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Michael Kerrisk 6b1cc2c9a4 inotify.7: Add paragraph on cache consistency checking 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 67898fdfd0 inotify.7: Reorganize "Limits and caveats" 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk da977073d0 inotify.7: wfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 85e179c5c2 inotify.7: Add text on dealing with rename() events 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a79d28b202 inotify.7: Minor reorganization 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 94d52c1529 inotify.7: Mention cache rebuilding to handle overflow events 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 264276c6b0 inotify.7: Move discussion of application cache to start of "Limitations" 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 356911f692 inotify.7: Rewrite introductory section 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ff6e23973d inotify.7: Add subheading for reading from inotify file descriptor 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1a737afd5a inotify.7: symlink(2) can generate IN_CREATE 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 415f63be17 inotify.7: Add some examples of events generated by various system calls 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:18:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 08107714a5 open_by_handle_at.2: Remove FIXMEs after review by Aneesh Kumar 
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:13:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 39c98c7d50 open_by_handle_at.2: Note when glibc support was added 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 43a8bfc677 proc.5: srcfix: added FIXME 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ad5d1b9f6 open_by_handle_at.2: Rework example programs 
Rework example programs so that they use a text file (rather
than a binary file) to exchange mount ID and file handle.
Various clean-ups and bug fixes after review by Mike Frysinger.

Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 886f35af61 open_by_handle_at.2: ffix 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b2fe7451ce open_by_handle_at.2: Fixes after review comments by Mike Frysinger 
Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e2199ccbc0 open_by_handle_at.2: Further edits after comments by Neil Brown 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 97236faef5 open_by_handle_at.2: wfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 269ad84333 open_by_handle_at.2: srcfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 74a769f92d open_by_handle_at.2: ERRORS: Remove bogus ENOTDIR error for open_by_handle_at() 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3be5b709ad open_by_handle_at.2: ERRORS: change reference from open(2) to openat(2) 
Christoph noted that if ERRORS defers to openat(2) rather than
open(2), then a couple of errors can be eliminated from the list
on this page.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fb968310b1 open_by_handle_at.2: Various fixes after review by Neil Brown 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b088c3ca52 open.2: SEE ALSO: add open_by_name_at(2) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 55ac9696ec name_to_handle_at.2: New link to new open_by_name_at(2) page 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a827d5c648 open_by_handle_at.2: New page describing name_to_handle_at(2) and open_by_handle_at(2) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ed17140040 symlink.7: Mention use of readlink(2) to read contents of a symlink 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7aa6eb89d4 symlink.7: Minor edits 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 828b6e3dad symlink.7: Add mtk copyright 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 58be64a41a symlink.7: f 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d33b6ed2d8 symlink.7: Add subsection on opening a symbolic link with O_PATH 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 19d9c23c6a symlink.7: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk df63d3e84d symlink.7: name_to_handle_at(2) and open_by_handle_at(2) optionally follow symlinks 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:12:25 +02:00
Abhay Sachan 25cb5f9b8b getxattr.2: Fix REURN VALUE description 
A EA can have length zero.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-06 08:10:59 +02:00
Andrey Vagin 5e7c71f6ac mmap.2: The file descriptor for a file mapping must be readable 
There is no difference between MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE.

do_mmap_pgoff()
	switch (flags & MAP_TYPE) {
	case MAP_SHARED:
	...
	/* fall through */
	case MAP_PRIVATE:
		if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ))
			return -EACCES;

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-04 13:25:08 +02:00
David Prévot 5f7504ef28 locale.5: Minor fixes 
Hi Michael,

Please find attach various minor fixes:
- consistency fixes;
- punctuation fixes;
- typo fixes;
- format fixes;
- usage fix;
- American spelling convention.

Regards

David

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-04 07:46:23 +02:00
David Prévot 5201bb40a7 stat.2: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-03 13:41:19 +02:00
Alexey Samsonov cc82e457b2 getline.3: Caller should free the allocated buffer even if getline() failed 
Relevant discussion in glibc bugzilla:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5666
test program:

    $ cat tmp/getline/a.cc
    #include <stdio.h>
    int main() {
      for (int x = 0; x < 2; x++) {
        char *lineptr = 0;
        size_t size = 0;
        int res = getline(&lineptr, &size, stdin);
        printf("%d\n%p\n", res, lineptr);
      }
      return 0;
    }
    $ gcc tmp/getline/a.cc && echo -n "xxx" > x && ./a.out < x
    3
    0x11ae010
    -1
    0x11ae090

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-02 12:10:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f3ef455821 fseek.3: Document EINVAL error for negative file offset 
Reported-by: Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-02 09:45:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bad22e53b perf_event_open.2: grfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-02 09:41:11 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e9b1ab7892 perf_event_open.2: Minor fix: place PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC in alphabetical order 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-02 09:37:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f4f57abc2 perf_event_open.2: Rework Vince Weaver's discussion of PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-02 09:37:26 +02:00
Vince Weaver 9cb36a115d perf_event_open.2: Document the PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag 
The Linux 3.14 release adds support for the PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC
flag.

The wording is based on the description in kernel commit
a21b0b354d4ac39be691f51c53562e2c24443d9e
by Yann Droneaud.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-02 09:27:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ed81fdd98d perf_event_open.2: grfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 21:40:15 +02:00
Vince Weaver 3f118a2944 perf_event_open.2: Document PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD behavior change 
Linux 3.14 (in commit bad7192b842c83e580747ca57104dd51fe08c223)
changes the perf_event PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD ioctl() behavior
on all architectures to update immediately, to match the behavior
found on ARM.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 21:01:42 +02:00
Peng Haitao 2995190026 fenv.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe 
The functions feclearexcept(), fegetexceptflag(), feraiseexcept(),
fesetexceptflag(), fetestexcept(), fegetround(), fesetround(),
fegetenv(), feholdexcept(), fesetenv(), feupdateenv(),
feenableexcept(), fedisableexcept() and fegetexcept() are thread
safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 20:43:02 +02:00
Peng Haitao 3c7682247a getpt.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe 
The function getpt() is thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 20:42:39 +02:00
Peng Haitao 2841248208 getloadavg.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe 
The function getloadavg() is thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 20:42:06 +02:00
Peng Haitao 8cad35ef8d index.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe 
The functions index() and rindex() are thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 20:41:39 +02:00
Peng Haitao 60bd4d858f if_nametoindex.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe 
The functions if_nametoindex() and if_indextoname() are thread safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2014-04-01 20:40:11 +02:00