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87 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 057dce78b1 Move description of negative l_len from NOTES, integrating
it into the discussion of file locking.
Minor rewrites of the text on file locking.
2008-09-05 12:23:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 68e0696a74 More clearly and consistently describe the whether or not the third
argument to fnctl() is required, and what its type should be.
2008-09-05 11:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e1146d332c F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008. 2008-08-21 05:15:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 01538d0d51 ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in dicussion of EINTR. 2008-07-04 15:50:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20523df7ef Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line. 2008-06-12 06:09:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 635d395977 wfix 2008-04-08 13:04:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eba722884d s/nonzero/non-zero/ 2008-03-19 13:16:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 955f4c381a ffix 2008-01-13 09:40:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca92ce95a3 Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros. 2008-01-01 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e4b4caa6b8 wfix 2007-12-28 04:39:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c382a36592 hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 22:02:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8382f16db1 grfix 2007-12-25 21:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34ccb744ec s/x86/i386/ 2007-12-24 17:31:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49b50a1812 wfix 2007-12-23 17:30:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 088a639be3 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
2007-12-19 06:57:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e92e8cc83 Remove section number from page self ref 2007-12-09 08:30:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef203e4559 ffix 2007-11-29 17:59:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7653389dcf wspace cleanup 2007-11-24 10:38:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2777b1caec Remove section numbers for page references where the
reference refers to the page itself.  (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
2007-11-24 10:10:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 531d750bb3 Update date in .TH line 2007-11-19 08:06:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 43ea35457d Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable. 2007-11-19 01:34:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a406395c86 Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable. 2007-11-19 01:26:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ea53895cb8 Clarify details in description of file leases.
Minor wording edits.
2007-11-19 01:21:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 276adee157 Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE. 2007-11-17 06:23:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cedab4493d Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-11-17 05:46:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4df883b963 ffix 2007-09-04 06:30:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc15ae54b9 tfix/wfix 2007-07-10 03:57:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 682edefb1b ffix 2007-06-22 17:16:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 988db66164 strip trailing white space 2007-06-21 22:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bd58774dc Formatted signal names 2007-06-21 05:38:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e1ad98ccf Updated FIXMEs 2007-06-13 21:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b94dc35c Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
Change "i.e. " to i.e.., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
2007-06-08 11:56:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d880b21c28 Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Document/* in kernel source. 2007-05-27 12:13:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3c945b37d Added .\" comment about l_sysid. 2007-05-27 11:52:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87eca6b7b3 Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
2007-05-21 06:34:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5f77cc8 Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
2007-05-18 16:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c93fec03d Wrapped source lines 2007-05-12 12:58:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf0a9ace57 ffix 2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b48e9d74 Various fixes to CONFORMING TO 2006-12-17 01:34:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7fadb5558 Updated CONFOMRING TOs and/or standards references. 2006-08-04 12:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1c9135d0 ffix 2006-08-03 03:02:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ace17ecf07 Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY. 2006-06-05 01:51:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6883b3e731 Changed copyright commnents to add 'and' in some cases 2006-05-22 23:52:24 +00:00