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55 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 088a639be3 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
2007-12-19 06:57:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2777b1caec Remove section numbers for page references where the
reference refers to the page itself.  (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
2007-11-24 10:10:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a16ac7aed ffix 2007-11-21 18:17:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 71f66746c7 ffix 2007-11-18 07:31:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d739f5f8c7 Add text describing limit on total size of argv + evnp,
and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
2007-09-10 04:31:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8d5553785 ffix 2007-07-18 20:24:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5260fe08cf Use 'glibc' consistently to refer to GNU C library. 2007-07-09 22:01:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f624b939f grfix 2007-07-08 12:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 682edefb1b ffix 2007-06-22 17:16:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 988db66164 strip trailing white space 2007-06-21 22:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bd58774dc Formatted signal names 2007-06-21 05:38:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b94dc35c Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
Change "i.e. " to i.e.., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
2007-06-08 11:56:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb1af89677 Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
independent of fixes for American spelling).
2007-06-08 10:58:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53a1443cce Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7. 2007-06-08 07:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 677f47663e Wrap source lines at sentence breaks. 2007-06-08 03:17:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad7cc990f2 Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolutiion.7 2007-05-26 12:41:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e1c01a76 ffix 2007-05-21 21:25:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c87824d61 Made .SH into .SS 2007-05-16 02:45:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a44012756e Minor repairs after global edits 2007-05-12 12:53:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60a90ecdae Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to ".BR name ()". 2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b364fca092 Removed some comment text about interpreter scripts, placing
it instead in Changes file.
2007-05-01 14:34:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e506533603 hyphen --> minus 2007-05-01 07:58:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6f223a7e3 Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID programs.
Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
may be treated specially.
2007-04-30 14:30:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6b33ad7da Added an example program.
Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be released.
2007-04-30 12:25:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b5804b409 spfix 2007-04-30 10:58:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 456960740c Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
and should be avoided in portable programs.
Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
is an ABI change.
2007-04-30 10:39:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd24c68794 ffix 2007-04-30 09:00:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fd8a3c9db wfix 2007-04-30 08:55:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf0a9ace57 ffix 2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6cfd01694 Elimitae duplicated text; grfix 2006-11-26 22:10:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fe247268a9 The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve(). 2006-09-13 14:08:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8106981956 s/SUID/set-user-ID/
s/SGID/set-group-ID/
2006-09-06 15:23:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80a34ae3aa Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec(). 2006-09-04 12:27:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef0b81712f wfix/tfix 2006-09-04 08:57:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7fadb5558 Updated CONFOMRING TOs and/or standards references. 2006-08-04 12:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 07b501d1b9 Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
saved set-IDs during execve().
2006-07-22 17:24:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa949e2d59 environ.5 --> environ.7 2006-04-21 00:45:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d7f3355ef Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3. 2006-03-07 02:20:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fdcdf23b2 ffix 2006-03-06 04:40:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4989c2f337 Improved description of E2BIG error: it relates to the sum
of the bytes in both environment and argument list.
2005-11-08 15:25:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e32103455 Formatting fixes 2005-10-20 15:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3777ff056 Formatting fix 2005-10-19 13:51:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 63aa9df02f Automated unformatting of parentheses using unformat_parens.sh 2005-10-19 07:07:02 +00:00