s/nonnegative/non-negative/

diff --git a/man2/intro.2 b/man2/intro.2
index 7eea2e05706567a42c9b62a167072edb3acf4ce0..01b32232d72336e7e9069188e44fb729201c8de7 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/intro.2
+++ b/man2/intro.2
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ codes.
 You need to read the source to be sure how it will return errors.
 Usually, it is the negative of a standard error code, e.g., \-\fBEPERM\fP.
 The _syscall() macros will return the result \fIr\fP of the system call
-when \fIr\fP is nonnegative, but will return \-1 and set the variable
+when \fIr\fP is non-negative, but will return \-1 and set the variable
 .I errno
 to \-\fIr\fP when \fIr\fP is negative.
 For the error codes, see

diff --git a/man2/ioctl.2 b/man2/ioctl.2
index a6bf869b9e5825b746d8ce916bff9b8bbe0b7a95..e05c1e2da050cd7046a6d8559363412f48542deb 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/ioctl.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl.2
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Usually, on success zero is returned.
 A few
 .BR ioctl ()
 requests use the return value as an output parameter
-and return a nonnegative value on success.
+and return a non-negative value on success.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
 .I errno
 is set appropriately.

diff --git a/man2/msgget.2 b/man2/msgget.2
index dc0d1797c0b222195939bf96441c30c38e4d1ac1..3d1c4a63f26da8224c90b3f72f46828476d505ee 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/msgget.2
+++ b/man2/msgget.2
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ verified, and a check is made to see if it is marked for
 destruction.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 If successful, the return value will be the message queue identifier (a
-nonnegative integer), otherwise \-1
+non-negative integer), otherwise \-1
 with
 .I errno
 indicating the error.

diff --git a/man2/semctl.2 b/man2/semctl.2
index 5c645527300da5e8622a6077fec9c7f4c8c44930..dab33193969f18c740266b9cff68ded05173c8b2 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/semctl.2
+++ b/man2/semctl.2
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ with
 .I errno
 indicating the error.
 
-Otherwise the system call returns a nonnegative value depending on
+Otherwise the system call returns a non-negative value depending on
 .I cmd
 as follows:
 .TP 11

diff --git a/man2/semget.2 b/man2/semget.2
index 5ee8c0dcfc188dc4c4b6f90cc673202e6e171e98..7d54fa05998a912ad387e5cac4c5e763ac306048 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/semget.2
+++ b/man2/semget.2
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ verified.
 .\" and a check is made to see if it is marked for destruction.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 If successful, the return value will be the semaphore set identifier
-(a nonnegative integer), otherwise \-1
+(a non-negative integer), otherwise \-1
 is returned, with
 .I errno
 indicating the error.