From: "David Prévot" <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
"David Prévot" <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [PATCH] lseek.2, inet_pton.3, tzfile.5: tfix
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:51:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316742690-15258-1-git-send-email-taffit@debian.org> (raw)
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
---
Hi Michael,
Please find attach a consistency fix: there were only five “zeroes”
but twenty four “zeros” in those manual pages.
Regards
David
man2/lseek.2 | 6 +++---
man3/inet_pton.3 | 2 +-
man5/tzfile.5 | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/lseek.2 b/man2/lseek.2
index 9e62bc6..a7c435c 100644
--- a/man2/lseek.2
+++ b/man2/lseek.2
@@ -126,12 +126,12 @@ This can be useful for applications such as file backup tools,
which can save space when creating backups and preserve holes,
if they have a mechanism for discovering holes.
-For the purposes of these operations, a hole is a sequence of zeroes that
+For the purposes of these operations, a hole is a sequence of zeros that
(normally) has not been allocated in the underlying file storage.
However, a file system is not obliged to report holes,
so these operations are not a guaranteed mechanism for
mapping the storage space actually allocated to a file.
-(Furthermore, a sequence of zeroes that actually has been written
+(Furthermore, a sequence of zeros that actually has been written
to the underlying storage may not be reported as a hole.)
In the simplest implementation,
a file system can support the operations by making
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ return
(i.e., even if the location referred to by
.I offset
is a hole,
-it can be considered to consist of data that is a sequence of zeroes).
+it can be considered to consist of data that is a sequence of zeros).
.\" https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/22/79
.\" http://lwn.net/Articles/440255/
.\" http://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data
diff --git a/man3/inet_pton.3 b/man3/inet_pton.3
index dfc879f..a2054cb 100644
--- a/man3/inet_pton.3
+++ b/man3/inet_pton.3
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ For example, the loopback address
.I 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
can be abbreviated as
.IR ::1 .
-The wildcard address, consisting of all zeroes, can be written as
+The wildcard address, consisting of all zeros, can be written as
.IR :: .
.IP 3.
An alternate format is useful for expressing IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses.
diff --git a/man5/tzfile.5 b/man5/tzfile.5
index 51a1c8e..3b938dd 100644
--- a/man5/tzfile.5
+++ b/man5/tzfile.5
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as
timezone information files,
followed by a character identifying the version of the file's format
(as of 2005, either an ASCII NUL ('\\0') or a '2')
-followed by fifteen bytes containing zeroes reserved for future use,
+followed by fifteen bytes containing zeros reserved for future use,
followed by six four-byte values of type
.IR long ,
written in a "standard" byte order
--
1.7.6.3
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2011-09-23 5:04 ` [PATCH] lseek.2, inet_pton.3, tzfile.5: tfix Michael Kerrisk
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