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man2, man3: Fix spelling (British -> American)

PATCH New Simon Essien 1 participant 1 message Jan 6 Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 man2, man3: Fix spelling (British -> American)

Change 'signalled' to 'signaled' to follow American English standards.

Reported-by Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Simon Essien <[email protected]>
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 man/man2/select_tut.2 | 2 +-
 man/man3/exit.3       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
man/man2/select_tut.2 +1 -1
index 8fd312bcd..6071ec7d8 100644
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
         if (got_SIGCHLD) {
             got_SIGCHLD = 0;
 \&
-            /* Handle signalled event here; e.g., wait() for all
+            /* Handle signaled event here; e.g., wait() for all
                terminated children.  (Code omitted.)  */
         }
 \&
man/man3/exit.3 +1 -1
index da33aab4b..114d8247f 100644
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ See
 for an explanation of orphaned process groups.
 .P
 Except in the above cases,
-where the signalled processes may be children of the terminating process,
+where the signaled processes may be children of the terminating process,
 termination of a process does
 .I not
 in general cause a signal to be sent to children of that process.
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