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Michael Kerrisk 480239acfa Prepare for man-pages-2.08 release 2005-09-21 13:00:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47607cd362 Prepare for man-pages-2.08 release 2005-09-21 12:58:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1a57baf234 Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing 
the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root.
(However, the page still needs to be rewritten
to actually describe the pivot_root method...)
As per Debian bug 323621.
 2005-09-21 12:40:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b2fc2945f Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and 
pointing out that applications should preferentially
inspect HOME
 2005-09-21 12:02:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84a0a0510d Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function. 
As per debian bug 328629
 2005-09-21 11:23:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk edac57cf3e Further fix of "one has..." test 2005-09-21 10:45:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 314df009da fix version in .TH 2005-09-21 06:28:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9eabf77ada fix typo 2005-09-21 06:28:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 614f40af1d Further reorking of RLIMIT_NICE text. 
Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
 2005-09-20 17:45:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cedd678ff7 Further reworking of discussion or RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO 2005-09-20 17:43:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8ba10b3e91 Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on RLIMIT_NICE. 2005-09-20 17:42:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk afdee10dbc Further reworking of text on privileges and RLIMIT_RTPRIO 2005-09-20 14:52:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6151ea9a91 Noted 2.6.12 off-by-one error for RLIMIT_NICE. 2005-09-20 06:52:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b1b9bc40 Uncommented text that I wrote earlier that added mention of RLIMIT_NICE 
and a cross reference to getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES 
error.
 2005-09-19 14:57:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a23bf8a396 Uncommented description of RLIMIT_NICE that I wrote earlier 2005-09-19 14:57:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 363f747ccd Added (minimal) /proc/zoneinfo description + some FIXMEs 2005-09-19 14:20:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 52850de794 Change: 
One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
to:
     One has carg(z) = atan(cimag(z) / creal(z))
 2005-09-19 14:08:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 58d323a7f7 Formatting fix 2005-09-19 12:18:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70d015eeb6 Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL 2005-09-19 12:18:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 57734e8257 We don't have an rpc_secure.3 page in the set at the moment 2005-09-19 11:39:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f116293015 Wording improvements to suid_dumapble text 2005-09-16 15:36:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b327744384 Wording improvements to new dumpable text 2005-09-16 15:36:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1fc160662a fix typo 2005-09-16 14:36:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c0dc044574 Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2. 2005-09-16 14:05:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 43da96f2df Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13) 2005-09-16 13:06:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 282f082e75 Further updates on biarch text (follow-on from previous change) 2005-09-16 11:35:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9559eb50bb Mention "little endian" and "big endian". 
Added note about octal and hex interpretation of numbers-and-dots notation.
 2005-09-15 17:14:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5188e9abb added fixme 2005-09-15 17:13:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97943087ed To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human", not "HUMAN". 2005-09-15 13:49:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f39e2bca7f Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv 2005-09-15 13:36:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e3535a4396 s/standard output/standard error/ 2005-09-15 12:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b8ebc9d9fe Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype 2005-09-15 12:40:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1b6145807d fix typo in version number 2005-09-15 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1176900f3e formatting fix 2005-09-15 12:06:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 924dca35fe New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 
Added NOTES on usage.
Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
 2005-09-15 11:50:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ff599e2ac New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 
Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
       and SIGSEGV.
Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
 2005-09-15 11:48:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bfac9793eb New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 
Changed CONFORMING TO.
 2005-09-15 11:48:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00161f1ba6 Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out 
into separate new pages.

Other minor changes

NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in
                all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2
List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Signal handling possibly wrong
From:       Bodo Stroesser
Date:       2005-08-09 17:44:06
 2005-09-15 11:47:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b469222561 Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2 
Some formatting fixes.
 2005-09-15 11:46:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 479377fb38 Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into 
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
 2005-09-15 09:20:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22b6a68b91 Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards. 2005-09-14 13:51:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d2243fd63e Minor change to FIXME 2005-09-14 08:16:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbc53ca8b2 Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7. 2005-09-14 08:15:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ceb6743d1f Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype. 
Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
Added entries to SEE ALSO.
Some formatting fixes.
 2005-09-13 10:27:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73b3a56860 Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED. 2005-08-16 17:17:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4528678725 Formatting fix 2005-08-16 15:14:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f55c92c489 Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID 2005-08-16 15:13:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5eaee3d9f5 Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE 2005-08-16 12:32:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97604d956d Added kerebl version number of UDP_CORK 2005-08-16 12:09:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 74df8ba182 Added description of UDP_CORK 2005-08-16 12:08:07 +00:00