applied Alex's so-it's-ids.patch

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1941 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

4 files changed, 17 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml b/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml
index 76aabf053..41f0e2962 100644
--- a/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ because we use pidof from sysvinit instead.</para></sect3>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>fuser</title>
-<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file 
-systems.</para></sect4>
+<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified
+files or file systems.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>killall</title>
 <para>killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified 
 commands.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pidof</title>
-<para>pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
-prints those id's on standard output.</para></sect4>
+<para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
+programs.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pstree</title>
 <para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para></sect4>
diff --git a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
index 539fa79e1..41acee519 100644
--- a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ files.</para></sect4>
 <para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>
-<para>su changes the effective user id and group id to that of a given user.
-This replaces the su programs that's installed from the
-Sh-utils package.</para></sect4>
+<para>su changes the effective user and group IDs to that of a given user.
+(This program replaces the su program installed from the
+Sh-utils package.)</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>useradd</title>
 <para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user 
diff --git a/appendixa/shellutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/shellutils-desc.xml
index 22b0af71d..ac9da10ec 100644
--- a/appendixa/shellutils-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/shellutils-desc.xml
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ integer numbers.</para></sect4>
 host.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>hostname</title>
-<para>hostname sets or prints the name of the current host system.</para></sect4>
+<para>hostname prints or sets the name of the current host system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>id</title>
-<para>id prints the real and effective UIDs and GIDs of a user or the current
-user.</para></sect4>
+<para>id prints the effective user and group IDs of the current
+user or a given user.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>logname</title>
 <para>logname prints the current user's login name.</para></sect4>
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ increment.</para></sect4>
 <para>stty changes and prints terminal line settings.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>
-<para>su runs a shell with substitute user and group ID's.</para></sect4>
+<para>su runs a shell with substitute user and group IDs.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>tee</title>
 <para>tee reads from standard input and writes to standard output and 
@@ -121,10 +121,12 @@ current host.</para></sect4>
 <para>who shows who is logged on.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>whoami</title>
-<para>whoami prints the user's effective userid.</para></sect4>
+<para>whoami prints the user name associated with the current
+effective user ID.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>yes</title>
-<para>yes outputs a string repeatedly until killed.</para></sect4>
+<para>yes outputs 'y' or a given string repeatedly,
+until killed.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 
diff --git a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml
index adccb6fab..607d227ef 100644
--- a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.</para></sect4>
 used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pidof</title>
-<para>pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints
-those id's on standard output.</para></sect4>
+<para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
+programs.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>poweroff</title>
 <para>poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and