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Michael Kerrisk 26d4d0d6d4 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8846324af9 Clarify description of 'times' array for utrimes(). 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5cbdf286a5 sync 2008-09-18 12:30:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b24ac2ee70 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3c5b73c67 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1df2213318 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf66f9bde2 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5eab0978cf ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c40de088e wfix 2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbeeb714f1 sync 2008-06-18 20:30:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d2f49a4f Describe the unconventional error return provided by the wrapper 
function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if the system call
is invoked via syscall(2)).
 2008-06-18 20:24:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddc676f488 Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition. 2008-06-18 12:57:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ed0f08124 Add a Usage subsection that recommends most users to use /dev/urandom, 
and emphasizes parsimonious usage of /dev/random.
 2008-06-18 10:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fb5fd02088 sync 2008-06-18 09:41:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c5565cf1ec minor fixes 2008-06-18 09:41:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8cacdebdab tstamp 2008-06-18 09:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7eb11a9fe7 formatting and wording improvements 2008-06-18 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 530f49fe98 sync 2008-06-18 09:17:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16d2122c01 tfix 2008-06-18 09:10:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fadbfb588 For consistency, "fix" cases where aregument of .B or .I was on the following source line. 2008-06-18 08:57:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7bcd433363 Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field. 
Reorder DT_ entries alphabetically.
 2008-06-18 08:50:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 382d87bd5f Document d_type field; other minor edits. 2008-06-17 21:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 602995ec2c Minor wording fixes. 2008-06-17 20:50:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 58f362c32a Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field. 2008-06-17 15:32:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 33af850128 LC_TIME: Describe first_weekday and first_workday 2008-06-17 14:11:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16b5f7ba5d Documented /proc/PID/status 2008-06-17 13:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a18e2edbf8 SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7). 2008-06-17 08:32:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28f2c98d3a Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7). 2008-06-16 20:16:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04af291ff4 Small wording fix. 2008-06-16 14:27:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b11e2adf59 Further tweaks 2008-06-16 11:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ea6100ea21 SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt 2008-06-16 11:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c2fdb71b57 sync 2008-06-16 11:08:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4b5a0b0c8 Updated text referring to syscalls(2). 2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc2f55497e Added system call history back to version 1.2. 
Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
 2008-06-16 10:07:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e5925162e Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an unprivileged process with a non-zero 
RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit changes policy and priority.
 2008-06-16 08:41:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35a09d71ec SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request 
queue size.  For some background, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
 2008-06-13 10:51:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd1aabe6b1 Remove statement that inet_pton() extends inet_ntoa(); 
that's not really true, since inet_pton() doesn't support
all of the string forms that are supported by inet_ntoa();
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482987.
Describe IPv6 address formats.
Describe dotted decimal format in more detail.
Add an example program.
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
Make NAME line more precise.
Make description of return value more precise.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3), Add getaddrinfo(3).
 2008-06-13 10:37:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b26a174e5 Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS. 
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3) and getnameinfo(3).
Make NAME line more precise.
Move errors to an ERRORS section.
Add EXAMPLE section pointing to inet_pton(3).
 2008-06-13 10:23:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 054f5228c6 inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1. 
Rewrite discussion of why inet_addr() is disfavored.
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482979.
Describe the various address forms supported by inet_aton().
Rewrite description of inet_network().
Clarify discussion of inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr().
Add discussion of Classful Addressing, noting that it is obsolete.
Added an EXAMPLE program.
Relocate discussion of i386 byte order to NOTES.
Note that inet_aton() returns an address in network byte order.
SEE ALSO: Add byteorder(3) and getnameinfo(3).
 2008-06-13 10:22:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 444aa1ce8c DESCRIPTION: Add reference to inet_addr(3) for dotted notation. 
SEE ALSO: add inet(3).
Added BUGS section noting that gethostbyname() does not
recognize hexadecimal components in dotted address strings;
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482973
 2008-06-13 10:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3edd71dc4 Improve description or 'hints' and 'res' arguments. 
Add details on numeric strings that can be specified for 'node'.
Other fairly major restructrings and rewrites to improve
logical structure and clarity of the page.
 2008-06-13 10:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 481c58cae6 Remove mention of sa_len field from example code. 
That field is a BSDism not present on Linux.
 2008-06-13 09:54:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd117d4875 s/strcat/strncat/ (a typo that changed the semantics in DESCRIPTION). 2008-06-13 09:40:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf92b60051 sync 2008-06-13 09:17:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d50dd9efa Modify SYNOPSIS to show protoypes of both versions of strerror_r(), 
and make other small clarifications of the description regarding
the two versions.
 2008-06-13 09:10:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f7035a8cb sync 2008-06-12 13:42:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b1ea88bd69 sync 2008-06-12 11:56:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7041cdc1b1 Removed tabs 2008-06-12 11:51:54 +00:00