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Michael Kerrisk ed948c28b3 chown.2, execve.2, prctl.2, truncate.2, proc.5, capabilities.7, ld.so.8: Tighter wording: 'mode bit' rather than 'permission bit' 
For sticky, set-UID, and set-GID mode bits (as used in POSIX).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-21 14:36:59 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fce2114916 proc.5: Enhance discussion of /proc/PID/status 'VmSwap' field 
Based on https://lwn.net/Articles/634978/

Cowritten-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-19 09:51:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5fec7fe59a proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-19 09:51:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 58d375dd8a proc.5: Document /proc/PID/fdinfo epoll format 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-18 13:20:39 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e7622ee53 proc.5: Describe /proc/PID/fdinfo eventfd format 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-18 13:20:39 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f8a14cac3c proc.5: Document /proc/PID/fdinfo signalfd format 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-18 13:20:39 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0275956d88 proc.5: Describe "mnt_id" field of /proc/PID/fdinfo 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-18 13:20:39 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a405066e3d proc.5: Update description /proc/sys/unix 'Type' field 
The existing text was very crufty. UNIX domain sockets
support more than SOCK_STREAM for a _very_ long time now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f8a46fbcb proc.5: Note that abstract sockets are included in /proc/net/unix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 756f55f601 proc.5: Reformat /proc/net/unix information as a list 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk dbe6f88bf8 proc.5: Add some detail to /proc/PID/timers 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f1ea8fbde proc.5: /proc/PID/timers fix 
Minor fix to description.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 93691c1ef8 proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5734da6d61 proc.5: Note that /proc/PID/timers requires CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-04-06 16:13:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e64c86bbf intro.1, ldd.1, clone.2, getgroups.2, getpid.2, getsockopt.2, ioctl_list.2, msgop.2, open.2, seccomp.2, setgid.2, setresuid.2, setreuid.2, setuid.2, sigaction.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2, sigreturn.2, sigsuspend.2, sigwaitinfo.2, socket.2, syscall.2, syscalls.2, umount.2, clock.3, dlopen.3, fmemopen.3, fpathconf.3, fputwc.3, fputws.3, fseek.3, fseeko.3, gcvt.3, getline.3, getwchar.3, hypot.3, if_nameindex.3, initgroups.3, popen.3, resolver.3, strcoll.3, strdup.3, tzset.3, ulimit.3, wcstombs.3, wctob.3, xdr.3, console_codes.4, random.4, filesystems.5, host.conf.5, hosts.5, proc.5, resolv.conf.5, securetty.5, credentials.7, feature_test_macros.7, hier.7, ipv6.7, packet.7, pthreads.7, raw.7, signal.7, tcp.7, user_namespaces.7, ld.so.8, ldconfig.8: tstamp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-29 22:30:09 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 20d7c60b35 nsswitch.conf.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-27 12:21:34 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 8528c9890b hosts.5: Mention 127.0.1.1 for FQDN and IPv6 examples 
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562890

Reported-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-22 20:20:58 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk f6d0868784 host.conf.5: grfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-10 08:19:07 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery e51f148aa1 host.conf.5: Rework discussion of nospoof, spoofalert, spoof and RESOLV_SPOOF_CHECK 
The keywords and environment variables "nospoof", "spoofalert",
"spoof" and RESOLV_SPOOF_CHECK were added to glibc 2.0.7 but
never implemented

Move descriptions to historical section and reorder it for clarity

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773443

Reported-by: <ygrex@ygrex.ru>
by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-10 08:19:07 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 51dea63adf proc.5: Document (the obsolete) /proc/PID/seccomp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-09 16:15:02 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 4bc79d5d48 resolv.conf.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-09 08:09:48 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 520c3a8b9d securetty.5: Note that the pam_securetty module also uses this file 
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528015

This patch is a modified version of the one proposed without
parts specific to Debian.

Reported-by: Nicolas FRANCOIS <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-08 09:52:13 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery ea36508af1 filesystems.5: ffix 
Order the list of filesystems by name

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-08 09:52:13 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 7b46b4fae3 host.conf.5, hosts.5, resolv.conf.5: Cross references of these pages. 
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=298259

Reported-by: Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-08 09:51:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b37c3036bb filesystems.5: srcfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 22:33:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b7a89be42c filesystems.5: Remove dubious claim about comparative performance of ext2 
Perhaps it was the best filesystem performance-wise in
the 20th century, when that text was written. That probaly
ceased to be true quite a long time ago, though.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 22:29:55 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery eaf096254c filesystems.5: Add cross references for ext filesystems 
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 22:25:40 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7566936006 filesystems.5: Fixup: Reverse earlier change to case of filesystem names 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 14:56:34 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery c2c247dc56 filesystems.5: ffix 
Highlight all file systems citations

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 14:56:34 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery c8375cf207 filesystems.5: wfix 
XIA filesystem Linux module name is xiafs

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 14:56:34 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 895fe6f029 filesystems.5: ffix 
All filesystems in lowercase

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 14:56:34 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 5bc93c9f3d filesystems.5: Specifies the scope of this list and its limits. 
Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 14:56:34 +01:00
Stéphane Aulery 1258e3251b filesystems.5: srcfix 
Remove useless quotes

Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-06 14:56:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk d06a6170dd proc.5: Replace description of 'uid_map' with a reference to user_namespaces(7) 
All of the information in proc(5) was also present in
user_namespaces(7), but the latter was more detailed
and up to date.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-04 15:11:02 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ab28dba9a0 proc.5, user_namespaces.7: Migrate description of /proc/PID/setgroups to user_namespaces(7) 
It makes sense to have the description of this file
in the general discussion of user namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-04 15:11:02 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk a0726dbfdd proc.5: Tweaks to /proc/PID/setgroups text 
After comments from Eric Biederman

Cowritten-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-04 15:11:02 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6bb49a3266 proc.5: Tweak's to Eric Biederman's patch 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-03 15:49:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk de04dd4df3 proc.5: Add some details on /proc/PID/setgroups 
And generally rework the text.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-03 15:49:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c92b1b761 proc.5: Tweaks to Eric Biederman's patch 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-03 15:49:39 +01:00
Eric W. Biederman d520465b99 proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/setgroups 
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-03 15:49:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 1622fc979b proc.5: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-03 15:49:39 +01:00
Taisuke Yamada 157890398b proc.5: Document /proc/PID/status VmPin field 
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1071746

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-02 17:22:26 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b6620a255b proc.5: tfix + srcfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-02 17:22:26 +01:00
Taisuke Yamada fd44bdc797 proc.5: Fix SELinux /proc/pid/attr/current example 
Since the /proc/pid/attr API was added to the kernel, there
have been a couple of changes to the SELinux handling of
/proc/pid/attr/current.  Fix the SELinux /proc/pid/attr/current
example text to reflect these changes and note which kernel
versions first included the changes.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-03-02 17:22:26 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d322d5fc7 time.1, access.2, arch_prctl.2, cacheflush.2, capget.2, clone.2, execve.2, fcntl.2, fork.2, getpid.2, getxattr.2, ioctl.2, ioctl_fat.2, killpg.2, listxattr.2, madvise.2, migrate_pages.2, modify_ldt.2, mprotect.2, msgget.2, msgop.2, perf_event_open.2, ptrace.2, sched_setattr.2, semget.2, semop.2, sendfile.2, set_thread_area.2, setxattr.2, stat.2, statfs.2, wait.2, wait4.2, encrypt.3, mktemp.3, pthread_attr_setschedparam.3, resolver.3, statvfs.3, syslog.3, tzset.3, core.5, host.conf.5, intro.5, proc.5, resolv.conf.5, pthreads.7, socket.7, unix.7, ld.so.8, ldconfig.8: tstamp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-02-21 09:26:52 +01:00
Simon Paillard 0921ce4ab0 resolver.3, host.conf.5: host.conf 'order' option deprecated, replaced by nsswitch.conf(5) 
http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2389
b9c65d0902

Reported at http://bugs.debian.org/270368,
http://bugs.debian.org/396633, and http://bugs.debian.org/344233.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-02-21 08:32:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 94a4f58a7a resolv.conf.5: SEE ALSO: add nsswitch.conf(5) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-02-21 08:32:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7672e08e00 proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-02-21 08:32:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c3b494c295 proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-02-21 08:32:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2702dc2175 proc.5: (Briefly) document /proc/PID/attr/socketcreate 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2015-02-21 07:58:28 +01:00