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Michael Kerrisk 249f994bdf procfs: New link to proc.5
Since the term "procfs" is widely used, it seems reasonable to have
a link from that name to proc(5).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d5ad4b5838 proc.5: 'pid_max' is a system-wide limit on number of threads and processes
Since PIDs > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max are not allocated, this
file thus also imposes a system-wide limit on the number of
threads and processes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 41dfc98f96 fork.2: ERRORS: add pid_max and threads-max to EAGAIN
And rewrite text to be the same as pthread_create(3).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 20cbd039b2 pthread_create.3: Add pid_max limit to EAGAIN error cases
Reported-by: Carsten Grohmann <carstengrohmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b8f84ce202 capabilities.7: CAP_SYS_PTRACE allows process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5f94327cf5 capabilities.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eb64a9cb28 capabilities.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e1b6e18657 clone.2: ERRORS: add cross-reference to fork(2) for explanation of EAGAIN
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f703b9e10b getrlimit.2: RLIMIT_NPROC is not enforced if CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1a3b63f7a0 capabilities.7: CAP_SYS_ADMIN allows overriding RLIMIT_NPROC
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 838ad419e2 capabilities.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:23:26 +02:00
Simon Paillard f5b9f41340 stdio.3: tfix
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748887

Reported-by: Colin Williams <colinwilliams1968@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-22 08:18:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fd2799f6d4 Changes.old: Various fixes to old changelog entries
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 16:20:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 18c410ba55 Changes.old: Fixed for 3.41 changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 16:16:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f4c6107369 Changes.old: Tweaks to 3.67 changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 14:54:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk bca479527a Changes.old: Add contributors to 3.67 changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 14:44:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 613a1fb711 Changes.old: Tweaks to 3.67 changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 14:42:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c7b2680ceb Start of man-pages-3.68: updating Changes and Changes.old 2014-05-21 13:20:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0db50f4da2 Start of man-pages-3.68: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2014-05-21 13:20:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a3d8fbd3fd Start of man-pages-3.68: renaming .Announce and .lsm files 2014-05-21 13:20:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 73686e91a9 Ready for 3.67 2014-05-21 13:16:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0da5e58ad2 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2014-05-21 13:16:14 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 917d6b6d67 Changes: Expanded tabs 2014-05-21 13:16:14 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d15531307 chown.2, fcntl.2, futex.2, recvmmsg.2, sched_setscheduler.2, semget.2, shmget.2, malloc.3, pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3, pthread_attr_setschedparam.3, pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, strcpy.3, capabilities.7, cpuset.7, credentials.7, pthreads.7: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 13:15:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 06e9936b49 Changes: Ready for 3.67
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 13:10:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1aa556aba3 fanotify.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 12:47:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c0f0ce0f0 fanotify.7: Minor wording changes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 12:45:21 +02:00
Heinrich Schuchardt 3c36e6351a fanotify.7: Document FAN_EVENT_METADATA_LEN
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 12:40:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 98f7d53c92 fanotify.7: Fix description of FAN_EVENT_NEXT()
FAN_EVENT_NEXT() does not update 'meta'; rather, it returns a
pointer to the next metadata structure. In addition, generally
rework the description to be a bit clearer and more detailed.

Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
2014-05-21 08:59:04 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0acc5c6d66 renameat2.2: New link to rename.2
When documentation of the renameat2() system calls was added to
rename(2), I overlooked to create the corresponding link file.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-21 08:58:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7670a1ec7e Changes.old: Fix for 3.66 changelog
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 20:27:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8228dbfeca popen.3: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 16:23:36 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c73dc4fe14 connect.2: Remove mention of ip_local_port_range under EAGAIN error
Man-pages commit ac7477eb7a added EADDRNOTAVAIL as the correct
error for ephemeral port range exhaustion.  However, that error
was also incorrectly described under the EAGAIN entry. So,
remove that text under EAGAIN.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 13:34:53 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 170752fde9 puts.3: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 12:36:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 890968b1b1 getpwent.3: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 12:34:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fda70f5bf9 proc.5: Minor rewording
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:34:11 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a568e16408 dup.2: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:30:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 103ea4f6b3 open.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:25:57 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2feae60283 open.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:23:13 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d6a74b9559 open.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:06:18 +02:00
Peng Haitao 8276212a04 pthread_setschedparam.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions pthread_setschedparam() and pthread_getschedparam()
are thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 11:04:06 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk caf2083a46 socket.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 10:51:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9af6b11576 open.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 10:39:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d647d5e156 getfsent.3: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 10:11:08 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 177660fae0 ptrace.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 10:10:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b5408a0f00 proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:54:09 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 723e333ca9 proc.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:48:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1661524fb8 networks.5: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:43:18 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cb8a928f3a perf_event_open.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:37:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e2928b4d77 CPU_SET.3: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-05-19 09:36:00 +02:00