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man2/fcntl.2

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 .\"	mtk: Noted F_SETOWN bug for socket file descriptor in Linux 2.4
 .\"	and earlier.  Added text on permissions required to send signal.
 .\"
-.TH FCNTL 2 2007-11-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FCNTL 2 2007-12-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fcntl \- manipulate file descriptor
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -88,6 +88,23 @@ On success, the new descriptor is returned.
 See
 .BR dup (2)
 for further details.
+.TP
+.BR F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC " (since Linux 2.6.24)"
+As for a
+.BR F_DUPFD ,
+but additionally set the
+close-on-exec flag for the duplicate descriptor.
+Specifying this flag permits a program to avoid an additional
+.BR fcntl (2)
+.B F_SETFD
+operation to set the
+.B FD_CLOEXEC
+flag.
+For an explanation of why this flag is useful,
+see the explanation of
+.B O_CLOEXEC
+in
+.BR open (2).
 .SS "File descriptor flags"
 The following commands manipulate the flags associated with
 a file descriptor.

man2/nanosleep.2

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Problem with copying information from user space.
 The pause has been interrupted by a non-blocked signal that was
 delivered to the process.
 The remaining sleep time has been written
-into *\fIrem\fP so that the process can easily call
+into \fI*rem\fP so that the process can easily call
 .BR nanosleep ()
 again and continue with the pause.
 .TP
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ pauses always for at least the specified time, however it can take up
 to 10 ms longer than specified until the process becomes runnable
 again.
 For the same reason, the value returned in case of a delivered
-signal in *\fIrem\fP is usually rounded to the next larger multiple of
+signal in \fI*rem\fP is usually rounded to the next larger multiple of
 1/\fIHZ\fP\ s.
 .SS "Old behavior"
 In order to support applications requiring much more precise pauses

man2/sched_rr_get_interval.2

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct timespec {
 
 If
 \fIpid\fP is zero, the time quantum for the calling process is written
-into *\fItp\fP.
+into \fI*tp\fP.
 The identified process should be running under the
 .B SCHED_RR
 scheduling policy.

man3/lsearch.3

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ lfind, lsearch \- linear search of an array
 and
 .BR lsearch ()
 perform a linear search for
-\fIkey\fP in the array \fIbase\fP which has *\fInmemb\fP elements of
+\fIkey\fP in the array \fIbase\fP which has \fI*nmemb\fP elements of
 \fIsize\fP bytes each.
 The comparison function referenced by
 \fIcompar\fP is expected to have two arguments which point to the
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ non-zero otherwise.
 If
 .BR lsearch ()
 does not find a matching element, then the \fIkey\fP
-object is inserted at the end of the table, and *\fInmemb\fP is
+object is inserted at the end of the table, and \fI*nmemb\fP is
 incremented.
 In particular, one should know that a matching element
 exists, or that more room is available.

man3/strsep.3

@@ -46,23 +46,23 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
 .BR strsep ():
 _BSD_SOURCE
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-If *\fIstringp\fP is NULL, the
+If \fI*stringp\fP is NULL, the
 .BR strsep ()
 function returns NULL
 and does nothing else.
 Otherwise, this function finds the first token
-in the string *\fIstringp\fP, where tokens
+in the string \fI*stringp\fP, where tokens
 are delimited by symbols in the string \fIdelim\fP.
 This token is terminated with a '\\0' character
 (by overwriting the delimiter)
-and *\fIstringp\fP is updated to point past the token.
+and \fI*stringp\fP is updated to point past the token.
 In case no delimiter was found, the token is taken to be
-the entire string *\fIstringp\fP, and *\fIstringp\fP is made NULL.
+the entire string \fI*stringp\fP, and \fI*stringp\fP is made NULL.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 The
 .BR strsep ()
 function returns a pointer to the token,
-that is, it returns the original value of *\fIstringp\fP.
+that is, it returns the original value of \fI*stringp\fP.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 4.4BSD
 .SH NOTES