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Michael Kerrisk 2f6b8245d1 ffix 2008-06-26 13:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 027ebd3c4b Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions. 2008-06-26 13:15:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9085070854 ffix 2008-06-26 12:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 419f5a4cc2 Start of 3.02 2008-06-26 12:55:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92b375a160 Start of 3.02 2008-06-26 12:53:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0739e417b7 tfix 2008-06-25 16:08:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 45dccec49e wfix 2008-06-25 16:07:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2cffd0eaf0 Ready for 3.01 2008-06-25 15:33:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd60dedde9 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-25 15:32:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd1c22b06d Removed tabs 2008-06-25 15:31:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a48b332616 wfix 2008-06-25 15:27:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 051aac549d spfix 2008-06-25 15:23:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 17f3dcfb4e sync 2008-06-25 15:19:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fda8f05059 Ready for 3.01. 2008-06-24 14:57:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6abd35c3d2 tstamp 2008-06-24 14:57:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73858a07dd Wfix 2008-06-24 14:05:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 268f000bcf /proc/stat CPU time units are sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK).
ASEE ALSO: add time(7).
2008-06-24 13:56:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a017e241f The vaious time fiels in /proc/PID/stat return time
in clock ticks (USER_HZ, cputime_to_clock_t()).
2008-06-24 13:15:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c54c588e3 wfix 2008-06-24 12:42:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59a40ed789 Clarified and expanded the description of /proc/[number]/fd.
Updated, clarified and expanded the description several
fields in /proc/[number]/stat.
Updated and clarified the description of /proc/[number]/statm.
Updated and clarified the description of /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
Many formatting, wording, and grammar fixes.
2008-06-24 09:28:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e23fde73fa We don't have the cpuset(7) page yet, so comment out /proc/[number]/cpuset
description.
2008-06-24 03:42:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 743638fdbe ffix 2008-06-24 03:41:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20486e3a7a sync 2008-06-24 03:34:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1c9dc591b Refine discssion of guest time for utime and cutime fields. 2008-06-24 03:25:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bb26f2df6 Note that HRTs are not supported on all h/w. 2008-06-23 11:21:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0102b0ab21 Noted that POSIX.1 leaves interactions with alarm(), sleep(),
and usleep() unspecified.
Linux 2.6.16 removed the MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling on timer values.
Other minor changes.
2008-06-23 10:28:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b81087ab66 Added .\" comment 2008-06-23 10:00:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8964c1a227 spfix 2008-06-23 09:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80677b3dbe sync 2008-06-23 09:42:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b0040075af Remove crufty discussion of HZ, and replace with a pointer to time(7).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485636
Replace mentions of "process' by "thread".
NOTES: describe case where clock_nanosleep() can be preferable.
NOTES: describe CLOCK_REALTIME versus CLOCK_NANOSLEEP
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696854/
"nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC, should be CLOCK_REALTIME?"
Some minor rewrites.
2008-06-23 09:41:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46f14bc7b0 Added some details about where jiffies come into play.
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various points in the page.
2008-06-23 09:19:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1d7c4d16b2 SEE ALSO: add time(7) 2008-06-23 08:48:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aadbd6f90a sync 2008-06-23 06:01:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 364008baa4 tfix 2008-06-23 06:00:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7042009b7c tweaks 2008-06-22 13:15:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8e9f4f193 user time includes guest time. 2008-06-22 10:51:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk afef1764bd spfix 2008-06-22 10:40:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1bb54c6c2d spfix 2008-06-22 10:40:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 194f4ccb72 Document the GNU 'a' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
Document the GNU 'm' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
2008-06-22 10:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46bbbb3519 .\" comment fix 2008-06-22 08:36:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 646af540e4 Add an ERRORS section documenting at least some of the errors
that may occur for scanf().
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
2008-06-22 08:35:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c246714df1 The longstanding bug that if delta was NULL, olddelta didn't return the
outstanding clock adjustment, is now fixed (since glibc 2.8 + kernel 2.6.26).
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug?id=2449
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
2008-06-22 05:20:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb772f766a Rewrote various pieces, and added some details. 2008-06-22 02:01:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a64c6ae1fb s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/ 2008-09-18 12:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84db13a46f Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built
without CONFIG_PRINTK.
2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e7dfa844ec tweaks 2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bddd0b2edc Alphabetize SEE ALSO. 2008-09-18 12:30:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14c069537c Document guest (virtual CPU) time field in /proc/stat.
Document guest (virtual CPU) time fields in /proc/PID/stat.
2008-09-18 12:30:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cfd8e328ea Minor tweaks 2008-09-18 12:30:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d06c53726 sync 2008-09-18 12:30:42 +00:00