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2404 Commits

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Michael Kerrisk 5d75650a15 socket.7: srcfix: Add some comments on the undocumented SO_NO_CHECK option
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-06 10:02:57 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a7ee7444c ip.7, socket.7: Remove dubious text that says that SO_PRIORITY set IP TOS
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35852

Reported-by: Advait Dixi <advaitdixit@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-05 21:18:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ccbcc0aeed pthreads.7: Using thread IDs whose lifetime has expired gives undefined behavior
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53061

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-05 21:11:59 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ad13546b4 pthreads.7: Reorder text on thread IDs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-05 21:09:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 77ee0a6073 ip.7: srcfix: remove unneeded comments
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-05 20:54:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ae1c1caab7 signal.7: Clarify that I/O operations on disks are not interrupted by signals
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97721

Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-05 18:00:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8847df2c82 raw.7: Remove crufty reference to <netinet/in.h>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-04 10:09:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a84d45a8d0 raw.7: Replace reference to RFC 1700 with pointer to IANA protocol number list
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-04 10:09:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 582ff8ca7c raw.7: Mention sendto(), recvfrom(), and so on when discussing address format
This gives the reader a little context for the following
discussion of 'sin_port'.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-04 10:09:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 62462978fe raw.7: For incoming datagrams, sin_port is set to zero
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <from-linux-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-03 11:58:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 692ed9b68f aio.7: Add details and update URL for OLS 2003 paper on AIO
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-05-01 10:00:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 707914e9bc fanotify.7: Since Linux 3.19, fallocate(2) generates FAN_MODIFY events
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-30 12:12:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f9bfa911aa inotify.7: Since Linux 3.19, fallocate(2) generates IN_MODIFY events
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-30 12:12:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c14e2adc7c bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 15:20:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 016d2ca03c bootparam.7: Update discussion of 'debug' option
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97161

Reported-by: Alain Kalker <a.c.kalker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b32bd2cf2 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "General non-device-specific boot arguments" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on hardware specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.)
Here, we remove some ancient x86 options.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b84d6e147 bootparam.7: srcfix: Remove old commented out text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c7c19fcd6b bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1b29c33283 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "Hard disks" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1aa04a53c0 bootparam.7: Remove crufty text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3aa4ee77a0 bootparam.7: Remove 'swap=" details
This seems to have gone away in Linux 2.2,

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0953b86233 bootparam.7: Remove "buff=" details
This seems to have gone away in Linux 2.2.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 66d2031a98 bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b07f301a87 bootparam.7: Remove crufty reference to CONFIG_BUGi386
That option disappeared in Linux 2.4.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e10d8f65e bootparam.7: Remove crufty "mem=" details
The information here relates to ancient systems
Some (possibly more up to date) info can be found
in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk af26ce0fab bootparam.7: Remove crufty text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5d6aa84a56 bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 32ae2e1759 bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f184a1c3d5 bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b46a2f4aff bootparam.7: Remove crufty text
"bootsetups array" dates from Linux 2.0.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 36267a516c bootparam.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ad8fe0829f bootparam.7: Remove crufty text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d041270a37 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "Video hardware" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ac7ee8020 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "Mouse drivers" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b385dc692 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "line printer driver" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ea0e68c89 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "Serial port drivers" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5dd45ae538 bootparam.7: Remove crufty "ISDN drivers" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 92b451e5d9 bootparam.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3dd80946f8 bootparam.7: Remove crufty floppy disk driver options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

In the specific case of floppy drives: the drivers still
exist, but it's been a while since most of saw these devices
in the wild. So, just refer the reader to the kernel source
file for details. (The detail in this man page was after all
originally drawn from that file.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cb6cb8608a bootparam.7: Update location of floppy.txt kernel source file
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 361812fd3f bootparam.7: Remove crufty details IBM MCA bus devices
See kernel commit a88dc06cd515b3bb9dfa18606e88d0be9a5b6ddd

[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0eb9025a49 bootparam.7: Update location of kernel source file ide.txt
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e22900446c bootparam.7: Remove crufty SCSI device driver options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.]
Much of the detail on device-driver specifics in this page dates
from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in
man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these
devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Arguably, this
kind of detail should never have been placed in a man page to
begin with, since devices come and go. Remove such text, and
where appropriate and possible add pointers to files in the
kernel Documentation/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-24 13:46:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 92b1a2ccf9 listxattr.2, xattr.7: Describe listxattr(2) E2BIG error and document it as a BUG
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 15:01:19 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d59b17a43c xattr.7: Explicitly mention some of the xattr system calls in DESCRIPTION
Naming the system calls helps to orient the reader

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 14:46:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 89fabe2e91 getxattr.2, listxattr.2, removexattr.2, setxattr.2, capabilities.7: Adjust "attr(5)" references to "xattr(7)"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 14:40:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 367f5ee591 xattr.7: Minor clean ups to mark the fact that this page is now called xattr(7)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 14:38:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 43834827b8 xattr.7: Rename from attr.7
"xattr" is a more meaningful name than "attr" (it resonates
with the names of the system calls), so as long as we are
moving the page to a new section, we'll change the name as well,
and retain an acl(5) link so that old references remain valid.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 14:38:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c69f84a29 attr.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 13:46:26 +02:00
Andreas Grünbacher 54015724f8 attr.7: Minor tweaks
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2015-04-22 13:44:16 +02:00