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Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/charset.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/errno.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/getopt.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/memory.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/message.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/resource.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/stdio.texi | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/time.texi | 2 |
8 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/manual/charset.texi b/manual/charset.texi index 79854e50bf..a49798c7c2 100644 --- a/manual/charset.texi +++ b/manual/charset.texi @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ We already said above that the currently selected locale for the by the functions we are about to describe. Each locale uses its own character set (given as an argument to @code{localedef}) and this is the one assumed as the external multibyte encoding. The wide character -character set always is UCS-4, at least on GNU systems. +set always is UCS-4, at least on GNU systems. A characteristic of each multibyte character set is the maximum number of bytes that can be necessary to represent one character. This diff --git a/manual/errno.texi b/manual/errno.texi index 03a868e457..3b0af0c384 100644 --- a/manual/errno.texi +++ b/manual/errno.texi @@ -1425,7 +1425,7 @@ available on all systems implementing @w{ISO C}. But often the text @code{perror} generates is not what is wanted and there is no way to extend or change what @code{perror} does. The GNU coding standard, for instance, requires error messages to be preceded by the program name and -programs which read some input files should should provide information +programs which read some input files should provide information about the input file name and the line number in case an error is encountered while reading the file. For these occasions there are two functions available which are widely used throughout the GNU project. diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi index 8c9bd20d6d..77045157ef 100644 --- a/manual/getopt.texi +++ b/manual/getopt.texi @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ When @code{getopt_long} has no more options to handle, it returns @var{argv} of the next remaining argument. @end deftypefun -Since long option names were used before before the @code{getopt_long} +Since long option names were used before the @code{getopt_long} options was invented there are program interfaces which require programs to recognize options like @w{@samp{-option value}} instead of @w{@samp{--option value}}. To enable these programs to use the GNU diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi index 43afc7bf95..59ea1ee342 100644 --- a/manual/memory.texi +++ b/manual/memory.texi @@ -2379,7 +2379,7 @@ exceed the process' data storage limit. @c The Brk system call in Linux (as opposed to the GNU C Library function) @c is considerably different. It always returns the new end of the data @c segment, whether it succeeds or fails. The GNU C library Brk determines -@c it's a failure if and only if if the system call returns an address less +@c it's a failure if and only if the system call returns an address less @c than the address requested. @end deftypefun diff --git a/manual/message.texi b/manual/message.texi index e772b2de1f..e44545a311 100644 --- a/manual/message.texi +++ b/manual/message.texi @@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ have this problem. But there is a very simple and powerful method to handle these kind of problems with the @code{gettext} functions. @noindent -As as example consider the following fictional situation. A GUI program +As an example consider the following fictional situation. A GUI program has a menu bar with the following entries: @smallexample diff --git a/manual/resource.texi b/manual/resource.texi index 4a814c9e4a..05495722f9 100644 --- a/manual/resource.texi +++ b/manual/resource.texi @@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ protected from concurrent accesses from different processors. The POSIX standard up to this date is of not much help to solve this problem. The Linux kernel provides a set of interfaces to allow specifying @emph{affinity sets} for a process. The scheduler will -schedule the thread or process on on CPUs specified by the affinity +schedule the thread or process on CPUs specified by the affinity masks. The interfaces which the GNU C library define follow to some extend the Linux kernel interface. diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi index 6748513549..9fb209a473 100644 --- a/manual/stdio.texi +++ b/manual/stdio.texi @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ operation itself is avoided. More importantly, functions like introduction of threads) were implemented as macros which are very fast if the buffer is not empty. With the addition of locking requirements these functions are no longer implemented as macros since they would -would expand to too much code. +expand to too much code. But these macros are still available with the same functionality under the new names @code{putc_unlocked} and @code{getc_unlocked}. This possibly huge difference of speed also suggests the use of the @code{_unlocked} diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi index 393bccd99f..f1f4254e90 100644 --- a/manual/time.texi +++ b/manual/time.texi @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ This counter represents the number of calibration errors (caused by large offsets or jitter). @item long int stbcnt -This counter denotes the number of of calibrations where the stability +This counter denotes the number of calibrations where the stability exceeded the threshold. @end table @end deftp |