--- a/doc/functions.texi
+++ b/doc/functions.texi
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 @item btowc
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item bzero
 This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX.  Better use @code{memset}
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 @item chown
 When applied to a symbolic link, some implementations don't dereference
-the symlink, i.e. they behave like @code{lchown}.
+the symlink, i.e.@: they behave like @code{lchown}.
 
 @item cproj
 @itemx cprojf
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 @item fgetwc
 @itemx fgetws
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item fnmatch
 This function is broken in some version of Solaris or glibc.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
 @item fputwc
 @itemx fputws
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item fread
 On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
@@ -194,14 +194,14 @@
 
 @item fwide
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @code{fwide} is not guaranteed to be able to change a file stream's mode
 to a different mode than the current one.
 
 @item fwprintf
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item fwrite
 On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@
 
 @item fwscanf
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item gcvt
 This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX.  Better use @code{sprintf}
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@
 @item getwc
 @itemx getwchar
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item getwd
 The size of the buffer required for this function is not a compile-time
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
 @itemx iswupper
 @itemx iswxdigit
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item l64a
 This function was not correctly implemented in glibc versions before 2.2.5.
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@
 @itemx mbstowcs
 @itemx mbtowc
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item mkdir
 When the argument ends in a slash, the function call fails on some systems.
@@ -381,6 +381,10 @@
 @smallexample
 #define mkdir ((int (*)()) _mkdir)
 @end smallexample
+or
+@smallexample
+#define mkdir(path,mode) _mkdir (path)
+@end smallexample
 
 @item mkstemp
 On some systems (HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1), mkstemp has a silly
@@ -467,17 +471,17 @@
 @item putwc
 @itemx putwchar
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item readlink
 When @code{readlink} is called on a directory: In the case of NFS mounted
-directories, Cygwin sets errno to @code{ENOENT} or @code{EIO} instead of
+directories, Cygwin sets @code{errno} to @code{ENOENT} or @code{EIO} instead of
 @code{EINVAL}.  To avoid this problem, check for a directory before calling
 @code{readlink}.
 
 When @code{readlink} is called on a file that is not a symbolic link:
-Irix may set errno to @code{ENXIO} instead of @code{EINVAL}.  Cygwin may set
-errno to @code{EACCES} instead of {EINVAL}.
+Irix may set @code{errno} to @code{ENXIO} instead of @code{EINVAL}.  Cygwin
+may set errno to @code{EACCES} instead of {EINVAL}.
 
 @item realpath
 This function does not allow to determine the required size of output buffer;
@@ -525,7 +529,7 @@
 file descriptors.
 
 On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
-may fail, setting errno to @code{EBADF}.
+may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
 
 @item setcontext
 The effects of this call are system and compiler optimization dependent,
@@ -533,7 +537,7 @@
 the contents of stack-allocated variables.
 
 @item setenv
-In some versions of glibc (e.g. 2.3.3), @code{setenv} doesn't fail if the
+In some versions of glibc (e.g.@: 2.3.3), @code{setenv} doesn't fail if the
 first argument contains a @samp{=} character.
 
 @item setjmp
@@ -557,8 +561,8 @@
 
 @item shmat
 Attempts to @code{shmat} into a previously malloc-ed region fail on SunOS 4,
-with errno set to @code{EINVAL}, even if there is an @code{munmap} call in
-between.
+with @code{errno} set to @code{EINVAL}, even if there is an @code{munmap} call
+in between.
 
 On Linux, the flag @code{SHM_REMAP} is needed in order to force @code{shmat}
 to replace existing memory mappings in the specify address range.  On other
@@ -588,7 +592,7 @@
 
 @item signal
 On System V systems, when the signal is triggered, the kernel uninstalls the
-handler (i.e. resets the signal's action to SIG_DFL) before invoking the
+handler (i.e.@: resets the signal's action to SIG_DFL) before invoking the
 handler.  This opens the door to race conditions: undesired things happen
 if the signal is triggered twice and the signal handler was not quick enough
 reinstalling itself as a handler.  On BSD systems and glibc systems, on the
@@ -647,7 +651,7 @@
 report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.  The fix is to
 use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
 
-Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets errno to @code{EACCES} when
+Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when
 @code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate.
 
 @item strcasecmp
@@ -671,7 +675,7 @@
 
 @item swprintf
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
 
@@ -682,7 +686,7 @@
 characters are different.
 
 @item tcdrain
-On some systems, @code{tcdrain} on a non-tty fails with errno set to
+On some systems, @code{tcdrain} on a non-tty fails with @code{errno} set to
 @code{EINVAL} or, on MacOS X, also @code{EOPNOTSUPP} or @code{ENODEV}, rather
 than @code{ENOTTY}.
 
@@ -706,7 +710,7 @@
 @itemx towlower
 @itemx towupper
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item ungetc
 On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
@@ -714,10 +718,10 @@
 
 @item ungetwc
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item unlink
-Removing an open file is unportable: On Unix this allows the programs that
+Removing an open file is non-portable: On Unix this allows the programs that
 have the file already open to continue working with it; the file's storage
 is only freed when the no process has the file open any more.  On Windows,
 the attempt to remove an open file fails.
@@ -801,7 +805,7 @@
 
 @item vswprintf
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
 
@@ -838,11 +842,11 @@
 @itemx wcstoull
 @itemx wcstoumax
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @item wcswcs
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX.  Better use @code{wcsstr}
 instead.
@@ -862,6 +866,6 @@
 @itemx wprintf
 @itemx wscanf
 On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
 
 @end table