about summary refs log tree commit diff
path: root/manual
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2012-10-27 22:59:54 -0400
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2016-06-16 00:59:57 -0400
commitef48b196770b8091ba13c21183d7c1cc5efbca11 (patch)
tree6b9b92755686209d6d61d99426c26cd2ccd49a0f /manual
parent4706240f5259b12c0e19479c1635d7e9f56ec555 (diff)
downloadglibc-ef48b196770b8091ba13c21183d7c1cc5efbca11.tar.gz
glibc-ef48b196770b8091ba13c21183d7c1cc5efbca11.tar.xz
glibc-ef48b196770b8091ba13c21183d7c1cc5efbca11.zip
manual: fix spelling typos
I've bracketed the changes to make it easier to pick out.

	enlengthen -> extend
	enlengthened -> extended
	excep[e]tions -> exceptions
	exten[da]ble -> exten[si]ble
	implement[o]r -> implement[e]r
	licen[c]e -> licen[s]e
	optimzed -> optim[i]zed
	overriden -> overrid[d]en
	param[a]ter -> param[e]ter

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

2012-10-27  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>

	* manual/arith.texi: Fix spelling typos.
	* manual/contrib.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/crypt.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/filesys.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/llio.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/locale.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/message.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/nss.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/socket.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/stdio.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/string.texi: Likewise.
	* manual/sysinfo.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
-rw-r--r--manual/contrib.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/crypt.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/filesys.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/locale.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/message.texi14
-rw-r--r--manual/nss.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/string.texi2
7 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/manual/contrib.texi b/manual/contrib.texi
index 930d614e9b..c1b0245906 100644
--- a/manual/contrib.texi
+++ b/manual/contrib.texi
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Thomas Bushnell for his contributions to Hurd.
 Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes.
 
 @item
-Liubov Dmitrieva for optimzed string and math functions on x86-64 and
+Liubov Dmitrieva for optimized string and math functions on x86-64 and
 x86.
 
 @item
diff --git a/manual/crypt.texi b/manual/crypt.texi
index fd007cfa66..659688b98b 100644
--- a/manual/crypt.texi
+++ b/manual/crypt.texi
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ to provide a definitive survey of the laws affecting cryptography.
 Instead, this section warns you of some of the known trouble spots; this
 may help you when you try to find out what the laws of your country are.
 
-Some countries require that you have a licence to use, possess, or import
+Some countries require that you have a license to use, possess, or import
 cryptography.  These countries are believed to include Byelorussia,
 Burma, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, and Saudi
 Arabia.
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi
index b3236642e4..a22c21f012 100644
--- a/manual/filesys.texi
+++ b/manual/filesys.texi
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ of the following categories.  This could be special files, sockets etc.
 The item is a directory.
 @item FTW_NS
 The @code{stat} call failed and so the information pointed to by the
-second paramater is invalid.
+second parameter is invalid.
 @item FTW_DNR
 The item is a directory which cannot be read.
 @item FTW_SL
diff --git a/manual/locale.texi b/manual/locale.texi
index d227d03cf7..780ce0145f 100644
--- a/manual/locale.texi
+++ b/manual/locale.texi
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ as far as the system follows the Unix standards.
 
 Together with the @code{setlocale} function the @w{ISO C} people
 invented the @code{localeconv} function.  It is a masterpiece of poor
-design.  It is expensive to use, not extendable, and not generally
+design.  It is expensive to use, not extensible, and not generally
 usable as it provides access to only @code{LC_MONETARY} and
 @code{LC_NUMERIC} related information.  Nevertheless, if it is
 applicable to a given situation it should be used since it is very
diff --git a/manual/message.texi b/manual/message.texi
index b03a14a57a..98e88eaa6c 100644
--- a/manual/message.texi
+++ b/manual/message.texi
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ industry decisions and therefore not necessarily based on reasonable
 decisions.
 
 As mentioned above the message catalog handling provides easy
-extendibility by using external data files which contain the message
+extendability by using external data files which contain the message
 translations.  I.e., these files contain for each of the messages used
 in the program a translation for the appropriate language.  So the tasks
 of the message handling functions are
@@ -1639,12 +1639,12 @@ family.  But in two places the string passed into the function would be
 @code{Open}.  The translations might not be the same and therefore we
 are in the dilemma described above.
 
-One solution to this problem is to artificially enlengthen the strings
+One solution to this problem is to artificially extend the strings
 to make them unambiguous.  But what would the program do if no
-translation is available?  The enlengthened string is not what should be
+translation is available?  The extended string is not what should be
 printed.  So we should use a little bit modified version of the functions.
 
-To enlengthen the strings a uniform method should be used.  E.g., in the
+To extend the strings a uniform method should be used.  E.g., in the
 example above the strings could be chosen as
 
 @smallexample
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ for the Menu entries and therefore contains a @code{|} character.  We
 simply search for the last occurrence of this character and return a
 pointer to the character following it.  That's it!
 
-If one now consistently uses the enlengthened string form and replaces
+If one now consistently uses the extended string form and replaces
 the @code{gettext} calls with calls to @code{sgettext} (this is normally
 limited to very few places in the GUI implementation) then it is
 possible to produce a program which can be internationalized.
@@ -1716,7 +1716,7 @@ with the second part which is:
 @item
 There is no way the C library can contain a version which can work
 everywhere.  The problem is the selection of the character to separate
-the prefix from the actual string in the enlenghtened string.  The
+the prefix from the actual string in the extended string.  The
 examples above used @code{|} which is a quite good choice because it
 resembles a notation frequently used in this context and it also is a
 character not often used in message strings.
@@ -1728,7 +1728,7 @@ why the @file{iso646.h} file exists in @w{ISO C} programming environments).
 @end itemize
 
 There is only one more comment to make left.  The wrapper function above
-require that the translations strings are not enlengthened themselves.
+require that the translations strings are not extended themselves.
 This is only logical.  There is no need to disambiguate the strings
 (since they are never used as keys for a search) and one also saves
 quite some memory and disk space by doing this.
diff --git a/manual/nss.texi b/manual/nss.texi
index ddc16026c0..2770fed41d 100644
--- a/manual/nss.texi
+++ b/manual/nss.texi
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ here only important to remember that adding another database is
 independent from adding another service because a service need not
 support all databases or lookup functions.
 
-A designer/implementor of a new service is therefore free to choose the
+A designer/implementer of a new service is therefore free to choose the
 databases s/he is interested in and leave the rest for later (or
 completely aside).
 
diff --git a/manual/string.texi b/manual/string.texi
index bfbcc1922d..bce81a7c92 100644
--- a/manual/string.texi
+++ b/manual/string.texi
@@ -2300,7 +2300,7 @@ The GNU version of the @code{basename} function returns the last
 component of the path in @var{filename}.  This function is the preferred
 usage, since it does not modify the argument, @var{filename}, and
 respects trailing slashes.  The prototype for @code{basename} can be
-found in @file{string.h}.  Note, this function is overriden by the XPG
+found in @file{string.h}.  Note, this function is overridden by the XPG
 version, if @file{libgen.h} is included.
 
 Example of using GNU @code{basename}: