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Michael Kerrisk 164be4fc3c wfix 2008-07-10 09:38:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c04c44f86d wfix 2008-07-09 15:41:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 58f4fca643 Correct a detail for sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale. 
Formatting fixes.
Small wording fixes.
 2008-07-09 15:38:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87174b3ae2 Small wording fixes 2008-07-09 15:36:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8ee190da4a s/UNIX/Unix/, when not used as part of a trademark, 
for consistency with majority usage in pages.
 2008-07-09 14:17:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2914a14d30 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-09 13:55:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8e6851294 Reword discussion of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE to be file-system neutral. 2008-07-09 12:11:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 02cd273d55 ffix 2008-07-09 04:30:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 012c8c66df ffix 2008-07-09 04:29:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a93b491cb7 ffix 2008-07-09 04:28:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf5a72471e Added "Copyright" string to lines that had "([Cc])" for copyright. 2008-07-08 14:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 07d72ca89d remove duplicate sigvec(3) in SEE ALSO; 
put sockatmark() is right alphabetical order in list of
async-sig-safe functions
 2008-07-08 13:39:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 83ee9237b6 Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for 
ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.
 2008-07-08 10:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c17a5c8b30 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-07 07:46:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72710182cd tweaks 2008-07-07 04:16:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 495edd812c tweaks 2008-07-04 20:07:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72ee5ec277 tweaks + update async-signal-safe function to that given in POSIX.1-2004 2008-07-04 19:40:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0005e334d7 wfix 2008-07-04 19:33:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b24473a39b wfix 2008-07-04 16:24:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 01538d0d51 ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in dicussion of EINTR. 2008-07-04 15:50:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c1667735e0 tfix 2008-07-04 15:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c69c9232a Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid. 
SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
 2008-07-04 15:09:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 743bc3957a tweaks 2008-07-04 14:36:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48b9ec3fe1 Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal 
plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
signal handler has been established, and note the system
calls that behave this way.
 2008-07-04 13:15:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af3c87d084 Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting 
which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
system calls are never restarted.
 2008-07-04 13:13:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a665dfb6e wfix 2008-07-03 20:29:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 506bee474a tstamp 2008-07-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0de5014fe0 Document cpuset mechanism for confining processes to processors and nodes. 2008-07-03 19:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c85aa6ba5 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4564433c99 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard 
signals is unspecified.
 2008-07-02 12:54:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 095e060410 Overview of POSIX shared memory API. 2008-07-02 05:03:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27e8d1a56d ffix 2008-07-01 16:32:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6e731d1f4 ffix 2008-06-26 13:38:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f6b8245d1 ffix 2008-06-26 13:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 027ebd3c4b Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions. 2008-06-26 13:15:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9085070854 ffix 2008-06-26 12:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73858a07dd Wfix 2008-06-24 14:05:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bb26f2df6 Note that HRTs are not supported on all h/w. 2008-06-23 11:21:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46f14bc7b0 Added some details about where jiffies come into play. 
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various points in the page.
 2008-06-23 09:19:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8cacdebdab tstamp 2008-06-18 09:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7eb11a9fe7 formatting and wording improvements 2008-06-18 09:36:55 +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 f4b5a0b0c8 Updated text referring to syscalls(2). 2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 905c9e1c05 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:47:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b84b38312 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:46:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305865606d Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores since 2.6.19. 2008-06-11 22:32:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f36e23f07 Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX message queues. 2008-06-11 22:31:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94b40171e1 Provide a clear description of the three types of address that can 
appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed, and abstract.
 2008-06-11 22:11:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b061b28a6 Minor tweaks 2008-06-11 21:50:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eae3689b44 A description of symbolic links, taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and heavily edited. 2008-06-11 21:25:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06b00cff20 A description of hostnames, taken from FreeBSD. 2008-06-11 21:24:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 294544e7b2 Expand description of VERSIONS section. 2008-06-11 13:41:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bb93cd4bb Control character names (^X) are writte boldface, without quotes. 2008-06-10 08:44:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45660d7d7 wrap long source lines 2008-06-09 21:12:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8062a09161 Add FIXME 2008-06-09 21:07:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 333a424b0e Try and bring some consistency to quotes. 2008-06-09 21:03:52 +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 b8b45978b0 /'/\\'/ to produce better UTF rendering 2008-06-05 19:01:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9377e6281a ffix 2008-06-05 18:53:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8a07a2154 s/'/\\'/ to improve rendering in UTF-8. 2008-06-05 17:52:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26868e5b26 s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for 
proper rendering in UTF-8.
 2008-06-05 12:26:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 379402b0b5 Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65132f861c Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8850a3888 Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001. 2008-06-03 09:05:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b15f36380d sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of 
supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
 2008-06-02 21:18:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82f2286be4 tweak quotes 2008-05-30 13:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 185ec3e44a Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostophe (') in tablees 2008-05-30 13:14:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b98a4c61 Update timestamp 2008-05-29 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 740944a8e7 ffix 2008-05-26 16:33:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 882bbb69e4 For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming 
may be required".
 2008-05-21 14:33:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c850029715 wfix 2008-05-20 21:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 500beae6f3 Update FIXME 2008-05-14 06:15:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0d07ad302a Add list of thread-safe functions. 2008-05-12 22:20:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da5461a83e Added FIXME 2008-05-12 21:19:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a5c365a01 Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail. 2008-05-09 13:24:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c841cb6b87 Update timestamp 2008-05-08 13:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31daf529b7 Reformat kernel version information for flags. 2008-05-07 13:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64d6219cf0 s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux s.y.z/ 2008-05-07 13:33:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6923f52c33 NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and 
GIDs.  But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread.  NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
 2008-04-29 21:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk df18528cf0 Added FIXME 2008-04-24 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4372daaa5e tfix 2008-04-22 13:04:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 407252794e Batch wfix/ffix 2008-04-18 15:52:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59aa15de7d s/unicode.com/unicode.org/ 2008-04-18 15:46:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccea2d571b tfix 2008-04-17 19:37:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 81b36e1d0b tfix 2008-04-09 15:30:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0000daa58e Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors. 
Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
file descriptor as readable.
 2008-03-25 10:10:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e7c7fcfe wfix 2008-03-25 06:29:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca22189dfe Note location of online info for POSIX.1-2008 revision. 2008-03-19 14:22:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21247ac688 Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision. 2008-03-19 14:19:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f36deb49c s/realtime/real-time/ 2008-03-19 13:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eba722884d s/nonzero/non-zero/ 2008-03-19 13:16:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f04cc9731 s/nonempty/non-empty/ 2008-03-19 13:11:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 972a8ec74e grfix 2008-03-19 11:52:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 415d4dd0eb grfix 2008-03-19 11:46:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b01461a26 s/zeroes/zeros/ 2008-03-19 09:04:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fcbe9025d0 grfix 2008-03-19 08:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf50118f48 Use "run time" when non-attributive, "run-time" when attributive. 2008-03-19 08:46:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29aceda46e grfix 2008-03-19 08:43:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 76c44d83f3 s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively. 2008-03-19 08:37:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d01c530c s/filesystem/file system/ 2008-03-19 07:26:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10d76543fe Modify the license on these pages to be the standard verbatim license. 2008-03-18 14:47:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b69987f6de s/time stamp/timestamp/ 2008-03-18 09:52:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 85c087efeb added FIXME 2008-03-10 14:28:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e935e108ac Replace (il)legal by "permitted" or "valid" 2008-03-10 10:04:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31981fa15b Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-03-03 13:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 845d36d6e8 Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO. 2008-03-03 10:24:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54d02f32e9 Further reworking of Q5/A5. 2008-02-29 16:28:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d377b54d0a Further work on Q6/A6, plus added some .\" comments for Q1/A1. 2008-02-29 16:08:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 146c1764f0 tfix 2008-02-28 16:10:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3bc917f6ca ffixes 2008-02-28 16:04:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1de8d77d Futher refinement of Q9/A9. 2008-02-28 15:54:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 160c5be13e spfix 2008-02-28 14:40:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc65f7d823 Chgange A3, to note that when events are available, 
the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
 2008-02-28 14:25:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f11af7daa2 Refine Q9/A9. 2008-02-28 13:49:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fb5cf0fb6 Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll 
set is [file descriptor, open file description]
 2008-02-28 13:24:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf3eb59854 wfix 2008-02-28 12:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28afd4f49a ffix 2008-02-26 14:20:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93f17eadb1 Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files. 2008-02-26 14:19:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 958fe8069b Remove COLOPHON text, which was added to the source by mistake. 2008-02-26 13:32:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7025a2fe92 tfix 2008-02-26 13:29:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b22933411 Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same 
file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.
 2008-02-26 13:29:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f2e101d0ca minor rewordings. 2008-02-26 12:44:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7647b3a10b wfix 2008-02-26 12:35:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4fecd70377 Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set. 2008-02-26 12:34:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4a120c768 Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file 
descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain open.
 2008-02-26 12:33:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2229c7ae74 Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7). 2008-02-22 16:45:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddcc46729e Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7). 2008-02-22 16:45:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc3b7dbede Added FIXME 2008-02-22 06:59:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c33a62d8c1 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2. 2008-02-12 14:40:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 058c11652c Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page. 2008-02-11 11:41:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25715c9631 tfix 2008-01-30 09:43:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2dec881bfe Added FIXME 2008-01-14 13:37:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88ac3d6568 remove junk line 2008-01-14 07:51:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f174f7d71 ffix 2008-01-13 09:29:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dda869a41d ffix 2008-01-13 09:15:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a45ebabfc5 Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros. 2008-01-11 13:59:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 98518ca0a3 ffix 2008-01-08 13:48:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffe649e940 minor changes. 2008-01-08 13:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6c99d332c s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/ 2008-01-04 05:40:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a46458f9db s/SPE/SPU/ 2008-01-03 07:06:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e736150261 ffix and update timestamp 2008-01-02 07:14:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca92ce95a3 Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros. 2008-01-01 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dfc3d47ac7 Fix description of RTM_F_EQUALIZE. 
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458325.
 2008-01-01 08:04:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ab9616d3e7 tfix 2008-01-01 07:52:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cbdb2b376 Remove unneeded formatting macros 2007-12-30 06:01:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7466c69bcc ffix 2007-12-30 05:59:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 763f0e477c Fix usage of a/an before following vowel/consonant. 2007-12-29 17:42:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d7ee36076 update timestamp 2007-12-29 09:15:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f36234fa1e Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>). 2007-12-29 09:13:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1ffe9f5a2 s/current process/calling process/ 2007-12-27 16:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d6938351 Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC. 2007-12-26 11:31:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a43eed0cdc Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-26 11:17:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2706f299e5 Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-26 08:00:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c382a36592 hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 22:02:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d19a206dbb grfix 2007-12-25 21:30:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8382f16db1 grfix 2007-12-25 21:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2badfdf26 Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 20:50:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47752f332c s/fildes/fd/ 2007-12-24 22:04:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34ccb744ec s/x86/i386/ 2007-12-24 17:31:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 665167898f ffix 2007-12-24 16:44:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk faebe20b57 ffix 2007-12-24 11:33:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c98908449c Move CONFIGURATION description after SYNOPSIS description. 2007-12-23 21:29:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c825020667 Fixed unbalanced .nf/fi pairs. 2007-12-23 21:05:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8568021d3b white space clean-ups. 2007-12-23 17:46:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aeb4b1fc8b s/u_long/unsigned long/ 
s/ulong/unsigned long/
s/u_char/unsigned char/
s/u_short/unsigned short/
s/ushort/unsigned short/
s/u_int8_t/uint8_t
s/u_int16_t/uint16_t
s/u_int32_t/uint16_t
s/u_int/unsigned int/
 2007-12-23 17:26:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ad4ddcd0b Indent structure defintions by +4n, 2007-12-23 14:03:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5895e7eb8d wspace in SYNOPSIS 2007-12-23 13:45:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23adf52557 ffix 2007-12-23 08:23:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 62218dc0fd Format SYNOPSIS consistently. 2007-12-23 08:20:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef505ff046 Fix reference to kernel documentation source file in the 
"The Sound Driver" subsection.
 2007-12-23 07:11:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94e9d9febd Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required. 2007-12-22 16:40:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a574189c5f Minor formatting changes. 2007-12-21 12:40:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 949f13d23a Minor formatting and wording fixes. 2007-12-21 12:28:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9fb1e24a26 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-12-20 12:12:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a612f2d070 Add a little information about the differences to mbox. 2007-12-20 11:24:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26cf2565db Updated date in .TH line 2007-12-19 07:24:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6e2f12821 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session 
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
 2007-12-19 07:19:23 +00:00
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 cfadad462c remove superflous white space in text 2007-12-19 06:29:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd19142309 enclose code smaples/structure defns/etc in ".in +4n / .in" 2007-12-19 06:16:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28f6564486 Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session 
logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
 2007-12-19 06:01:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f79a70bf6 ffix 2007-12-19 05:54:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a08ea57c20 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session 
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
 2007-12-19 05:53:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8a35999094 Minor heading changes and reformattings. 2007-12-19 05:17:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d986c928c Replace `...' with alternate formatting (e.g., ".." or .I) 2007-12-18 07:47:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d22bcefd64 ffix 2007-12-17 11:30:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk deb398350f ffix 2007-12-17 09:24:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 40dedbfef9 ffix 2007-12-16 16:12:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 324633ae2c s/``...''/"..."/ 2007-12-16 14:08:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47433403b8 ffix 2007-12-16 13:57:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7496b0388 ffix 2007-12-16 13:49:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f16c6510df ffix 2007-12-14 05:32:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59bd36b097 ffix 2007-12-10 15:12:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1368e8476d ffix 2007-12-10 15:03:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c014896c6 ffix 2007-12-10 14:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc573e5f5d Improve discussion of formatting of file names. 2007-12-10 07:14:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d341b3326 ffix 2007-12-10 06:42:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9a13a5057 Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>"). 2007-12-09 08:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d32fee86d Whitespace cleanups in in preprocessor directives 2007-12-09 07:50:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10a100d06a ffix 2007-12-08 07:48:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff0f58cb2e ffix 2007-12-05 13:50:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7992edccf Removed tabs 2007-12-05 13:47:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 352bedeee9 Updated .TH line; previous commit replaced the use of mdoc macros on 
this page with man macros
 2007-12-03 19:59:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3233d66512 2007-12-03 19:53:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a25ff946a Update TH line 2007-12-01 07:41:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f020e7807 Separate text on back regerences from that describing basic regexps, 
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
Remove crufty text about word boundaries.
 2007-12-01 07:40:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04be424111 Minor rewording 2007-11-24 09:51:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b2ca3ebea3 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-11-24 07:55:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0037726048 Update date in .TH line 2007-11-24 07:53:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4875e4822c Many and various updates and improvements. 2007-11-24 06:55:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e5dba0b16c ffix 2007-11-24 05:35:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50fb6674e6 Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names. 2007-11-23 07:32:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 33c6f37475 Update date in .TH line 2007-11-19 08:12:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 531d750bb3 Update date in .TH line 2007-11-19 08:06:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aec5885f5f Reverse the 2.68 change (made by mtk in response to Debian 
bug 445085) that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
(Sorbian is a language of 5000 people in Brandenburg.)
 2007-11-19 06:23:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25ed2c7fd0 Fix references to kernel Documentation file. 2007-11-19 01:44:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb25159b7f Eliminate duplicate blank lines in rendered output. 2007-11-17 04:53:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f9a8f0855 spfix 2007-11-17 04:31:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d07eed115 Added section number to page xref. 2007-11-16 06:45:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5b9e01508 Update date in TH line 2007-11-15 03:21:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70381ccd1f Minor rewrite. 2007-10-23 14:36:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f1c7119677 Modified license 2007-10-23 14:33:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb5df216fc Note online location of C99 standard. 2007-10-19 18:00:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ffdc54f77 ffix 2007-10-18 06:09:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6beb1671d2 tfix/wfix 2007-10-16 19:18:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff7eea18dd Added FIXME 2007-10-16 06:27:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ac6b609856 Updated FIXME 2007-10-16 06:22:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f1e0c79833 Fix description of IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT option 2007-10-14 19:40:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49ec013ce2 Fix version numbers in cross references. 2007-10-14 18:33:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8603ded95c Update date in .TH line 2007-10-14 11:18:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 38b8de6db6 tfix 2007-10-09 17:51:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 69afed5173 grfix 2007-10-04 16:02:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fb53aea28e grfixes + wfixes 2007-10-03 20:07:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3af4adf516 spfix 2007-10-03 19:35:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55d06a1de2 tfix 2007-10-03 19:34:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4568d08475 Update references to files in kernel "Documentation" directory. 2007-10-03 06:09:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26b2443ef7 s/C 99/C99/ 2007-10-03 06:06:31 +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 748a6c2b4f tfix 2007-09-18 18:51:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 512a1783bc spfix 2007-09-17 17:02:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 635e8d5a19 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-09-10 04:17:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4df883b963 ffix 2007-09-04 06:30:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1bf04717bd ffix 2007-09-04 06:15:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 57c3a13b09 Small wording tweaks for SO_RCVTIME/SO_SNDTIMEO 2007-08-28 03:19:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6486ef0578 Clarify that SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO only have effect for 
socket I/O calls; not for multiplexing system calls like
select() and poll().
 2007-08-27 15:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk de9957dcf7 This is some corrections for hier.7: 
- missing period for /media and /mnt
- /mnt description is not totally correct, it is true for some
distributions but in others /mnt is used as a temporary FS mount point,
as it is specified by FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT
- s/X-Windows/X-Window/ (3 occurrences)
- section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
 2007-08-27 13:40:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc71558861 wfix 2007-08-27 12:54:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk add00eab5e Nowadays tmac.XXX are called XXX.tmac 2007-08-27 09:56:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b04ce7ab4b Added FIXME 2007-08-27 08:45:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 74d3223314 ffix/spfix 2007-08-27 08:36:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eab6469656 Order ERRORS alphabetically. 2007-08-27 07:56:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d4438ce632 ffix 2007-08-10 07:22:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6c4bd3ed01 ffix 2007-07-22 05:57:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20c58d7028 ffix 2007-07-21 05:25:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b14178d574 ffix 2007-07-20 11:29:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25a46448f0 tfix 2007-07-16 18:45:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bc64d3e14 Update text about modern threading implementations (NPTL vs LinuxThreads). 2007-07-10 21:39:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64ceb6880e spfix 2007-07-10 20:33:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5260fe08cf Use 'glibc' consistently to refer to GNU C library. 2007-07-09 22:01:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5709731e51 wfix 2007-07-09 21:39:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c47291a73f Add words to note that file system ID is Linux specific. 2007-07-09 19:58:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 44b41c6480 ffix 2007-07-09 19:54:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a62944088a Updated date in .TH line. 2007-07-08 19:21:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c4f34f89b ffix 2007-07-08 16:21:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22399250c3 Name "ia64" consistently. 2007-07-08 16:06:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a441d4b85 Updated BUGS text referring to jiffies. 2007-07-08 15:09:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 292d25b095 Fix page cross references 2007-07-08 15:05:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk afb1b5ad42 Add SEE ALSO reference to new timeradd.3. 2007-07-08 13:52:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f624b939f grfix 2007-07-08 12:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e0bf91271f Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-07-08 12:39:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 976093f0f2 Minor changes 2007-07-08 11:01:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 922cf8f6c1 Minor fixes 2007-07-08 10:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0034a22bc0 grfix 2007-07-06 05:42:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4de892a50 More improvements. 2007-07-04 19:03:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3efa27b5af spfix 2007-07-04 18:30:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93d5a2a1b5 Many more improvements. 2007-07-04 18:30:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4769db2436 Various improvements. 2007-07-03 21:49:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e9600b209a More refinements 2007-07-03 19:28:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18409fb814 Added note about how feature test macros are specified in manual pages. 
Other corrections, improvements, and additions.
 2007-07-03 18:01:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d0e676ffff Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a description 
of how feature test macro requirements should be specified in
manual pages.
 2007-07-03 10:45:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e48efc8434 Added some FIXMEs 2007-07-03 06:52:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 36b91932e8 ffix 2007-07-02 14:05:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e955ebd97e Added FIXME 2007-07-02 05:27:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47fc213b75 ffix 2007-07-01 12:41:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e92040156 Minor change 2007-07-01 06:19:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6282f7bdee Document the PowerPC SPU file system. 2007-07-01 06:04:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10f5f29476 s/bitmask/bit mask/ 2007-07-01 04:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305db6d8a4 Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO. 2007-06-28 20:38:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 604e3ffbf5 Added FIXME. 2007-06-28 17:26:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7da8a4227e Add SEE ALSO referenece to sgetmask.2. 2007-06-26 02:34:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a5574b9b6 Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc. 
Various rewites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
 2007-06-25 09:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cc32b69e2 wfix 2007-06-25 08:28:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25d63cde3c IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15. 2007-06-24 17:13:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f19a0f03ee ffix 2007-06-23 07:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 097585edcb ffix 2007-06-22 20:40:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1274071a69 ffix 2007-06-22 18:25:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 09b235db2a Format errno. 2007-06-22 06:05:43 +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 7b2b5ea4fb ffix 2007-06-20 22:20:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b9bdf82fb ffix 2007-06-20 22:15:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6269f80989 Allow hyphenation breaks 2007-06-20 22:01:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c84371c688 Italics for header file references 2007-06-20 21:53:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29059a6548 s/-/\\-/ 2007-06-20 21:39:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb38b71d15 ffix 2007-06-20 21:18:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d494919067 space fixes 2007-06-20 20:52:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c79efe9026 Wrap long line in SYNOPSIS. 2007-06-20 19:08:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 171b93ebec Fix capitalization in .SS headings. 2007-06-20 19:03:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f27b37350d Document argument type for SO_REUSEADDR. See Debian bug 255881. 2007-06-17 17:03:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bef72b5ba ffix 2007-06-17 14:12:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f88c7ee00a Remove out-of-date FIXME 2007-06-16 08:44:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 350c8eba97 Fix SEE ALSO heading 2007-06-16 07:25:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 69eb01fd61 rewordings/edits 2007-06-16 05:58:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 129609356a Added SEE ALSO section 2007-06-15 20:22:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6427f1d84b Reformatt headings 2007-06-15 20:16:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 446a4bc839 Reformat headings 2007-06-15 20:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1ce284ecb0 Reformatted headings 2007-06-15 19:55:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bfe1b3936 Reformatted headings; minor rewrites. 2007-06-15 19:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b215c3043 Reformatted headings; minor rewrites. 2007-06-15 19:47:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d90a233f4f Reformat headings 2007-06-15 06:29:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bebbbd1ff7 Reformat headings. 2007-06-15 06:27:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc15f317eb Language clean ups 2007-06-14 21:11:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9daa4fb9bb Add page number to xrefs 2007-06-14 06:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e1ad98ccf Updated FIXMEs 2007-06-13 21:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 928410b493 s/`/'/ when the thing being quoted is a character. 2007-06-12 21:40:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8869be19dd tfix 2007-06-11 21:03:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dcbc136a36 Strengthened warning against use of AUTHORS section. 2007-06-08 12:02:17 +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 ca7b3c180c Wrapped source lines at sentence boundaries. 2007-06-08 11:25:04 +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 9daed02662 spfix 2007-06-08 10:06:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55f7ee2a7f Note that spelling convention is now fixed on American. 2007-06-08 10:04:21 +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 8e5a067ad0 An overview of process identifiers on Linux. 2007-06-08 07:47:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f9d18f8ac spfix 2007-06-07 12:55:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f7aa9fc0f ffix 2007-06-02 06:23:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5998eb256a Modify requirements for example programs a little. 2007-06-02 06:13:49 +00:00