The manual pages currently use a multitude of terms--"exit code",
"error code", "return code", "exit code", and so on--when what
is always meant is "exit status" (the POSIX term). This patch fixes
as many of these erroneous terms as I could find.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Using double quotes in .SH lines containing multiple words is unneeded,
and in any case is not consistently done in the util-linux manual pages,
where double quotes are used in only around half of the cases.
(This usage was long ago elminated in the man-pages project, with
no ill effects reported to date.)
Remove these quotes, so that .SH lines are more uniform, in preparation
for some (more easily) scripted doiscovery of consistency problems in
(and possibly global fixes to) the manual pages.
Other than stripping the double quotes, this patch makes no changes to
the content of the manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
We assume that users will have a kernel >= 2.6.0 and removel
references to earlier kernels. There are still a few ones
left.
Signed-off-by: Ruediger Meier <ruediger.meier@ga-group.nl>
This patch does only the following:
* Order SEE ALSO entries first by section name, then alphabetically
within section
* Adds one or two missing commas in SEE ALSO lists
* Removes one or two periods that were (inconsistently) used
at the end of SEE ALSO lists.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Transform some of them into copyright lines.
Also fix three header lines and snip some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
The unit "MB" is ambigous. Use "MiB" if "M" does not mean 10^6.
Otherwise add "(M = 10^6)" after it.
Changes:
Unpaddable space (\ ) added between a number and an unit. A nuber
and a unit are not one word. Is "16MB" written "sixteenmegabytes"?
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Chris Hofstaedtler
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Ruediger Meier
Sébastien Helleu
Benno Schulenberg
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Sami Kerola