Larry Doolittle writes:

This is a bulk spelling fix patch against busybox-1.00-pre10.
If anyone gets a corrupted copy (and cares), let me know and
I will make alternate arrangements.

Erik - please apply.

Authors - please check that I didn't corrupt any meaning.

Package importers - see if any of these changes should be
passed to the upstream authors.

I glossed over lots of sloppy capitalizations, missing apostrophes,
mixed American/British spellings, and German-style compound words.

What is "pretect redefined for test" in cmdedit.c?

Good luck on the 1.00 release!

      - Larry

libbb/create_icmp6_socket.c

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 /*
  * Utility routines.
  *
- * create raw socket for icmp (IPv6 version) protocol test permision
- * and drop root privilegies if running setuid
+ * create raw socket for icmp (IPv6 version) protocol test permission
+ * and drop root privileges if running setuid
  *
  */
 

libbb/create_icmp_socket.c

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 /*
  * Utility routines.
  *
- * create raw socket for icmp protocol test permision
- * and drop root privilegies if running setuid
+ * create raw socket for icmp protocol test permission
+ * and drop root privileges if running setuid
  *
  */
 

libbb/default_error_retval.c

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 /* Seems silly to copyright a global variable.  ;-)  Oh well.
  *
  * At least one applet (cmp) returns a value different from the typical
- * EXIT_FAILURE values (1) when an error occurs.  So, make it configureable
+ * EXIT_FAILURE values (1) when an error occurs.  So, make it configurable
  * by the applet.  I suppose we could use a wrapper function to set it, but
  * that too seems silly.
  */

libbb/fclose_nonstdin.c

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  *
  */
 
-/* A number of standard utilites can accept multiple command line args
+/* A number of standard utilities can accept multiple command line args
  * of '-' for stdin, according to SUSv3.  So we encapsulate the check
  * here to save a little space.
  */

libbb/isdirectory.c

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Return TRUE if a fileName is a directory.
- * Nonexistant files return FALSE.
+ * Nonexistent files return FALSE.
  */
 int is_directory(const char *fileName, const int followLinks, struct stat *statBuf)
 {

libbb/make_directory.c

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
  * sure that (flags & FILEUTILS_RECUR) is non-zero.  Newly created
  * intermediate directories will have at least u+wx perms.
  *
- * To set specific permisions on 'path', pass the appropriate 'mode'
- * val.  Otherwise, pass -1 to get default permisions.
+ * To set specific permissions on 'path', pass the appropriate 'mode'
+ * val.  Otherwise, pass -1 to get default permissions.
  */
 
 #include <errno.h>

libbb/printf.c

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  * reasons for failure which don't set the streams error indicator,
  * SUSv3 lists EILSEQ, EINVAL, and ENOMEM.
  *
- * In some cases, it would be desireable to have a group of *printf()
+ * In some cases, it would be desirable to have a group of *printf()
  * functions available that _always_ set the stream error indicator on
  * failure.  That would allow us to defer error checking until applet
  * exit.  Unfortunately, there is no standard way of setting a streams
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
  * free to send patches for stdio implementations where the following
  * fails.
  *
- * NOTE: None of this is threadsafe.  As busybox is a nonthreaded app,
+ * NOTE: None of this is thread safe.  As busybox is a non-threaded app,
  *       that isn't currently an issue.
  */
 
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
  *
  * Some example bugs as of March 12, 2003...
  *   1) fputc() doesn't set the error indicator on failure.
- *   2) freopen() doesn't maintain the same stream object, contary to
+ *   2) freopen() doesn't maintain the same stream object, contrary to
  *      standards.  This makes it useless in its primary role of
  *      reassociating stdin/stdout/stderr.
  *   3) printf() often fails to correctly format output when conversions
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 #error dietlibc is currently not supported.  Please see the commented source.
 
 #else /* some other lib */
-/* Please see the comments for the above supported libaries for examples
+/* Please see the comments for the above supported libraries for examples
  * of what is required to support your stdio implementation.
  */
 #error Your stdio library is currently not supported.  Please see the commented source.

libbb/run_parts.c

@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ static int valid_name(const struct dirent *d)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-/* test mode = 1 is the same as offical run_parts
- * test_mode = 2 means to fail siliently on missing directories
+/* test mode = 1 is the same as official run_parts
+ * test_mode = 2 means to fail silently on missing directories
  */
 
 extern int run_parts(char **args, const unsigned char test_mode, char **env)

libbb/vfork_daemon_rexec.c

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 /*
- * Rexec program for system have fork() as vfork() with foregound option
+ * Rexec program for system have fork() as vfork() with foreground option
  *
  * Copyright (C) Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru>
  * Copyright (C) 2003 Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
  *
- * daemon() portion taken from uclibc:
+ * daemon() portion taken from uClibc:
  *
  * Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
  *      The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

libbb/warn_ignoring_args.c

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
 /*
- * warn_ingoring_args implementations for busybox
+ * warn_ignoring_args implementation for busybox
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2003  Manuel Novoa III  <mjn3@codepoet.org>
  *

libbb/xconnect.c

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /*
  * Utility routines.
  *
- * Connect to host at port using address resolusion from getaddrinfo
+ * Connect to host at port using address resolution from getaddrinfo
  *
  */