Spell check the NEWS file.

3 files changed, 56 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c455274dd13..172f1b6943a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2182,7 +2182,7 @@ This is a bugfix release.  The changes are as follows:
 * Defer making free pages available until the end of a checkpoint, in case
   there is a failure after processing some files.
 
-* When checking the value of the "isolation" key, don't assume it is NUL
+* When checking the value of the "isolation" key, don't assume it is nul
   terminated.  This bug could cause transactions to run with incorrect
   isolation.
 
diff --git a/dist/s_string b/dist/s_string
index 2e226b21094..08d066f5929 100644
--- a/dist/s_string
+++ b/dist/s_string
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ type aspell > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
 }
 
 # replace:
-#	Create a replacement list of spelling words.
+#	Create a replacement list of spelling words. This is here because the
+# words we ignore changes over time and it's worth periodically collapsing
+# the list. Don't it too often, the list is correct for many different aspell
+# catalogs and generating a shorter list on any single system will break other
+# systems.
 replace() {
 	aspell --mode=ccpp --lang=en list < ../$1 |
 	sort -u |
@@ -26,11 +30,11 @@ replace() {
 # check:
 #	Check the spelling of an individual file.
 check() {
-	aspell --mode=ccpp --lang=en list < ../$1 |
+	aspell --lang=en $1 list < ../$2 |
 	sort -u |
 	comm -23 /dev/stdin s_string.ok > $t
 	test -s $t && {
-		echo "==== $1"
+		echo "==== $2"
 		cat $t
 	}
 }
@@ -59,8 +63,15 @@ while :
 	esac
 done
 
+# Check source files.
+for f in $l; do
+	check "--mode=ccpp" $f
+done
+
+l="NEWS"
+# Check other files.
 for f in $l; do
-	check $f
+	check "" $f
 done
 
 exit 0
diff --git a/dist/s_string.ok b/dist/s_string.ok
index 74685836024..f089f1944f3 100644
--- a/dist/s_string.ok
+++ b/dist/s_string.ok
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
 ADDR
+ADDRs
 AJ
 API
 APIs
@@ -43,11 +44,13 @@ CAS
 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
 CELL's
 CELLs
+CFLAGS
 CHECKKEY
 CKPT
 CMP
 CONCAT
 CONFIG
+COVERITY
 CPUs
 CRC
 CURSORs
@@ -59,6 +62,7 @@ CityHash
 CloseHandle
 Comparator
 Config
+Coverity
 CreateFileMapping
 Crummey
 CustomersPhone
@@ -75,6 +79,7 @@ Decrement
 Decrypt
 EAGAIN
 EBUSY
+EEXIST
 EINTR
 EINVAL
 EMSG
@@ -124,6 +129,7 @@ HFS
 HHHH
 HHHHLL
 HHHLL
+HyperLevelDB
 IEC
 IEEE
 IKEY
@@ -138,6 +144,7 @@ Inline
 Intra
 Ippokratis
 Iu
+JIRA
 JPEG
 JSON
 Jyrki
@@ -162,6 +169,7 @@ LTE
 LZ
 LZO
 LeafGreen
+LevelDB
 Levyx
 Llqr
 Llqrt
@@ -178,11 +186,13 @@ Manos
 MapViewOfFile
 Marsaglia's
 Mellor
+Memrata
 Metadata
 Mewhort
 Mitzenmacher
 MongoDB
 MoveFile
+Multi
 Multithreaded
 Mutex
 MySecret
@@ -213,6 +223,7 @@ Phong
 PlatformSDK
 Posix
 Pre
+Preload
 Prepend
 Qsort
 RCS
@@ -222,6 +233,7 @@ RET
 RHEL
 RLE
 RLEs
+RMW
 RNG
 RPC
 RUNDIR
@@ -229,6 +241,7 @@ Radu
 RedHat
 Redistributions
 Resize
+RocksDB
 SIMD
 SLIST
 SLVG
@@ -238,12 +251,14 @@ SQL
 SSHH
 SSq
 STAILQ
+STEC
 STRUCT
 Scalability
 Scalable
 Sedgewick
 Seigh
 SetEndOfFile
+SetEndofFile
 SetFilePointerEx
 Sevii
 SiH
@@ -286,6 +301,7 @@ Vigenere
 Vixie
 Vo
 VxWorks
+WAL
 WIREDTIGER
 WRLSN
 WakeAllConditionVariable
@@ -297,6 +313,7 @@ WinNT
 WiredTiger
 WiredTiger's
 WiredTigerCheckpoint
+WiredTigerException
 WiredTigerInit
 WiredTigerLog
 WiredTigerPreplog
@@ -329,8 +346,11 @@ async
 asyncopp
 asyncops
 autocommit
+autoconf
+automake
 bInheritHandle
 basecfg
+basho
 bdb
 beginthreadex
 bigram
@@ -354,6 +374,8 @@ btree
 btrees
 buf
 bufsz
+bugfix
+bugfixes
 builtin
 builtins
 bytelock
@@ -374,6 +396,7 @@ centric
 cfg
 cfkos
 change's
+changelog
 checkpointed
 checkpointer
 checkpointing
@@ -412,6 +435,7 @@ copyout
 cp
 cpuid
 crc
+create's
 crypto
 cryptobad
 ctime
@@ -453,6 +477,7 @@ decrypts
 deflateCopy
 deflateEnd
 deflateInit
+defno
 del
 dequeue
 dequeued
@@ -481,6 +506,7 @@ dst
 dstlen
 dsync
 dumpcmp
+dumpfile
 dup
 eg
 emp
@@ -553,6 +579,7 @@ getraw
 gettime
 gettimeofday
 getv
+github
 gobare
 goesc
 gostring
@@ -562,6 +589,7 @@ hashval
 havesize
 hdr
 highjack
+hotbackup
 html
 huffman
 hval
@@ -615,12 +643,14 @@ lbracket
 len
 lenp
 level's
+leveldb
 lex
 lexicographically
 lf
 lfence
 libdatasource
 libs
+libtool
 libwiredtiger
 llll
 llu
@@ -711,6 +741,7 @@ offpage
 ok
 ondisk
 onint
+online
 onpage
 oo
 opendir
@@ -726,6 +757,7 @@ parserp
 patchp
 pathname
 pathnames
+perf
 pfx
 poptable
 popthreads
@@ -768,6 +800,7 @@ readlock
 readonly
 readunlock
 realloc
+rebalancing
 recno
 recnos
 reconfig
@@ -785,6 +818,7 @@ rf
 rle
 rmw
 rng
+rocksdb
 rotN
 rotn
 rpc
@@ -830,6 +864,7 @@ strcmp
 strdup
 strerror
 strftime
+strget
 strlen
 strncpy
 strndup
@@ -852,6 +887,7 @@ sys
 t's
 tV
 tablename
+tcbench
 testutil
 th
 tid
@@ -918,6 +954,7 @@ util
 uu
 vW
 va
+valgrind
 valuep
 valuev
 vanishingly
@@ -938,14 +975,17 @@ wb
 wiredtiger
 workFactor
 wrapup
+writeable
 writelock
 writeunlock
 wrlock
 wrlsn
 ws
+wtbench
 wti
 wtperf
 wts
+wtstats
 xF
 xff
 xxxx