Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 07:16:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/3612: improper use of ``it's'' in multiple man pages Message-ID: <199705171416.HAA26512@jg.webmaster.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199705171420.HAA25136@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3612 >Category: docs >Synopsis: improper use of ``it's'' in multiple man pages >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat May 17 07:20:01 PDT 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Josh Gilliam >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 >Environment: dig.1 rev 1.1.1.1 gcc.1 rev 1.6 dialog.1 rev 1.4 time2posix.3 rev 1.4 getlogin.2 rev 1.7 gsc.4 rev 1.6 find.1 rev 1.8 fdwrite.1 rev 1.4 >Description: ``it's'' -> ``its'' where appropriate and typo fixes in time2posix.3. >How-To-Repeat: man 1 dialog man 1 dig man 1 fdwrite man 1 find man 1 gcc man 2 getlogin man 3 time2posix man 4 gsc >Fix: --- /usr/src.orig/contrib/bind/man/dig.1 Thu Aug 29 12:20:14 1996 +++ contrib/bind/man/dig.1 Sat May 17 06:22:54 1997 @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ authored by Andrew Cherenson. .SH BUGS \fIDig\fP has a serious case of "creeping featurism" -- the result of -considering several potential uses during it's development. It would +considering several potential uses during its development. It would probably benefit from a rigorous diet. Similarly, the print flags and granularity of the items they specify make evident their rather ad hoc genesis. --- /usr/src.orig/contrib/gcc/gcc.1 Mon May 5 01:25:23 1997 +++ contrib/gcc/gcc.1 Sat May 17 06:16:04 1997 @@ -3506,7 +3506,7 @@ value. .TP .B \-nocpp -Tell the MIPS assembler to not run it's preprocessor over user +Tell the MIPS assembler to not run its preprocessor over user assembler files (with a `\|\c .B .s\c \&\|' suffix) when assembling them. --- /usr/src.orig/gnu/usr.bin/dialog/dialog.1 Fri Dec 22 17:11:54 1995 +++ gnu/usr.bin/dialog/dialog.1 Sat May 17 06:18:55 1997 @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ a) if environment variable .B DIALOGRC -is set, it's value determines the name of the configuration file. +is set, its value determines the name of the configuration file. .TP 4 b) if the file in (a) can't be found, use the file --- /usr/src.orig/lib/libc/stdtime/time2posix.3 Wed May 1 16:17:27 1996 +++ lib/libc/stdtime/time2posix.3 Sat May 17 06:45:10 1997 @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ Both of these are good indicators of the inferiority of the POSIX representation. .Pp -The following table summarizes the relationship between a time_t -nd it's conversion to, +The following table summarizes the relationship between time_t +and its conversion to, and back from, the POSIX representation over the leap second inserted at the end of June, 1993. --- /usr/src.orig/lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 Mon Mar 3 15:50:55 1997 +++ lib/libc/sys/getlogin.2 Sat May 17 06:29:51 1997 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ important to ensure that .Fn setlogin is only ever called after the process has taken adequate steps to ensure -that it is detached from it's parent's session. +that it is detached from its parent's session. Making a .Fn setsid system call is the --- /usr/src.orig/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 Sat Feb 22 05:25:28 1997 +++ share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 Sat May 17 06:35:29 1997 @@ -295,6 +295,6 @@ .Sh BUGS Even though the scanner device has a little switch by which you should be able to select one of the four resolution modes, I could not yet -determine how to read it's status. Unless this is not fixed the driver +determine how to read its status. Unless this is not fixed the driver depends on the value passed by means of ioctl(2) which need not match what is selected by the hardware. --- /usr/src.orig/usr.bin/find/find.1 Fri May 2 21:05:06 1997 +++ usr.bin/find/find.1 Sat May 17 06:26:09 1997 @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ from the current working directory as .Nm recurses down the tree. It will not attempt to delete a filename with a ``/'' -character in it's pathname relative to "." for security reasons. +character in its pathname relative to "." for security reasons. Depth\-first traversal processing is implied by this option. .It Ic -exec Ar utility Op argument ... ; True if the program named --- /usr/src.orig/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1 Sat Feb 22 08:05:48 1997 +++ usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1 Sat May 17 06:25:05 1997 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ will ask the user .Pq on /dev/tty to insert a new floppy and press return. -The device will then be opened, and queried for it's parameters, +The device will then be opened, and queried for its parameters, then each track will be formatted, written with data from the .Ar inputfile , read back and compared. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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