Commit Graph

146 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 4d62f7b603 Noted affect of CAP_SYS_NICE for mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL). 2006-03-22 06:27:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 456ed12f5f Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behaviour with respect to
the alternate signal stack.
2006-03-21 04:13:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54f340b5ef Removed text implying that only in kernel 2.2 does IP_HDRINCL
prevent datagrams from being fragmented.
2006-03-20 13:03:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 777f5a9ef7 Updated FIXMEs 2006-03-20 04:46:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 08baa0af11 Various changes to bring this page closer to current kernel versions. 2006-03-15 11:13:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ec4db3e713 place socket options in alpahbetical order 2006-03-15 09:04:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 594a37e793 ffix 2006-03-15 08:52:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bdca4aead8 Documented SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options, new in 2.6.14. 2006-03-15 08:47:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e604b4fc73 remove trailing white space 2006-03-07 04:15:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8482c7b836 Hasso Tepper
Substantial updates to various parts of this page.
mtk, Alain Portal
Minor fixes
2006-03-07 02:12:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8786649296 Wrap long lines; .ta + TABs with spaces in code examples 2006-03-07 02:02:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7dd5ac617 wrap long lines 2006-03-07 01:29:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d1cf051b61 Noted that glibc 2.4 is required to get glibc support for inotify. 2006-03-07 00:47:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 910913716a Some rewording and added a few words about System V message queues. 2006-03-05 20:56:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bbbc07bc23 Updated FIXMEs 2006-03-05 20:51:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e17464853 The NPTL limitation that only the main thread could call
setsid() and setpgid() was removed in 2.6.16.
2006-03-05 09:00:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e9bcaa847 ffix 2006-03-02 01:48:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 11da88fb12 Fix thinko: s/assuming a non-blocking/assuming a blocking/ 2006-03-01 23:13:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4c44fdf16d Update FIXME 2006-03-01 05:18:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80a99f39e6 New pages for POSIX message queues API 2006-03-01 03:21:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef50679c63 Chage "file name" to "filename" 2006-02-12 22:23:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c533af9d27 Reformatted FIXMEs 2006-02-10 18:46:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a065ac06d wfix 2006-02-10 05:25:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a20b4cafe ffix 2006-02-10 05:20:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ff08aad91 Formatting fixes 2006-02-09 20:24:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad31978e25 Minor changes after suggestions from Robert Love. 2006-02-08 19:16:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92057f4dbc Updated FIXMEs 2006-02-08 09:44:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d2b74dded New pages for inotify API 2006-02-08 04:13:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65b4e14d6a minor changes 2006-02-07 23:22:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6fa37d126 Minor wording and formatting fixes.
Added FIXME.
2006-02-07 22:48:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2ce70b17f2 Add text describing characters 001 to 037. 2006-02-02 17:41:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b11b1181ef tfix 2006-02-01 18:36:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80b50848d0 Replace "SYSV" by "System V" 2006-01-13 09:44:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b1afe07ac9 Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT (add cross-ref to socket(7)). 2006-01-13 08:28:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b4d3c70d5 typo fix 2006-01-13 08:17:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28d88c1751 Global change to many pages...
Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
To rectify this the following changes were made in these pages:

Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
2006-01-13 02:09:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f53ffc4f67 ffix 2006-01-04 09:21:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 56185b42e7 Formatting and source code line break changes (no changes to content!) 2006-01-03 10:58:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 78521872af Noted that capability bounding set appeared with kernel 2.2.11. 2006-01-02 13:33:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d56395449 More wording changes for description of pipes. 2005-12-19 15:16:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db21b6d910 Slight wording change to description of pipes. 2005-12-19 12:49:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f406c335ef Noted details of SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF support for Unix domain sockets. 2005-12-15 12:46:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 17805f5b31 Noted the Linux-specific feature whereby setsockopt() doubles
the value given for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.

Noted kernel imposed minimum values for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
2005-12-15 12:36:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8609725360 Added new (UN)SUPPORTED FEATURES section in which it is noted
that Unix domain sockets do not support MSG_OOB or MSG_MORE.
2005-12-14 16:36:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b9d679941 Add + to unary operator list 2005-12-14 12:50:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a917b0bb2c Small wording changes around discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Fixed a couple of wording errors elsewhere.
Reformatted some long lines.
2005-12-14 10:27:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 514d7e5b92 Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Reformatted some long lines.
2005-12-14 10:27:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ae132041b Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT. 2005-12-14 10:27:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7199370f3a Further refinement of SO_TIMESTAMP from Urs Thuermann. 2005-12-13 10:46:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48afe71d57 Improvements after suggestions from Michael Haardt. 2005-12-09 14:23:53 +00:00