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From: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
To: alx@kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, debian@helgeth.de, champbreed1@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] man2, man3: Fix spelling (British -> American)
Date: Tue,  6 Jan 2026 10:31:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260106103159.30476-1-champbreed1@gmail.com> (raw)

Change 'signalled' to 'signaled' to follow American English standards.

Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgeth.de>
Signed-off-by: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
---
 man/man2/select_tut.2 | 2 +-
 man/man3/exit.3       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/select_tut.2 b/man/man2/select_tut.2
index 8fd312bcd..6071ec7d8 100644
--- a/man/man2/select_tut.2
+++ b/man/man2/select_tut.2
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
         if (got_SIGCHLD) {
             got_SIGCHLD = 0;
 \&
-            /* Handle signalled event here; e.g., wait() for all
+            /* Handle signaled event here; e.g., wait() for all
                terminated children.  (Code omitted.)  */
         }
 \&
diff --git a/man/man3/exit.3 b/man/man3/exit.3
index da33aab4b..114d8247f 100644
--- a/man/man3/exit.3
+++ b/man/man3/exit.3
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ See
 for an explanation of orphaned process groups.
 .P
 Except in the above cases,
-where the signalled processes may be children of the terminating process,
+where the signaled processes may be children of the terminating process,
 termination of a process does
 .I not
 in general cause a signal to be sent to children of that process.
-- 
2.51.0


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