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 SYNCHRONIZATION ALGORITHM:
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 The synchronization algorithm is used for every service in corosync to
-synchronize state of he system.
+synchronize state of the system.
 
 There are 4 events of the synchronization algorithm.  These events are in fact
 functions that are registered in the service handler data structure.  They