Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man7/netlink.7 | 8 ++++----
man7/tcp.7 | 10 +++++-----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/netlink.7 b/man7/netlink.7
index 6559d4d96..f10582d79 100644
--- a/man7/netlink.7
+++ b/man7/netlink.7
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ The message is part of a multipart message terminated by
.BR NLMSG_DONE .
T}
NLM_F_ACK:T{
-Request for an acknowledgment on success.
+Request for an acknowledgement on success.
T}
NLM_F_ECHO:T{
Echo this request.
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ For reliable transfer the sender can request an
acknowledgement from the receiver by setting the
.B NLM_F_ACK
flag.
-An acknowledgment is an
+An acknowledgement is an
.B NLMSG_ERROR
packet with the error field set to 0.
The application must generate acknowledgements for
@@ -494,11 +494,11 @@ is sent to user space via an ancillary data.
.BR NETLINK_CAP_ACK " (since Linux 4.2)"
.\" commit 0a6a3a23ea6efde079a5b77688541a98bf202721
.\" Author: Christophe Ricard <christophe.ricard@xxxxxxxxx>
-The kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the acknowledgment
+The kernel may fail to allocate the necessary room for the acknowledgement
message back to user space.
This option trims off the payload of the original netlink message.
The netlink message header is still included, so the user can guess from the
-sequence number which message triggered the acknowledgment.
+sequence number which message triggered the acknowledgement.
.SH VERSIONS
The socket interface to netlink first appeared Linux 2.2.
.PP
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index d6836f3a8..8b78cb6e1 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -264,22 +264,22 @@ meaning that the option is disabled.
Control the Appropriate Byte Count (ABC), defined in RFC 3465.
ABC is a way of increasing the congestion window
.RI ( cwnd )
-more slowly in response to partial acknowledgments.
+more slowly in response to partial acknowledgements.
Possible values are:
.RS
.IP 0 3
increase
.I cwnd
-once per acknowledgment (no ABC)
+once per acknowledgement (no ABC)
.IP 1
increase
.I cwnd
-once per acknowledgment of full sized segment
+once per acknowledgement of full sized segment
.IP 2
allow increase
.I cwnd
-by two if acknowledgment is
-of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgments.
+by two if acknowledgement is
+of two segments to compensate for delayed acknowledgements.
.RE
.TP
.IR tcp_abort_on_overflow " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.4)"
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