/**
* A wrapper for lseek(2).
*
- * \param fd The filedescriptor whose offset is to be to repositioned.
+ * \param fd The file descriptor whose offset is to be to repositioned.
* \param offset A value-result parameter.
* \param whence Usual repositioning directive.
*
* \param buf The buffer to write.
* \param size The length of \a buf in bytes.
*
- * This function writes out the given bufffer and retries if an interrupt
- * occured during the write.
+ * This function writes out the given buffer and retries if an interrupt
+ * occurred during the write.
*
* \return On success, the number of bytes written is returned, otherwise, the
* function returns \p -E_WRITE.
* \param flags Options for what should be cleaned up.
*
* If osl_open_table() succeeds, the resulting table pointer must later be
- * passed to this function in order to flush all changes to the filesystem and
+ * passed to this function in order to flush all changes to the file system and
* to free the resources that were allocated by osl_open_table().
*
* \return Positive on success, negative on errors. Possible errors: \p E_BAD_TABLE,
* Lookup \a obj in \a t and return the row containing \a obj. The column
* specified by \a col_num must have an associated rbtree.
*
- * \return Positive on success, negative on errors. If an error occured, \a
+ * \return Positive on success, negative on errors. If an error occurred, \a
* result is set to \p NULL. Possible errors include: \p E_BAD_TABLE, \p
* E_BAD_STORAGE_FLAGS, errors returned by get_mapped_object(), \p
* E_RB_KEY_NOT_FOUND.
*
* This function gets rid of all references to the old object. This includes
* removal of the rbtree node in case there is an rbtree associated with \a
- * col_num. It then inserts \a obj into the table and the rbtree if neccessary.
+ * col_num. It then inserts \a obj into the table and the rbtree if necessary.
*
* If the \p OSL_RBTREE flag is set for \a col_num, you \b MUST call this
* function in order to change the contents of an object, even for volatile or