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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
Michael Kerrisk c4bb193f3c s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given 
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
 2008-07-10 20:53:08 +00:00
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