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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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().
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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.
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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
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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().
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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,
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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
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(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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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()).
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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--
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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
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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.
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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)/;
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(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()
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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
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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:
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* 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
Michael Kerrisk
1f04cc9731
s/nonempty/non-empty/
2008-03-19 13:11:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2103596438
s/normal file/regular file/
2008-03-19 11:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
972a8ec74e
grfix
2008-03-19 11:52:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ecccf7c284
grfix
2008-03-19 08:56:26 +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
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
647d1abbdb
Added some .\" comments, and a FIXME.
2008-03-18 14:25:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6982cdd87c
Minor wording change
2008-03-18 14:11:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b69987f6de
s/time stamp/timestamp/
2008-03-18 09:52:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c18c014112
Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
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always change *both* timestamps).
Other minor wording fixes.
2008-03-18 09:50:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bb9bfecda6
Updated timestamp
2008-03-14 13:24:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5d5b47f890
Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
2008-03-14 13:23:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
222ccf0944
spfix
2008-03-11 12:53:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ef22088864
spfix
2008-03-11 12:48:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0f5546a1fe
spfix
2008-03-11 12:38:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5ada556d56
spfix
2008-03-11 12:37:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e935e108ac
Replace (il)legal by "permitted" or "valid"
2008-03-10 10:04:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cf0961b079
tfix
2008-03-10 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d68b271378
spfix
2008-03-10 07:09:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a522769fdb
Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
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kernel 2.6.23 and later.
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
2008-03-05 15:22:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6958017ffd
Refine previous changes a little.
2008-03-05 15:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c00194abf0
Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
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Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
2008-03-03 14:20:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
31981fa15b
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2008-03-03 13:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c0ced2c258
Fix type for ssi_ptr field.
2008-03-03 10:12:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4e698277c0
Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
2008-02-28 14:47:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f946c58059
wfix
2008-02-28 11:35:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c15e4069f6
Added FIXME.
2008-02-22 15:38:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e5a7fca5cc
Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
2008-02-22 15:18:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0df29603da
Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime() to list.
2008-02-22 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
86e4fb05c7
Remove FIXMES + some othe rsmall clean-ups.
2008-02-22 13:45:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ffaecbc128
minot wording fixes
2008-02-22 13:34:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bc5ec13168
Minor rewordings.
2008-02-22 07:57:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dffa9f2b3c
Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
2008-02-14 15:04:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0527015d62
Add info on command type 10.
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Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Minor grammar fix.
Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
Update RETURN VALUE section.
Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
Other minor edits.
2008-02-14 10:32:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c33a62d8c1
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
2008-02-12 14:40:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
957532b1ba
Removed out-of-date FIXMES.
2008-02-12 14:40:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
df00cf8359
Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
2008-02-12 14:35:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
45b81c9c67
Describes timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime(),
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new in 2.6.2.25.
2008-02-12 14:32:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b2a23ade68
Update .TH timestamp
2008-02-11 11:49:23 +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
8b4280907b
New page describing eventfd(2) system call.
2008-02-11 11:40:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5b0bafdd0a
New page describing signalfd() system call.
2008-02-11 11:39:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ddc4d3392c
Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
2008-02-11 10:38:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
350d584d17
Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not return.
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Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
and also what is used in the kernel source.
Other minor wording changes.
2008-02-11 10:05:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
21a0b03de8
Added FIXMEs
2008-02-11 09:02:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9eb143a1db
Improve wording describing error returns.
2008-01-31 13:29:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
27e42cd904
spfix
2008-01-31 13:20:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5b4b27342b
Update date in .TH
2008-01-31 11:01:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c4aae9a738
Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
2008-01-31 10:49:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f867dcc700
Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
2008-01-31 10:41:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4701fc284e
Add ENOSYS error to errors.
2008-01-31 10:35:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
55ae3c86d1
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
2008-01-31 10:30:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cfc621b5d9
Added FIXME
2008-01-30 10:46:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f5e74ede79
Added discussion of directory streams.
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Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
Changed authorship notice.
2008-01-13 17:00:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
955f4c381a
ffix
2008-01-13 09:40:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
325f18dab4
Minor wording chnages.
2008-01-13 08:57:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a0d39abb92
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by tgkill().
2008-01-12 17:38:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed0da723be
spfix
2008-01-12 16:30:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a4e3b1bc3e
Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().
2008-01-12 13:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fd48405669
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
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thing as a POSIX thread ID.
2008-01-12 12:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
da8cb51e61
Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.
2008-01-12 08:57:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c10faeadb3
tfix
2008-01-12 08:20:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0d26ae944e
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2008-01-09 17:35:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8d3a62d67e
A few rewrites and additions.
2008-01-09 17:26:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9d227bc540
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.
2008-01-09 10:17:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eacd521cd9
minor wording change.
2008-01-09 09:41:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7db44341af
Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.
2008-01-05 04:50:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a028f2edaf
ffix
2008-01-04 04:30:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
447bb15ee0
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2008-01-03 16:06:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f4b9d6a511
Clarify initial description of O_EXCL.
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Clarify description of behavious of O_CREAT | O_EXCL for symbolic links.
Clarify text describing use of lockfiles without O_EXCL.
O_EXCL is supported on NFSv3 and later, with Linux 2.6 and later.
2008-01-03 08:12:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ca92ce95a3
Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.
2008-01-01 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
984886049d
Remove exstraneous .sp macros.
2008-01-01 13:44:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2b53dd031e
Remove extraneous .br macro before/after .SH/.SS.
2008-01-01 13:38:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6c9e43eb5c
spfix
2008-01-01 07:49:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4989f80d27
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2007-12-30 09:18:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
20b627b65d
Remove unneeded formatting macro
2007-12-30 05:54:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3c5e62b618
Fix a/an usage
2007-12-29 18:01:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
763f0e477c
Fix usage of a/an before following vowel/consonant.
2007-12-29 17:42:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c1660a22f4
hyphenation fix
2007-12-29 15:00:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
faa1d321d4
Fix section number in .TH line.
2007-12-29 14:58:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e23e4c2685
Use proper tables for layout, and various formatting fixes.
2007-12-29 10:01:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
92f9f654ef
Put EPERM in right alphabetical position in ERRORS list.
2007-12-28 13:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4ee6a53ec5
Remove section numbers for page self refs
2007-12-28 08:11:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c8b55e76ea
ffix
2007-12-28 06:52:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e4b4caa6b8
wfix
2007-12-28 04:39:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a1ffe9f5a2
s/current process/calling process/
2007-12-27 16:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
edd1fa35e3
s/cwd/current working directory/
2007-12-27 16:01:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0786e30815
Add credentials(7) to SEE ALSO, and updated copyright credits,
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to reflect my rewrite of a few months ago.
2007-12-27 15:47:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
78110b787e
Add getsid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
2007-12-27 15:32:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
24e4598352
Add getresgid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
2007-12-27 15:26:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
520b53c642
Add getresuid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
2007-12-27 15:26:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5a3dd911f2
Rewrote various parts.
2007-12-27 15:19:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1e48734a07
Rewrote various parts.
2007-12-27 15:06:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
791ce3b986
Minor rewrites
2007-12-27 14:37:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
938576af95
Since kernel 2.2, AF_UNSPEC for unconnecting a connected socket *is* supported. --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
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M man2/connect.2
2007-12-26 16:41:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e57ba8a908
Remove FIXME
2007-12-26 16:33:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1f74d4c4cc
Added FIXME.
2007-12-26 11:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
34bdd96ab0
Hyphenation fixes
2007-12-26 11:46:23 +00:00