For IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, who==0 means operate on the caller.
For IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, who==0 means operate on the caller's
process group.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652443
Reported-by: Марк Коренберг <socketpair@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
As reported by Herbert Xu, these should not be considered as PIDs.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383296
Reported-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The man page formerly noted the bash(1) v1 command to do this.
Reported-by: Aaron Peschel <aaron.peschel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mainly rewording things like "is delivered" to "becomes pending",
which is more accurate terminology.
Reported-by: Daniel Zingaro <daniel.zingaro@utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This system call was never visible to user space, so it makes
sense to move it out of the main table of system calls into
the notes below the table.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reduce the chance that the reader may be misled into thinking
that there is a wrapper function for this system call by noting
explicitly in the SYNOPSIS that there is no glibc wrapper and
pointing the reader to NOTES for further details.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
And add another example of using syscall() to the program example.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
syscall.2: fix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Remove links >= 5 years old that were created after historical
moves of pages to new sections.
Reported-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Improve the example demonstrating allocation of a buffer
for readdir_r() to handle -1 error return from pathconf().
Otherwise, naive readers may think that pathconf() return
value can be used without checking.
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Commit 4a19ec5800fc3bb64e2d87c4d9fdd9e636086fe0 in Jan 2008 added
the new SO_MARK socket option.
This patch is based on text from the commit message.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16461.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This point is already covered at greater length in the main
text of the page (See the piece "More commonly, ...").
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Fis warning from "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ..."):
<groff: mdoc.7>:294: warning:
tab character in unquoted macro argument
In one table the distance between columns is too small in the
"ps" output. (Bug in the groff "doc.tmac" macro?)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
From "man -ww ..." (groff -ww ...):
<standard input>:541: warning:
tab character in unquoted macro argument
[+3 similar warnings]
<standard input>:813: warning: macro `Pu' not defined
Usage: .Rv -std in sections 2 and 3 only (#1669)
mdoc warning: A .Bl directive has no matching .El (#1821)
String "Pu" defined as a row of punctuation characters.
".Bl" and ".El" fixed.
Some arguments, that start with a period or are the name of a
macro, protected with "\&".
Variable name for macro ".Rv" corrected.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Akihiro MOTOKI