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libuuid: fix man page typos 

Signed-off-by: Seth Girvan <snth@snthhacks.com>
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Seth Girvan 2018-12-07 02:02:00 -08:00 committed by Karel Zak
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libuuid/man/uuid.3
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@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ be used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple
web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
of a name clash.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
This library generates UUIDs compatible OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and
V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs
V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
.SH AUTHOR
Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
.SH AVAILABILITY

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libuuid/man/uuid_generate.3
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@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ The
.B uuid_generate_time
function forces the use of the alternative algorithm which uses the
current time and the local ethernet MAC address (if available).
This algorithm used to be the default one used to generate UUID, but
This algorithm used to be the default one used to generate UUIDs, but
because of the use of the ethernet MAC address, it can leak
information about when and where the UUID was generated. This can cause
privacy problems in some applications, so the
.B uuid_generate
function only uses this algorithm if a high-quality source of
randomness is not available. To guarantee uniqueness of UUIDs generated
by concurrently running processes, the uuid library uses global
by concurrently running processes, the uuid library uses a global
clock state counter (if the process has permissions to gain exclusive access
to this file) and/or the
.B uuidd
@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ whether the UUID has been generated in a safe manner, use
.sp
The
.B uuid_generate_time_safe
is similar to
function is similar to
.BR uuid_generate_time ,
except that it returns a value which denotes whether any of the synchronization
mechanisms (see above) has been used.
@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ The newly created UUID is returned in the memory location pointed to by
.B uuid_generate_time_safe
returns zero if the UUID has been generated in a safe manner, \-1 otherwise.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
This library generates UUIDs compatible OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and
V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
This library generates UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs
V3 and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
.SH AUTHOR
Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
.SH AVAILABILITY

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libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3
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@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ stored in the location pointed to by
.IR uu ,
otherwise \-1 is returned.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
This library parses UUIDs compatible OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3 and
V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
This library parses UUIDs compatible with OSF DCE 1.1, and hash based UUIDs V3
and V5 compatible with RFC-4122.
.SH AUTHOR
Theodore Y.\& Ts'o
.SH AVAILABILITY

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libuuid/man/uuid_unparse.3
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@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ The
.B uuid_unparse
function converts the supplied UUID
.I uu
from the binary representation into a 36-byte string (plus tailing '\e0')
from the binary representation into a 36-byte string (plus trailing '\e0')
of the form 1b4e28ba\-2fa1\-11d2\-883f\-0016d3cca427 and stores this
value in the character string pointed to by
.IR out .