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Michael Kerrisk 2411effea2 signal.7: improve description in NAME section 
Reported-by: Gergely Soos <sogerc1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-10-06 10:12:00 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eeccef1df0 signal.7: Add mention of sigaltstack(2). 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-10-05 07:46:09 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e66d51d1ba signal.7: Describe syscalls that synchronously wait for a signal, 
(sigwait(), sigwaitinfo(), sigtimedwait(), signalfd)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-10-05 07:41:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 22fe4981c2 signal.7: Give overview of syscalls that block until a signal is caught 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-10-05 07:30:24 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4704a09b80 signal.7: ffix 2008-10-05 07:29:00 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a414038ea signal.7: Add overview of interfaces for sending signals. 
(kill(), killpg(), tgkill(), sigqueue(), raise(), etc.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-10-05 07:23:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d5c8829874 signal.7: describe semantics w.r.t. fork() and execve() 
Include text describing semantics of fork() and execve() for
signal dispositions, signal mask, and pending signal set.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-10-04 08:33:53 +02:00
Nicolas François 44e5793157 Typo and wording fixes 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2008-09-29 11:00:36 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 12e86dbff5 mq_overview.7: add mq_notify() to list of lib. functions and syscalls in MQ API 2008-09-29 06:05:04 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d0cb7cc649 grfix: s/null terminated string/null-terminated string/ 2008-09-26 07:13:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ade562fbcc grfix 2008-09-10 03:40:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 99d8a684b3 start new sentence on new source line 2008-09-10 03:33:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1614be9f1f Update FIXME. 2008-09-09 10:48:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b0dc1baed s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency across pages and with POSIX.1. 2008-09-07 04:17:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b1587ca86e Since glibc 2.8, _GNU_SOURCE must be defined in order to get 
the definition of the ucred structure from <sys/socket.h>.
 2008-09-01 14:57:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f0ab035e6 Explain bug that occurred in coalescing identical events in 
kernels before 2.6.25.
(See commit 1c17d18e3775485bf1e0ce79575eb637a94494a2
"A potential bug in inotify_user.c" in the 2.6.25 Changelog.)
 2008-08-27 04:21:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3424352d58 SEE ALSO: add proc(5). 2008-08-24 05:46:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a126897a7a Remove FIXME 2008-08-21 08:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82245f7a31 spfix 2008-08-21 07:18:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1cf8945c76 spfix 2008-08-21 07:00:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8fb853ba83 Update thread-safe functions list with changes in POSIX.1-2008. 2008-08-21 06:44:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a0f7c7d8ba Update list of async-sygnal-safe functions for POSIX.1-2008. 2008-08-21 06:38:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b042551e7 Fix C Lameter's email address 2008-08-13 13:25:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dc5933fac spfix 2008-08-13 13:23:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dae645c6c8 Remove old FIXME 2008-08-13 11:14:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d817ee341 A new page giving overview details for the Linux NUMA interfaces. 
Incorporates some material from mbind.2, and the description
of /proc/PID/numa_maps from proc.5.
 2008-08-13 08:12:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6021646873 SEE ALSO: add numa(7). 2008-08-13 08:08:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00df6756ac Rewrite introductory paragraph. 
Point out that a NaN is commonly returned by functions that report
a domain error.
 2008-08-11 16:35:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk edf60acbe8 SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3). 2008-08-11 10:55:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dd4e8b006 Document the Linux implementation of the UDP-Lite protocol, 
new in Linux 2.6.20.
 2008-08-08 16:55:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64bfda2738 SEE ALSO: add udplite(7). 2008-08-08 16:50:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d4c8c97c31 s/PF_/AF_/ for socket family constants. Reasons: the AF_ and 
PF_ constants have always had the same values; there never has
been a protocol family that had more than one address family,
and POSIX.1-2001 only specifies the AF_* constants.
 2008-08-08 16:47:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 77117f4fc5 Reverting blunder in commit 4699 2008-08-08 16:41:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10874173db s/PF_/AF_/ for socket family conistants. Reasons: the AF_ and 
PF_ constants have always had the same values; there never has
been a protocol family that had more than one address family,
and POSIX.1-2001 only specifies the AF_* constants.
 2008-08-08 16:28:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2858a6d2c Updated details for POSIX.1-2008, and noted that if 
POSIX.1-2001 is listed in the CONFORMING TO section of a man
page, then the read can assume that the interface is also
specified in POSIX.1-2008, unless otherwise noted.
 2008-08-07 06:50:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb5baf62e8 NOTES: Summarize the state of glibc support for exceptions 
and errno for error reporting.
 2008-07-30 07:16:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 547768b4eb Reverse order of SYNOPSIS and NAME sections. 2008-07-24 03:59:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88fb350113 A description of how math functions report errors. 
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/249.
 2008-07-23 14:05:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45bd688fd s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively. 2008-07-23 02:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21dcaf8b91 spfix 2008-07-18 13:31:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f7ceac86b1 wfix 2008-07-18 03:59:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04a315392a tweaks 2008-07-17 18:38:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd7193f57a Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-16 13:11:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 574b9f446a fix alpha order in suffix list 2008-07-15 17:34:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59220720c5 tfix 2008-07-15 17:33:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 44a2c3286c Even when the CONFORMING TO section is just a list of standards, 
they should be terminated by a period.
 2008-07-15 13:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ebc2edd17d A list of standards in the CONFORMING TO list should be terminated by a period. 
The list of pages in a SEE ALSO list should not be terminated by a period.
 2008-07-15 13:30:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db55c5c599 Small wording fix 2008-07-15 13:24:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f0c34053bc Put SEE ALSO section into alphabetical order. 2008-07-14 15:52:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk decede0c28 tfix 2008-07-14 15:15:02 +00:00