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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
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Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
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Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
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Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
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###Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
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Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
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Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser.fujitsu-siemens.com>
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David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com>
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Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
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Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
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Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
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Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu>
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Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
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Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>
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Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>
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Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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Global changes
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RFC references are now always writen as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or
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RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or
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"RFCnnn").
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"RFCnnn").
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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@ -28,15 +45,284 @@ places.
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Changes to individual pages
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Changes to individual pages
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du.1
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Mike Frysinger
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To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human",
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not "HUMAN".
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time.1
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Mike Frysinger
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s/standard output/standard error/
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clone.2
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Paul Brook / mtk
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Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
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connect.2
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Heikki Orsila
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Add EINTR error
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See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
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getpriority.2
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mtk
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Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
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representations of the nice value.
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Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to
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getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
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Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
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getrlimit.2
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mtk
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Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
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Added description of RLIMIT_NICE
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mmap.2
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mtk
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Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
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mremap.2
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mtk
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Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
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Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
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Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
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Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
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Added entries to SEE ALSO.
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Some formatting fixes.
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msgctl.2
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mtk
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Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
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nanosleep.2
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Baurzhan Ismagulov
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Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
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As per Debian bug 314435
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nice.2
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mtk
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Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described
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Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on
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RLIMIT_NICE.
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outb.2
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David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk
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Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
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As per Debian bug 263756
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pause.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
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Some formatting fixes.
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poll.2
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Tommy Pettersson
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nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t
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As per Debian bug 322934
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mtk
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Some wording and formatting improvements.
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prctl.2
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mtk
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rand.3
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Hrvoje Niksic / mtk
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Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
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As per debian bug 328629
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readv.2
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mtk / Walter harms
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Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when
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vector size exceeds IOV_MAX.
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Formatting clean-ups.
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remap_file_pages.2
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mtk
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sched_setparam.2
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mtk
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Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
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sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and
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resource limits.
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sched_setscheduler.2
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mtk
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Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
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semctl.2
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Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
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shmctl.2
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mtk
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Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
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sigaction.2
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mtk
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Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
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Other minor changes
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mtk
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NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in
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all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
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See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
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List: linux-kernel
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Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong
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Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06
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signal.2
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sigpending.2
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sigprocmask.2
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Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
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stat.2
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stat.2
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Improve st_blocks description.
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carg.3
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cmsg.3
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dlopen.3
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utmp.5
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