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diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 index 33e650fe..adb8028f 100644 --- a/misc-utils/uuidd.8 +++ b/misc-utils/uuidd.8 @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ uuidd \- UUID generation daemon The .B uuidd daemon is used by the UUID library to generate -universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUID's +universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), especially time-based UUIDs, in a secure and guaranteed-unique fashion, even in the face of large -numbers of threads trying to grab UUID's running on different CPU's. +numbers of threads running on different CPUs trying to grab UUIDs. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-d @@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ Run in debugging mode. This prevents uuidd from running as a daemon. .TP .B \-k -If a currently uuidd daemon is running, kill it. +If currently a uuidd daemon is running, kill it. .TP .BI \-n " number" When issuing a test request to a running uuidd, request a bulk response of .I number -UUID's. +UUIDs. .TP .BI \-p " pidfile" Specify the pathname where the pid file should be written. By default, |