intro.1, fork.2, futex.2, open.2, rename.2, select_tut.2, semop.2, spu_create.2,...

Normal English typographical convention is not to have
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man1/intro.1 b/man1/intro.1
index dd27fc3729460b49e92028ea6778dfd4f02e2133..3b6f054800f42b7982b07acca35de985b21d1d5e 100644 (file)
--- a/man1/intro.1
+++ b/man1/intro.1
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ maja    0501\-1136285
 and here typing Control-D ended the session.
 The
 .B "% "
-here was the command prompt \(em it is the shell's way of indicating
+here was the command prompt\(emit is the shell's way of indicating
 that it is ready for the next command.
 The prompt can be customized
 in lots of ways, and one might include stuff like username,
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ We see that there are commands
 .LP
 The command
 .I ls
-lists the contents of the current directory \(em it tells you what
+lists the contents of the current directory\(emit tells you what
 files you have.
 With a
 .I \-l

diff --git a/man2/fork.2 b/man2/fork.2
index 0e5a7d2aebb07282eae23ef78391c7dd9d39b7df..49aeab6640d41533127d3cb1fc2809e741cea4e4 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/fork.2
+++ b/man2/fork.2
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ The termination signal of the child is always
 .PP
 Note the following further points:
 .IP * 3
-The child process is created with a single thread \(em the
+The child process is created with a single thread\(emthe
 one that called
 .BR fork ().
 The entire virtual address space of the parent is replicated in the child,

diff --git a/man2/futex.2 b/man2/futex.2
index 52ace2b7a50a2b4b27b803cccb531ee7bbd3892f..1fdb71fa74158690a2b297457c12b9b21c2fbfe3 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/futex.2
+++ b/man2/futex.2
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ A 4-argument system call with the semantics
 described in this page was introduced in Linux 2.5.40.
 In Linux 2.5.70 one argument
 was added.
-In Linux 2.6.7 a sixth argument was added \(em messy, especially
+In Linux 2.6.7 a sixth argument was added\(emmessy, especially
 on the s390 architecture.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 This system call is Linux-specific.

diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index f1c3238800f5afe90cbc9b76669e0b488f0e45b5..69324ddca4ebbef400ecf04dc98d096eccf90ef1 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ One example is NFS, where the server maintains the access time.
 .B O_NOCTTY
 If
 .I pathname
-refers to a terminal device \(em see
-.BR tty (4)
-\(em it will not become the process's controlling terminal even if the
+refers to a terminal device\(emsee
+.BR tty (4)\(em
+it will not become the process's controlling terminal even if the
 process does not have one.
 .TP
 .B O_NOFOLLOW
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ as a performance option which is disabled by default.
 .RS
 "The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole
 interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey
-on some serious mind-controlling substances." \(em Linus
+on some serious mind-controlling substances."\(emLinus
 .RE
 .SH BUGS
 Currently, it is not possible to enable signal-driven

diff --git a/man2/rename.2 b/man2/rename.2
index c88ca697fc9c4b1526d9ffeb82a1e712020fe86b..917050debf357938b65dc31e34301c30c4c700eb 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/rename.2
+++ b/man2/rename.2
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ this an error.
 (Note that there is no requirement to return
 .B EBUSY
 in such
-cases \(em there is nothing wrong with doing the rename anyway \(em
-but it is allowed to return
+cases\(emthere is nothing wrong with doing the rename anyway\(embut
+it is allowed to return
 .B EBUSY
 if the system cannot otherwise
 handle such situations.)

diff --git a/man2/select_tut.2 b/man2/select_tut.2
index bee96eaa76bf2c8a53e6d7e823ee20ab26173eb1..17c74ac9bb5d2dfefaade93d3221fdb25f61e017 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/select_tut.2
+++ b/man2/select_tut.2
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ inefficient timeouts.
 
 The program does not handle more than one simultaneous connection at a
 time, although it could easily be extended to do this with a linked list
-of buffers \(em one for each connection.
+of buffers\(emone for each connection.
 At the moment, new
 connections cause the current connection to be dropped.
 .SH SEE ALSO

diff --git a/man2/semop.2 b/man2/semop.2
index 298cac44e34886476050b89d7e3e521bad13453d..245465c4c98adf5e6ff0a99b76056bce3c7cba7b 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/semop.2
+++ b/man2/semop.2
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Furthermore, if
 is specified for this operation, the system updates the process undo count
 .RI ( semadj )
 for this semaphore.
-This operation can always proceed \(em it never forces a process to wait.
+This operation can always proceed\(emit never forces a process to wait.
 The calling process must have alter permission on the semaphore set.
 .PP
 If

diff --git a/man2/spu_create.2 b/man2/spu_create.2
index f8e4a1cfd9113a3d85adc31bca94f78f88234d23..c35a87ea54d51c466298b0b852d46eda9028fd75 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/spu_create.2
+++ b/man2/spu_create.2
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ argument to
 Create an SPU gang instead of a context.
 (A gang is a group of SPU contexts that are
 functionally related to each other and which share common scheduling
-parameters \(em priority and policy.
+parameters\(empriority and policy.
 In the future, gang scheduling may be implemented causing
 the group to be switched in and out as a single unit.)
 

diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2
index 50d687dd94ef04174540fe714f04f59543540e35..572eaa1b7b6aa7efe47813361df238547d14f324 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/stat.2
+++ b/man2/stat.2
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ _XOPEN_SOURCE\ &&\ _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
 These functions return information about a file.
-No permissions are required on the file itself, but \(em in the case of
+No permissions are required on the file itself, but\(emin the case of
 .BR stat ()
 and
 .BR lstat ()

diff --git a/man3/netlink.3 b/man3/netlink.3
index 31abe6cee02813bbce221822face6b21b4d92d95..2725ae256f14b8c3e58400f9f9de369c5547cf45 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/netlink.3
+++ b/man3/netlink.3
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The caller must check if the current
 .I nlmsghdr
 didn't have the
 .B NLMSG_DONE
-set \(em this function doesn't return NULL on end.
+set\(emthis function doesn't return NULL on end.
 The
 .I len
 argument is an lvalue containing the remaining length

diff --git a/man3/random.3 b/man3/random.3
index 299414b7710839b096b6a5076bd2e539451bf74c..5a35e048b5c23df8276d0198fd6ee4c41a131cc8 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/random.3
+++ b/man3/random.3
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ The size of the state array
 \fIn\fP is used by
 .BR initstate ()
 to decide how sophisticated a
-random number generator it should use \(em the larger the state array,
+random number generator it should use\(emthe larger the state array,
 the better the random numbers will be.
 \fIseed\fP is the seed for the
 initialization, which specifies a starting point for the random number

diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index 5166056d71d66f56aaef5fb64b2f9f5ff6c1a84b..59e9b5887a7e41293251541aa5ba3f77abe1df80 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ this specification, and the result is placed in the corresponding
 .I pointer
 argument.
 If the next item of input does not match the conversion specification,
-the conversion fails \(em this is a
+the conversion fails\(emthis is a
 .IR "matching failure" .
 .PP
 Each

diff --git a/man3/shm_open.3 b/man3/shm_open.3
index 726d779eb3b04e4b926089dbef296327970937f2..f7f5f0fbd637074aabad7b834a3634ab43d96eae 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/shm_open.3
+++ b/man3/shm_open.3
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ is listed in
 (Symbolic definitions of these constants can be obtained by including
 .IR <sys/stat.h> .)
 .sp
-A new shared memory object initially has zero length \(em the size of the
+A new shared memory object initially has zero length\(emthe size of the
 object can be set using
 .BR ftruncate (2).
 The newly allocated bytes of a shared memory
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ and
 .B O_TRUNC
 unspecified.
 On Linux, this will successfully truncate an existing
-shared memory object \(em this may not be so on other UNIX systems.
+shared memory object\(emthis may not be so on other UNIX systems.
 .LP
 The POSIX shared memory object implementation on Linux 2.4 makes use
 of a dedicated file system, which is normally

diff --git a/man3/strftime.3 b/man3/strftime.3
index 221568694ce73e5eeaba2eaf180495f1a294b5c0..45fa873667a1d6a2b27915136664895baa1031ab 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/strftime.3
+++ b/man3/strftime.3
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31).
 .B %D
 Equivalent to
 .BR %m/%d/%y .
-(Yecch \(em for Americans only.
+(Yecch\(emfor Americans only.
 Americans should note that in other countries
 .B %d/%m/%y
 is rather common.

diff --git a/man4/console.4 b/man4/console.4
index 6b58630db2f2a7bc8dc453912496d48417c0f823..30040cd587e47491f03b40f9491367882373e76e 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/console.4
+++ b/man4/console.4
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ on the console;
 (b) ask
 .BR openvt (1)
 to start a process on the console;
-(c) start X \(em it will find the first unused console,
+(c) start X\(emit will find the first unused console,
 and display its output there.
 (There is also the ancient
 .BR doshell (8).)

diff --git a/man4/console_codes.4 b/man4/console_codes.4
index d939dc3e36fdbb37dff5029f35ec46b04a8078e5..39b1e01b3878ec1f8fb8ef89705a1fa599593740 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/console_codes.4
+++ b/man4/console_codes.4
@@ -342,14 +342,14 @@ DECARM (default on): Set keyboard autorepeat on.
 .TP
 ESC [ ? 9 h
 X10 Mouse Reporting (default off): Set reporting mode to 1 (or reset to
-0) \(em see below.
+0)\(emsee below.
 .TP
 ESC [ ? 25 h
 DECTECM (default on): Make cursor visible.
 .TP
 ESC [ ? 1000 h
 X11 Mouse Reporting (default off): Set reporting mode to 2 (or reset
-to 0) \(em see below.
+to 0)\(emsee below.
 .\"
 .PP
 .B Linux Console Private CSI Sequences

diff --git a/man4/sk98lin.4 b/man4/sk98lin.4
index 58d9ab47d7fdbb381a77d62ea6dfc23553c34421..dcf27aee01c3febc2b61bf81108c386e61723299 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/sk98lin.4
+++ b/man4/sk98lin.4
@@ -469,13 +469,13 @@ depending on the load of the system.
 If the driver detects that the system load is too high,
 the driver tries to shield the system against too much network
 load by enabling interrupt moderation.
-If \(em at a later time \(em the CPU utilization decreases
+If\(emat a later time\(emthe CPU utilization decreases
 again (or if the network load is negligible) the interrupt
 moderation will automatically be disabled.
 
 Interrupt moderation should be used when the driver has to
 handle one or more interfaces with a high network load,
-which \(em as a consequence \(em leads also to a high CPU utilization.
+which\(emas a consequence\(emleads also to a high CPU utilization.
 When moderation is applied in such high network load situations,
 CPU load might be reduced by 20-30% on slow computers.
 

diff --git a/man4/st.4 b/man4/st.4
index a166d81c98bc037266d7a47b0f4ec1e46fe2c9da..78585c79df16d569d756bf49bdcba073b2e32f66 100644 (file)
--- a/man4/st.4
+++ b/man4/st.4
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ is enabled for the drive (see
 below).
 .TP
 .B MTNOP
-No op \(em flushes the driver's buffer as a side effect.
+No op\(emflushes the driver's buffer as a side effect.
 Should be used before reading status with
 .BR MTIOCGET .
 .TP

diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 4b37269c51894c919639165159004ade1afc9571..9357377e8c29093247d666cecebecd4e67c3d1de 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ the device type ('hd' for ST-506 compatible hard disk, with Y in
 \&'ad' for Atari ACSI disk, with Y in 'a'-'e',
 \&'ez' for a Syquest EZ135 parallel port removable drive, with Y='a',
 \&'xd' for XT compatible disk, with Y either 'a' or 'b'; 'fd' for
-floppy disk, with Y the floppy drive number \(em fd0 would be
+floppy disk, with Y the floppy drive number\(emfd0 would be
 the DOS 'A:' drive, and fd1 would be 'B:'), Y the driver letter or
 number, and N the number (in decimal) of the partition on this device
 (absent in the case of floppies).
@@ -367,8 +367,8 @@ For kernel tuners only.
 .SS "Boot Arguments for Ramdisk Use"
 (Only if the kernel was compiled with
 .BR CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM .)
-In general it is a bad idea to use a ramdisk under Linux \(em
-the system will use available memory more efficiently itself.
+In general it is a bad idea to use a ramdisk under Linux\(emthe
+system will use available memory more efficiently itself.
 But while booting (or while constructing boot floppies)
 it is often useful to load the floppy contents into a
 ramdisk.

diff --git a/man7/cpuset.7 b/man7/cpuset.7
index 1430dd774d9e14d54b9fb2decf1252c497db17e2..52943fbea3327d8ea5b6e25be030f1ecafce8948 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/cpuset.7
+++ b/man7/cpuset.7
@@ -548,8 +548,8 @@ single read, instead of having to read and accumulate results
 for a period of time.
 .IP *
 Because this meter is per-cpuset rather than per-process,
-the batch scheduler can obtain the key information \(em memory
-pressure in a cpuset \(em with a single read, rather than having to
+the batch scheduler can obtain the key information\(emmemory
+pressure in a cpuset\(emwith a single read, rather than having to
 query and accumulate results over all the (dynamically changing)
 set of processes in the cpuset.
 .PP

diff --git a/man7/credentials.7 b/man7/credentials.7
index a08c85ce0a56ff9eb2082aad386d20a693fdb10c..f2c588bfa7935787e0266879f941a754a42d7ec0 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/credentials.7
+++ b/man7/credentials.7
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ the effective and saved set IDs may be changed, as described in
 Aside from the purposes noted above,
 a process's user IDs are also employed in a number of other contexts:
 .IP * 3
-when determining the permissions for sending signals \(em see
+when determining the permissions for sending signals\(emsee
 .BR kill (2);
 .IP *
 when determining the permissions for setting

diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
index 261e5568ce40744e673ddb3e6a70165446b2d6f6..d544e875edb12c5885ff3c57d786e573aaec261e 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/man-pages.7
+++ b/man7/man-pages.7
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The section number in which the man page should be placed (e.g.,
 .IR 7 ).
 .TP
 .I date
-The date of the last revision \(em remember to change this every time a
+The date of the last revision\(emremember to change this every time a
 change is made to the man page,
 since this is the most general way of doing version control.
 Dates should be written in the form YYYY-MM-DD.

diff --git a/man7/path_resolution.7 b/man7/path_resolution.7
index 5d3dc361ed631e4a7226a429704a08433871ed74..ea7ac727fc48b269b8d6f31cc978e0194a85c3cb 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/path_resolution.7
+++ b/man7/path_resolution.7
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ by use of the
 .BR chroot (2)
 system call.
 A process may get an entirely private mount namespace in case
-it \(em or one of its ancestors \(em was started by an invocation of the
+it\(emor one of its ancestors\(emwas started by an invocation of the
 .BR clone (2)
 system call that had the
 .B CLONE_NEWNS
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ exceeded ("Too many levels of symbolic links").
 The lookup of the final component of the pathname goes just like
 that of all other components, as described in the previous step,
 with two differences: (i) the final component need not be a
-directory (at least as far as the path resolution process is concerned \(em
-it may have to be a directory, or a nondirectory, because of
+directory (at least as far as the path resolution process is
+concerned\(emit may have to be a directory, or a nondirectory, because of
 the requirements of the specific system call), and (ii) it
-is not necessarily an error if the component is not found \(em
-maybe we are just creating it.
+is not necessarily an error if the component is not found\(emmaybe
+we are just creating it.
 The details on the treatment
 of the final entry are described in the manual pages of the specific
 system calls.

diff --git a/man7/uri.7 b/man7/uri.7
index 1034d1c0fd9622ef08424781049b7ef3fc2eea78..83fba820dffc218d178196e93af5bb92f55f6634 100644 (file)
--- a/man7/uri.7
+++ b/man7/uri.7
@@ -526,9 +526,9 @@ For URIs which must handle characters outside the US ASCII character set,
 the HTML 4.01 specification (section B.2) and
 IETF RFC\ 2718 (section 2.2.5) recommend the following approach:
 .IP 1. 4
-translate the character sequences into UTF-8 (IETF RFC\ 2279) \(em see
-.BR utf-8 (7)
-\(em and then
+translate the character sequences into UTF-8 (IETF RFC\ 2279)\(emsee
+.BR utf-8 (7)\(emand
+then
 .IP 2.
 use the URI escaping mechanism, that is,
 use the %HH encoding for unsafe octets.