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-rw-r--r--manual/arith.texi8
-rw-r--r--manual/creature.texi7
-rw-r--r--manual/users.texi28
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi
index 8ea9508..5607c4c 100644
--- a/manual/arith.texi
+++ b/manual/arith.texi
@@ -588,9 +588,9 @@ In these situation one could use the function
@code{__strto@var{XXX}_internal}. @var{XXX} here stands for any of the
above forms. All numeric conversion functions (including the functions
to process floating-point numbers) have such a counterpart. The
-difference to the normal for is the extra argument at the end of the
+difference to the normal form is the extra argument at the end of the
parameter list. If this value has an non-zero value the handling of
-number grouping is enabled. The advantage from using these functions is
+number grouping is enabled. The advantage of using these functions is
that the @var{tailptr} parameters allow to determine which part of the
input is processed. The @code{scanf} functions don't provide this
information. The drawback of using these functions is that they are not
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ number, no conversion is performed. In this case, @code{strtod} returns
a value of zero and the value returned in @code{*@var{tailptr}} is the
value of @var{string}.
-In a locale other than the standard @code{"C"} or @code{"POSIX"} locale,
+In a locale other than the standard @code{"C"} or @code{"POSIX"} locales,
this function may recognize additional locale-dependent syntax.
If the string has valid syntax for a floating-point number but the value
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ because of underflow, @code{strtod} returns zero. It also sets @code{errno}
to @code{ERANGE} if there was overflow or underflow.
Since the value zero which is returned in the error case is also a valid
-result the user should set the global variable @code{errno} to null
+result the user should set the global variable @code{errno} to zero
before calling this function. So one can test for failures after the
call since all failures set @code{errno} to a non-zero value.
@end deftypefun
diff --git a/manual/creature.texi b/manual/creature.texi
index babbb0a..423dce4 100644
--- a/manual/creature.texi
+++ b/manual/creature.texi
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Portability Guide is included. This is an superset of the POSIX.1 and
POSIX.2 functionality and in fact @code{_POSIX_SOURCE} and
@code{_POSIX_C_SOURCE} get automatically be defined.
-But as the great unifaction of all Unices there is also functionality
+But as the great unifiction of all Unices there is also functionality
only available in BSD and SVID is included.
If the macro @code{_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED} is also defined, even more
@@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ get very strange errors at run time.
@comment (none)
@comment GNU
-@defvr Macro _REENTRANT,_THREAD_SAFE
-If you define one this macro, reentrant versions of several functions get
+@defvr Macro _REENTRANT
+@defvrx Macro _THREAD_SAFE
+If you define one of these macros, reentrant versions of several functions get
declared. Some of the functions are specified in POSIX.1c but many others
are only available on a few other systems or are unique to GNU libc.
The problem is that the standardization of the thread safe C library
diff --git a/manual/users.texi b/manual/users.texi
index ce6d526..9e397d3 100644
--- a/manual/users.texi
+++ b/manual/users.texi
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
This stream must correspond to a file in the same format as the standard
password database file.
-If the funciton returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors
occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
pointer.
@@ -914,9 +914,9 @@ result is placed in the user supplied structure pointed to by
the elements of the result structure, are placed in the additional
buffer or length @var{buflen} starting at @var{buffer}.
-If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with
the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors
-occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
+occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null
pointer.
@end deftypefun
@@ -1023,8 +1023,8 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
If the return value is @code{0} the pointer returned in @var{result}
points to the record which contains the wanted data (i.e., @var{result}
-contains the value @var{result_buf}). In case the return value is non
-null there is no group in the data base with group ID @var{gid} or the
+contains the value @var{result_buf}). If the return value is non-zero
+there is no group in the data base with group ID @var{gid} or the
buffer @var{buffer} is too small to contain all the needed information.
In the later case the global @var{errno} variable is set to
@code{ERANGE}.
@@ -1054,8 +1054,8 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
If the return value is @code{0} the pointer returned in @var{result}
points to the record which contains the wanted data (i.e., @var{result}
-contains the value @var{result_buf}). In case the return value is non
-null there is no group in the data base with group name @var{name} or the
+contains the value @var{result_buf}). If the return value is non-zero
+there is no group in the data base with group name @var{name} or the
buffer @var{buffer} is too small to contain all the needed information.
In the later case the global @var{errno} variable is set to
@code{ERANGE}.
@@ -1098,9 +1098,9 @@ strings which are pointed to by the elements of the result structure.
This stream must correspond to a file in the same format as the standard
group database file.
-If the funciton returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with
the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors
-occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
+occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null
pointer.
@end deftypefun
@@ -1135,9 +1135,9 @@ result is placed in the user supplied structure pointed to by
the elements of the result structure, are placed in the additional
buffer or length @var{buflen} starting at @var{buffer}.
-If the function returns null @var{result} points to the structure with
+If the function returns zero @var{result} points to the structure with
the wanted data (normally this is in @var{result_buf}). If errors
-occured the return value is non-null and @var{result} contains a null
+occured the return value is non-zero and @var{result} contains a null
pointer.
@end deftypefun
@@ -1186,8 +1186,8 @@ in either of the input services must have the following form:
@end smallexample
Any of the fields in the triple can be empty which means anything
-matches. While describing te functions we will see that the opposite
-case is useful as well. I.e., there shall be entries which will not
+matches. While describing the functions we will see that the opposite
+case is useful as well. I.e., there may be entries which will not
match any input. For entries like a name consisting of the single
character @code{-} shall be used.
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ also true for the name @code{-} which should not match any other string
otherwise.
The return value is @code{1} if an entry matching the given triple is
-found in the netgroup. The return value is @code{0} is the netgroup
+found in the netgroup. The return value is @code{0} if the netgroup
itself is not found, the netgroup does not contain the triple or
internal errors occured.
@end deftypefun