Subject: kern/4057: Typos in options.4 man page
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@tardis.bernstein.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/29/1997 01:53:43
>Number: 4057
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: The options.4 man page contains several typos.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 29 01:50:03 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: maximum entropy
>Organization:
>Release: <NetBSD-current source date>19970828
>Environment:
System: NetBSD tardis.bernstein.com 1.2G NetBSD 1.2G (C466DE) #0: Mon Aug 11 13:29:35 EDT 1997 entropy@tardis.bernstein.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/C466DE i386
>Description:
The options.4 man page contains a number of typos.
>How-To-Repeat:
man 4 options
>Fix:
--- /usr/src/share/man/man4/options.4-orig Fri Aug 29 01:22:08 1997
+++ /usr/src/share/man/man4/options.4 Fri Aug 29 01:45:25 1997
@@ -100,9 +100,10 @@
Enable binary compatibility with
.Nx 1.2 .
This allows the use of old syscalls for
-.Fn reboot , and
+.Fn reboot
+and
.Fn swapon .
-The syscall numbers was changed post 1.2 to add functionality to the
+The syscall numbers were changed post 1.2 to add functionality to the
reboot syscall, and the new
.Fn swapctl
interface was introduced.
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@
compatibility with
.At V.4
applications built for the same architecture. This currently includes
-the sparc, and i386.
+the sparc and i386.
.It Cd options COMPAT_LINUX
On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
compatibility with Linux ELF and a.out
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@
of
.Em EXT2FS
like the "behavior on errors" are not implemented. This file system can't be
-used with UID or GID greather than 65535. See
+used with UID or GID greater than 65535. See
.Xr mount_ext2fs 8
for details.
.It Cd file-system LFS
@@ -544,7 +545,7 @@
.Pa /dev/fd/* .
What this option allows as far as security is
concerned, is the ability to safely ensure that the correct script
-it run by the interpreter, as it is passed as an already open file.
+is run by the interpreter, as it is passed as an already open file.
.It Cd options RTC_OFFSET=integer
The kernel (and typically the hardware battery backed-up clock on
those machines that have one) keeps time in
@@ -743,7 +744,7 @@
.It Cd options IPFILTER
This option enables the IP filtering on the packet level using the
ip-filter package. This option requies that the
-.Em PFIL_HOOK
+.Em PFIL_HOOKS
option also be included.
.It Cd options IPFILTER_LOG
This option, in conjuction with
@@ -851,7 +852,7 @@
.It Cd options NBUF=value
.It Cd options BUFPAGES=value
These option set the number of pages available for the buffer cache.
-Their default value is a machine depedant value, often calculated as
+Their default value is a machine dependent value, often calculated as
between 5% and 10% of total available RAM.
.El
.\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate.
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