Merge branch 'ml/documentation_apostrophe_fix' into dev

* ml/documentation_apostrophe_fix:
  Correct grammatical problems in conjunction with 'its'
  Change all incorrect occurrences of it's to its

OTP-8523 ml/documentation_apostrophe_fix

6 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml
index a929aec97f..36d83a685b 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/alt_dist.xml
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
 (13)     Word received;            /* Bytes received */
 (14)     struct uds_data *partner; /* The partner in an accept/listen pair */
 (15)     struct uds_data *next;    /* Next structure in list */
-(16)     /* The input buffer and it's data */
+(16)     /* The input buffer and its data */
 (17)     int buffer_size;          /* The allocated size of the input buffer */
 (18)     int buffer_pos;           /* Current position in input buffer */
 (19)     int header_pos;           /* Where the current header is in the 
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
         I/O vector itself. One can use this to allocate the binaries
         for the queue "manually" in the driver, but we'll just fill
         the binary array with NULL values (line 7) , which will make
-        the runtime system allocate it's own buffers when we call
+        the runtime system allocate its own buffers when we call
         <c><![CDATA[driver_enqv]]></c> (line 37).</p>
       <p></p>
       <p>The routine builds an I/O vector containing the header bytes
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@
          between invocations of Erlang nodes with the same name.</item>
       </list>
       <p>The control interface gets a buffer to return its value in,
-        but is free to allocate it's own buffer is the provided one is
+        but is free to allocate its own buffer is the provided one is
         to small. Here is the code for <c><![CDATA[uds_control]]></c>:</p>
       <code type="none"><![CDATA[
 ( 1) static int uds_control(ErlDrvData handle, unsigned int command, 
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@
       <c><![CDATA[net_kernel:start/1]]></c> function, which is useful as it starts
       the distribution on a running system, where tracing/debugging
       can be performed. The <c><![CDATA[net_kernel:start/1]]></c> routine takes a
-      list as it's single argument. The lists first element should be
+      list as its single argument. The lists first element should be
       the node name (without the "@hostname") as an atom, and the second (and
       last) element should be one of the atoms <c><![CDATA[shortnames]]></c> or 
       <c><![CDATA[longnames]]></c>. In the example case <c><![CDATA[shortnames]]></c> is
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/driver.xml
index 12c79aee90..006a6160de 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/driver.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/driver.xml
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ select(Port, Query) ->
     <title>Sample asynchronous driver</title>
     <p>Sometimes database queries can take long time to
       complete, in our <c><![CDATA[pg_sync]]></c> driver, the emulator
-      halts while the driver is doing it's job. This is
+      halts while the driver is doing its job. This is
       often not acceptable, since no other Erlang processes
       gets a chance to do anything. To improve on our
       postgres driver, we reimplement it using the asynchronous
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml
index 5978af178a..1fe7ac7ecd 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ By default EPMD listens on port 4369.
       <section>
 	<title>Unregister a node from the EPMD</title>
 	<p>
-	  A node unregister itself from the EPMD by simply closing the
+	  A node unregisters itself from the EPMD by simply closing the
 	  TCP connection towards EPMD established when the node was registered.
 	</p>
       </section>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
index 5061230a33..497a2fa01d 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ typedef struct ErlIOVec {
         <marker id="driver_get_now"></marker>
         <p>This function reads a timestamp into the memory pointed to by 
           the parameter <c>now</c>. See the description of <seealso marker="#ErlDrvNowData">ErlDrvNowData</seealso> for
-          specification of it's fields.  </p>
+          specification of its fields.  </p>
         <p>The return value is 0 unless the <c>now</c> pointer is not
           valid, in which case it is &lt; 0.  </p>
       </desc>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 46f8df4683..c4751d7463 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -2749,7 +2749,7 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
           <item>
 
 	      <p>Works like <c>{spawn, Command}</c>, but only runs
-	      external executables. The <c>Command</c> in it's whole
+	      external executables. The <c>Command</c> in its whole
 	      is used as the name of the executable, including any
 	      spaces. If arguments are to be passed, the
 	      <c>args</c> and <c>arg0</c> <c>PortSettings</c> can be used.</p>
@@ -2926,7 +2926,7 @@ os_prompt%</pre>
 	    The standard input and standard output handles of the port program
 	    will, if this option is supplied, be opened with the flag
 	    FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, so that the port program can (and has to) do
-	    overlapped I/O on it's standard handles. This is not normally
+	    overlapped I/O on its standard handles. This is not normally
 	    the case for simple port programs, but an option of value for the
 	    experienced Windows programmer. <em>On all other platforms, this 
 	    option is silently discarded</em>.</p> 
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index 65b836fc45..c11509131c 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4681,7 +4681,7 @@
         </item>
         <item>
           <p>The runtime system with SMP support did not slowly adjust
-            it's view of time when the system time suddenly changed.</p>
+            its view of time when the system time suddenly changed.</p>
           <p>Timeouts could sometimes timeout too early on the runtime
             system with SMP support.</p>
           <p>Own Id: OTP-6202</p>