typos: fix a grabbag of typos all over the place

5 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/common/wtf8.rs b/src/libstd/sys/common/wtf8.rs
index 10f77d0207c..a6eada832cd 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/common/wtf8.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/common/wtf8.rs
@@ -146,13 +146,13 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Wtf8Buf {
 }
 
 impl Wtf8Buf {
-    /// Creates an new, empty WTF-8 string.
+    /// Creates a new, empty WTF-8 string.
     #[inline]
     pub fn new() -> Wtf8Buf {
         Wtf8Buf { bytes: Vec::new() }
     }
 
-    /// Creates an new, empty WTF-8 string with pre-allocated capacity for `n` bytes.
+    /// Creates a new, empty WTF-8 string with pre-allocated capacity for `n` bytes.
     #[inline]
     pub fn with_capacity(n: usize) -> Wtf8Buf {
         Wtf8Buf { bytes: Vec::with_capacity(n) }
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/process.rs b/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/process.rs
index 81980ea25fb..dcfa376c81e 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/process.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/unix/ext/process.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub trait CommandExt {
     /// This is not enough to create a daemon process. The *init* process should
     /// be the child reaper of a daemon. This can be achieved if the parent
     /// process exit. Moreover, a daemon should not have a controlling terminal.
-    /// To acheive this, a session leader (the child) must spawn another process
+    /// To achieve this, a session leader (the child) must spawn another process
     /// (the daemon) in the same session.
     #[unstable(feature = "process_session_leader", reason = "recently added",
                issue = "27811")]
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/unix/mod.rs b/src/libstd/sys/unix/mod.rs
index 964bc08ff4e..3a88f36399e 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/unix/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/unix/mod.rs
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ pub mod time;
 pub mod stdio;
 
 pub fn init() {
-    // By default, some platforms will send a *signal* when a EPIPE error
+    // By default, some platforms will send a *signal* when an EPIPE error
     // would otherwise be delivered. This runtime doesn't install a SIGPIPE
     // handler, causing it to kill the program, which isn't exactly what we
     // want!
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/windows/mod.rs b/src/libstd/sys/windows/mod.rs
index 04bb5e5ea38..85f5d4e5884 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/windows/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/windows/mod.rs
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ fn to_utf16_os(s: &OsStr) -> Vec<u16> {
     v
 }
 
-// Many Windows APIs follow a pattern of where we hand the a buffer and then
-// they will report back to us how large the buffer should be or how many bytes
+// Many Windows APIs follow a pattern of where we hand a buffer and then they
+// will report back to us how large the buffer should be or how many bytes
 // currently reside in the buffer. This function is an abstraction over these
 // functions by making them easier to call.
 //
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/windows/mutex.rs b/src/libstd/sys/windows/mutex.rs
index 277c3d14c0e..b770156582d 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/windows/mutex.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/windows/mutex.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 //!    more details.
 //!
 //! 3. While CriticalSection is fair and SRWLock is not, the current Rust policy
-//!    is there there are no guarantees of fairness.
+//!    is that there are no guarantees of fairness.
 //!
 //! The downside of this approach, however, is that SRWLock is not available on
 //! Windows XP, so we continue to have a fallback implementation where