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Michael Kerrisk 1d7c4d16b2 SEE ALSO: add time(7) 2008-06-23 08:48:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 364008baa4 tfix 2008-06-23 06:00:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a64c6ae1fb s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/ 2008-09-18 12:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84db13a46f Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built 
without CONFIG_PRINTK.
 2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bddd0b2edc Alphabetize SEE ALSO. 2008-09-18 12:30:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8846324af9 Clarify description of 'times' array for utrimes(). 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c40de088e wfix 2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d2f49a4f Describe the unconventional error return provided by the wrapper 
function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if the system call
is invoked via syscall(2)).
 2008-06-18 20:24:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddc676f488 Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition. 2008-06-18 12:57:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16d2122c01 tfix 2008-06-18 09:10:22 +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 382d87bd5f Document d_type field; other minor edits. 2008-06-17 21:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 602995ec2c Minor wording fixes. 2008-06-17 20:50:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a18e2edbf8 SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7). 2008-06-17 08:32:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04af291ff4 Small wording fix. 2008-06-16 14:27:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b11e2adf59 Further tweaks 2008-06-16 11:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ea6100ea21 SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt 2008-06-16 11:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc2f55497e Added system call history back to version 1.2. 
Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
 2008-06-16 10:07:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e5925162e Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an unprivileged process with a non-zero 
RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit changes policy and priority.
 2008-06-16 08:41:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35a09d71ec SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request 
queue size.  For some background, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
 2008-06-13 10:51:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5fda4d2588 Link to getcwd.3 2008-06-12 10:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34dcae5481 Fix text that warns against use of NULL argv and envp. 
Using a NULL envp does in fact seem to be portable (works
on Solaris and FreeBSD), but the Linux semantics for a NULL
argv certainly aren't consistent with other implementations.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408.
 2008-06-12 10:11:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20523df7ef Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line. 2008-06-12 06:09:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3a22b7fc3 Add pointer to discussion of RLIMIT_RTTIME in getrlimit.2. 
Rewrote and restructured various parts of the page for greater clarity.
 2008-06-12 05:43:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5c0095ae9 Clarify discussion of return value of sbrk(). 
DESCRIPTION: Add some sentences giving an overview of these interfaces.
Add note recommending use of malloc(3).
Change name of brk() argument to the simpler 'addr'.
Add "(void *)" cast to "-1" for error return of sbrk().
Removed some incorrect text about "brk(0)".
Note that SUSv2 specified the return value of sbrk().
Added a detail on the glibc brk() wrapper.
Remove discussions of standards old (C89 and POSIX.1-1990);
CONFORMING TO already discusses the situation with respect
to more recent standards.
 2008-06-12 04:47:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3cde6db55c Add a few more words to DESCRIPTION. 
NOTES: Add pointer to acct(5).
 2008-06-11 22:42:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf1082be77 Describe rules governing ownership of new files (bsdgroups 
versus sysvgroups, and the effect of the parent directory's
set-group-ID permission bit).
 2008-06-11 22:24:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0689a4da14 Clarify description of chmod() and fchmod(). 
Add further detail on S_ISUID, S_ISGID, and S_ISVTX permissions.
Reformat list of permissions bits.
 2008-06-11 22:14:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23ce0537cb Add description of RLIMIT_RTTIME limit, new in 2.6.25. 2008-06-11 22:04:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c734b9f234 NOTES: Note that access mode flags are not single bits, 
and document the Linuxism "access mode 3".
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/653123.
 2008-06-11 22:04:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d6299e824 Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a 
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
 2008-06-11 15:26:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4e453903d Re-order ERRORS and SEE ALSO entries to be alphabetical. 2008-06-11 13:57:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e04e8187d2 tfix 2008-06-11 06:57:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2581c94554 ffix 2008-06-11 06:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bed63c46ad Clarify description a little. 
s/changes the root directory/changes the root directory of the calling process/
 2008-06-11 06:41:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffe84477ec s/process/calling process/ so as to that the alarm signal is 
delivered to the calling process.
 2008-06-11 06:31:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be095d1e02 tfix 2008-06-11 06:24:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +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 f8a07a2154 s/'/\\'/ to improve rendering in UTF-8. 2008-06-05 17:52:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 41325efd9a tfix 2008-06-03 12:24:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65132f861c Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6d57a94af tfix 2008-06-03 09:19:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d051e0c01e Update FIXME. 2008-06-03 09:19:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f95ef6d51f Reformat DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE sections to be more 
consistent with man-pages style.
Add some more detail to descriptions of system calls.
Clarified what happens if caller of getgroups() is a member of
more than 'size' supplementary groups.
ERRORS: Add ENOMEM.
 2008-06-03 09:07:36 +00:00