libuuid: fix man page typos

Signed-off-by: Seth Girvan <snth@snthhacks.com>

diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid.3
index 13ab7a8f4906612bd4dcc3dfcc4e4a54fc6d9905..7d6aeb1263ccc087b6b6a488904655b01a2caaa3 100644 (file)
--- a/libuuid/man/uuid.3
+++ b/libuuid/man/uuid.3
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
 web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
 of a name clash.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-This library generates UUIDs compatible OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and
-V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
+This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs
+V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
 .SH AVAILABILITY

diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
index d30075905604fb3b4e1c4a2e72da837041e10e54..e93dc79e1cb73dabfca9f17a98cdc596b0dae509 100644 (file)
--- a/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
+++ b/libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ The
 .B uuid_generate_time
 function forces the use of the alternative algorithm which uses the
 current time and the local ethernet MAC address (if available).
-This algorithm used to be the default one used to generate UUID, but
+This algorithm used to be the default one used to generate UUIDs, but
 because of the use of the ethernet MAC address, it can leak
 information about when and where the UUID was generated.  This can cause
 privacy problems in some applications, so the
 .B uuid_generate
 function only uses this algorithm if a high-quality source of
 randomness is not available.  To guarantee uniqueness of UUIDs generated
-by concurrently running processes, the uuid library uses global
+by concurrently running processes, the uuid library uses a global
 clock state counter (if the process has permissions to gain exclusive access
 to this file) and/or the
 .B uuidd
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ whether the UUID has been generated in a safe manner, use
 .sp
 The
 .B uuid_generate_time_safe
-is similar to
+function is similar to
 .BR uuid_generate_time ,
 except that it returns a value which denotes whether any of the synchronization
 mechanisms (see above) has been used.
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ The newly created UUID is returned in the memory location pointed to by
 .B uuid_generate_time_safe
 returns zero if the UUID has been generated in a safe manner, \-1 otherwise.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-This library generates UUIDs compatible OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and
-V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
+This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs
+V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
 .SH AVAILABILITY

diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3
index 50b2c87b6b934050ee575c91c44b8a0ccb032430..156d15dddc2fdabbaf5d5a6dff072f16d8651ef1 100644 (file)
--- a/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3
+++ b/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ stored in the location pointed to by
 .IR uu ,
 otherwise \-1 is returned.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
-This library parses UUIDs compatible OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and
-V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
+This library parses UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3
+and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
 .SH AUTHOR
 Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
 .SH AVAILABILITY

diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
index 8fb7a59561479781175b45a276fa8abb30954d76..7f708f057b4a68fa6572ee35020e0807f2a5671a 100644 (file)
--- a/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
+++ b/libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The
 .B uuid_unparse
 function converts the supplied UUID
 .I uu
-from the binary representation into a 36-byte string (plus tailing '\e0')
+from the binary representation into a 36-byte string (plus trailing '\e0')
 of the form 1b4e28ba\-2fa1\-11d2\-883f\-0016d3cca427 and stores this
 value in the character string pointed to by
 .IR out .