Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@xxxxxxxx> --- man2/clone.2 | 2 +- man2/epoll_wait.2 | 2 +- man2/recv.2 | 2 +- man2/send.2 | 2 +- man2/syscalls.2 | 2 +- man2/unlink.2 | 2 +- man7/sched.7 | 2 +- man7/unix.7 | 4 ++-- man7/vdso.7 | 2 +- 9 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 index 8e5eae806014..e88c54eeb6a3 100644 --- a/man2/clone.2 +++ b/man2/clone.2 @@ -1745,7 +1745,7 @@ .SS Linux 2.4 and earlier and .IR child_tid . .SH NOTES -One use of these systems calls +One use of these system calls is to implement threads: multiple flows of control in a program that run concurrently in a shared address space. .P diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2 index 3407785ec72b..2a0ad6364ff4 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_wait.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION .BR epoll_wait () to block indefinitely, while specifying a .I timeout -equal to zero cause +equal to zero causes .BR epoll_wait () to return immediately, even if no events are available. .P diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2 index 7959bff2583d..294eca384dae 100644 --- a/man2/recv.2 +++ b/man2/recv.2 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ .SS The flags argument is a setting on the open file description (see .BR open (2)), which will affect all threads in the calling process -and as well as other processes that hold file descriptors +as well as other processes that hold file descriptors referring to the same open file description. .TP .BR MSG_ERRQUEUE " (since Linux 2.2)" diff --git a/man2/send.2 b/man2/send.2 index 88588148e483..f3de06e4c629 100644 --- a/man2/send.2 +++ b/man2/send.2 @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ .SS The flags argument is a setting on the open file description (see .BR open (2)), which will affect all threads in the calling process -and as well as other processes that hold file descriptors +as well as other processes that hold file descriptors referring to the same open file description. .TP .BR MSG_EOR " (since Linux 2.2)" diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2 index c75855393464..6c231350634d 100644 --- a/man2/syscalls.2 +++ b/man2/syscalls.2 @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ .SH NOTES the glibc wrapper functions do some work to ensure that the right system call is invoked, and that ABI compatibility is preserved for old binaries.) -Examples of systems calls that exist in multiple versions are +Examples of system calls that exist in multiple versions are the following: .IP \[bu] 3 By now there are three different versions of diff --git a/man2/unlink.2 b/man2/unlink.2 index c43071f12029..ed729109d8e3 100644 --- a/man2/unlink.2 +++ b/man2/unlink.2 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ .SS unlinkat() .IR pathname . If the .B AT_REMOVEDIR -flag is specified, then +flag is specified, it performs the equivalent of .BR rmdir (2) on diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7 index 5640325a9185..71f098e48188 100644 --- a/man7/sched.7 +++ b/man7/sched.7 @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ .SS SCHED_FIFO: First in-first out scheduling thread identified by .I pid the effect on the thread's position in the list depends on -the direction of the change to threads priority: +the direction of the change to the thread's priority: .RS .IP (a) 5 If the thread's priority is raised, diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 71cdfc7586a5..cb1dcae45a66 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ .SS Address format .I sun_path is 108 bytes in size; see also BUGS, below. .P -Various systems calls (for example, +Various system calls (for example, .BR bind (2), .BR connect (2), and @@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ .SH NOTES .\" .SH BUGS When binding a socket to an address, -Linux is one of the implementations that appends a null terminator +Linux is one of the implementations that append a null terminator if none is supplied in .IR sun_path . In most cases this is unproblematic: diff --git a/man7/vdso.7 b/man7/vdso.7 index f440172d1532..de5f300cd219 100644 --- a/man7/vdso.7 +++ b/man7/vdso.7 @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ .SS vDSO names .ft P \} .SS strace(1), seccomp(2), and the vDSO -When tracing systems calls with +When tracing system calls with .BR strace (1), symbols (system calls) that are exported by the vDSO will .I not base-commit: a1e22a8c359660394afdc9f838c87eb0d38e7903 -- 2.43.1
