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Michael Kerrisk 1a8bdc8fc9 wfix 2008-05-04 18:28:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 15b17877ea tfix 2008-05-04 08:35:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6923f52c33 NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and
GIDs.  But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread.  NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
2008-04-29 21:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb1abbbd18 Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities. 2008-04-29 13:45:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d31e3eabf SEE ALSO: add ttyname(3). 2008-04-28 20:25:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7155eb96b8 Clarify wording describing range of values returned by rand(). 2008-04-28 20:24:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49d3590362 s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/;
(The page referred-to page still doesn't exit yet, but hopefully
will do sometime soon.)
2008-04-28 18:27:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bac0a11532 Added FIXME 2008-04-28 18:25:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 275714d8e6 Minor edits to structure definition. 2008-04-28 08:58:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4731cd2e39 Up to date as at 2.6.25 2008-04-28 08:58:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 527bf3f688 Remove shmop from NAME section. 2008-04-27 15:04:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04a58fd379 Remove msgop from NAME section. 2008-04-27 15:04:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49237f3d7b Added .\" comment 2008-04-27 15:03:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f5f6fdda15 Point out that this function should be avoided in favour of posix_openpt(). 2008-04-26 21:15:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dd67dce23c Describe treatment of close-on-exec flag by opendir() and fdopendir(). 2008-04-25 12:12:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 654559f06f Add subheading for getopt_long() and getopt_long_only() description. 2008-04-25 10:58:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be5e709854 Add FIXME? 2008-04-25 10:55:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53c94269ec wfix 2008-04-25 09:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b75101c34b Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-04-25 06:57:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c66bee13cf Removed tabs 2008-04-25 06:57:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff4e3b35c4 tstamp 2008-04-25 06:50:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c524cb96f7 sync 2008-04-25 06:40:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ad25472b6 Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS. 2008-04-25 06:35:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54abed7086 sync 2008-04-25 06:24:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f0e92583e1 tfix 2008-04-25 06:21:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk df18528cf0 Added FIXME 2008-04-24 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84a275c4c8 ffix 2008-04-24 09:36:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 148468921a Added some comments to code in NOTES. 2008-04-24 08:54:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 40bc92e59d Added pointer to example in sem_wait(3). 2008-04-24 08:49:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e001ad4f9 Add fixme 2008-04-24 08:40:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 207bc0d1ed ffix 2008-04-23 21:07:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 275515f226 Added FIXME. 2008-04-23 21:03:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49ecc7a09a Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity. 2008-04-23 20:59:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e76d139b0 Remove unnecessary subheading for utimes(). 2008-04-23 18:00:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31dec0c787 wfix 2008-04-23 17:03:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk de5f7e2851 Added some .SS headings to make structure of page a little more obvious. 2008-04-23 15:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a27a99853 Added FIXME 2008-04-23 15:36:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1717fa1b98 Add FIXME 2008-04-23 15:05:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6cb0b6a045 Add FIXME 2008-04-23 15:05:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ee895129b If the 'sigmask' is NULL, the ppoll() is equivalent to poll()
with respect tio signal mask manipulations.
2008-04-23 14:49:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14946d05f3 tstamp 2008-04-23 14:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c98759f3ea wfix 2008-04-23 14:40:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d30cbf478 Added some FIXMEs. 2008-04-23 09:10:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4372daaa5e tfix 2008-04-22 13:04:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 81b3a38bbf Remove out-of-date FIXME 2008-04-22 13:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f974b97592 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2008-04-22 12:55:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 429e98671d NOTES: since glibc 2.3.3, the glibc NPTL fork() wrapper bypasses the
fork() system call to invoke clone() with appropriate flags.
2008-04-22 04:18:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14f5ae6dc8 Change name of 'start' argument to 'addr' for consistency with:
* other memory related interfaces
* POSIX specification (for those interfaces in POSIX)
* Linux and glibc source code (in at least some cases)
2008-04-21 07:51:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd56f36fe6 Add .\" comment 2008-04-19 07:33:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd6dddf613 Various wording improvements. 2008-04-18 20:38:02 +00:00