Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specific

person. Rewrite or use singular they.

ok thfr@ sthen@ daniel@ ian@ job@ kmos@ jcs@ ratchov@ phessler@ and
others I'm likely missing on an earlier version.
feedback tj@, feedback and ok jmc@

4 files changed, 16 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/ipsec.4 b/share/man/man4/ipsec.4
index 6af1697f2a0..2a9afb0d897 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ipsec.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ipsec.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.4,v 1.86 2022/02/17 12:24:08 jsg Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.4,v 1.87 2022/02/18 23:17:15 jsg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 17 2022 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2022 $
 .Dt IPSEC 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ data, some of the IP header data, and a certain secret value
 (the authentication key).
 This value is then sent with the rest of each packet.
 The receiver performs the same computation, and if the value matches,
-he knows no one tampered with the data (integrity), the address information
+it knows no one tampered with the data (integrity), the address information
 (authenticity) or a sequence number (replay protection).
-He knows this because the secret authentication key makes sure no
+It knows this because the secret authentication key makes sure no
 active attacker (man-in-the-middle) can recompute the correct value after
 altering the packet.
 The algorithms used to compute these values are called hash algorithms and are
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tty.4 b/share/man/man4/tty.4
index 2d525dc5ae7..4215da9b54f 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tty.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tty.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: tty.4,v 1.54 2022/02/06 00:29:02 jsg Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: tty.4,v 1.55 2022/02/18 23:17:15 jsg Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: tty.4,v 1.4 1996/03/19 04:26:01 paulus Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)tty.4	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 6 2022 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2022 $
 .Dt TTY 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -107,14 +107,13 @@ For more information on dial-out, see
 When an interactive user logs in, the system prepares the line to
 behave in a certain way (called a
 .Em "line discipline" ) ,
-the particular details of which are described in
+described in
 .Xr stty 1
 at the command level, and in
 .Xr termios 4
 at the programming level.
-A user may be concerned with changing settings associated with his particular
-login terminal and should refer to the preceding man pages for the common
-cases.
+To change settings associated with a login terminal,
+refer to the preceding man pages for the common cases.
 The remainder of this man page is concerned with describing details of using
 and controlling terminal devices at a low level, such as that possibly
 required by a program wishing to provide features similar to those provided
diff --git a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5 b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
index 77b188d3512..9c2104e563f 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/bsd.port.mk.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.555 2022/02/11 17:19:59 sthen Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bsd.port.mk.5,v 1.556 2022/02/18 23:17:15 jsg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Marc Espie
 .\"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 11 2022 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2022 $
 .Dt BSD.PORT.MK 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -4366,7 +4366,7 @@ instead.
 .It Ev IGNOREFILES
 Set to the list of files that can't be checksummed.
 All uses of it have led to postponing the correct action: talking
-to the software author and getting him to provide versioned archives.
+to the software authors and getting them to provide versioned archives.
 .It Ev MANn
 List of unformatted manpages, per section.
 .It Ev MANPREFIX
diff --git a/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5
index 4b997a9067a..30216da7745 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/pf.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: pf.conf.5,v 1.590 2021/12/26 01:00:32 sashan Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: pf.conf.5,v 1.591 2022/02/18 23:17:15 jsg Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2002, Daniel Hartmeier
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003 - 2013 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 26 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 18 2022 $
 .Dt PF.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -2536,8 +2536,8 @@ This means that it will not work on other protocols and will not match
 a currently established connection.
 .Pp
 Caveat: operating system fingerprints are occasionally wrong.
-There are three problems: an attacker can trivially craft his packets to
-appear as any operating system he chooses;
+There are three problems: an attacker can trivially craft packets to
+appear as any operating system;
 an operating system patch could change the stack behavior and no fingerprints
 will match it until the database is updated;
 and multiple operating systems may have the same fingerprint.