In Unix land we prefer "whitespace" to "white space" or "white-space". At

least, this is the impression I get from looking at a lot of Perl docs.

5 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
index c83cede88b..637a81f1f0 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.11 2000/01/25 23:28:55 deraadt Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.12 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd April 19, 1994
 .Dt GETOPT 3
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ recognizes an option and argument
 .Dq Fl x Ar argument .
 It does not matter to
 .Fn getopt
-if a following argument has leading white space.
+if a following argument has leading whitespace.
 .Pp
 On return from
 .Fn getopt ,
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3
index ef61803910..143fea34dc 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: strtod.3,v 1.5 2000/01/22 12:05:49 aaron Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: strtod.3,v 1.6 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 29, 1991
 .Dt STRTOD 3
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ a decimal-point character, optionally followed by an exponent.
 An exponent consists of an ``E'' or ``e'', followed by an optional plus
 or minus sign, followed by a sequence of digits.
 .Pp
-Leading white-space characters in the string (as defined by the
+Leading whitespace characters in the string (as defined by the
 .Xr isspace 3
 function) are skipped.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtol.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtol.3
index 3e0d5e67c7..df696b7b85 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtol.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtol.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: strtol.3,v 1.6 1999/09/14 03:59:55 pjanzen Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: strtol.3,v 1.7 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 25, 1992
 .Dt STRTOL 3
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The conversion is done according to the given
 which must be a number between 2 and 36 inclusive
 or the special value 0.
 .Pp
-The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of white space
+The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace
 (as determined by
 .Xr isspace 3 )
 followed by a single optional
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3
index 80eb037844..572658bf7f 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.5 1999/09/14 03:59:55 pjanzen Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.6 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 25, 1992
 .Dt STRTOUL 3
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The conversion is done according to the given
 which must be a number between 2 and 36 inclusive
 or the special value 0.
 .Pp
-The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of white space
+The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace
 (as determined by
 .Xr isspace 3 )
 followed by a single optional
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/strsep.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/strsep.3
index 5d0f407269..9f44a22d9b 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/strsep.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/strsep.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strsep.3,v 1.6 1999/07/04 15:59:50 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strsep.3,v 1.7 2000/03/04 22:19:32 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
 .\"     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ returns
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following uses
 .Fn strsep
-to parse a string, containing tokens delimited by white space, into an
+to parse a string, containing tokens delimited by whitespace, into an
 argument vector:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 char **ap, *argv[10], *inputstring;