Michael Kerrisk
d36f9ff105
ffix
2006-07-03 06:24:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
23cb3cb55d
Added POLLRDHUP description.
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The correct header file is <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h>.
Rewrote and reformatted various other parts.
2006-07-01 08:30:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
04706fd7e2
Added EPOLLRDHUP description.
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Added SEE ALSO referring to poll.2.
2006-07-01 08:30:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a98bcd58d8
Minor updates
2006-06-20 08:00:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cc387badcb
s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error.
2006-06-13 11:01:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0f33547665
ffix
2006-06-08 18:38:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f7203c96cc
ffix
2006-06-08 18:21:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a90440ba21
spfix
2006-06-08 17:59:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6a4c7d1f0
spfix
2006-06-08 17:58:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b98f0a349f
s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS.
2006-06-07 22:51:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
06c97d412b
Moved BUGS to inotify.7.
2006-06-05 10:59:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
211ec15cf1
Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send() and sendto() calls.
2006-06-05 04:51:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
93440c026d
Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'.
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inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
2006-06-05 02:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f5774a93b
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify file descriptor.
2006-06-05 02:34:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ace17ecf07
Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY.
2006-06-05 01:51:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7145b9a93c
spfix
2006-06-03 01:26:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8dc8552af5
spfix
2006-06-02 23:12:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6e969f2255
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
2006-06-02 19:43:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
859ae99c76
spfix
2006-05-31 23:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c10859eb0d
Fix unbalanced quotes
2006-05-31 22:16:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cedfddcd13
Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2.
2006-05-29 05:48:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ef276d2f2d
Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2.
2006-05-29 05:47:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
93c57ed012
Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3.
2006-05-29 05:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
61fccf7c75
Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3.
2006-05-29 05:12:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
931e4e2511
Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2.
2006-05-29 05:01:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7a5b4ffb74
Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2.
2006-05-29 05:00:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f02720dde7
Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2.
2006-05-29 04:56:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7677b814cf
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
2006-05-29 04:48:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0dde28982b
SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3.
2006-05-29 04:48:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
65c06b4eb3
Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5.
2006-05-29 04:37:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
de84c94263
Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION.
2006-05-26 22:01:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dcc57a0171
ffix
2006-05-26 19:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
56bbbf8ef7
Relocated "Note" about f_fsid.
2006-05-26 19:32:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8e3498e0e8
Link to new ioprio_set.2
2006-05-24 20:47:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5b3b2ce10b
New page for ioprio_set(2)
2006-05-24 20:47:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6883b3e731
Changed copyright commnents to add 'and' in some cases
2006-05-22 23:52:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
24bd9a4926
Note that EINVAL can also be caused by flags == MS_SYNC | MS_ASYNC.
2006-05-22 22:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9b33650560
wfix
2006-05-22 19:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a004e7ff00
ffix
2006-05-18 05:25:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6beba96d8e
Add CPU_ISSET, CPU_CLR, CPU_SET, CPU_ZERO to NAME section.
2006-05-18 05:23:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1fb8c49be6
wfix
2006-05-17 21:19:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f75c3a3bf8
Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO.
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See Debian bug 367401.
2006-05-15 20:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8e7c990dc
Rename ftm.7 to feature_test_macros.7
2006-05-15 09:13:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d883fde06f
tfix
2006-05-14 21:38:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b83ccc3734
tfix + removed old FIXME
2006-05-14 21:36:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6efed4df1f
Various minor changes
2006-05-13 06:08:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c8e01c783b
Removed much material that is redundant with select.2.
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Various other changes.
2006-05-13 06:04:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8e5f22f8d5
ffix
2006-05-13 05:03:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
616c0fd3c6
ffix
2006-05-13 04:57:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
691938a16b
ffix
2006-05-12 23:36:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cc513f7faf
Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
2006-05-12 23:35:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2983ceac2f
Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
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POSIX does now document ELOOP.
2006-05-12 23:22:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c80909ad8f
substantial rewrite of description of 'mask'
2006-05-12 22:48:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
77dc7e2bde
New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2).
2006-05-12 19:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5b548b3131
Expand text noting that ftruncate()/truncate() may fail
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if asked to extend a file beyond its current length.
Add EPERM error.
2006-05-09 05:28:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e0037472fe
ffix
2006-05-05 22:03:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c51fc3c114
tfix
2006-05-02 20:03:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4006dcaccb
Updated discussion of MAP_NORESERVE since it
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is no longer restricted to MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
Add reference to discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory in proc.5
2006-05-02 03:08:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
320479713e
Document SHM_NORESERVE flag, new in 2.6.15.
2006-05-02 03:00:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fd83ecfba4
Removed FIXME
2006-05-02 01:50:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e592f2be04
Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
2006-05-02 01:49:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4e1357d0c8
removed a FIXME.
2006-05-02 00:07:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
60652159ef
New page for futimesat(2)
2006-05-02 00:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a53b8cb2a0
New page for new fchmodat(2)
2006-05-02 00:05:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4e386d41a0
New page for fchownat(2)
2006-05-02 00:04:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7ae4e787a
New page for faccessat(2)
2006-05-02 00:04:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
22e3b8b11c
Add SEE ALSO references to new *at.2 pages
2006-05-02 00:03:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ee2fa12076
ffix
2006-05-01 23:05:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ade10f9902
Correct wording of EBUSY case.
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Add ".." case to ENOTEMPTY error
2006-05-01 01:52:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dffb0109be
Modified text referring to adjtime(); added SEE ALSO for new adjtime.3 page.
2006-04-30 23:45:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
13218d42ae
Clarify RETURN VALUE discussion.
2006-04-30 22:10:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dbd411a49c
Remove bogus BUGS text.
2006-04-30 21:18:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
344135a82b
wfix
2006-04-28 20:24:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eaded2c555
spfix
2006-04-27 23:40:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1d793a5188
other minor changes
2006-04-27 23:39:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f67cdb5d4d
Rewrote most of the DESCRIPTION, as well as some other parts
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the page, to clarify use and operation of, and rationale for,
fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
2006-04-27 23:31:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a85a10cb73
wfix
2006-04-27 22:41:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9b8ff97a12
wfix
2006-04-27 22:40:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
093a7ea09b
Update on scheduled fix for tv_usec
2006-04-26 20:00:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
563711249d
Added text to note that current incorrect behaviour of
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normalising tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
kernel; applications should be fixed now.
2006-04-26 19:39:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eafd5ce11f
Added SEE ALSO referring to new time.7
2006-04-26 07:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
79893ac3a4
wfix
2006-04-26 06:51:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8bbb90693
Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact
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that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
Added a FIXME.
2006-04-26 04:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
178b977b7f
Detail exactly which mount flags can be changed on MS_REMOUNT.
2006-04-25 09:32:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
83b21473f7
added FIXME
2006-04-25 09:13:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
564d99410b
Since kernel 2.6.16, MS_NOATIME and MS_NODIRATIME are settable on a per- mount basis.
2006-04-25 08:18:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cdab486d3f
Updated FIXME
2006-04-25 06:57:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0eee473cb8
Added FIXME
2006-04-25 06:55:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7998dde242
ffix
2006-04-25 06:09:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
66679b1f0f
4.x BSD --> 4.xBSD
2006-04-23 23:29:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d1331c6fb7
Noted that all threads should block signal being waited for.
2006-04-22 20:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
84564be219
Added SEE ALSO for new sockatmark.3.
2006-04-22 03:18:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7005bc229e
Solaris also has the system call.
2006-04-22 00:00:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
69b7b9e5fc
Minor changes
2006-04-22 00:00:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f4d34a38da
Correct header file in synopsis
2006-04-21 23:12:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ce372a5bde
wfix
2006-04-21 22:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
956a644642
new fstatat(2) page
2006-04-21 22:39:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
39179b3eec
wfix
2006-04-21 18:17:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5e01a1de98
Improve opening para describing purpose of select().
2006-04-21 10:41:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
50e5322c85
Added SEE ALSO reference to ftm.7
2006-04-21 06:49:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fb961f311e
Simplified wording about requirement for _BSD_SOURCE macro.
2006-04-21 06:28:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2c5e151c7f
ipc.7 --> svipc.7
2006-04-21 03:53:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6319e935b0
Add text noting that contents of newly created segment are zero values.
2006-04-21 02:02:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af5b2ef2cc
fifo.4 --> fifo.7
2006-04-21 01:46:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8bda63671
complex.5 --> complex.7
2006-04-21 01:24:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aa949e2d59
environ.5 --> environ.7
2006-04-21 00:45:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
922436594f
ipc.5 --> ipc.7
2006-04-21 00:38:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2315114c72
epoll.4 is now epoll.7
2006-04-21 00:29:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
22f348ca27
Note more clearly that fd_set args can be NULL; various other minor edits and ffixes
2006-04-20 21:21:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1c382af469
Point out more explicitly that 'tz' argument should normally be NULL.
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Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
2006-04-20 21:07:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9c1c7397a0
Added NOTE that st_size is always returned as zero for most /proc files.
2006-04-19 20:44:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
601dff4a19
Remove mention of SOCK_RDM from this page, since this socket
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type does not support accept()ing connections.
2006-04-18 07:39:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f595890250
Updates SEE ALSO
2006-04-06 08:48:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8f352ee52b
new for symlinkat.2.
2006-04-06 08:42:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
16d863a465
new for unlinkat(2).
2006-04-06 08:41:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
552dfd96f4
New for rename(2).
2006-04-06 08:41:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
db01a90324
new for linkat(2).
2006-04-06 08:41:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
97c0488f3e
Minor changes
2006-04-06 05:19:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
64603adfb7
Substantial rewrite of NOTES; minor changes elsewhere.
2006-04-05 05:43:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7fe3091da4
Minor changes
2006-04-05 05:42:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
66e46895b9
new page for mknodat(2).
2006-04-05 05:17:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5b4255672a
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mknodat.2
2006-04-05 05:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4a929ee119
New page for mkdirat(2).
2006-04-05 04:44:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d2927a1b1e
Added SEE ALSO mkdirat(2).
2006-04-05 04:43:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6d03c00944
Added comment on inconsistent naming of *at() functions.
2006-04-04 19:48:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6057e7a9fa
Added BUGS text on 2.6.x handling of RLIMIT_CPU limit
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of zero seconds. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
2006-04-04 04:12:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9aad1caae1
Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further
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circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
2006-04-04 02:59:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cdc9620e3a
Remove text saying that specifying invalid flags "is likely
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to cause compatibility problems" since the kernel now
(2.6.17-rc1) contains an explicit check for invalid buts
with a consequent EINVAL error.
2006-04-03 23:55:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0c373d0150
Added FIXME.
2006-04-03 23:35:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
70f4032165
removed tabs
2006-04-03 21:25:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5250b79560
Removed out-of-date FIXME
2006-04-03 20:36:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d5346bba6a
Added FIXME.
2006-04-03 01:35:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1c511da218
Updated FIXME.
2006-04-03 01:35:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7080c286cd
Removed a misleading cross-ref to socket.2.
2006-03-31 22:58:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
16c892d319
Documented EINVAL error for 'len' < 0.
2006-03-31 22:12:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
00d7bbcfbf
Expanded discussion of mandatory locking.
2006-03-31 21:14:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
db28bfac79
Clarified discussion of file types affected by O_NONBLOCK.
2006-03-31 21:12:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e1a9bc1bc7
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new core.5 page
2006-03-31 07:10:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
898d60e1c6
Updated FIXME
2006-03-30 06:03:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4d42c5c3ee
Fix broken link
2006-03-26 12:58:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
217b389ac5
Removed FIXME.
2006-03-25 21:29:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e63ad01dce
Wrapped long lines (no content changes).
2006-03-25 21:28:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4b9d4c1ac5
Added FIXME
2006-03-25 21:07:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1dd97b0c2d
Added FIXME
2006-03-25 20:58:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f675ea3792
Add SEE ALSO pointing to the new sem_overview.7 page, which gives an
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overview of the POSIX semaphores AP.
2006-03-25 20:50:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7f2e3e4e64
Edited FIXME
2006-03-23 22:00:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
44b35ee067
Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz,
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Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
Document the following ptrace requests:
PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
plus associated flags:
PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
2006-03-23 22:00:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
218e46f883
Small FIXME formatting fixes
2006-03-23 02:13:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
92c37d8cb0
Modified to document new SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16.
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Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
message containing the patch that implemented this policy.
Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
2006-03-23 01:06:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed812a69b4
ffix
2006-03-22 06:25:31 +00:00