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Typos fixes from A Costa (16 May 05, Debian "manpages").
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@ -8,7 +8,13 @@ Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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#### Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
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Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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@ -16,7 +22,7 @@ Global changes
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--------------
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
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New pages
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@ -25,3 +31,120 @@ New pages
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Changes to individual pages
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---------------------------
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_exit.2
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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close.2
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mtk
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Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
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Minor formatting changes.
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dup.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
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accurate.
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Minor formatting fixes
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fcntl.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
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Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
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with a cross ref to dup.2
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Minor wording and formatting fixes
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fpclassify.3
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mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
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The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
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to differentiate positive and neagtive infinity.
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See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
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getgid.2
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getuid.2
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Delian Krustev
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Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
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getitimer.2
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mtk
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The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
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man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
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getpriority.2
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mtk
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Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
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Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
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open.2
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mtk
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Clarification of term "open file description" along with
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explanation of what information it maintains.
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Various minor wording changes
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atexit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
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shared library unload.
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Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
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abnormal termination.
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Formatting fixes.
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exit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Minor rewording and formatting changes.
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getloadavg.3
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mtk
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Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype
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log2.3
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Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Add ERANGE error.
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readdir.3
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mtk
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Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
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Some formatting cleanups.
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strtod.3
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Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
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strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE of _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
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tdestroy.3
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mtk
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New link to tsearch.3
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tsearch.3
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mtk
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Added tdestroy to .TH line
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mem.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"
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null.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
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"chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"
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vcs.4
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Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
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urn.7
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mtk
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New link to uri.7
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@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
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Dieter Brueggemann <dieter.brueggemann@entitec.de>
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Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
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Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
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kabloom kabloom@ucdavis.edu
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kabloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>
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Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
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@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ usually
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.IR less .
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Hit the space bar to get the next page, hit q to quit.
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.LP
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In documentation it is custumary to refer to man pages
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In documentation it is customary to refer to man pages
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by giving the name and section number, as in
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.BR man (1).
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Man pages are terse, and allow you to find quickly some forgotten
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@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ to the stream results in undefined behaviour.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B EBADF
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The filedescriptor underlying
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The file descriptor underlying
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.I fp
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is not valid.
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.\" This error cannot occur unless you are mixing ANSI C stdio operations and
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when employed like a Level Triggered interface does have the same
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semantics of
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.BR poll (2),
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an Edge Triggered usage requires more clarifiction to avoid stalls
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an Edge Triggered usage requires more clarification to avoid stalls
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in the application event loop. In this example, listener is a
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non-blocking socket on which
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.BR listen (2)
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then make sure to provide a way to mark its closure dynamically (ie- caused by
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a previous event's processing). Suppose you receive 100 events from
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.BR epoll_wait (2),
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and in eventi #47 a condition causes event #13 to be closed.
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and in event #47 a condition causes event #13 to be closed.
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If you remove the structure and close() the fd for event #13, then your
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event cache might still say there are events waiting for that fd causing
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confusion.
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@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ and all processes in the current session lose their controlling tty.
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When successful, equivalent to
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.IR "*argp = tcgetpgrp(fd)" .
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.br
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Get the process group ID of the foreground proces group on this tty.
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Get the process group ID of the foreground process group on this tty.
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.TP
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.BI "TIOCSPGRP const pid_t *" argp
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Equivalent to
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.SH NAME
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charmap \- character symbols to define character encodings
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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A character set description (charmap) defines a characterset of
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A character set description (charmap) defines a character set of
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available characters and their encodings. All supported character
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sets should have the
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.B portable character set
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\fBFILE\fR 0 Regular file
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\fBDIR\fR 32 Directory
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\fBLINK\fR 36 Symbolic link
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\fBORPHAN\fR undefined Orphanned symbolic link
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\fBORPHAN\fR undefined Orphaned symbolic link
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\fBMISSING\fR undefined Missing file
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\fBFIFO\fR 31 Named pipe (FIFO)
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\fBSOCK\fR 33 Socket
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like-named user accounts on the local host without supplying a password.
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The \fIhostname\fP may be (optionally) preceded by a plus (+) sign.
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If the plus sign is used alone it allows any host to access your system.
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You can expicitly deny access to a host by preceding the \fIhostname\fP
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You can explicitly deny access to a host by preceding the \fIhostname\fP
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by a minus (-) sign. Users from that host must always supply a password.
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For security reasons you should always use the FQDN of the hostname and
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not the short hostname.
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.BR /etc/shadow .
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If this is not sufficient, the NSS `compat' service provides full
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+/- semantics. By default, the source is `nis', but this may be
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overriden by specifying `nisplus' as source for the pseudo-databases
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overridden by specifying `nisplus' as source for the pseudo-databases
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.BR passwd_compat,
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.B group_compat
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and
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man5/proc.5
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capacity number of sectors
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driver driver version
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geometry physical and logical geometry
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identify in hexidecimal
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identify in hexadecimal
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media media type
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model manufacturer's model number
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settings drive settings
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smart_thresholds in hexidecimal
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smart_values in hexidecimal
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smart_thresholds in hexadecimal
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smart_values in hexadecimal
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.fi
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The
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.TP
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.I /proc/interrupts
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This is used to record the number of interrupts per each IRQ on (at
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least) the i386 architechure. Very easy to read formatting, done in
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least) the i386 architecture. Very easy to read formatting, done in
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ASCII.
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.TP
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.I /proc/iomem
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.IR /usr/src/linux/net/core/dev_mcast.c :
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.nf
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.in +5
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indx ifterface_name dmi_u dmi_g dmi_address
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indx interface_name dmi_u dmi_g dmi_address
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2 eth0 1 0 01005e000001
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3 eth1 1 0 01005e000001
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4 eth2 1 0 01005e000001
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provides further background on the information shown by these files.
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.TP
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.I /proc/tty
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Subdirectory containing the psuedo-files and subdirectories for
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Subdirectory containing the pseudo-files and subdirectories for
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tty drivers and line disciplines.
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.TP
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.I /proc/uptime
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@8 enter/send key
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@9 exit key
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al Insert one line
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AL Indert %1 lines
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AL Insert %1 lines
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ac Pairs of block graphic characters to map alternate character set
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ae End alternative character set
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as Start alternative character set for block graphic characters
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kD Key for delete character under cursor
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ke turn keypad off
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kE Key for clear to end of line
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kF Key for scolling forward/down
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kF Key for scrolling forward/down
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kh Cursor home key
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kH Cursor hown down key
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kI Insert character/Insert mode key
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kN Key for next page
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kP Key for previous page
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kr Cursor right key
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kR Key for scolling backward/up
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kR Key for scrolling backward/up
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ks Turn keypad on
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kS Clear to end of screen key
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kt Clear this tab key
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us Start underlining
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vb Visible bell
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ve Normal cursor visible
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vi Cursor unvisible
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vi Cursor invisible
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vs Standout cursor
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wi Set window from line %1 to %2 and column %3 to %4
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XF XOFF character if not ^S
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.LP
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There are several ways of defining the control codes for string capabilities:
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.LP
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Normal Characters except '^','\e' and '%' repesent themself.
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Every normal character represents itself, except '^','\e' and '%'.
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.LP
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A '^x' means Control-x. Control-A equals 1 decimal.
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.LP
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\ex means a special code. x can be one of the following charaters:
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\ex means a special code. x can be one of the following characters:
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.RS
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E Escape (27)
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.br
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0 Null character. A \exxx specifies the octal character xxx.
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.RE
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.IP i
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Increments paramters by one.
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Increments parameters by one.
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.IP r
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Single parameter capability
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.IP +
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\&. down arrow (v)
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0 full square (#)
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I latern (#)
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I lantern (#)
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- upper arrow (^)
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\&' rhombus (+)
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a chess board (:)
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.I iobase
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-- the first I/O port that the SCSI host occupies. These are
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specified in hexidecimal notation, and usually lie in the range from
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specified in hexadecimal notation, and usually lie in the range from
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0x200 to 0x3ff.
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.I irq
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.SS Capability bounding set
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When a program is execed, the permitted and effective capabities are ANDed
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with the current value of the so-called
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When a program is execed, the permitted and effective capabilities
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are ANDed with the current value of the so-called
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.IR "capability bounding set" ,
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defined in the file
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.IR /proc/sys/kernel/cap-bound .
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(iii) Ranges X-Y comprise all characters that fall between X
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and Y (inclusive) in the currect collating sequence as defined
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and Y (inclusive) in the current collating sequence as defined
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by the LC_COLLATE category in the current locale.
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(iv) Named character classes, like
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.TP
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The datebase for terminfo.
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The database for terminfo.
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.TP
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.I /usr/share/tmac
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Troff macros that are not distributed with groff.
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Allocation starts with the first number and ends with the second number.
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Note that these should not conflict with the ports used by masquerading
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(although the case is handled).
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Also arbitary choices may cause problems with some firewall packet
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Also arbitrary choices may cause problems with some firewall packet
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filters that make assumptions about the local ports in use.
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First number should be at least >1024, better >4096 to avoid clashes
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Binding to a reserved port without the
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.B CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
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capacibility or effective user id 0.
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capability or effective user id 0.
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.TP
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that are connected and bound to a v4-mapped-on-v6 address. The argument
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.B AF_INET.
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This is useful to pass v4-mapped sockets as filedescriptors to programs that
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don't know how to deal with the IPv6 API.
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This is useful to pass v4-mapped sockets as file descriptors to
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programs that don't know how to deal with the IPv6 API.
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.TP
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Set delivery of the
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.fi
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These attributes should be only manipulated using the RTA_* macros or libnetlink,
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see
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These attributes should be only manipulated using the RTA_* macros
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or libnetlink, see
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.BR rtnetlink (3).
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.SH MESSAGES
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Values larger than
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.B RTPROT_STATIC
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are not interpreted by the kernel, they are just for user information. They
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may be used to tag the source of a routing information or to distingush between
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multiple routing daemons. See
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are not interpreted by the kernel, they are just for user information.
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They may be used to tag the source of a routing information or to
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distinguish between multiple routing daemons. See
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.BR <linux/rtnetlink.h>
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for the routing daemon identifiers which are already assigned.
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RT_TABLE_LOCAL:the local table
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.TE
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The user may assign arbitary values between
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The user may assign arbitrary values between
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.B RT_TABLE_UNSPEC
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and
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.BR RT_TABLE_DEFAULT .
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.B Fill these values in!
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.TP
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.BR RTM_NEWNEIGH ", " RTM_DELNEIGH ", " RTM_GETNEIGH
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Add, remove or receive information about a neighbour table entry (e.g. an ARP
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entry). The message contains an
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Add, remove or receive information about a neighbour table
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entry (e.g. an ARP entry). The message contains an
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.B ndmsg
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structure.
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an accompanying value (either an integer or a pointer) can be sent
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with the signal.
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If the receiving process establishes a handler for this signal using the
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.B SA_SIGACTION
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.B SA_SIGINFO
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flag to
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.BR sigaction (2)
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then it can obtain this data via the
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.arc \fBarc\fP(1) archive
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.arj \fBarj\fP(1) archive
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.asc PGP ASCII-armoured data
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.asm (GNU) assember source file
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.asm (GNU) assembler source file
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.au Audio sound file
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.aux LaTeX auxiliary file
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.avi (msvideo) movie
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.image bitmap source
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.in configuration template, especially for GNU Autoconf
|
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.info files for the Emacs info browser
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.info-[0-9]+ splitted info files
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.info-[0-9]+ split info files
|
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.ins LaTeX package install file for docstrip
|
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.itcl itcl source code;
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itcl ([incr Tcl]) is an OO extension of tcl
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@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Suffix File type
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.rules rules for something
|
||||
.s assembler source
|
||||
.sa stub libraries for a.out shared libraries
|
||||
.sc \fBsc\fP(1) spreadsheed commands
|
||||
.sc \fBsc\fP(1) spreadsheet commands
|
||||
.scm Scheme source code
|
||||
.sed sed source file
|
||||
.sgml SGML source file
|
||||
|
|
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|||
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@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ udp \- User Datagram Protocol for IPv4
|
|||
.br
|
||||
.B udp_socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
|
||||
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
||||
This is an implemention of the User Datagram Protocol described in RFC\ 768. It
|
||||
implements a connectionless, unreliable datagram packet service.
|
||||
This is an implementation of the User Datagram Protocol
|
||||
described in RFC\ 768.
|
||||
It implements a connectionless, unreliable datagram packet service.
|
||||
Packets may be reordered or duplicated before they arrive. UDP
|
||||
generates and checks checksums to catch transmission errors.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
|
|||
.TH SYNC 8 1998-11 "GNU fileutils 4.0" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
|
||||
.SH NAME
|
||||
sync \- synchronize data on disk with memory
|
||||
.SH SYNOPSYS
|
||||
.SH SYNOPSIS
|
||||
.B "sync [\-\-help] [\-\-version]"
|
||||
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
||||
.B sync
|
||||
|
|
|
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