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799 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 18ecf8a506 2.22 2006-02-01 19:23:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c82c676ba4 ready for 2.22 2006-02-01 19:22:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 74f3f90ba5 Noted that portable applications should specify fd as -1
when using MAP_ANONYMOUS.
Some rewriting of description of MAP_ANONYMOUS.
2006-02-01 19:19:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c72dada18f tfix 2006-02-01 18:39:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b11b1181ef tfix 2006-02-01 18:36:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 803ef3359c tfix 2006-01-23 06:43:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04d6ea6b8a Noted that waitid() does not set infop->si_uid field on
most other implementations.
2006-01-23 06:41:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f266a435b s/string must begin/string may begin/ 2006-01-19 18:45:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e02756a4db Spelling fixes 2006-01-18 08:18:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b877b3922a Documented inotify files under /proc/sys/fs/inotify:
max_queued_events, max_user_instances, and max_user_watches.  
Plus some spelling fixes
2006-01-18 08:15:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6c1d7e0b5 New link to sigreturn.2 2006-01-17 21:45:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd84309e6b new link to sigsuspend.2 2006-01-17 21:45:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e592244a8 Slight rewording of recent added text 2006-01-17 20:13:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d0ac4fb3e2 Make clear that when calling getopt_long() and there are no
short options, then 'optstring' should be "" not NULL.
2006-01-16 22:48:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 660dd25fee In glibc 2.0.92, openpty() was modified to return
Unix 98 ptys instead of BSD ptys.
2006-01-16 22:07:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48a1cb4903 Small rewording under EXAMPLE. 2006-01-16 19:48:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 736e551b25 tfix 2006-01-16 19:40:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93e6d7319d start of 2.22 2006-01-16 00:51:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9459918015 Start of 2.22 2006-01-16 00:48:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4cc67f4b8f Ready for 2.21 2006-01-15 23:11:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed645f8762 Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3)
A few other small rewordings.
2006-01-15 20:47:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd6d114a27 new link to mmap.2 2006-01-15 20:40:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b50582ebfa Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.
2006-01-15 04:39:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3a1166783 Some rewordings of recently added text 2006-01-15 01:08:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 788be12467 Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
function by providing an example.
2006-01-14 18:25:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ab95e95e01 Formatting fix 2006-01-14 17:14:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e126ed614 Formatting fix 2006-01-14 17:09:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 964d4d9c5c Format fix 2006-01-14 17:05:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ed29c540c Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
automatically called when a library is unloaded.
2006-01-14 05:37:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bba0618959 Added description of RTLD_DEEPBIND. 2006-01-14 05:14:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 336e88f0f8 Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
added description of RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_DELETE.
2006-01-14 04:29:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e75529df3b Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().
2006-01-14 03:25:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 95a32af827 Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
/proc/sys/kernel/random.
2006-01-13 10:04:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6a5acc97f Add RETURN VALUE section. 2006-01-13 09:58:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80b50848d0 Replace "SYSV" by "System V" 2006-01-13 09:44:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa651b3950 Replace "SysV" by "System V" 2006-01-13 09:39:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 845f2c47c6 Grammar/formatting fixes 2006-01-13 09:34:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b1afe07ac9 Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT (add cross-ref to socket(7)). 2006-01-13 08:28:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b4d3c70d5 typo fix 2006-01-13 08:17:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 62d4f1bd38 Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT. 2006-01-13 07:56:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28d88c1751 Global change to many pages...
Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
To rectify this the following changes were made in these pages:

Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
2006-01-13 02:09:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 89c9a3145e Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL. 2006-01-13 00:22:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16055a24f3 Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
gethostname() wrapper function.
2006-01-12 21:53:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47a1e7e424 Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt(). 2006-01-12 19:46:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk afcaf646af Documented /proc/PID/task.
Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task} are not
available if the main thread has terminated.
2006-01-11 05:08:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fee44d9bff Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2 2006-01-04 11:03:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae3adaada6 Updates 2006-01-04 10:54:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 57651c15bc Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15. 2006-01-04 10:52:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc81d42e12 Updated FIXME 2006-01-04 10:25:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f53ffc4f67 ffix 2006-01-04 09:21:10 +00:00