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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-26 11:17:23 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-26 11:17:23 +0000
commita43eed0cdc30fc09125c4129d60c491b66116a23 (patch)
tree55d2e367a89c19caaa683f66dc18e8f8e7b44803
parent0b4deed8dcc819865ba435316598fb34720bb32c (diff)
Hyphenation fixes
-rw-r--r--man2/_exit.22
-rw-r--r--man2/mprotect.22
-rw-r--r--man3/alloca.32
-rw-r--r--man3/btree.32
-rw-r--r--man3/iconv_open.32
-rw-r--r--man3/setlocale.32
-rw-r--r--man3/strtod.32
-rw-r--r--man3/wctrans.32
-rw-r--r--man3/wctype.32
-rw-r--r--man3/wprintf.32
-rw-r--r--man5/utmp.52
-rw-r--r--man7/arp.74
-rw-r--r--man7/signal.72
13 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man2/_exit.2 b/man2/_exit.2
index f0bd16cd..d2e0fb7b 100644
--- a/man2/_exit.2
+++ b/man2/_exit.2
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ or
Whether it flushes
standard I/O buffers and removes temporary files created with
.BR tmpfile (3)
-is implementation dependent.
+is implementation-dependent.
On the other hand,
.BR _exit ()
does close open file descriptors, and this may cause an unknown delay,
diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2
index c1d175ff..33e6774c 100644
--- a/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Whether
.B PROT_EXEC
has any effect different from
.B PROT_READ
-is architecture and kernel version dependent.
+is architecture- and kernel version-dependent.
On some hardware architectures (e.g., i386),
.B PROT_WRITE
implies
diff --git a/man3/alloca.3 b/man3/alloca.3
index f56b8eeb..615b8cc6 100644
--- a/man3/alloca.3
+++ b/man3/alloca.3
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Thus, there is no NULL error return.
.SH BUGS
The
.BR alloca ()
-function is machine and compiler dependent.
+function is machine- and compiler- dependent.
On many systems
its implementation is buggy.
Its use is discouraged.
diff --git a/man3/btree.3 b/man3/btree.3
index af9cfc16..01fe43be 100644
--- a/man3/btree.3
+++ b/man3/btree.3
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ If specified, this routine must return the number of bytes of the second key
argument which are necessary to determine that it is greater than the first
key argument.
If the keys are equal, the key length should be returned.
-Note, the usefulness of this routine is very data dependent, but, in some
+Note, the usefulness of this routine is very data-dependent, but, in some
data sets can produce significantly reduced tree sizes and search times.
If
.I prefix
diff --git a/man3/iconv_open.3 b/man3/iconv_open.3
index ec7421de..0842d326 100644
--- a/man3/iconv_open.3
+++ b/man3/iconv_open.3
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ for converting byte sequences from character encoding \fIfromcode\fP to
character encoding \fItocode\fP.
.PP
The values permitted for \fIfromcode\fP and \fItocode\fP and the supported
-combinations are system dependent.
+combinations are system-dependent.
For the GNU C library, the permitted
values are listed by the \fBiconv \-\-list\fP command, and all combinations
of the listed values are supported.
diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3
index d77d9c48..6ddae067 100644
--- a/man3/setlocale.3
+++ b/man3/setlocale.3
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ is
.BR """""" ,
each part of the locale that should be modified is set according to the
environment variables.
-The details are implementation dependent.
+The details are implementation-dependent.
For glibc, first
.\" [This is false on my system - must check which library versions do this]
.\" if
diff --git a/man3/strtod.3 b/man3/strtod.3
index 1fe1c27c..de61761f 100644
--- a/man3/strtod.3
+++ b/man3/strtod.3
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ or (iii) an infinity, or (iv) a NAN (not-a-number).
A
.I "decimal number"
consists of a nonempty sequence of decimal digits
-possibly containing a radix character (decimal point, locale dependent,
+possibly containing a radix character (decimal point, locale-dependent,
usually '.'), optionally followed by a decimal exponent.
A decimal exponent consists of an 'E' or 'e', followed by an
optional plus or minus sign, followed by a nonempty sequence of
diff --git a/man3/wctrans.3 b/man3/wctrans.3
index 5ad9dc00..e79cf74f 100644
--- a/man3/wctrans.3
+++ b/man3/wctrans.3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ wctrans \- wide-character translation mapping
The \fIwctrans_t\fP type represents a mapping
which can map a wide character to
another wide character.
-Its nature is implementation dependent, but the special
+Its nature is implementation-dependent, but the special
value \fI(wctrans_t)\ 0\fP denotes an invalid mapping.
Nonzero \fIwctrans_t\fP
values can be passed to the
diff --git a/man3/wctype.3 b/man3/wctype.3
index 5c7a21c9..9ee15c2a 100644
--- a/man3/wctype.3
+++ b/man3/wctype.3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ wctype \- wide-character classification
The \fBwctype_t\fP type represents a property which a wide character may or
may not have.
In other words, it represents a class of wide characters.
-This type's nature is implementation dependent, but the special value
+This type's nature is implementation-dependent, but the special value
\fI(wctype_t) 0\fP denotes an invalid property.
Nonzero \fBwctype_t\fP values
can be passed to the
diff --git a/man3/wprintf.3 b/man3/wprintf.3
index 029cb4db..6222c998 100644
--- a/man3/wprintf.3
+++ b/man3/wprintf.3
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ category of the current locale at
compile time.
This is because the
.I wchar_t
-representation is platform and locale dependent.
+representation is platform- and locale-dependent.
(The glibc represents
wide characters using their Unicode (ISO-10646) code point, but other
platforms don't do this.
diff --git a/man5/utmp.5 b/man5/utmp.5
index dcbebd29..bda3527f 100644
--- a/man5/utmp.5
+++ b/man5/utmp.5
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ Because of this,
binaries using the old libc5 struct will corrupt
.IR /var/run/utmp " and/or " /var/log/wtmp .
.SH NOTES
-The file format is machine dependent, so it is recommended that it be
+The file format is machine-dependent, so it is recommended that it be
processed only on the machine architecture where it was created.
.PP
Note that on platforms which can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications
diff --git a/man7/arp.7 b/man7/arp.7
index a44ed64e..e3a23480 100644
--- a/man7/arp.7
+++ b/man7/arp.7
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ The
.I neigh/*
sysctls did not exist before Linux 2.2.
.SH BUGS
-Some timer settings are specified in jiffies, which is architecture
-and kernel version dependent; see
+Some timer settings are specified in jiffies, which is architecture-
+and kernel version-dependent; see
.BR time (7).
There is no way to signal positive feedback from user space.
diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
index 370eff72..7449772a 100644
--- a/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man7/signal.7
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ the calling thread.
.SS "Standard Signals"
Linux supports the standard signals listed below.
Several signal numbers
-are architecture dependent, as indicated in the "Value" column.
+are architecture-dependent, as indicated in the "Value" column.
(Where three values are given, the first one is usually valid for
alpha and sparc, the middle one for i386, ppc and sh, and
the last one for mips.