documentation and typo fixes. By Dan Fandrich (dan AT coneharvesters.com)

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

8 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/docs/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.txt b/docs/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.txt
index 0dfc8aa31..8a3954b09 100644
--- a/docs/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/docs/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.txt
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ Seems to be somewhat old, but contains useful bits for getty.c hacking
   characters will operate on the incoming data before it is delivered to
   the user.
 
-  In non-canonical mode, incoming data is quanitified by use of the
+  In non-canonical mode, incoming data is quantified by use of the
   c_cc[VMIN and c_cc[VTIME] values in termios.c_cc[].
 
   Some programmers use the select() call to detect the completion of a
diff --git a/docs/busybox_footer.pod b/docs/busybox_footer.pod
index 74575bdac..faf7d9f3f 100644
--- a/docs/busybox_footer.pod
+++ b/docs/busybox_footer.pod
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ The following people have contributed code to BusyBox whether they know it or
 not.  If you have written code included in BusyBox, you should probably be
 listed here so you can obtain your bit of eternal glory.  If you should be
 listed here, or the description of what you have done needs more detail, or is
-incorect, please send in an update.
+incorrect, please send in an update.
 
 
 =for html <br>
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
 
 Glenn McGrath <bug1@iinet.net.au>
 
-    Common unarchving code and unarchiving applets, ifupdown, ftpgetput,
+    Common unarchiving code and unarchiving applets, ifupdown, ftpgetput,
     nameif, sed, patch, fold, install, uudecode.
     Various bugfixes, review and apply numerous patches.
 
diff --git a/docs/contributing.txt b/docs/contributing.txt
index 54cba750e..cc1657453 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.txt
+++ b/docs/contributing.txt
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ an example:
     But when I use BusyBox date I get this instead:
 
 	$ date
-	llegal instruction
+	Illegal instruction
 
     I am using Debian unstable, kernel version 2.4.19-rmk1 on an Netwinder,
     and the latest uClibc from CVS.
diff --git a/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt b/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt
index 62a6d1550..7e6885560 100644
--- a/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt
+++ b/docs/logging_and_backgrounding.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ To help with that, busybox applets should have options to override
 default behavior, whatever that is for a given applet.
 
 
-Current sutiation is a bit of a mess:
+Current situation is a bit of a mess:
 
 acpid - auto-backgrounds unless -d
 crond - auto-backgrounds unless -f, logs to syslog unless -d or -L.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Total: 13 applets (+1 obsolete),
  5 never log to syslog (acpid httpd telnetd klogd syslogd, last two
  - for obviously correct reasons),
  there are no daemons which always log to syslog,
- 12 auto-background if not run as inetd servies (all except dnsd.
+ 12 auto-background if not run as inetd services (all except dnsd.
  Note that there is no "standard" dnsd AFAIKS). But see below
  for daemons (tcpsvd etc) which don't auto-background.
 
diff --git a/docs/mdev.txt b/docs/mdev.txt
index a8a816ce9..61a6f4561 100644
--- a/docs/mdev.txt
+++ b/docs/mdev.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,6 @@ IOW: this will serialize concurrent mdev invocations.
 
 If you want to activate this feature, execute "echo >/dev/mdev.seq" prior to
 setting mdev to be the hotplug handler. This writes single '\n' to the file.
-NB: mdev recognizes /dev/mdev.seq consisting of single '\n' characher
+NB: mdev recognizes /dev/mdev.seq consisting of single '\n' character
 as a special case. IOW: this will not make your first hotplug event
 to stall for two seconds.
diff --git a/docs/new-applet-HOWTO.txt b/docs/new-applet-HOWTO.txt
index e7c3077bd..0646e728e 100644
--- a/docs/new-applet-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/docs/new-applet-HOWTO.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Mark Whitley - the remix
 Thomas Lundquist - Trying to keep it updated.
 
 When doing this you should consider using the latest svn trunk.
-This is a good thing if you plan to getting it commited into mainline.
+This is a good thing if you plan to getting it committed into mainline.
 
 Initial Write
 -------------
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ the function declaration. If not, add it somewhere anyway, with or without
 ifdefs to include or not.
 
 You can look at libbb/Config.in and try to find out if the function is
-tuneable and add it there if it is.
+tunable and add it there if it is.
 
 
 Placement / Directory
diff --git a/docs/posix_conformance.txt b/docs/posix_conformance.txt
index 474465efc..d9fa116b8 100644
--- a/docs/posix_conformance.txt
+++ b/docs/posix_conformance.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ And the complete list of all utilities that POSIX covers:
 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html
 
 This listing is a work in progress, and currently only covers
-tool options (not operands, enviroment variables, return codes, etc..).
+tool options (not operands, environment variables, return codes, etc..).
 For each option it is set if it (a) exists and (b) compliant to POSIX 2008.
 Some options exist but there is no value in the 'compliant' column: that
 means no one has yet bothered to make sure that the option does what it is
diff --git a/docs/style-guide.txt b/docs/style-guide.txt
index 7560d6986..a58931ae7 100644
--- a/docs/style-guide.txt
+++ b/docs/style-guide.txt
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ because it looks like whitespace; using lower-case is easy on the eyes.
 Exceptions:
 
  - Enums, macros, and constant variables are occasionally written in all
-   upper-case with words optionally seperatedy by underscores (i.e. FIFO_TYPE,
+   upper-case with words optionally separated by underscores (i.e. FIFO_TYPE,
    ISBLKDEV()).
 
  - Nobody is going to get mad at you for using 'pvar' as the name of a