man2/: use consistent closed interval notation for value ranges

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

6 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/man2/clock_getres.2 b/man2/clock_getres.2
index c10f980fa..8d90baaaa 100644
--- a/man2/clock_getres.2
+++ b/man2/clock_getres.2
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ does not refer to a valid instance of a clock object.
 .I tp.tv_sec
 is negative or
 .I tp.tv_nsec
-is outside the range [0..999,999,999].
+is outside the range [0, 999,999,999].
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
 The
diff --git a/man2/clock_nanosleep.2 b/man2/clock_nanosleep.2
index 5afc2025c..5da8d1569 100644
--- a/man2/clock_nanosleep.2
+++ b/man2/clock_nanosleep.2
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ The sleep was interrupted by a signal handler; see
 .B EINVAL
 The value in the
 .I tv_nsec
-field was not in the range 0 to 999999999 or
+field was not in the range [0, 999999999] or
 .I tv_sec
 was negative.
 .TP
diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2
index f3fe06fb9..f092a2fc4 100644
--- a/man2/getitimer.2
+++ b/man2/getitimer.2
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ or (since Linux 2.6.22) one of the
 .I tv_usec
 fields in the structure pointed to by
 .I new_value
-contains a value outside the range 0 to 999999.
+contains a value outside the range [0, 999999].
 .SH STANDARDS
 POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.4BSD (this call first appeared in 4.2BSD).
 POSIX.1-2008 marks
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ POSIX.1-2001 says that
 .BR setitimer ()
 should fail if a
 .I tv_usec
-value is specified that is outside of the range 0 to 999999.
+value is specified that is outside of the range [0, 999999].
 However, up to and including Linux 2.6.21,
 Linux does not give an error, but instead silently
 adjusts the corresponding seconds value for the timer.
diff --git a/man2/gettimeofday.2 b/man2/gettimeofday.2
index 9fe7a415d..d7f1dbe2b 100644
--- a/man2/gettimeofday.2
+++ b/man2/gettimeofday.2
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ is invalid.
 .I tv.tv_sec
 is negative or
 .I tv.tv_usec
-is outside the range [0..999,999].
+is outside the range [0, 999,999].
 .TP
 .BR EINVAL " (since Linux 4.3)"
 .\" commit e1d7ba8735551ed79c7a0463a042353574b96da3
diff --git a/man2/nanosleep.2 b/man2/nanosleep.2
index a6f9e627f..12e0cee84 100644
--- a/man2/nanosleep.2
+++ b/man2/nanosleep.2
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ The
 structure
 is used to specify intervals of time with nanosecond precision.
 .PP
-The value of the nanoseconds field must be in the range 0 to 999999999.
+The value of the nanoseconds field must be in the range [0, 999999999].
 .PP
 Compared to
 .BR sleep (3)
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ again and continue with the pause.
 .B EINVAL
 The value in the
 .I tv_nsec
-field was not in the range 0 to 999999999 or
+field was not in the range [0, 999999999] or
 .I tv_sec
 was negative.
 .SH STANDARDS
diff --git a/man2/utimensat.2 b/man2/utimensat.2
index 0ea9ebe9e..c2e6a9164 100644
--- a/man2/utimensat.2
+++ b/man2/utimensat.2
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ Invalid value in
 .B EINVAL
 Invalid value in one of the
 .I tv_nsec
-fields (value outside range 0 to 999,999,999, and not
+fields (value outside range [0, 999,999,999], and not
 .B UTIME_NOW
 or
 .BR UTIME_OMIT );