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Michael Kerrisk f0c34053bc Put SEE ALSO section into alphabetical order. 2008-07-14 15:52:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk decede0c28 tfix 2008-07-14 15:15:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4bb193f3c s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given 
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
 2008-07-10 20:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 164be4fc3c wfix 2008-07-10 09:38:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c04c44f86d wfix 2008-07-09 15:41:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 58f4fca643 Correct a detail for sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale. 
Formatting fixes.
Small wording fixes.
 2008-07-09 15:38:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87174b3ae2 Small wording fixes 2008-07-09 15:36:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8ee190da4a s/UNIX/Unix/, when not used as part of a trademark, 
for consistency with majority usage in pages.
 2008-07-09 14:17:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2914a14d30 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-09 13:55:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8e6851294 Reword discussion of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE to be file-system neutral. 2008-07-09 12:11:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 02cd273d55 ffix 2008-07-09 04:30:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 012c8c66df ffix 2008-07-09 04:29:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a93b491cb7 ffix 2008-07-09 04:28:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf5a72471e Added "Copyright" string to lines that had "([Cc])" for copyright. 2008-07-08 14:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 07d72ca89d remove duplicate sigvec(3) in SEE ALSO; 
put sockatmark() is right alphabetical order in list of
async-sig-safe functions
 2008-07-08 13:39:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 83ee9237b6 Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for 
ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.
 2008-07-08 10:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c17a5c8b30 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-07 07:46:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72710182cd tweaks 2008-07-07 04:16:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 495edd812c tweaks 2008-07-04 20:07:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72ee5ec277 tweaks + update async-signal-safe function to that given in POSIX.1-2004 2008-07-04 19:40:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0005e334d7 wfix 2008-07-04 19:33:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b24473a39b wfix 2008-07-04 16:24:13 +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 c1667735e0 tfix 2008-07-04 15:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c69c9232a Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid. 
SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
 2008-07-04 15:09:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 743bc3957a tweaks 2008-07-04 14:36:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48b9ec3fe1 Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal 
plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
signal handler has been established, and note the system
calls that behave this way.
 2008-07-04 13:15:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af3c87d084 Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting 
which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
system calls are never restarted.
 2008-07-04 13:13:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a665dfb6e wfix 2008-07-03 20:29:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 506bee474a tstamp 2008-07-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0de5014fe0 Document cpuset mechanism for confining processes to processors and nodes. 2008-07-03 19:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c85aa6ba5 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4564433c99 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard 
signals is unspecified.
 2008-07-02 12:54:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 095e060410 Overview of POSIX shared memory API. 2008-07-02 05:03:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27e8d1a56d ffix 2008-07-01 16:32:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6e731d1f4 ffix 2008-06-26 13:38:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
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 73858a07dd Wfix 2008-06-24 14:05:49 +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 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 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +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 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 f4b5a0b0c8 Updated text referring to syscalls(2). 2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 905c9e1c05 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:47:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b84b38312 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:46:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305865606d Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores since 2.6.19. 2008-06-11 22:32:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f36e23f07 Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX message queues. 2008-06-11 22:31:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94b40171e1 Provide a clear description of the three types of address that can 
appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed, and abstract.
 2008-06-11 22:11:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b061b28a6 Minor tweaks 2008-06-11 21:50:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eae3689b44 A description of symbolic links, taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and heavily edited. 2008-06-11 21:25:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06b00cff20 A description of hostnames, taken from FreeBSD. 2008-06-11 21:24:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 294544e7b2 Expand description of VERSIONS section. 2008-06-11 13:41:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bb93cd4bb Control character names (^X) are writte boldface, without quotes. 2008-06-10 08:44:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45660d7d7 wrap long source lines 2008-06-09 21:12:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8062a09161 Add FIXME 2008-06-09 21:07:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 333a424b0e Try and bring some consistency to quotes. 2008-06-09 21:03:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f81fb4445b s/\\'/\\(aq/ 2008-06-09 15:49:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84c517a450 Change use of quote characters to get better UTF-8 rendering. 2008-06-05 20:14:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b8b45978b0 /'/\\'/ to produce better UTF rendering 2008-06-05 19:01:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9377e6281a ffix 2008-06-05 18:53:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8a07a2154 s/'/\\'/ to improve rendering in UTF-8. 2008-06-05 17:52:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26868e5b26 s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for 
proper rendering in UTF-8.
 2008-06-05 12:26:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 379402b0b5 Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65132f861c Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8850a3888 Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001. 2008-06-03 09:05:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b15f36380d sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of 
supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
 2008-06-02 21:18:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82f2286be4 tweak quotes 2008-05-30 13:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 185ec3e44a Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostophe (') in tablees 2008-05-30 13:14:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b98a4c61 Update timestamp 2008-05-29 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 740944a8e7 ffix 2008-05-26 16:33:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 882bbb69e4 For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming 
may be required".
 2008-05-21 14:33:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c850029715 wfix 2008-05-20 21:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 500beae6f3 Update FIXME 2008-05-14 06:15:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0d07ad302a Add list of thread-safe functions. 2008-05-12 22:20:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da5461a83e Added FIXME 2008-05-12 21:19:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a5c365a01 Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail. 2008-05-09 13:24:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c841cb6b87 Update timestamp 2008-05-08 13:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31daf529b7 Reformat kernel version information for flags. 2008-05-07 13:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64d6219cf0 s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux s.y.z/ 2008-05-07 13:33:52 +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 df18528cf0 Added FIXME 2008-04-24 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4372daaa5e tfix 2008-04-22 13:04:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 407252794e Batch wfix/ffix 2008-04-18 15:52:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59aa15de7d s/unicode.com/unicode.org/ 2008-04-18 15:46:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccea2d571b tfix 2008-04-17 19:37:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 81b36e1d0b tfix 2008-04-09 15:30:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0000daa58e Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors. 
Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
file descriptor as readable.
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