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authoraiju <devnull@localhost>2018-12-08 17:24:23 +0000
committeraiju <devnull@localhost>2018-12-08 17:24:23 +0000
commit722a1a33347c759c797da9f889ceaed304092aff (patch)
treebd1bb824527a7a3fef7dad1e52fb49651a6acf5f /sys
parent6056a46c6498c1f500124f1523c33f696b834898 (diff)
fix dtracy man page
Diffstat (limited to 'sys')
-rw-r--r--sys/man/1/dtracy6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/1/dtracy b/sys/man/1/dtracy
index 38020f6ca..af2d43af4 100644
--- a/sys/man/1/dtracy
+++ b/sys/man/1/dtracy
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dtracy \- dynamic tracing language
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Dtracy
is a language for dynamic tracing of the kernel.
-Essentially, they allow the user to define small programs in kernel space that are triggered by certain events (known as probes) upon which they are executed.
+Essentially, it allows the user to define small programs in kernel space that are triggered by certain events (known as probes) upon which they are executed.
.PP
.I Dtracy
uses an
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ program is a series of statements of one of the following forms
Each probe consists of three parts separated by \fL:\fR.
If a part is omitted (e.g. \fLqsys::entry\fR), it matches all probes that match the remaining parts.
.PP
-\fIPredicate\fR, if specified, is an expression that must evaluate to a non-zero values for the actions to be executed.
+\fIPredicate\fR, if specified, is an expression that must evaluate to a non-zero value for the actions to be executed.
.PP
\fIActions\fR is a semicolon-separated list of statements of one of the following forms:
.IP
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ prints its arguments using a format string with
syntax.
However, there is no need to specify the argument size, e.g. \fL%d\fR works for all integer types.
.PP
-Statements of the form \fL@\fIname\fL[\fIindex\fL] = \fIaggregation-expr\fR collect statistics using a data structures referred to as an aggregation.
+Statements of the form \fL@\fIname\fL[\fIindex\fL] = \fIaggregation-expr\fR collect statistics using a data structure referred to as an aggregation.
Each time the statement is evaluated adds another datapoint to the aggregation, which will be printed in tabular form when
.I dtracy
finishes.