[patch] hosts.5, protocols.5, spufs.7, termio.7: Uniform description (Was: armscii-8.7, koi8-r.7, koi8-u.7, unicode.7)

["David Prévot" <davidp-whniv8GeeGkdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Michael,

> All changes are now pushed to git; you may wish to check.

Seems fine, thanks.

> Thanks. Applied for 3.30. I prefer without "the", and made that change also.

Agreed. Please find inline another tiny patch in order to shrink the definite
article from some other pages (found with “rgrep -i ' \\\- the' man*/”).


diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5
index cb9b253..513a4e3 100644
--- a/man5/hosts.5
+++ b/man5/hosts.5
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH HOSTS 5 2002-06-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-hosts \- The static table lookup for hostnames
+hosts \- static table lookup for hostnames
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B /etc/hosts
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man5/protocols.5 b/man5/protocols.5
index d414093..9c644f7 100644
--- a/man5/protocols.5
+++ b/man5/protocols.5
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH PROTOCOLS 5 2008-09-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-protocols \- the protocols definition file
+protocols \- protocols definition file
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 This file is a plain ASCII file, describing the various DARPA internet
 protocols that are available from the TCP/IP subsystem.
diff --git a/man7/spufs.7 b/man7/spufs.7
index 64c4357..ee65298 100644
--- a/man7/spufs.7
+++ b/man7/spufs.7
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH SPUFS 7 2007-12-20 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-spufs \- the SPU file system
+spufs \- SPU file system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the
 Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in order to access Synergistic
diff --git a/man7/termio.7 b/man7/termio.7
index d6c20c0..bfa9003 100644
--- a/man7/termio.7
+++ b/man7/termio.7
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH TERMIO 7 2006-12-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-termio \- the System V terminal driver interface
+termio \- System V terminal driver interface
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B termio
 is the name of the old System V terminal driver interface.


Cheers

David


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