Spelling fixes.

6 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/clock_gettime.2 b/lib/libc/sys/clock_gettime.2
index 41421c2..f519094 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/clock_gettime.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/clock_gettime.2
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ The
 and
 .Fn clock_settime
 allow the calling process to retrieve or set the value used by a clock
-which is specifed by
+which is specified by
 .Fa clock_id .
 .Pp
 The
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/jail.2 b/lib/libc/sys/jail.2
index df6f569..de649b5 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/jail.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/jail.2
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm jail , jail_attach
-.Nd imprison current process and future decendants
+.Nd imprison current process and future descendants
 .Sh LIBRARY
 .Lb libc
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ to indicate the error.
 .Pp
 .Rv -std jail_attach
 .Sh PRISON?
-Once a process has been put in a prison, it and its decendants cannot escape
+Once a process has been put in a prison, it and its descendants cannot escape
 the prison.
 .Pp
 Inside the prison, the concept of
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
index 79ea355..14e8b32 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ The file referenced by the descriptor was renamed.
 .It NOTE_REVOKE
 Access to the file was revoked via
 .Xr revoke 2
-or the underlying fileystem was unmounted.
+or the underlying filesystem was unmounted.
 .El
 .Pp
 On return,
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2 b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
index fcbc110..252678d 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ The
 .Fn poll
 system call
 returns the number of descriptors that are ready for I/O, or -1 if an
-error occured.  If the time limit expires,
+error occurred.  If the time limit expires,
 .Fn poll
 returns 0.
 If
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/send.2 b/lib/libc/sys/send.2
index 2d5d76f..6716ea2 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/send.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/send.2
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ then
 .Fn close
 it before it has actually been sent, the result being that the receiver
 gets a closed file descriptor.  It is left to the application to
-implement an acknowlegment mechanism to prevent this from happening.
+implement an acknowledgment mechanism to prevent this from happening.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr fcntl 2 ,
 .Xr getsockopt 2 ,
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2 b/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2
index 4986071..dc6c062 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ argument has one possible value:
 .Fa SF_NODISKIO .
 This flag causes any sendfile call which would block on disk I/O to instead
 return EBUSY.  Busy servers may benefit by transferring requests that would
-block to a seperate I/O worker thread.
+block to a separate I/O worker thread.
 .Pp
 When using a socket marked for non-blocking I/O,
 .Fn sendfile