 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/crypt.3
+++ b/man3/crypt.3
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ function was not implemented, probably because of U.S.A. export restrictions.
 .\" It is suspected that this may contain a back door which could allow the
 .\" NSA to decrypt DES encrypted data.
 .\" .PP
-.\" Making encrypted data computed using crypt() publically available has
+.\" Making encrypted data computed using crypt() publicly available has
 .\" to be considered insecure for the given reasons.
 .SH "GNU EXTENSION"
 The glibc2 version of this function has the following additional features.

diff --git a/man3/glob.3 b/man3/glob.3
index 5a070cd4bb1102bae631c726f78ac7d30f11d4d7..8946015af5dccfffe44f55c4106c354980511faf 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/glob.3
+++ b/man3/glob.3
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ functions,
 .B GLOB_BRACE
 which means that
 .BR csh (1)
-style brace expresions \fB{a,b}\fR are expanded,
+style brace expressions \fB{a,b}\fR are expanded,
 .TP
 .B GLOB_NOMAGIC
 which means that the pattern is returned if it contains no metacharacters,

diff --git a/man3/key_setsecret.3 b/man3/key_setsecret.3
index 36fb656b79bec5a6acb4db090201a3548bc2b653..10480c404b95537b9cac1b5f1f400a2ea1b98203 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/key_setsecret.3
+++ b/man3/key_setsecret.3
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\"  Copyright 2002 walter harms (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de)
 .\"  Distributed under GPL
 .\"  I had no way the check the functions out
-.\"  be carefull
+.\"  be careful
 .TH KEY_SETSECRET 3 2002-07-18 "secure rpc"
 .SH NAME
 key_decryptsession, key_encryptsession, key_setsecret, key_gendes,

diff --git a/man3/login.3 b/man3/login.3
index d9c1e9b6d266ebe3b639669edfe8dcad78ae77b3..f74c758d449f62bf85b4f34a956889edf8c54a2e 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/login.3
+++ b/man3/login.3
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ database, or 0 if an error occurred.
 .SH NOTE
 These functions are included in libutil, hence you'll need to add
 .B \-lutil
-to your compiler commandline.
+to your compiler command line.
 
 Note that the
 member

diff --git a/man3/openpty.3 b/man3/openpty.3
index fa769e2b8d6852150fef64ca684fdb183f7160aa..138bd733e7be712df3b8ba4f9e9cebc219e1ff12 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/openpty.3
+++ b/man3/openpty.3
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ fails.
 .SH NOTE
 These functions are included in libutil, hence you'll need to add
 .B \-lutil
-to your compiler commandline.
+to your compiler command line.
 .SH FILES
 .I /dev/[pt]ty[pqrstuwxyzabcdePQRST][0123456789abcdef]
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"

diff --git a/man3/system.3 b/man3/system.3
index fa05da78acaaa2d9fef04ed3a74e7082f8448c37..c2d82feeb86d897f75e3d7c6660dd96d4f9d4c32 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/system.3
+++ b/man3/system.3
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ etc.) are made available when including
 As mentioned,
 .BR system ()
 ignores SIGINT and SIGQUIT.  This may make programs that call it
-from a loop uninterruptable, unless they take care themselves
+from a loop uninterruptible, unless they take care themselves
 to check the exit status of the child. E.g.
 .br
 .nf

diff --git a/man3/updwtmp.3 b/man3/updwtmp.3
index e7bb3aa3b3df9eb06f0de2d11a6dd1ee8b3d3d5c..716e7fe61162056753b0619e10e07a7bc9692536 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/updwtmp.3
+++ b/man3/updwtmp.3
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ used to occur in the old libbsd. These days, the
 .B logwtmp
 function is included in libutil. (Hence you'll need to add
 .B \-lutil
-to your compiler commandline to get it.)
+to your compiler command line to get it.)
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .I /var/log/wtmp

diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 09767d6a806cda004aa0dc03037d3a7b120506b3..249ecd5bd47e7cab18a4cef4e975bd9c44dadbe9 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -1230,5 +1230,5 @@ Linus Torvalds (and many others)
 Large parts of this man page have been derived from the
 Boot Parameter HOWTO (version 1.0.1) written by Paul Gortmaker.
 More information may be found in this (or a more recent) HOWTO.
-An uptodate source of information is
+An up-to-date source of information is
 .IR /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .

diff --git a/man7/raw.7 b/man7/raw.7
index 3557717e3abc5952658a65f4660d4b3868f8ad2b..052db2969b4c6c3a41e30cde4cc01562de2da8a5 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/raw.7
+++ b/man7/raw.7
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ is specified and the IP header has a non-zero destination address then
 the destination address of the socket is used to route the packet. When 
 .B MSG_DONTROUTE
 is specified the destination address should refer to a local interface,
-otherwise a routing table lookup is done anyways but gatewayed routes
+otherwise a routing table lookup is done anyway but gatewayed routes
 are ignored.
 
 If

diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 7552684521bd7fe5d4b036e3deee2e31aa4716a5..8d0ed0c2f24adc10f91b04b43c330d68a77335f1 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ A path segment which contains a colon
 character can't be used as the first segment of a relative URI path
 (e.g., "this:that"), because it would be mistaken for a scheme name;
 precede such segments with ./ (e.g., "./this:that").
-Note that descendents of MS-DOS (e.g., Microsoft Windows) replace
+Note that descendants of MS-DOS (e.g., Microsoft Windows) replace
 devicename colons with the vertical bar ("|") in URIs, so "C:" becomes "C|".
 .PP
 A fragment identifier, if included, refers to a particular named portion
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ remote operation to be performed.
 .PP
 It is clearly unwise to use a URI that contains a password which is
 intended to be secret. In particular, the use of a password within
-the 'userinfo' component of a URI is strongly disrecommended except
+the 'userinfo' component of a URI is strongly recommended against except
 in those rare cases where the 'password' parameter is intended to be public.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 .PP