Fix a couple of typos and grammar nits.

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b6c608d..0d39580 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Version 1.7.1 (Mar 23, 2010)
   functions do not support IPv6 name servers. This implies that if the user
   is capable of defining or providing an IPv6 name server, and the app is
   using ares_init_options() or ares_save_options() at some point to handle
-  the name servers, the app will likely loose IPv6 name servers.
+  the name servers, the app will likely lose IPv6 name servers.
 
 * January 28, 2010 (Daniel Stenberg)
 - Tommie Gannert pointed out a silly bug in ares_process_fd() since it didn't

diff --git a/README b/README
index aae99cd..56a43c5 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The following notes apply to c-ares version 1.7.0 and later.
 * If you intend to distribute an already compiled c-ares library you _MUST_
   also distribute along with it the generated ares_build.h which has been
   used to compile it. Otherwise the library will be of no use for the users of
-  the library that you have built. It is _your_ responsability to provide this
+  the library that you have built. It is _your_ responsibility to provide this
   file. No one at the c-ares project can know how you have built the library.
 
 * File ares_build.h includes platform and configuration dependent info,

diff --git a/adig.c b/adig.c
index 4e33f6c..a4dc76e 100644 (file)
--- a/adig.c
+++ b/adig.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
           break;
 
         case 's':
-          /* User specified name servers override default ones. */
+          /* User-specified name servers override default ones. */
           srvr = malloc(sizeof(struct ares_addr_node));
           if (!srvr)
             {
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
            * When alternative name servers have been specified these are set
            * later calling ares_set_servers() overriding any existing server
            * configuration. To prevent initial configuration with default
-           * servers that will be discarded later ARES_OPT_SERVERS is set.
+           * servers that will be discarded later, ARES_OPT_SERVERS is set.
            * If this flag is not set here the result shall be the same but
            * ares_init_options() will do needless work. */
           optmask |= ARES_OPT_SERVERS;

diff --git a/ares_get_servers.3 b/ares_get_servers.3
index 78fa7bc..7b144f0 100644 (file)
--- a/ares_get_servers.3
+++ b/ares_get_servers.3
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ was invalid.
 ares_get_servers(3) was added in c-ares 1.7.1
 .SH AUTHOR
 Implementation of this function and associated library internals are based
-on code, comments and feedback provided November and December of 2008 by
+on code, comments and feedback provided in November and December of 2008 by
 Daniel Stenberg, Gregor Jasny, Phil Blundell and Yang Tse, December 2009
 by Cedric Bail, February 2010 by Jakub Hrozek. On March 2010 Yang Tse
 shuffled all the bits and this function popped out.

diff --git a/ares_init.3 b/ares_init.3
index e240651..e9edad4 100644 (file)
--- a/ares_init.3
+++ b/ares_init.3
@@ -95,9 +95,9 @@ service port.
 .br
 The list of IPv4 servers to contact, instead of the servers specified in
 resolv.conf or the local named. In order to allow specification of either
-IPv4 or IPv6 name servers, function
+IPv4 or IPv6 name servers, the
 .BR ares_set_servers(3)
-must be used instead.
+function must be used instead.
 .TP 18
 .B ARES_OPT_DOMAINS
 .B char **\fIdomains\fP;

diff --git a/ares_process.c b/ares_process.c
index ab0b79d..89da38f 100644 (file)
--- a/ares_process.c
+++ b/ares_process.c
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ static int open_tcp_socket(ares_channel channel, struct server_state *server)
    * Disable the Nagle algorithm (only relevant for TCP sockets, and thus not
    * in configure_socket). In general, in DNS lookups we're pretty much
    * interested in firing off a single request and then waiting for a reply,
-   * so batching isn't very interesting in general.
+   * so batching isn't very interesting.
    */
   opt = 1;
   if (setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_NODELAY,

diff --git a/ares_save_options.3 b/ares_save_options.3
index 0dd4b4e..54250c0 100644 (file)
--- a/ares_save_options.3
+++ b/ares_save_options.3
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ this config struct, which may no longer be the complete set of config
 options. \fBares_dup(3)\fP will not have that restriction.
 
 The ares_options struct can not handle potential IPv6 name servers the
-ares_channel might be configured to use. Function \fBares_save_options(3)\fP
-will only return IPv4 servers if any. In order to retrieve all name servers
-an ares_channel might be using, function \fBares_get_servers(3)\fP must be
+ares_channel might be configured to use. The \fBares_save_options(3)\fP function
+will only return IPv4 servers, if any. In order to retrieve all name servers
+an ares_channel might be using, the \fBares_get_servers(3)\fP function must be
 used instead.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ares_destroy_options (3),

diff --git a/ares_set_servers.3 b/ares_set_servers.3
index 949b81f..2c1b9db 100644 (file)
--- a/ares_set_servers.3
+++ b/ares_set_servers.3
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ with more than one name server all the desired ones must be specified in a
 single list.
 
 \fBares_set_servers(3)\fP does not take ownership of the linked list argument.
-The caller is responsible to free the linked list when no longer needed.
+The caller is responsible for freeing the linked list when no longer needed.
 
 This function is capable of handling IPv4 and IPv6 name server
 addresses simultaneously, rendering \fBares_init_options(3)\fP with
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ c-ares library initialization not yet performed.
 ares_set_servers(3) was added in c-ares 1.7.1
 .SH AUTHOR
 Implementation of this function and associated library internals are based
-on code, comments and feedback provided November and December of 2008 by
+on code, comments and feedback provided in November and December of 2008 by
 Daniel Stenberg, Gregor Jasny, Phil Blundell and Yang Tse, December 2009
 by Cedric Bail, February 2010 by Jakub Hrozek. On March 2010 Yang Tse
 shuffled all the bits and this function popped out.