all: fix misspellings in docs and program comments

We might as well join the coreutils and util-linux
projects in correcting our own typos.

The following was left unchanged:
   top/top.c[1797]: thru -> "through"

references:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-04/msg00057.html
http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=133518057419736&w=2

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 575808e1c41bcc802776a3dd69dc453d4bfa0d39..1c1c2b2dd07fc9860ab259ce1efa5adeb0c00e8f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ with others.
 
 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/CodingStyle
 
-In addtion to Linux coding style this project has few addtional
+In addtion to Linux coding style this project has few additional
 wishes to contributors.
 
 * Many small patches are favoured over one big. Break down is done on

diff --git a/ps/output.c b/ps/output.c
index f97fa63e05c71cf963e04f4689cb5b771c446576..0b030670a1c034863a2031687dc39aa7eb55593f 100644 (file)
--- a/ps/output.c
+++ b/ps/output.c
@@ -2024,7 +2024,7 @@ void init_output(void){
   );
   memset(outbuf, ' ', SPACE_AMOUNT);
   if(SPACE_AMOUNT==page_size) mprotect(outbuf, page_size, PROT_READ);
-  mprotect(outbuf + page_size*outbuf_pages, page_size, PROT_NONE); // gaurd page
+  mprotect(outbuf + page_size*outbuf_pages, page_size, PROT_NONE); // guard page
   saved_outbuf = outbuf + SPACE_AMOUNT;
   // available space:  page_size*outbuf_pages-SPACE_AMOUNT
 

diff --git a/ps/parser.c b/ps/parser.c
index 2c3ec034bc0b3fa9da9adbdabb8aaee7a554233f..0c0b4bd9e35e016891f54e7c717850dbfba1abd7 100644 (file)
--- a/ps/parser.c
+++ b/ps/parser.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static const char *parse_sysv_option(void){
     // "IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition", "ISO/IEC 9945:2003",
     // or "Version 2 of the Single Unix Specification".
     //
-    // It may be time to re-think the existance of this list.
+    // It may be time to re-think the existence of this list.
     // In the meantime, please do not add to it. The list is
     // intended to ONLY contain flags defined by the POSIX and UNIX
     // standards published by The Open Group, IEEE, and ISO.

diff --git a/ps/ps.1 b/ps/ps.1
index 5dce40d77100c803f9c222fea924ba04b3f7d291..e251b02df8b28458d0fbac014578d0093bf95d0c 100644 (file)
--- a/ps/ps.1
+++ b/ps/ps.1
@@ -1310,11 +1310,11 @@ for additional information.
 T}
 
 maj_flt        MAJFLT  T{
-The number of major page faults that have occured with this process.
+The number of major page faults that have occurred with this process.
 T}
 
 min_flt        MINFLT  T{
-The number of minor page faults that have occured with this process.
+The number of minor page faults that have occurred with this process.
 T}
 
 ni     NI      T{

diff --git a/testsuite/free.test/free.exp b/testsuite/free.test/free.exp
index 1d5e83727a54d6a0ff5f5ebecee2b137d9927041..0aa008ef30dc8b86bcc0a9e8982d608e3db1bf00 100644 (file)
--- a/testsuite/free.test/free.exp
+++ b/testsuite/free.test/free.exp
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ set test "free with zero repeat count"
 spawn $free -c 0
 expect_pass "$test" "\(lt-\)\?free: failed to parse count argument: '0': Numerical result out of range"
 
-set test "free with postive repeat count"
-set test "free with postive repeat count"
+set test "free with positive repeat count"
 spawn $free -c 2
 expect_continue "$test" "^${free_header}"
 expect_pass "$test" "${free_header}"

diff --git a/top/README.top b/top/README.top
index 78fee028faa5dff6500f07fa160196a4b69d89d4..b5ffcf56066fe0b248b55b3c6f660233459034ac 100644 (file)
--- a/top/README.top
+++ b/top/README.top
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ BENCHMARKS, Redux (for NLS) ==============================================
 
   Each test was run outside of X-windows at a linux console
   offering 48 rows and 170 columns.  This was done to reduce
-  contention which sometimes made comparisions problematic.
+  contention which sometimes made comparisons problematic.
 
   old-top = procps-3.2.8 (debian patched and memory leaking)
   new-top = procps-ng-3.3.2 with NLS support

diff --git a/top/top.c b/top/top.c
index 41b69a7edac987c7729c48fdd26942dd2e7539d0..4e782749d64c9ac3d73754ff9e1861bee660fdaf 100644 (file)
--- a/top/top.c
+++ b/top/top.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static int No_ksyms = -1,       // set to '0' if ksym avail, '1' otherwise
            Width_mode = 0;      // set w/ 'w' - potential output override
 
         /* Unchangeable cap's stuff built just once (if at all) and
-           thus NOT saved in a WIN_t's RCW_t.  To accomodate 'Batch'
+           thus NOT saved in a WIN_t's RCW_t.  To accommodate 'Batch'
            mode, they begin life as empty strings so the overlying
            logic need not change ! */
 static char  Cap_clr_eol    [CAPBUFSIZ] = "",    // global and/or static vars
@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ static void build_headers (void) {
 #ifdef EQUCOLHDRYES
          // prepare to even out column header lengths...
          if (hdrmax + w->hdrcaplen < (x = strlen(w->columnhdr))) hdrmax = x - w->hdrcaplen;
-         // must sacrifice last header positon to avoid task row abberations
+         // must sacrifice last header position to avoid task row abberations
          w->eolcap = Caps_endline;
 #else
          if (Screen_cols > (int)strlen(w->columnhdr)) w->eolcap = Caps_endline;
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ static void build_headers (void) {
 
 
         /*
-         * This guy coordinates the activities surounding the maintainence
+         * This guy coordinates the activities surrounding the maintainence
          * of each visible window's columns headers and the library flags
          * required for the openproc interface. */
 static void calibrate_fields (void) {
@@ -3259,7 +3259,7 @@ static void keys_xtra (int ch) {
 #else
    OFFw(w, Show_FOREST);
 #endif
-   /* these keys represent old-top compatability --
+   /* these keys represent old-top compatibility --
       they're grouped here so that if users could ever be weaned,
       we would just whack do_key's key_tab entry and this function... */
    switch (ch) {

diff --git a/top/top_nls.c b/top/top_nls.c
index f4406adfb28dbdc1458531d10929b70de2d749fe..e31d4c4aeb47aaafee6e27ca73f0ef8b6141581f 100644 (file)
--- a/top/top_nls.c
+++ b/top/top_nls.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         //    comment additions.
         //
         //    Also, by omitting the argument for the --add-comments
-        //    XGETTEXT_OPTION in po/Makevars, *any* preceeding c style
+        //    XGETTEXT_OPTION in po/Makevars, *any* preceding c style
         //    comment will be propagated to the .pot file, providing
         //    that the gettext macro isn't empty as discussed above.
         //    However, this is far too aggressive so we have chosen

diff --git a/vmstat.8 b/vmstat.8
index 38940bf5a35cd6b1b4ee84ecc50145800097e671..6e7d4b7c0d2133e9ef690d2d5477f743c101e19b 100644 (file)
--- a/vmstat.8
+++ b/vmstat.8
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ between updates in seconds.  If no
 is specified, only one report is printed with the average values since boot.
 .TP
 .I count
-Number of updates.  In absense of
+Number of updates.  In absence of
 .IR count ,
 when
 .I delay