e2128f59bc
chroot.2: Added feature test macro requirements
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-22 16:58:52 +02:00
c43b0ac78c
getrlimit.2: Document units for RLIMIT_RTTIME limit
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This limit is in microseconds
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596492
Reported-by: Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-12 08:40:54 +02:00
b3a452706f
lseek.2: Minor wording changes
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-11 06:40:32 +02:00
3284fbc0ec
lseek.2: Removed note about return type on ancient systems
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Reported-by: der Mouse <mouse@rodents-montreal.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-11 06:13:23 +02:00
9326e678ca
mount.2: Definitions of various MS_* constants only appeared in glibc 2.12
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See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11235
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-10 08:09:14 +02:00
535f0df5e8
clock_nanosleep.2, clock_getcpuclockid.3, getnetent_r.3, getprotoent_r.3, getrpcent_r.3, getservent_r.3, sigwait.3: RETURN VALUE: Note that "positive error numbers" are listed in ERRORS
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-10 07:49:10 +02:00
86b91fdffb
accept.2, clone.2, dup.2, fallocate.2, pipe.2, readahead.2, sched_setaffinity.2, unshare.2, CPU_SET.3, endian.3, euidaccess.3, fexecve.3, getpt.3, getpw.3, getumask.3, getutmp.3, gnu_get_libc_version.3, makedev.3, matherr.3, mbsnrtowcs.3, memfrob.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, tcgetsid.3, wcscasecmp.3, wcsncasecmp.3, wcsnlen.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcswidth.3, rtld-audit.7: SYNOPSIS: Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
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These pages specify feature test macros in the function
prototypes. Add a reference to feature_test_macros(7),
so that readers are pointed to the information that
feature test macros must be defined before including
*any* header file.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-10 07:06:22 +02:00
89ded5e7b7
capget.2: SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "undef _POSIX_SOURCE"
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-10 06:45:26 +02:00
803e1d2f16
open.2: spfix in source comment
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-10 06:37:55 +02:00
e417acb023
fcntl.2, intro.2, open.2, poll.2, ftw.3, intro.3, matherr.3, system.3, tmpnam.3, unix.7: Note that feature test macros must be defined before *any* includes
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Programmers often make the mistake of including a feature test
macro only after having already included some header files.
This patch adds some text at opportune places to remind
programmers to do things the right way.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-10 06:33:31 +02:00
bb4260c01b
statfs.2: Fix copy & paste error for __SWORD_TYPE definition
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-09-04 06:45:06 +02:00
3fa2e4b9f5
select.2: Update NOTES on old glibc pselect()
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Make it clear that modern glibc uses the kernel pselect()
on systems where it is available.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14411
Reported-by: mac@mcrowe.com
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-31 06:59:47 +02:00
6b2bd25649
futex.2: srcfix: update FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-31 06:50:46 +02:00
0986cb57b1
eventfd.2: Document EFD_SEMAPHORE
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Document the EFD_SEMAPHORE flag, added in kernel 2.6.30.
Also restructured some parts of the text to fit with the
addition of the EFD_SEMAPHORE text.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-30 07:15:21 +02:00
4eb6d333a8
eventfd.2: Put flags list in alphabetical order
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-30 06:39:47 +02:00
c4c8b1da75
write.2: Add EDESTADDRREQ error
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Reported-by: Brian Sutin <Brian.Sutin@hs.utc.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 15:50:27 +02:00
cc3707c028
utimensat.2: Minor fix: remove duplicate word "the"
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 14:41:21 +02:00
e8fd507782
sysfs.2: Minor fix: remove duplicate "the"
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Reported-by: Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 14:40:16 +02:00
2677bc5cea
epoll_ctl.2: wspfix
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Reported-by: Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 14:22:51 +02:00
cb8c0c9b69
readdir.2: Minor wording fix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 09:06:37 +02:00
d185a51006
gethostname.2: Minor wording fix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 09:06:12 +02:00
bde4b0ae94
gethostname.2: Minor wording fix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 09:05:40 +02:00
460b3d610f
sigaction.2: Minor fix: s/null/NULL/
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 09:03:11 +02:00
3701130ad7
send.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 08:33:07 +02:00
b637ad73b1
recv.2, send.2: Remove obsolete reference to glibc version in NOTES
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 08:32:22 +02:00
f07435fbcc
recv.2, send.2: Adjust type shown for msg_controllen to glibc reality
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This patch fixes the type of msg_controllen in the struct msghdr
definition given in send.2 and recv.2 to match the definition in
glibc and the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 08:29:04 +02:00
038dff6613
sched_setscheduler.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 07:58:29 +02:00
5d127cc9a4
readlink.2: Minor wording change in CONFORMING TO
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 07:54:11 +02:00
d45105d9d7
eventfd.2: Clarified close-on-exec behavior
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 07:37:08 +02:00
c9e83f0678
mq_getsetattr.2, mq_close.3, mq_getattr.3, mq_notify.3, mq_send.3, mq_unlink.3: Fix return type in SYNOPSIS (s/mqd_t/int/)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 07:36:55 +02:00
60fe1ea109
umount.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 06:40:29 +02:00
0a598d2676
open.2: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 06:39:28 +02:00
e4123e514c
epoll_ctl.2: Small fix to types in data structures
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 06:28:48 +02:00
f75ad1f32e
fork.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 06:25:10 +02:00
fd3fa7efa5
futex.2: Minor wording changes
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Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 06:21:27 +02:00
ba2e3e9a04
poll.2: tfix
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Reported-by: Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-07-02 07:12:35 +02:00
d1d721bec5
sysfs.2: Clarify that this syscall is obsolete.
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And strengthen recommendation for to use /proc/filesystems
instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-27 15:51:46 +02:00
2859e48cd8
flock.2: srcfix: Add FIXME for LOCK_MAND
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-27 07:47:59 +02:00
e14baeeb54
prctl.2: srcfix: Added FIXMEs
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-27 06:54:10 +02:00
02234c5df0
add_key.2, keyctl.2, request_key.2: srcfix: remove strange .\"""...""" comments
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Reported-by: Jianhua Li <jhlicc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-27 06:47:23 +02:00
cf9c6362a3
sched_setscheduler.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-27 06:43:20 +02:00
1ebc0ddb5f
madvise.2: Improve discussion of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
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Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-26 15:21:32 +02:00
81a0028c21
clock_nanosleep.2: Fix discussion of return value when interrupted by a signal
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Reported-by: Przemyslaw Szczepaniak <Przemyslaw.Szczepaniak@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-26 11:44:43 +02:00
43537f2868
mkdir.2: Add EMLINK error to ERRORS
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Reported-by: Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-26 11:16:03 +02:00
ab9cd9b796
umount.2: srcfix: comment
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-26 10:56:15 +02:00
55d56b7140
migrate_pages.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 12:46:28 +02:00
b911dcb076
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2010-06-20 06:43:23 +02:00
92c1db72e2
madvise.2, mmap.2, crypt.3, opendir.3: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 05:46:00 +02:00
d8da429e17
madvise.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 05:15:34 +02:00
f17d72ad91
ioprio_set.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:46:36 +02:00
c808bb1630
select.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:44:37 +02:00
4c9f4bc8e9
gettimeofday.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:42:49 +02:00
5aa2ee8001
migrate_pages.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:36:45 +02:00
ff24dd19d9
madvise.2: spfix
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Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-20 03:21:58 +02:00
f5321b148d
madvise.2: srcfix: update changelog
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
c7bdcd8faa
madvise.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
4be1f2ef91
madvise.2: Improve description of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
e596338261
madvise.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
69c8f36fa1
madvise.2: Fix description of MADV_HWPOISON
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:52 +02:00
ae24c212b2
madvise.2: Document MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
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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
3b18c59b70
madvise.2: Slight tweak to text on MADV_MERGEABLE
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Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:35 +02:00
5baa8f0928
madvise.2: Added documentation of MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE
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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
cf037473e7
madvise.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 07:09:44 +02:00
601f3bc6d3
madvise.2: minor: Reformat text for EINVAL error
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 07:08:04 +02:00
5b775090b1
sched_setscheduler.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:49:32 +02:00
93414d353b
sched_setscheduler.2: Document SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK
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New in Linux 2.6.32
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:48:45 +02:00
fad2a83bb0
madvise.2: srcfix: update FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:09:56 +02:00
523c2f67b7
madvise.2: Document MADV_HWPOISON
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 06:07:39 +02:00
c3b9aac8a5
umount.2: Document UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW
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New in Linux 2.6.34.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 05:39:31 +02:00
bc92ddbb15
fcntl.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 04:29:32 +02:00
cc7965fc11
fcntl.2: Improve F_SETPIPE_SZ text
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 04:13:28 +02:00
14f7d1a4bd
fcntl.2: Document F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ
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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
23a05d28b6
fcntl.2: Note that glibc 2.11 papers over the kernel F_GETOWN bug
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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
b09639d9be
quotactl.2: Fix description of dqi_flags
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Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 23:04:41 +02:00
5a11d35847
quotactl.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 22:48:50 +02:00
22187ccf0e
quotactl.2: Minor improvement in structure explanation
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 08:53:32 +02:00
b5d8309951
quotactl.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 08:52:46 +02:00
0aeccf9e0c
sigaction.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 06:27:25 +02:00
5ffadafd3b
sigaction.2: Add details for signals sent by POSIX message queue notifications
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 06:21:59 +02:00
80752fa5f3
sigaction.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 06:09:46 +02:00
affc8cc071
sigaction.2: srcfix: Add FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 06:08:18 +02:00
c2261e74ca
sigaction.2: Add some details for SIGTRAP and si_trapno
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 05:54:21 +02:00
39efed936a
sigaction.2: Add TRAP_BRANCH and TRAP_HWBKPT to si_code values for SIGTRAP
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 05:36:01 +02:00
4176590caf
sigaction.2: Rearrange text describing fields set by sigqueue(2)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 05:23:18 +02:00
1eeddf2527
quotactl.2: Major updates
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Update the page to consolidate information from the
outdated man-pages quotactl.2 page and the quotactl.2
page in the "quota-tools" pachage. The page in "quota-tools"
has now been dropped by Jan Kara, so that there is just one
canonical quotactl.2 page (in pan-pages).
Various other pieces added to the page by mtk.
Reported-by: Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-16 04:51:36 +02:00
245dec52ca
open.2, sync_file_range.2, umount.2: Global fix: s/filesystem/file system/
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-15 05:16:42 +02:00
d71593a99b
swapon.2: Note effect of iCONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE on MAX_SWAPFILES
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From 2.6.32, MAX_SWAPFILES is decreased by 1 if the kernel is
built with CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-15 03:49:25 +02:00
3821a5957f
vfork.2: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-15 03:33:53 +02:00
09d3f6940c
posix_fadvise.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-15 03:27:10 +02:00
9791cc7060
posix_fadvise.2: Add sync_file_rane(2) under SEE ALSO
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Reported-by: Manfred Schwarb <manfred99@gmx.ch>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 04:42:27 +02:00
efe08656e6
open.2: Remove ambiguity in text on NFS and O_EXCL.
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Reported-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 04:38:26 +02:00
14f1e036e1
getrusage.2: Replace text describing unused fields
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An earlier patch attempted to describe how the unused rusage
fields are used on other systems. But, Mark Hills notes that
that is likely to cause confusion. So, replace that text with
a general statement about why the unused fields are present.
Reported-by: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 04:30:17 +02:00
87f8e275ae
getrusage.2: srcfix wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 04:10:11 +02:00
503a80c703
getrusage.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 04:09:19 +02:00
6e0bcabee7
getpriority.2, nice.2: Move renice from section 8 to section 1
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Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 03:01:00 +02:00
81a8f8e796
msgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: Move ipcs from section 8 to section 1
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Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-14 03:00:31 +02:00
3954c907b1
statvfs.2: New link to page relocated to Section 3
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-13 05:54:03 +02:00
7c19417eca
fstatvfs.2: Adjust link to point to Section 3
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-13 05:53:26 +02:00
33a93cdf66
statvfs.2: Move this page to section 3 (since it's a library call)
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Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-13 05:51:45 +02:00
1e7351d41f
statfs.2: Bring statfs struct type declarations closer to glibc reality
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-13 05:45:16 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk