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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2006-04-25 15:21:26 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2006-04-25 15:21:26 +0000
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Fix assorted grammar and punctuation nits. These are a subset of
some fixes that will (very shortly) be committed to RELENG_6_1. Approved by: re (hrs)
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml71
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml71
2 files changed, 72 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 890c4c0..2083586 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf</ulink>. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="i386,amd64">An information disclosure issue found in
- FreeBSD kernel running on 7th and 8th generation of AMD processors
+ <para arch="i386,amd64">An information disclosure issue found in the
+ &os; kernel running on 7th- and 8th-generation AMD processors
has been fixed. For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu</ulink>. &merged;</para>
@@ -340,16 +340,16 @@
standard designed to enable remote monitoring and control of server,
networking and telecommunication platforms.</para>
- <para>The &man.kbdmux.4; has been integrated into &man.syscons.4; and
- <devicename>kbd</devicename> device driver.
+ <para>The &man.kbdmux.4; driver has been integrated into &man.syscons.4; and
+ the <devicename>kbd</devicename> device driver.
By default &man.syscons.4; will look for the &man.kbdmux.4;
keyboard first, and then, if not found, look for any keyboard.
- Switch to &man.kbdmux.4; can be done at boot time by loading
- <literal>kbdmux</literal> kernel module via &man.loader.8;,
+ Switching to &man.kbdmux.4; can be done at boot time by loading
+ the <literal>kbdmux</literal> kernel module via &man.loader.8;,
or at runtime via &man.kldload.8; and releasing the active
keyboard. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.kbdmux.4; has been included in the
+ <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.kbdmux.4; driver has been included in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.
Also, the <quote>Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard</quote>
menu item in the boot loader menu has been removed
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@
architectures such as sparc64.</para>
<para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE
- and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs and is based on NetBSD's implementation
- has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also support these
+ and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs and is based on NetBSD's implementation,
+ has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these
NICs, this driver has several advantages over it such as
MPSAFE, ALTQ, VLAN_MTU, ifmedia, and 32-bit DMA for PCI
variants. &merged;</para>
@@ -558,16 +558,16 @@
&man.ip6.4; stack has been disabled by default because
notifying path MTU by a lot of routers in multicast
can be a kind of distributed Denial-of-Service attack to a router.
- This feature can be enabled by using a new sysctl variable
+ This feature can be re-enabled by using a new sysctl variable
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu</varname>. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.ipfw.4;, IP packet filter now supports IPv6.
- The &man.ip6fw.8; is deprecated and will be removed
+ <para>The &man.ipfw.4; IP packet filter now supports IPv6.
+ The &man.ip6fw.8; packet filter is deprecated and will be removed
in the future releases. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; now supports substitution of the action
argument with the value obtained from table lookup,
- which allows to optimize the rulesets.
+ which allows some optimization of rulesets.
This is now applicable only to <literal>pipe</literal>,
<literal>queue</literal>,
<literal>divert</literal>,
@@ -593,8 +593,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;.
&merged;</para>
- <para>A bug where a connection of NFS over TCP would not reconnect
- when the server sent FIN. This problem had occurred
+ <para>A bug has been fixed in which NFS over TCP would not reconnect
+ when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred
with Solaris NFS servers. &merged;</para>
<para>The sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname>
@@ -712,8 +712,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
behavior, and if it is set to <literal>0</literal> such components
are not disconnected and the kernel will try to still use them
(only first error will be logged).
- This is helpful when we have two broken components, but in
- different places, so actually all data is available.
+ This is helpful for the case of multiple broken components (in
+ different places), so actually all data is available.
The broken components will be visible in <command>gmirror list</command>
or <command>graid3 list</command> output with flag
<literal>BROKEN</literal>.
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
<para>The &man.mfi.4; driver, which supports
- LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family has been added.
+ the LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family, has been added.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
64-bit PCI, and large data transfer.</para>
<para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 9.3.0.1
- release on the 3ware website. &merged;</para>
+ release on the 3ware Web site. &merged;</para>
<para>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been
added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration
@@ -857,8 +857,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the
file that the link points to.</para>
- <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports <literal>nocpu</literal>
- directive. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports the <literal>nocpu</literal>
+ directive, which cancels the effect of a
+ previous <literal>cpu</literal> directive. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.config.8; utility now reads <filename>DEFAULTS</filename>
kernel configuration file if it exists in the current directory
@@ -866,7 +867,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.csh.1; utility now supports NLS catalog.
Note that this requires installing
- <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename>.
+ the <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename> port.
&merged;</para>
<para>The csup(1) utility has been imported.
@@ -926,11 +927,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
the jailid, path, hostname, IP and the command used to start
the jail. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-H</option>
+ <para>The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a <option>-H</option>
flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding
the threadid. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-s</option>
+ <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
flag to suppress the display of I/O data. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
@@ -1012,7 +1013,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para>
- <para>The &man.moused.8; now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
+ <para>The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a
<option>-V</option> flag for vertical virtual scrolling.
&merged;</para>
@@ -1027,15 +1028,15 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
rather than the KAME IPSEC stack.
Note that the output of <command>netstat -s -p ipsec</command>
differs depending on which stack is compiled into
- the kernel since they each keep different stats. &merged;</para>
+ the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports
- to show the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
+ display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
&man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices.
Note that these are disabled by default. &merged;</para>
- <para>A new functions, &man.pidfile.3;, which allow reliable
- pidfiles handling have been implemented in
+ <para>A new function, &man.pidfile.3;, which provides reliable
+ pidfiles handling, has been implemented in
<filename>libutil</filename>. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ping.8; utility now supports <quote>a sweeping
@@ -1082,8 +1083,8 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports <literal>times</literal>
built-in command.</para>
- <para>The &man.snapinfo.8; utility which shows snapshot location
- on UFS filesystems has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.snapinfo.8; utility, which shows snapshot locations
+ on UFS filesystems, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.strtonum.3; library function has been implemented
based on OpenBSD's implementation. This is an improved version of
@@ -1252,22 +1253,22 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
flag to disable checking whether the same package is already
installed or not.</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-P</option>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; program now supports an <option>-P</option>
flag, which is the same as the <option>-p</option> flag
except that the given prefix is also used recursively for the
dependency packages if any. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; and &man.pkg.create.1; now supports
+ <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; and &man.pkg.create.1; utilities now support
a <option>-K</option> flag to save packages to the current directory
(or <varname>PKGDIR</varname> if defined) by default.
&merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; now supports an <option>-x</option>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; program now supports an <option>-x</option>
flag to support basic regular expressions for package name,
an <option>-E</option> flag for extended regular
expressions, and a <option>-G</option> for exact matching. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; now supports an <option>-o</option>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; utility now supports an <option>-o</option>
flag to show the origin recorded on package generation
instead of the package name, and an <option>-O</option> flag
to list packages whose registered origin is origin only.
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 890c4c0..2083586 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -151,8 +151,8 @@
For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:07.pf</ulink>. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="i386,amd64">An information disclosure issue found in
- FreeBSD kernel running on 7th and 8th generation of AMD processors
+ <para arch="i386,amd64">An information disclosure issue found in the
+ &os; kernel running on 7th- and 8th-generation AMD processors
has been fixed. For more details see security advisory <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu.asc">FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu</ulink>. &merged;</para>
@@ -340,16 +340,16 @@
standard designed to enable remote monitoring and control of server,
networking and telecommunication platforms.</para>
- <para>The &man.kbdmux.4; has been integrated into &man.syscons.4; and
- <devicename>kbd</devicename> device driver.
+ <para>The &man.kbdmux.4; driver has been integrated into &man.syscons.4; and
+ the <devicename>kbd</devicename> device driver.
By default &man.syscons.4; will look for the &man.kbdmux.4;
keyboard first, and then, if not found, look for any keyboard.
- Switch to &man.kbdmux.4; can be done at boot time by loading
- <literal>kbdmux</literal> kernel module via &man.loader.8;,
+ Switching to &man.kbdmux.4; can be done at boot time by loading
+ the <literal>kbdmux</literal> kernel module via &man.loader.8;,
or at runtime via &man.kldload.8; and releasing the active
keyboard. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.kbdmux.4; has been included in the
+ <para arch="amd64,i386">The &man.kbdmux.4; driver has been included in the
<filename>GENERIC</filename> kernel by default.
Also, the <quote>Boot FreeBSD with USB keyboard</quote>
menu item in the boot loader menu has been removed
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@
architectures such as sparc64.</para>
<para>The &man.le.4; driver, which supports AMD Am7900 LANCE
- and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs and is based on NetBSD's implementation
- has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also support these
+ and Am79C9xx PCnet NICs and is based on NetBSD's implementation,
+ has been added. While the &man.lnc.4; driver also supports these
NICs, this driver has several advantages over it such as
MPSAFE, ALTQ, VLAN_MTU, ifmedia, and 32-bit DMA for PCI
variants. &merged;</para>
@@ -558,16 +558,16 @@
&man.ip6.4; stack has been disabled by default because
notifying path MTU by a lot of routers in multicast
can be a kind of distributed Denial-of-Service attack to a router.
- This feature can be enabled by using a new sysctl variable
+ This feature can be re-enabled by using a new sysctl variable
<varname>net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu</varname>. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.ipfw.4;, IP packet filter now supports IPv6.
- The &man.ip6fw.8; is deprecated and will be removed
+ <para>The &man.ipfw.4; IP packet filter now supports IPv6.
+ The &man.ip6fw.8; packet filter is deprecated and will be removed
in the future releases. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ipfw.4; now supports substitution of the action
argument with the value obtained from table lookup,
- which allows to optimize the rulesets.
+ which allows some optimization of rulesets.
This is now applicable only to <literal>pipe</literal>,
<literal>queue</literal>,
<literal>divert</literal>,
@@ -593,8 +593,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
<para>The &man.ng.iface.4; Netgraph node now supports &man.altq.4;.
&merged;</para>
- <para>A bug where a connection of NFS over TCP would not reconnect
- when the server sent FIN. This problem had occurred
+ <para>A bug has been fixed in which NFS over TCP would not reconnect
+ when the server sent a FIN. This problem had occurred
with Solaris NFS servers. &merged;</para>
<para>The sysctl variable <varname>net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh</varname>
@@ -712,8 +712,8 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
behavior, and if it is set to <literal>0</literal> such components
are not disconnected and the kernel will try to still use them
(only first error will be logged).
- This is helpful when we have two broken components, but in
- different places, so actually all data is available.
+ This is helpful for the case of multiple broken components (in
+ different places), so actually all data is available.
The broken components will be visible in <command>gmirror list</command>
or <command>graid3 list</command> output with flag
<literal>BROKEN</literal>.
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
amd64 as well as PAE.</para>
<para>The &man.mfi.4; driver, which supports
- LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family has been added.
+ the LSI MegaRAID SAS controller family, has been added.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.mpt.4; driver has been updated to support
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any</programlisting>
64-bit PCI, and large data transfer.</para>
<para>The &man.twa.4; driver has been updated to the 9.3.0.1
- release on the 3ware website. &merged;</para>
+ release on the 3ware Web site. &merged;</para>
<para>A new GEOM-based disk encryption facility, GEOM_ELI, has been
added. It uses the &man.crypto.9; framework for hardware acceleration
@@ -857,8 +857,9 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
flag to compare the symbolic link itself rather than the
file that the link points to.</para>
- <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports <literal>nocpu</literal>
- directive. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.config.8; utility now supports the <literal>nocpu</literal>
+ directive, which cancels the effect of a
+ previous <literal>cpu</literal> directive. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.config.8; utility now reads <filename>DEFAULTS</filename>
kernel configuration file if it exists in the current directory
@@ -866,7 +867,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.csh.1; utility now supports NLS catalog.
Note that this requires installing
- <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename>.
+ the <filename role="package">shells/tcsh_nls</filename> port.
&merged;</para>
<para>The csup(1) utility has been imported.
@@ -926,11 +927,11 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
the jailid, path, hostname, IP and the command used to start
the jail. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-H</option>
+ <para>The &man.kdump.1; utility now supports a <option>-H</option>
flag, which causes kdump to print an additional field holding
the threadid. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.kdump.1; now supports a <option>-s</option>
+ <para>The &man.kdump.1; program now supports a <option>-s</option>
flag to suppress the display of I/O data. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.kenv.1; utility now supports a <option>-q</option>
@@ -1012,7 +1013,7 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.mount.8; now supports &man.mqueuefs.5;.</para>
- <para>The &man.moused.8; now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
+ <para>The &man.moused.8; daemon now supports an <option>-H</option> flag
to enable horizontal virtual scrolling similar to a
<option>-V</option> flag for vertical virtual scrolling.
&merged;</para>
@@ -1027,15 +1028,15 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
rather than the KAME IPSEC stack.
Note that the output of <command>netstat -s -p ipsec</command>
differs depending on which stack is compiled into
- the kernel since they each keep different stats. &merged;</para>
+ the kernel since they each keep different statistics. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.periodic.8; daily script now supports
- to show the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
+ display of the status of &man.gmirror.8;, &man.graid3.8;,
&man.gstripe.8;, and &man.gconcat.8; devices.
Note that these are disabled by default. &merged;</para>
- <para>A new functions, &man.pidfile.3;, which allow reliable
- pidfiles handling have been implemented in
+ <para>A new function, &man.pidfile.3;, which provides reliable
+ pidfiles handling, has been implemented in
<filename>libutil</filename>. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.ping.8; utility now supports <quote>a sweeping
@@ -1082,8 +1083,8 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
<para>The &man.sh.1; utility now supports <literal>times</literal>
built-in command.</para>
- <para>The &man.snapinfo.8; utility which shows snapshot location
- on UFS filesystems has been added. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The &man.snapinfo.8; utility, which shows snapshot locations
+ on UFS filesystems, has been added. &merged;</para>
<para>The &man.strtonum.3; library function has been implemented
based on OpenBSD's implementation. This is an improved version of
@@ -1252,22 +1253,22 @@ geli_da1s3a_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/da1s3a.key"</programlisting>
flag to disable checking whether the same package is already
installed or not.</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; now supports an <option>-P</option>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; program now supports an <option>-P</option>
flag, which is the same as the <option>-p</option> flag
except that the given prefix is also used recursively for the
dependency packages if any. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; and &man.pkg.create.1; now supports
+ <para>The &man.pkg.add.1; and &man.pkg.create.1; utilities now support
a <option>-K</option> flag to save packages to the current directory
(or <varname>PKGDIR</varname> if defined) by default.
&merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; now supports an <option>-x</option>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.create.1; program now supports an <option>-x</option>
flag to support basic regular expressions for package name,
an <option>-E</option> flag for extended regular
expressions, and a <option>-G</option> for exact matching. &merged;</para>
- <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; now supports an <option>-o</option>
+ <para>The &man.pkg.version.1; utility now supports an <option>-o</option>
flag to show the origin recorded on package generation
instead of the package name, and an <option>-O</option> flag
to list packages whose registered origin is origin only.
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