[PATCH] maint: correct typos involving misuse of "a" and "an"

[Jim Meyering]

A bunch of typos in comments:

>From cb4a0e31e282924f86046557980a2b5e16111ddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:36:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: correct typos involving misuse of "a" and "an"

* NEWS: "an misleading"
* src/expr.c: "a integer
* src/ptx.c (find_occurs_in_text): "a end"
* src/shred.c (do_wipefd): "a infinite"
* src/sort.c (SUBTHREAD_LINES_HEURISTIC): "an dual-core"
(compare_random): "an checksum"
* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, since the typo was in old news.
---
 NEWS        |    2 +-
 cfg.mk      |    2 +-
 src/expr.c  |    2 +-
 src/ptx.c   |    2 +-
 src/shred.c |    2 +-
 src/sort.c  |    4 ++--
 6 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 88593ab..a71f832 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-

   "rm --interactive=never F" no longer prompts for an unwritable F

-  "rm -rf D" would emit an misleading diagnostic when failing to
+  "rm -rf D" would emit a misleading diagnostic when failing to
   remove a symbolic link within the unwritable directory, D.
   Introduced in coreutils-6.0.  Similarly, when a cross-partition
   "mv" fails because the source directory is unwritable, it now gives
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 15cf98c..c7515c7 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib,bison
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes

-old_NEWS_hash = 46d641b97ad45383bd3479f77b706742
+old_NEWS_hash = 792b8dca00fe03568653f7ca2d096d9d

 # Add an exemption for sc_makefile_at_at_check.
 _makefile_at_at_check_exceptions = ' && !/^cu_install_program =/'
diff --git a/src/expr.c b/src/expr.c
index 2be8b1d..ce65ecf 100644
--- a/src/expr.c
+++ b/src/expr.c
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ toarith (VALUE *v)
     }
 }

-/* Extract a size_t value from a integer value I.
+/* Extract a size_t value from an integer value I.
    If the value is negative, return SIZE_MAX.
    If the value is too large, return SIZE_MAX - 1.  */
 static size_t
diff --git a/src/ptx.c b/src/ptx.c
index 3ee14ff..7ac6e8f 100644
--- a/src/ptx.c
+++ b/src/ptx.c
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ find_occurs_in_text (void)

       context_start = cursor;

-      /* If a end of line or end of sentence sequence is defined and
+      /* If an end of line or end of sentence sequence is defined and
          non-empty, `next_context_start' will be recomputed to be the end of
          each line or sentence, before each one is processed.  If no such
          sequence, then `next_context_start' is set at the end of the whole
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c
index 2774791..d8b33e7 100644
--- a/src/shred.c
+++ b/src/shred.c
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ do_wipefd (int fd, char const *qname, struct randint_source 
*s,
     }

   /* If we know that we can't possibly shred the file, give up now.
-     Otherwise, we may go into a infinite loop writing data before we
+     Otherwise, we may go into an infinite loop writing data before we
      find that we can't rewind the device.  */
   if ((S_ISCHR (st.st_mode) && isatty (fd))
       || S_ISFIFO (st.st_mode)
diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index e10159a..084addf 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ struct rlimit { size_t rlim_cur; };
 /* Heuristic value for the number of lines for which it is worth creating
    a subthread, during an internal merge sort.  I.e., it is a small number
    of "average" lines for which sorting via two threads is faster than
-   sorting via one on an "average" system.  On an dual-core 2.0 GHz i686
+   sorting via one on an "average" system.  On a dual-core 2.0 GHz i686
    system with 3GB of RAM and 2MB of L2 cache, a file containing 128K
    lines of gensort -a output is sorted slightly faster with --parallel=2
    than with --parallel=1.  By contrast, using --parallel=1 is about 10%
@@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@ compare_random (char *restrict texta, size_t lena,
                 char *restrict textb, size_t lenb)
 {
   /* XFRM_DIFF records the equivalent of memcmp on the transformed
-     data.  This is used to break ties if there is an checksum
+     data.  This is used to break ties if there is a checksum
      collision, and this is good enough given the astronomically low
      probability of a collision.  */
   int xfrm_diff = 0;
--
1.7.5.2.315.g11bc3