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Michael Kerrisk 8587f5c022 ffix + tfix 2008-07-06 14:26:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 40d5cf23dd Updated FIXME 2008-07-04 21:10:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ade1aa962 ERRORS: Added EINTR error. 
A few minor rewordings.
 2008-07-04 16:21:39 +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 f96bf6e9a3 tstamp 2008-07-04 15:45:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e51412ea9e ERRORS: Add EINTR error 2008-07-04 15:44:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 359f6e5e02 ERRORS: Add EINTR error 2008-07-04 15:40:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00b7d497e3 small wording fix 2008-07-04 15:23:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bbd7e60a1b Note that SA_NOCLDSTOP is only meaningful if establishing a 
handler for SIGCHLD.
Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for
SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD.
Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7)
describing system call restarting.
Other minor edits.
 2008-07-04 11:26:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21399189b4 Remove statement that WUNTRACED and WCONTINUED only have effect 
if SA_NOCLDSTOP has not been set for SIGCHLD.  That's not true.
 2008-07-04 10:31:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 367fe71f1f tweak 2008-07-03 19:53:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e91751c96b wfix, alphabetize SEE ALSO 2008-07-03 15:25:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59280ec051 tweaks 2008-07-03 12:29:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 830cdc8b69 tweaks 2008-07-03 12:23:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 90fe01c523 tweaks 2008-07-03 12:22:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fa23e0232e SEE ALSO: Add getcpu(2). 2008-07-03 12:20:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ee953ef7d wfix 2008-07-03 11:35:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80997bc33c Documents getcpu() system call, introduced in 2.6.19. 2008-07-03 11:31:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00ac6ce430 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-02 13:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c85aa6ba5 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 124fa3b75a Describe behavior when multiple threads are blocked in 
sigwaitinfo()/sigtimedwait().
 2008-07-02 13:29:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65af053c1b wfix 2008-07-02 13:00:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6c74a96694 wfix 2008-07-02 11:58:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f93af9c668 SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7). 2008-07-02 05:01:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d03d9a05b3 Added FIXME. 2008-06-30 08:59:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0678a1d4d1 Added a bit more detail on what sigreturn() actually does. 2008-06-27 15:51:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 02afffe0fb Documents clock_nanosleep(2). 2008-06-27 13:16:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1b4cf8f4c7 wfix 2008-06-27 12:21:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 41dcd05490 Remove superfluous text from RETURN VALUE. 2008-06-27 12:12:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ca71d176e wfix 2008-06-27 12:10:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb5c8705d2 wfix 2008-06-27 12:07:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk abb02d5e20 spfix 2008-06-27 11:09:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae4a72b7b2 Remove orphaned formatting macros. 2008-06-26 13:39:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b818c6776e SEE ALSO: Add symlink(7). 2008-06-26 13:35:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80d26cefad ffix 2008-06-26 13:28:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd60dedde9 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-25 15:32:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6abd35c3d2 tstamp 2008-06-24 14:57:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c54c588e3 wfix 2008-06-24 12:42:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0102b0ab21 Noted that POSIX.1 leaves interactions with alarm(), sleep(), 
and usleep() unspecified.
Linux 2.6.16 removed the MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling on timer values.
Other minor changes.
 2008-06-23 10:28:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8964c1a227 spfix 2008-06-23 09:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b0040075af Remove crufty discussion of HZ, and replace with a pointer to time(7). 
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485636
Replace mentions of "process' by "thread".
NOTES: describe case where clock_nanosleep() can be preferable.
NOTES: describe CLOCK_REALTIME versus CLOCK_NANOSLEEP
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696854/
"nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC, should be CLOCK_REALTIME?"
Some minor rewrites.
 2008-06-23 09:41:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1d7c4d16b2 SEE ALSO: add time(7) 2008-06-23 08:48:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 364008baa4 tfix 2008-06-23 06:00:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a64c6ae1fb s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/ 2008-09-18 12:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84db13a46f Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built 
without CONFIG_PRINTK.
 2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bddd0b2edc Alphabetize SEE ALSO. 2008-09-18 12:30:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8846324af9 Clarify description of 'times' array for utrimes(). 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c40de088e wfix 2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d2f49a4f Describe the unconventional error return provided by the wrapper 
function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if the system call
is invoked via syscall(2)).
 2008-06-18 20:24:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddc676f488 Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition. 2008-06-18 12:57:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16d2122c01 tfix 2008-06-18 09:10:22 +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 382d87bd5f Document d_type field; other minor edits. 2008-06-17 21:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 602995ec2c Minor wording fixes. 2008-06-17 20:50:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a18e2edbf8 SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7). 2008-06-17 08:32:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04af291ff4 Small wording fix. 2008-06-16 14:27:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b11e2adf59 Further tweaks 2008-06-16 11:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ea6100ea21 SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt 2008-06-16 11:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc2f55497e Added system call history back to version 1.2. 
Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
 2008-06-16 10:07:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e5925162e Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an unprivileged process with a non-zero 
RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit changes policy and priority.
 2008-06-16 08:41:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35a09d71ec SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request 
queue size.  For some background, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
 2008-06-13 10:51:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5fda4d2588 Link to getcwd.3 2008-06-12 10:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34dcae5481 Fix text that warns against use of NULL argv and envp. 
Using a NULL envp does in fact seem to be portable (works
on Solaris and FreeBSD), but the Linux semantics for a NULL
argv certainly aren't consistent with other implementations.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408.
 2008-06-12 10:11:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20523df7ef Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line. 2008-06-12 06:09:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3a22b7fc3 Add pointer to discussion of RLIMIT_RTTIME in getrlimit.2. 
Rewrote and restructured various parts of the page for greater clarity.
 2008-06-12 05:43:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5c0095ae9 Clarify discussion of return value of sbrk(). 
DESCRIPTION: Add some sentences giving an overview of these interfaces.
Add note recommending use of malloc(3).
Change name of brk() argument to the simpler 'addr'.
Add "(void *)" cast to "-1" for error return of sbrk().
Removed some incorrect text about "brk(0)".
Note that SUSv2 specified the return value of sbrk().
Added a detail on the glibc brk() wrapper.
Remove discussions of standards old (C89 and POSIX.1-1990);
CONFORMING TO already discusses the situation with respect
to more recent standards.
 2008-06-12 04:47:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3cde6db55c Add a few more words to DESCRIPTION. 
NOTES: Add pointer to acct(5).
 2008-06-11 22:42:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf1082be77 Describe rules governing ownership of new files (bsdgroups 
versus sysvgroups, and the effect of the parent directory's
set-group-ID permission bit).
 2008-06-11 22:24:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0689a4da14 Clarify description of chmod() and fchmod(). 
Add further detail on S_ISUID, S_ISGID, and S_ISVTX permissions.
Reformat list of permissions bits.
 2008-06-11 22:14:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23ce0537cb Add description of RLIMIT_RTTIME limit, new in 2.6.25. 2008-06-11 22:04:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c734b9f234 NOTES: Note that access mode flags are not single bits, 
and document the Linuxism "access mode 3".
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/653123.
 2008-06-11 22:04:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d6299e824 Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a 
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
 2008-06-11 15:26:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4e453903d Re-order ERRORS and SEE ALSO entries to be alphabetical. 2008-06-11 13:57:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e04e8187d2 tfix 2008-06-11 06:57:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2581c94554 ffix 2008-06-11 06:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bed63c46ad Clarify description a little. 
s/changes the root directory/changes the root directory of the calling process/
 2008-06-11 06:41:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffe84477ec s/process/calling process/ so as to that the alarm signal is 
delivered to the calling process.
 2008-06-11 06:31:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be095d1e02 tfix 2008-06-11 06:24:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +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 f8a07a2154 s/'/\\'/ to improve rendering in UTF-8. 2008-06-05 17:52:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 41325efd9a tfix 2008-06-03 12:24:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65132f861c Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6d57a94af tfix 2008-06-03 09:19:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d051e0c01e Update FIXME. 2008-06-03 09:19:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f95ef6d51f Reformat DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE sections to be more 
consistent with man-pages style.
Add some more detail to descriptions of system calls.
Clarified what happens if caller of getgroups() is a member of
more than 'size' supplementary groups.
ERRORS: Add ENOMEM.
 2008-06-03 09:07:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55b8a252d7 NGROUPS_MAX increased in kernel 2.6.4. 
SEE ALSO: Add credentials(7).
 2008-06-02 21:15:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25fddfcd83 Note that this system is made obsolete by utimensat(2). 2008-06-02 14:12:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04527fe52c wfix 2008-05-30 14:12:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46cdb99741 wfix 2008-05-30 13:25:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b98a4c61 Update timestamp 2008-05-29 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ce14e4094 Remove statement that (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE | 
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) is
a traditional fdatasync(2) operation.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482 comments 129 to 131.
 2008-05-29 07:55:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7921f13b4c SEE ALSO: add shmat(2). 2008-05-27 02:59:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54504ac3d3 SEE ALSO: add mprotect(2). 2008-05-27 02:57:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b524e2533 SYNOPSIS: s/size_t \*len/size_t len/ 2008-05-26 11:12:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8660aec07e Re PTRACE_PEEKUSER: the offsets and data returned might not 
match with the defintion of struct user.
 2008-05-21 20:23:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da36351ec7 FUTEX_FD has been removed, as of kernel 2.6.26. 2008-05-21 13:48:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80d17cfa1a NOTES: Added details on mapping address that is selected by 
kernel when MAP_FIXED is / isn't specified.
 2008-05-21 12:33:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ba1eb78cfb Clarify that "unused" fields in shminfo structure are 
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for shminfo structure.
 2008-05-20 21:20:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffc19357d9 Clarify that "unused" fields in seminfo structure are 
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for seminfo structure.
 2008-05-20 21:20:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 767b89e84b Clarify that "unused" fields in msginfo structure are 
"unused within the kernel".
msginfo.msgpool is measured in kilobytes, not bytes.
Minor rewordings in comments for msginfo structure.
 2008-05-20 21:18:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2be221988c Added FIXME 2008-05-20 08:09:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9967820f26 Add NOTES section pointing out that 'size' argument is unused 
since kernel 2.6.8.
 2008-05-17 21:03:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 42ab9eb994 Rename 'buf' argument of utime() to 'times' (like utimes()). 
Clarify explanation of EACCES and EPERM errors.
Remove BUGS section, since it doesn't seem add useful information.
Clarified discussion of capabilities, and noted that
CAP_DAC_OVVERIDE also has a role.
Other minor rewordings.
 2008-05-16 13:40:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b77e081d31 wfix 2008-05-14 06:46:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd9ff0c9e4 tfix 2008-05-14 06:25:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 79ad39a7d4 Clarify meaning of "BSD group semantics". 2008-05-13 12:42:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3bf802265 Add chown.2/chmod.2 to SEE ALSO 2008-05-13 11:29:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 373485dde6 spfix--This line, and those below, will be ignored-- 
M    man2/chown.2
 2008-05-13 10:57:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b39ad6681 More than just ext2 supports "mount -o bsdgroups" nowadays, so make the 
discussion about group ownership of new files a bit more generic.
 2008-05-13 10:54:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d77eb76422 spfix 2008-05-12 14:38:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ba7cb080d9 spfix 2008-05-12 14:37:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61b7c1e18f spfix/wfix 2008-05-12 14:30:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7364dea652 wfix 2008-05-12 12:35:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bc3375d27 The location of the numactl package has changed. 2008-05-12 12:34:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a20e907fde Remove out-of-date FIXME 2008-05-09 21:15:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60948d6886 Add .\" comment 2008-05-09 21:09:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3eed760e97 Remove wrongheaded FIXME 2008-05-09 21:08:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f56387016 POSIX.1 also allows EEXIST for the ENOTEMPTY error condition. 2008-05-09 13:48:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31daf529b7 Reformat kernel version information for flags. 2008-05-07 13:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f99fc19730 ffix 2008-05-07 13:41:18 +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 24ad90c3b4 Added FIXME. 2008-05-06 23:14:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f38fa944aa MAP_POPULATE supports both file and anonymous mappings. 
Since 2.6.23, MAP_POPULATE supports private mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_NONBLOCK causes MAP_POPULATE to be a no-op.
 2008-05-05 20:10:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22cddee1cd SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3). 2008-05-04 18:31:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 15b17877ea tfix 2008-05-04 08:35:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb1abbbd18 Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities. 2008-04-29 13:45:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49d3590362 s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/; 
(The page referred-to page still doesn't exit yet, but hopefully
will do sometime soon.)
 2008-04-28 18:27:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bac0a11532 Added FIXME 2008-04-28 18:25:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 275714d8e6 Minor edits to structure definition. 2008-04-28 08:58:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4731cd2e39 Up to date as at 2.6.25 2008-04-28 08:58:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 527bf3f688 Remove shmop from NAME section. 2008-04-27 15:04:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04a58fd379 Remove msgop from NAME section. 2008-04-27 15:04:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49237f3d7b Added .\" comment 2008-04-27 15:03:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be5e709854 Add FIXME? 2008-04-25 10:55:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53c94269ec wfix 2008-04-25 09:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b75101c34b Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-04-25 06:57:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff4e3b35c4 tstamp 2008-04-25 06:50:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f0e92583e1 tfix 2008-04-25 06:21:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk df18528cf0 Added FIXME 2008-04-24 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84a275c4c8 ffix 2008-04-24 09:36:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 148468921a Added some comments to code in NOTES. 2008-04-24 08:54:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e001ad4f9 Add fixme 2008-04-24 08:40:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 275515f226 Added FIXME. 2008-04-23 21:03:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49ecc7a09a Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity. 2008-04-23 20:59:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e76d139b0 Remove unnecessary subheading for utimes(). 2008-04-23 18:00:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk de5f7e2851 Added some .SS headings to make structure of page a little more obvious. 2008-04-23 15:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a27a99853 Added FIXME 2008-04-23 15:36:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1717fa1b98 Add FIXME 2008-04-23 15:05:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6cb0b6a045 Add FIXME 2008-04-23 15:05:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ee895129b If the 'sigmask' is NULL, the ppoll() is equivalent to poll() 
with respect tio signal mask manipulations.
 2008-04-23 14:49:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14946d05f3 tstamp 2008-04-23 14:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c98759f3ea wfix 2008-04-23 14:40:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d30cbf478 Added some FIXMEs. 2008-04-23 09:10:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f974b97592 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2008-04-22 12:55:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 429e98671d NOTES: since glibc 2.3.3, the glibc NPTL fork() wrapper bypasses the 
fork() system call to invoke clone() with appropriate flags.
 2008-04-22 04:18:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14f5ae6dc8 Change name of 'start' argument to 'addr' for consistency with: 
* other memory related interfaces
* POSIX specification (for those interfaces in POSIX)
* Linux and glibc source code (in at least some cases)
 2008-04-21 07:51:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd56f36fe6 Add .\" comment 2008-04-19 07:33:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3736a895a2 Updated FIXME 2008-04-18 17:00:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 090ed1ef8e Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT. 2008-04-18 16:17:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 407252794e Batch wfix/ffix 2008-04-18 15:52:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0527ad7f3a Add text explicitly noting that sig==0 can be used to check for 
the existence of a PID or PGID.
Other minor rewordings.
 2008-04-18 15:26:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25c8faf595 Reworded BUGS text a little. 2008-04-18 15:01:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7cbaba9031 Various wording cleanups 2008-04-18 07:40:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5db77de4ff The MS_REMOUNT changes in 2.4 were at 2.4.10 (not 2.4). 2008-04-17 14:59:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk efd9a49f5a Updated FIXME 2008-04-17 07:44:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 17c6928974 Clarify description of setpgid() a little. 2008-04-14 15:57:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 12afd1b404 Added VERSIONS section noting that this system call first appeared in 2.4.11. 2008-04-14 14:46:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef37eaf2e8 Added note that CLONE_STOP (which no-one ever used anyway) is now deprecated. 2008-04-14 13:03:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff902aca81 tfix 2008-04-13 20:03:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6aedbf95cb Looks like the sigqueue() data bug will be fixed in 2.6.25. 2008-04-13 05:48:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a776a3bef Small fix to example code 2008-04-12 16:27:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 81307e98f7 Added FIXME. 2008-04-11 11:49:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4443f8c37c Added comments describing fields in signalfd_siginfo structure. 2008-04-10 10:39:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbe108ed3d Added BUGS text noting that up to kernel 2.625, the ssi_int 
and ssi_ptr fields are not set.
 2008-04-10 10:33:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffd3fb5531 Added FIXME. 2008-04-09 15:24:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a279595bf7 Minor change to example program. 2008-04-09 12:21:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc55661bef Minor wording fix 2008-04-09 09:33:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d372f252fa Update fields names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/). 2008-04-08 18:32:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d2c10f46f Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence. 2008-04-08 13:46:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fb43427b28 Remove duplicated text. 2008-04-08 13:45:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a2f381997 tfix 2008-04-08 13:30:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f7e9afe8bd ffix+tfix 2008-04-08 13:25:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 635d395977 wfix 2008-04-08 13:04:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f91e36c26 Note that O_CLOEXEC is in next POSIX revison. 
Added a FIXME for other upcoming POSIX changes.
 2008-04-08 11:28:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e464c2f72 Add a sentence clarifying that even though the default disposition 
of SIGCHLD is "ignore", explicitly setting the disposition to
SIG_IGN results in different treatment of zombies.
 2008-04-07 21:09:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 302ea01382 CONFORMING TO: utimes() is in POSIX.1-2001. 2008-03-20 06:09:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 12a1a9e794 Added FIXME relating to SUSv4 chhanges 2008-03-19 15:09:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 501d2485ba Update FIXME 2008-03-19 14:07:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 83ea1eee87 Minor rewording. 2008-03-19 13:23:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eba722884d s/nonzero/non-zero/ 2008-03-19 13:16:39 +00:00