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lib/libc/sys/mmap.2

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ for further information.
 Region is not included in a core file.
 .It Dv MAP_NOSYNC
 Causes data dirtied via this VM map to be flushed to physical media
-only when necessary (usually by the pager) rather then gratuitously.
+only when necessary (usually by the pager) rather than gratuitously.
 Typically this prevents the update daemons from flushing pages dirtied
 through such maps and thus allows efficient sharing of memory across
 unassociated processes using a file-backed shared memory map.
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ The same applies when using
 to implement a file-based shared memory store.
 It is recommended that you create the backing store by
 .Fn write Ns ing
-zero's to the backing file rather then
+zero's to the backing file rather than
 .Fn ftruncate Ns ing
 it.
 You can test file fragmentation by observing the KB/t (kilobytes per
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ system call is obsolete since
 implements a coherent file system buffer cache.
 However, it may be
 used to associate dirty VM pages with file system buffers and thus cause
-them to be flushed to physical media sooner rather then later.
+them to be flushed to physical media sooner rather than later.
 .It Dv MAP_PRIVATE
 Modifications are private.
 .It Dv MAP_SHARED

sbin/ping/ping.8

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ seconds
 .Em between sending each packet .
 The default is to wait for one second between each packet.
 The wait time may be fractional, but only the super-user may specify
-values less then 1 second.
+values less than 1 second.
 This option is incompatible with the
 .Fl f
 option.

share/man/man4/ccd.4

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ other side of the mirror.
 Currently
 .Nm
 uses a dual seek zone model to optimize reads for a multi-tasking load
-rather then a sequential load.
+rather than a sequential load.
 .Pp
 In an event of a disk
 failure, you can use

share/man/man4/ieee80211.4

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ by
 .Va i_data
 and
 .Va i_len .
-The length should be no longer then 32 characters.
+The length should be no longer than 32 characters.
 .It Dv IEEE80211_IOC_WEP
 Set the current WEP mode to the value given in
 .Va i_val .

share/man/man4/tcp.4

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ effectively disables the algorithm.
 This puts an upper bound on the bandwidth delay product window, in bytes.
 This value should not generally be modified but may be used to set a
 global per-connection limit on queued data, potentially allowing you to
-intentionally set a less then optimum limit to smooth data flow over a
+intentionally set a less than optimum limit to smooth data flow over a
 network while still being able to specify huge internal TCP buffers.
 .It tcp.inflight_stab
 The bandwidth delay product algorithm requires a slightly larger window

share/man/man7/security.7

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ nearly impossible to stop short of cutting your system off from the Internet.
 It may not be able to take your machine down, but it can fill up Internet
 pipe.
 .Pp
-A user account compromise is even more common then a D.O.S. attack.  Many
+A user account compromise is even more common than a D.O.S. attack.  Many
 sysadmins still run standard telnetd, rlogind, rshd, and ftpd servers on their
 machines.  These servers, by default, do not operate over encrypted
 connections.  The result is that if you have any moderate-sized user base,
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ to root without having to place anyone at all in the wheel group.  This
 may be the better solution since the wheel mechanism still allows an
 intruder to break root if the intruder has gotten hold of your password
 file and can break into a staff account.  While having the wheel mechanism
-is better then having nothing at all, it isn't necessarily the safest
+is better than having nothing at all, it isn't necessarily the safest
 option.
 .Pp
 An indirect way to secure the root account is to secure your staff accounts
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Still, root holes are occasionally found in these binaries.  A root hole
 was found in Xlib in 1998 that made xterm
 (which is typically suid)
 vulnerable.
-It is better to be safe then sorry and the prudent sysadmin will restrict suid
+It is better to be safe than sorry and the prudent sysadmin will restrict suid
 binaries that only staff should run to a special group that only staff can
 access, and get rid of
 .Pq Li "chmod 000"
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ while it may protect the files, it also closes a detection window.  The
 last layer of your security onion is perhaps the most important - detection.
 The rest of your security is pretty much useless (or, worse, presents you with
 a false sense of safety) if you cannot detect potential incursions.  Half
-the job of the onion is to slow down the attacker rather then stop him
+the job of the onion is to slow down the attacker rather than stop him
 in order to give the detection side of the equation a chance to catch him in
 the act.
 .Pp
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ such as
 and
 .Pa /usr
 .Pp
-When using ssh rather then NFS, writing the security script is much more
+When using ssh rather than NFS, writing the security script is much more
 difficult.   You essentially have to
 .Pa scp
 the scripts to the client box in order to run them, making them visible, and
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ with
 These routes typically timeout in 1600
 seconds or so.  If the kernel detects that the cached route table has gotten
 too big it will dynamically reduce the rtexpire but will never decrease it to
-less then rtminexpire.  There are two problems:  (1) The kernel does not react
+less than rtminexpire.  There are two problems:  (1) The kernel does not react
 quickly enough when a lightly loaded server is suddenly attacked, and (2) The
 rtminexpire is not low enough for the kernel to survive a sustained attack.
 If your servers are connected to the internet via a T3 or better it may be

share/man/man7/tuning.7

@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ Many people also enforce artificial
 bandwidth limitations in order to ensure that they are not charged for
 using too much bandwidth.
 .Pp
-Setting the send or receive TCP buffer to values larger then 65535 will result
+Setting the send or receive TCP buffer to values larger than 65535 will result
 in a marginal performance improvement unless both hosts support the window
 scaling extension of the TCP protocol, which is controlled by the
 .Va net.inet.tcp.rfc1323

share/man/man9/DEVICE_PROBE.9

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ the child devices will be automatically probed and attached.
 A value equal to or less than zero indicates success, greater than
 zero indicates an error (errno). For values equal to or less than
 zero: zero indicates highest priority, no further probing is done;
-for a value less then zero, the lower the value the lower the
+for a value less than zero, the lower the value the lower the
 priority, e.g. -100 indicates a lower priority than -50.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr device 9 ,

share/man/man9/malloc.9

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ If this flag is set,
 .Fn malloc
 will return
 .Dv NULL
-rather then block.
+rather than block.
 Note that
 .Dv M_WAITOK
 is defined to be 0, meaning that blocking operation is the default.