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-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto-contribute.txt4
-rw-r--r--NEWS2
-rw-r--r--disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c2
-rw-r--r--lib/terminal-colors.d.52
-rw-r--r--libblkid/src/partitions/aix.c2
-rw-r--r--libmount/python/context.c4
-rw-r--r--m4/ul.m42
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/ctrlaltdel.c2
-rw-r--r--sys-utils/mount.828
-rw-r--r--term-utils/agetty.82
-rw-r--r--term-utils/script.c2
-rw-r--r--text-utils/pg.12
12 files changed, 27 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt b/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt
index a638a1db5..d9151d9dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto-contribute.txt
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ Before sending a patch
* make sure that after patching source files will compile without
errors.
- * test that previously existed program behaviour is not
- unintentionally alterred. If you alter the behaviour tell about in
+ * test that previously existed program behavior is not
+ unintentionally alterred. If you alter the behavior tell about in
commit message.
Coding style
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d5857a4eb..648199a1e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ util-linux 2.9b:
* split README into INSTALL and HISTORY
* added a sentence to swapon.8
-* behaviour of write on non-ASCII fixed
+* behavior of write on non-ASCII fixed
* hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
util-linux 2.9a:
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c b/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
index dcdb09850..23098e4e4 100644
--- a/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
+++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.bfs.c
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
ino_blocks = (ino_bytes + BFS_BLOCKSIZE - 1) / BFS_BLOCKSIZE;
data_blocks = total_blocks - ino_blocks - 1;
- /* mimic the behaviour of SCO's mkfs - maybe this limit is needed */
+ /* mimic the behavior of SCO's mkfs - maybe this limit is needed */
if (data_blocks < 32)
errx(EXIT_FAILURE,
_("not enough space, need at least %llu blocks"),
diff --git a/lib/terminal-colors.d.5 b/lib/terminal-colors.d.5
index d16d7674a..ab0a34913 100644
--- a/lib/terminal-colors.d.5
+++ b/lib/terminal-colors.d.5
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ terminal-colors.d \- Configure output colorization for various utilities
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
/etc/terminal-colors\&.d/[[name][@term]\&.][type]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-Files in this directory determine the default behaviour for utilities
+Files in this directory determine the default behavior for utilities
when coloring output.
The
diff --git a/libblkid/src/partitions/aix.c b/libblkid/src/partitions/aix.c
index fa64c38ad..4efdfa33d 100644
--- a/libblkid/src/partitions/aix.c
+++ b/libblkid/src/partitions/aix.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int probe_aix_pt(blkid_probe pr,
* magic number at begin of the disk.
*
* Note, Linux kernel is tring to be smart and AIX signature is ignored when
- * there is a valid DOS partitions table. We don't support such behaviour. All
+ * there is a valid DOS partitions table. We don't support such behavior. All
* fdisk-like programs has to properly wipe the fist sector. Everything other
* is a bug.
*/
diff --git a/libmount/python/context.c b/libmount/python/context.c
index 408c8bd75..623239436 100644
--- a/libmount/python/context.c
+++ b/libmount/python/context.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ static int Context_set_mflags(ContextObjext *self, PyObject *value, void *closur
return mnt_context_set_mflags(self->cxt, flags);
}
-/* returns a flags integer (behaviour differs from C API) */
+/* returns a flags integer (behavior differs from C API) */
static PyObject *Context_get_mflags(ContextObjext *self)
{
unsigned long flags;
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static PyObject *Context_get_mflags(ContextObjext *self)
return result;
}
-/* returns a flags integer (behaviour differs from C API) */
+/* returns a flags integer (behavior differs from C API) */
static PyObject *Context_get_user_mflags(ContextObjext *self)
{
unsigned long flags;
diff --git a/m4/ul.m4 b/m4/ul.m4
index 8bfa9d9c0..b8a5390e3 100644
--- a/m4/ul.m4
+++ b/m4/ul.m4
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([UL_PKG_STATIC], [
dnl UL_CHECK_LIB(LIBRARY, FUNCTION, [VARSUFFIX = $1]))
dnl
-dnl The VARSUFFIX is optional and overrides the default behaviour. For example:
+dnl The VARSUFFIX is optional and overrides the default behavior. For example:
dnl UL_CHECK_LIB(yyy, func, xxx) generates have_xxx and HAVE_LIBXXX
dnl UL_CHECK_LIB(yyy, func) generates have_yyy and HAVE_LIBYYY
dnl
diff --git a/sys-utils/ctrlaltdel.c b/sys-utils/ctrlaltdel.c
index 074f247a9..df13d088c 100644
--- a/sys-utils/ctrlaltdel.c
+++ b/sys-utils/ctrlaltdel.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
if (geteuid())
errx(EXIT_FAILURE,
- _("You must be root to set the Ctrl-Alt-Del behaviour"));
+ _("You must be root to set the Ctrl-Alt-Del behavior"));
if (argc == 2 && !strcmp("hard", argv[1])) {
if (my_reboot(LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_CAD_ON) < 0)
diff --git a/sys-utils/mount.8 b/sys-utils/mount.8
index efa1ae8dd..d2fe2a640 100644
--- a/sys-utils/mount.8
+++ b/sys-utils/mount.8
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ you have to use:
and then the mount options from command line will be appended to
the list of options from
.IR /etc/fstab .
-The usual behaviour is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated
+The usual behavior is that the last option wins if there is more duplicated
options.
When the
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ but still allow userspace to override it. For more details about the default
system mount options see /proc/mounts.
.TP
.B nostrictatime
-Use the kernel's default behaviour for inode access time updates.
+Use the kernel's default behavior for inode access time updates.
.TP
.B suid
Allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take
@@ -1365,15 +1365,15 @@ Support POSIX Access Control Lists (or not).
.\" requires CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL
.TP
.BR bsddf | minixdf
-Set the behaviour for the
+Set the behavior for the
.I statfs
system call. The
.B minixdf
-behaviour is to return in the
+behavior is to return in the
.I f_blocks
field the total number of blocks of the filesystem, while the
.B bsddf
-behaviour (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks
+behavior (which is the default) is to subtract the overhead blocks
used by the ext2 filesystem and not available for file storage. Thus
.sp 1
% mount /k \-o minixdf; df /k; umount /k
@@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ don't have to be supported if ext4 kernel driver is used for ext2 and ext3 files
Print debugging info upon each (re)mount.
.TP
.BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic }
-Define the behaviour when an error is encountered.
+Define the behavior when an error is encountered.
(Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue,
or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.)
The default is set in the filesystem superblock, and can be
@@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ a volume where the
option was previously specified in order to restore normal behavior.
.TP
.BR errors= { continue | remount-ro | panic }
-Define the behaviour when an error is encountered.
+Define the behavior when an error is encountered.
(Either ignore errors and just mark the filesystem erroneous and continue,
or remount the filesystem read-only, or panic and halt the system.)
.TP
@@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ The same filesystem type is also used by Mac OS X.
.TP
.BI onerror= value
-Set behaviour on error:
+Set behavior on error:
.RS
.TP
.B panic
@@ -2594,7 +2594,7 @@ disabled.
.TP
.BR shortname= { lower | win95 | winnt | mixed }
-Defines the behaviour for creation and display of filenames which fit into
+Defines the behavior for creation and display of filenames which fit into
8.3 characters. If a long name for a file exists, it will always be
preferred display. There are four modes:
:
@@ -2644,12 +2644,12 @@ doing delayed allocation writeout. Valid values for this
option are page size (typically 4KiB) through to 1GiB,
inclusive, in power-of-2 increments.
.sp
-The default behaviour is for dynamic end-of-file
+The default behavior is for dynamic end-of-file
preallocation size, which uses a set of heuristics to
optimise the preallocation size based on the current
allocation patterns within the file and the access patterns
to the file. Specifying a fixed allocsize value turns off
-the dynamic behaviour.
+the dynamic behavior.
.TP
.BR attr2 | noattr2
The options enable/disable an "opportunistic" improvement to
@@ -2659,8 +2659,8 @@ attr2 is selected (either when setting or removing extended
attributes) the on-disk superblock feature bit field will be
updated to reflect this format being in use.
.sp
-The default behaviour is determined by the on-disk feature
-bit indicating that attr2 behaviour is active. If either
+The default behavior is determined by the on-disk feature
+bit indicating that attr2 behavior is active. If either
mount option it set, then that becomes the new default used
by the filesystem.
.sp
@@ -2732,7 +2732,7 @@ If "largeio" specified, a filesystem that was created with a
"swidth" specified will return the "swidth" value (in bytes)
in st_blksize. If the filesystem does not have a "swidth"
specified but does specify an "allocsize" then "allocsize"
-(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behaviour
+(in bytes) will be returned instead. Otherwise the behavior
is the same as if "nolargeio" was specified.
.TP
.B logbufs=value
diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8
index a39d81fcd..27a0d1b86 100644
--- a/term-utils/agetty.8
+++ b/term-utils/agetty.8
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Assume that the tty is 8-bit clean, hence disable parity detection.
Log the specified user automatically in without asking for a login name and
password. The \-f \fIusername\fP option is added to the \fB/bin/login\fP
command line by default. The \-\-login-options option changes this default
-behaviour and then only \\u is replaced by the \fIusername\fP and no other
+behavior and then only \\u is replaced by the \fIusername\fP and no other
option is added to the login command line.
.TP
\-c, \-\-noreset
diff --git a/term-utils/script.c b/term-utils/script.c
index 1ae34627f..1530e6726 100644
--- a/term-utils/script.c
+++ b/term-utils/script.c
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ doshell(void) {
/*
* When invoked from within /etc/csh.login, script spawns a csh shell
* that spawns programs that cannot be killed with a SIGTERM. This is
- * because csh has a documented behaviour wherein it disables all
+ * because csh has a documented behavior wherein it disables all
* signals when processing the /etc/csh.* files.
*
* Let's restore the default behavior.
diff --git a/text-utils/pg.1 b/text-utils/pg.1
index 09fd51dd9..07105b5b1 100644
--- a/text-utils/pg.1
+++ b/text-utils/pg.1
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ In all other situations these keys will terminate
.BR pg .
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
The following environment variables
-affect the behaviour of
+affect the behavior of
.BR pg :
.TP
.B COLUMNS