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Michael Kerrisk 2a3835c23e Start of man-pages-3.26: renaming .Announce and .lsm files 2010-06-20 11:42:06 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a65f6d0cbb Ready for 3.25 2010-06-20 06:44:18 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b911dcb076 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2010-06-20 06:43:23 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3e26762688 Expanded tabs 2010-06-20 06:43:11 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 92c1db72e2 madvise.2, mmap.2, crypt.3, opendir.3: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 05:46:00 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3883778021 Changes: Updates for 3.25
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 05:43:23 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d8da429e17 madvise.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 05:15:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk dec96d20ea getpass.3: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 04:05:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 35292c5da1 termios.3: tsamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 04:04:57 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e502d4782 termios.3: Change NOFLSH text to speak of characters, not signals
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 04:04:05 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7065c4f7fc fenv.3: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 04:00:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f17d72ad91 ioprio_set.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:46:36 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c808bb1630 select.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:44:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4c9f4bc8e9 gettimeofday.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:42:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5aa2ee8001 migrate_pages.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:36:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ff24dd19d9 madvise.2: spfix
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:21:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f5321b148d madvise.2: srcfix: update changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c7bdcd8faa madvise.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4be1f2ef91 madvise.2: Improve description of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e596338261 madvise.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
Andi Kleen 69c8f36fa1 madvise.2: Fix description of MADV_HWPOISON
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
Andi Kleen ae24c212b2 madvise.2: Document MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
This operation was added in Linux 2.6.33.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
Daisuke HATAYAMA 6866d935b3 elf.5: Document PN_XNUM extension
In linux-2.6.34-rc1, an ELF core extension was added; user-land tools
manipulating ELF core dump such as gdb and binutils has already been
modified before; so elf.5 needs to be modified accordingly.

You can follow information on the ELF extension via the LKML post:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/3/103
Date	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:06:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject	[RESEND][mmotm][PATCH v2, 0/5] elf coredump: Add extended numbering support

This Linux-specific extension was added in kernel 2.6.34.

Reviewed-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk eed79eed5b elf.5: Remove words under '.note': "described below"
The existing text is broken, because there is
no '"Note Section" format' describe below. Simplest
solution is to remove the words "described below".

Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
Yuri Kozlov 888e004861 elf.5: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b520dffcc6 elf.5: Remove EI_BRAND
As reported by Yuri Kozlov  and confirmed by Mike Frysinger, EI_BRAND is
not in GABI (http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html)
It looks to be a BSDism

Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b18c59b70 madvise.2: Slight tweak to text on MADV_MERGEABLE
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5baa8f0928 madvise.2: Added documentation of MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE
These flags (used for Kernel Samepage Mergeing, KSM)
are new in 2.6.32.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 07:36:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cf037473e7 madvise.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 07:09:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 601f3bc6d3 madvise.2: minor: Reformat text for EINVAL error
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 07:08:04 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d7f2c1382 socket.7: srcfix: update FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:52:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b775090b1 sched_setscheduler.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:49:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 93414d353b sched_setscheduler.2: Document SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK
New in Linux 2.6.32

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:48:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fad2a83bb0 madvise.2: srcfix: update FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:09:56 +02:00
Andi Kleen 523c2f67b7 madvise.2: Document MADV_HWPOISON
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:07:39 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e64e605637 capabilities.7: Add MADV_HWPOISON under CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:07:06 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c3b9aac8a5 umount.2: Document UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW
New in Linux 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 05:39:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ec92bd800a mkstemps.3, mkostemps.3: New links to mkstemp.3
mkstemp.3 now describes mkstemps(3) and mkostemps(3).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 05:21:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5f58cee871 mkstemp.3: Document mkstemps() and mkostemps()
These functions are new in glibc 2.11. They allow the template
string to include a suffix after the "XXXXXX" string.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 05:19:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b2d3abb847 proc.5: Improve description of /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 04:40:23 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk bc92ddbb15 fcntl.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 04:29:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cc7965fc11 fcntl.2: Improve F_SETPIPE_SZ text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 04:13:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cbd7b9bfbe capabilities.7: Add get_robust_list() info under CAP_SYS_PTRACE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 02:34:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7191605652 proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 00:31:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 49236d3c71 proc.5: Simplify description of /proc/sys and /proc/sys/fs
In the description of these directories, there's no need
to list all the files and subdirectories that they contain;
that information is provided by the entries that follow.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 00:23:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 46883521a0 capabilities.7: Document CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and F_SETPIPE_SZ
With CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, a process can increase pipe capacity above
/proc/sys/ps/pipe-max-size.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 00:15:39 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 14f7d1a4bd fcntl.2: Document F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ
These commands, new in kernel 2.6.35, set and get the capacity
of pipes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 00:11:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 23a05d28b6 fcntl.2: Note that glibc 2.11 papers over the kernel F_GETOWN bug
Since version 2.11, glibc works around the kernel limitation for
process groups IDs < 4096 by implementing F_GETOWN via F_GETOWN_EX.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 23:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a9f50aa383 resolver.3: Fix declaration of dn_comp() in SYNOPSIS
Remove the second 'exp_dn' from the calling signature.

Reported-by: Gernot Tenchio <gernot@tenchio.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 23:20:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b09639d9be quotactl.2: Fix description of dqi_flags
Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 23:04:41 +02:00