Michael Kerrisk
c66cb57033
Fix bad link path.
2007-05-22 18:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
08b7e58416
Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section.
2007-05-21 22:49:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6ef95cb01a
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section.
2007-05-21 22:46:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f5cb430b7c
Added ERRORS section.
2007-05-21 22:41:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7e1c01a76
ffix
2007-05-21 21:25:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d806e10376
Added section numbers to xrefs
2007-05-21 21:07:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
65e7dad22c
wfix
2007-05-21 15:49:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aa4962263b
s/manpage/man page/
2007-05-21 12:58:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d1dcf59840
Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing
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some outdated text.
2007-05-21 11:16:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed7a722d13
Updated FIXME
2007-05-21 10:14:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
128e7c364b
ffix
2007-05-21 09:19:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e5ec74e16e
Updated FIXME
2007-05-21 07:04:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0e99f2a5c0
Relocated text for "Versions and Library Support".
2007-05-21 06:55:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7b9318d06
Updated FIXME.
2007-05-21 06:52:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8e86ff2a6
Updated FIXME
2007-05-21 06:51:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b5d63e490d
Remove text about the non-existent BSD meremap() -- too
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much information, in my opinion.
2007-05-21 06:46:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
49ba0d2aaa
Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being equivalent to
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fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note about this historical behaviour.
2007-05-21 06:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
87eca6b7b3
Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
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open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
2007-05-21 06:34:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2b2581ee37
Fix inconsistencies in order of .SH sections
2007-05-19 04:30:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2dd578fd5b
Reordered sections for consistency.
2007-05-18 16:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a1d5f77cc8
Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
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sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
2007-05-18 16:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af4d911a52
wfix
2007-05-18 14:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
889829be48
Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs
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under another section e.g., NOTES.
2007-05-18 11:59:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2a995424e0
ffix
2007-05-18 11:17:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
413901b165
wfix
2007-05-18 11:01:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4fb3134194
Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES
2007-05-18 10:39:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d597239cbd
Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES
2007-05-18 10:30:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6996254443
Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines
2007-05-18 09:55:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
05eabe6576
Fix inconsistencies in .TH line
2007-05-18 09:21:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3d5a3539b7
Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines
2007-05-18 09:11:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e127c16af7
Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM.
2007-05-18 08:56:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0ed55ece49
Make "manual" in .TH line "Linux Programmers Manual"
2007-05-18 08:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e37e328263
Move SEE ALSO section to end of page
2007-05-16 18:25:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b07cd0a96b
Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a RESTRICTIONS
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section under existing NOTES section.
2007-05-16 05:33:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0b5dc6f115
s/RETURN VALUES/RETURN VALUE/
2007-05-16 05:00:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
405f0560fe
ffix
2007-05-16 04:54:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a759cc870f
Renamed .SH AVAILABILITY to .SH VERSIONS
2007-05-16 04:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9aba2fed65
wrap a source line
2007-05-16 04:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ff457ccbea
Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS
2007-05-16 04:39:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e8a7fb3a8
wrappped source line
2007-05-16 04:32:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6459c9ca10
ffix
2007-05-16 04:00:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dc919d094d
Commented out/rewrote .SH AUTHORS sections
2007-05-16 03:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fcd0a03701
Made a .SH line into .SS
2007-05-16 03:15:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
be29323e9e
Small rewording.
2007-05-16 03:12:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8f6b98e17
Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2 contains
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the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
2007-05-16 03:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
90b36dddb0
ffix
2007-05-16 03:06:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ef17a8a1ae
ffix
2007-05-16 03:05:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4a19cb8cd1
Made ".SH UNDOCUMENTED" into ".SS Undocumented" and relocated under NOTES
2007-05-16 03:03:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a2c875ff29
s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/
2007-05-16 03:00:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cc171723b1
Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated within page.
2007-05-16 02:57:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
19c98696a2
s/SH NOTE$/SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:54:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8c87824d61
Made .SH into .SS
2007-05-16 02:45:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6c36ac81bf
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:41:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ea165b17e4
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:41:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d4c46761de
ffix
2007-05-16 02:31:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e81969abf7
ffix
2007-05-16 02:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ffc78e2c0b
s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:25:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3fc15e600d
Made a .SH line into .SS
2007-05-16 02:21:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5bc8c34c03
s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() function example program
2007-05-16 02:09:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3618596929
Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE".
2007-05-16 02:01:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0784f93ce4
s/return 0/exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)/ in example program.
2007-05-16 01:57:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
61b48f9328
Made sme .SH headings .SS
2007-05-16 01:56:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
042bae96ef
ffix
2007-05-15 20:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
374d1d23c6
Commented out AUTHOR note
2007-05-15 20:51:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a05dfaec95
ffix
2007-05-15 05:44:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4c44ffe5dc
Use symbolic constants in exit(2) calls
2007-05-14 21:11:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
19dbfd0a98
ffix
2007-05-14 21:10:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
646f46f029
s/exit(0)/exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)/
2007-05-14 21:06:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a6c4ce1b9c
ffix
2007-05-14 20:39:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3fdbf2a227
ffix
2007-05-14 19:25:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d140095082
wfix
2007-05-14 19:23:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6d12800ee8
ffix
2007-05-14 19:20:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
552524a660
ffix
2007-05-14 19:19:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
be7fff26d5
Wrap source lines
2007-05-12 13:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9e370fbab6
tfix
2007-05-12 13:20:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
32792f3553
wfix
2007-05-12 13:19:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
375d884714
tfix
2007-05-12 13:19:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
825f35381a
wfix
2007-05-12 13:17:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d9c1ae6480
Use bold for function name, not underline.
2007-05-12 13:12:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7c93fec03d
Wrapped source lines
2007-05-12 12:58:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a44012756e
Minor repairs after global edits
2007-05-12 12:53:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
60a90ecdae
Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to ".BR name ()".
2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3623e341c3
Add section number to xref
2007-05-12 00:47:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d504a99411
spfix
2007-05-12 00:47:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0bfa087b03
Add section numbers to references to other pages
2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7f8aa9e3b4
ffix
2007-05-11 18:35:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8a784debdf
Fix wrong argument names in text.
2007-05-11 18:34:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d975050ce5
Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page
2007-05-06 08:38:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fdc4620460
spfix
2007-05-06 07:40:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1a549f8cea
Modified FIXME to mention bug report
2007-05-06 07:01:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6d70cf942
Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and sysv_signal.3 pages.
2007-05-04 21:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7f82d75e0b
Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
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Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
2007-05-04 20:32:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e519bf2eb
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
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functions in signal(7).
A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
2007-05-04 20:32:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f9a848cb2b
Removed out of date FIXME
2007-05-01 15:27:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
83314009c0
Place MAP_* flags list in alphabeitical order.
2007-05-01 15:23:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ae0318dfac
Removed out-of-date FIXME.
2007-05-01 15:12:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b364fca092
Removed some comment text about interpreter scripts, placing
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it instead in Changes file.
2007-05-01 14:34:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e506533603
hyphen --> minus
2007-05-01 07:58:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
32875790e8
Make hyphens into minus signs.
2007-05-01 07:57:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
35f0f2f954
wfix
2007-04-30 16:11:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3996edf642
Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
2007-04-30 16:08:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0265cd0106
Link to epoll_wait.2
2007-04-30 16:06:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ab44d3d652
A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things fixes the
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reported by Kyle Sluder in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
And added some example code.
2007-04-30 15:32:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6f223a7e3
Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID programs.
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Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
may be treated specially.
2007-04-30 14:30:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e6b33ad7da
Added an example program.
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Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be released.
2007-04-30 12:25:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3b5804b409
spfix
2007-04-30 10:58:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
456960740c
Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
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NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
and should be avoided in portable programs.
Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408 )
to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
is an ABI change.
2007-04-30 10:39:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cd24c68794
ffix
2007-04-30 09:00:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7fd8a3c9db
wfix
2007-04-30 08:55:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bab1c5df34
Removed out-of-date FIXME
2007-04-30 06:16:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0fcd5bc9cb
"-1" should be "\-1"
2007-04-27 17:11:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
18be658d0c
s/nonnegative/non-negative/
2007-04-24 19:10:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
099c2a5971
Wrap long lines
2007-04-24 16:56:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1c44bd5b0b
Wrap long lines; start sentences on new lines
2007-04-24 16:44:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
88933758db
Added some formatting fixes
2007-04-21 11:02:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c13182efa3
Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
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white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
273691af91
Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented.
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The nice interval can be used to control the size of the round-robin
quantum.
2007-04-05 14:37:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
41798314b6
Code formatting fixes
2007-04-05 14:17:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7295b7eda0
Replaced tabs with spaces
2007-04-05 13:29:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1bef0ec265
Moved timespec definition from SYNOPSIS into description.
2007-04-05 12:50:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cf0a9ace57
ffix
2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b9208776db
Make SYNOPSIS match select.2.
2007-04-03 18:03:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
332f4bb952
Include <sys/daemon.h> header in SYNOPSIS
2007-04-03 18:02:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
66ac438177
tfix
2007-04-03 17:56:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b9f027105c
ffix
2007-04-03 15:32:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
521bf58405
ffix
2007-04-03 14:04:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed9ed0f576
ffix
2007-04-03 13:03:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
70d67e7929
ffix
2007-04-03 12:49:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d12c14243e
Formatting fixes + fixed return values.
2007-04-03 12:47:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
538d54d9e9
Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
2007-03-25 13:40:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f6a4055f3a
Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
2007-03-25 12:59:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
814521a7d8
Removed out-of-date FIXME
2007-03-25 12:39:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ae39cf8f79
Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
2007-03-18 06:20:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
33e820cb39
Improve ENOENT description.
2007-03-18 06:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5bb80360ee
ffix
2007-03-18 05:30:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b857d3daac
Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
2007-03-11 07:08:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0579929938
tripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section.
2007-03-06 06:37:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
87f434dfce
If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed
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in array order. All Unix systems that I know of do this,
and some Linux applications depend on this behaviour. SUSv3
made no explicit statement here, but SUSv3 will explicitly
require this behaviour.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
2007-03-04 17:29:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
24825f2786
2.6.21 fixed several bugs in mincore() (according to Nick Piggin).
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Small fix to ENONEM description.
2007-03-04 02:35:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d44417fb63
Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS
2007-03-01 02:31:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b438981878
Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177.
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* s/effective/real/ in description test.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
2007-03-01 02:25:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c5405c0894
Fix EINVAL description
2007-03-01 01:43:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
00877d8f0f
tfix
2007-03-01 01:27:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1954b6a9b4
Remove duplicate word typo.
2007-03-01 01:12:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
11dcec1d2a
Small wording clarification.
2007-03-01 00:48:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dc0b1e23b6
Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
2007-02-26 14:30:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
926b6e378b
Document MS_RELATIME, new in kernel 2.6.20.
2007-02-10 17:37:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
60bb61aaee
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
2007-02-02 05:47:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0a90178cbb
Add feature_test_macros(7) to SEE ALSO
2007-01-28 20:00:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0cce6cb992
The cpusetsize argument was only absent in glibc 2.3.3.
2007-01-12 18:07:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
182d662267
Substantial rewrites to make clearer.
2007-01-07 21:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f5773f75b
On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a
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32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
2007-01-06 23:31:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4ca6357577
tfix
2007-01-04 18:54:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7e91e5d883
Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to "open(2) and NFS".
2006-12-27 04:59:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c2e8c91d54
Add reference to ipv6 to table.
2006-12-27 04:06:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
459f24d56a
ffix
2006-12-27 03:56:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3f74a33f53
Fix .TH line.
2006-12-27 03:55:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3547839964
wrap long source lines
2006-12-27 03:54:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f921239486
Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION.
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Small wording improvement.
2006-12-27 03:54:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5d693709d0
ffix
2006-12-27 03:44:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
945dc55a8a
wfix
2006-12-27 02:50:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
79b8032e17
wfix
2006-12-27 02:48:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a832b2d85b
wfix
2006-12-27 02:47:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fd2cf680a5
ffix
2006-12-27 02:42:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
37d4cd1cee
Slight rewording.
2006-12-27 02:41:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9606a1f374
wfix
2006-12-27 02:39:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ecbd70cd8b
tfix
2006-12-27 02:37:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bc07c5149f
pfix
2006-12-27 02:37:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bedd18e502
tfix
2006-12-27 02:36:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1b3fc756cd
s/EACCESS/EACCES/
2006-12-27 01:47:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7b7c33c9d2
Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD".
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This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
See Debian bug 403888.
2006-12-27 01:10:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
98a9c4b789
Updated CONFORMING TO
2006-12-18 00:46:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
75b48e9d74
Various fixes to CONFORMING TO
2006-12-17 01:34:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ec1c522895
wspfix
2006-12-17 01:17:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d24e23199c
s/Unices/Unix systems/
2006-12-17 01:04:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1eb85d1484
Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions
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are and are not part of C89. Also fixed/improved a few other
CONFORMING TO entries.
2006-12-16 22:11:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9110c53a81
ffix
2006-12-16 20:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cd270bc04b
fix long line in source
2006-12-16 19:23:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6d3925acc3
When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set, the child
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is not in the normal signal delivery path. This means the parent
cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL).
kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be used instead to kill the child
process after receiving one of these messages.
2006-12-16 19:18:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a62f51211f
Further substantial rewrites.
2006-12-05 07:40:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
609af441be
Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
2006-12-04 05:36:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ff929e3b15
Added more details to prototype.
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Added discussion of IA-64's clone2() system call.
2006-12-04 05:25:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5e8cde2f2e
Rewrote various parts to be clearer.
2006-12-04 04:50:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e2b013adbc
s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS
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changed return type from "long" to "int"
2006-12-01 04:23:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ee930c498f
Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
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threads.
2006-12-01 03:49:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
882b85db93
Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's not true.
2006-11-30 05:48:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f6cfd01694
Elimitae duplicated text; grfix
2006-11-26 22:10:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f363434666
Clarify discussion of privilege requirements.
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Added ENOMEM to ERRORS.
2006-11-26 04:13:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f3d8b28cd
Clarify O_LARGEFILE description.
2006-11-25 18:35:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2dcbf4f7af
tfix
2006-11-25 18:22:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
037510969c
tfix
2006-11-25 06:19:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e061497331
Added FIXME
2006-11-25 04:13:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
be352a313b
Add text describoing behaviour of the Linux brk() system call
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and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different behaviour.
Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc that
calls the brk() system call.
2006-11-25 04:13:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
266a5e9172
FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.
2006-11-25 01:57:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
53e4da489a
Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
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for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
2006-11-25 01:21:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bcdd964e2d
Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test macros.
2006-11-25 01:00:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e97b529a2a
MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
2006-10-04 14:44:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5535400717
Mosts systems support the synonym _SC_PAGE_SIZE (the only exception I
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know is Darwin, and maybe it supports it by now as well).
2006-10-02 04:58:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9ec86f2990
Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable applications.
2006-10-02 04:54:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
96d969a22a
Slight rewording
2006-10-02 04:51:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a4775da652
tfix
2006-10-02 04:48:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ebad513a93
Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable applications.
2006-10-02 04:48:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
64536a1bf4
Document PR_GET_ENDIAND and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
2006-09-26 13:01:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5e6055f467
Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
2006-09-26 12:41:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e87fdd92fa
Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
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Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
2006-09-26 12:03:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a3b7f00b4a
Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer possible.
2006-09-26 08:36:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
34f7665a1c
Added FIXME for priority inheritance operations.
2006-09-26 06:38:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2bc4bb77a9
New system calls in 2.6.17.
2006-09-18 12:35:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8231ec7de4
Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
2006-09-18 12:32:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cdcaddfc07
Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
2006-09-17 06:21:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fe247268a9
The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().
2006-09-13 14:08:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7fc594a121
Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
2006-09-09 06:37:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8106981956
s/SUID/set-user-ID/
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s/SGID/set-group-ID/
2006-09-06 15:23:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e743a18476
Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
2006-09-06 14:27:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3747f3976c
Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
2006-09-06 13:58:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2b6832a92b
Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
2006-09-06 09:17:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f339d4e28
Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to a locked region.
2006-09-06 08:36:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
62a04c814e
Added some EINVAL errors.
2006-09-06 04:44:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c8f3e58070
Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of length==0.
2006-09-05 12:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
835c4d5ce4
Document MADV_REMOVE.
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Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK.
2006-09-05 11:47:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
78cb591178
Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited by child.
2006-09-05 11:35:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e7d3b0705c
added FIXME
2006-09-05 08:03:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
80a34ae3aa
Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec().
2006-09-04 12:27:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dff08bbcbf
Update .TH line
2006-09-04 11:30:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a99426d3cf
Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ in parent and child.
2006-09-04 11:27:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f55461f02f
wfix/ffix
2006-09-04 09:26:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aa43415854
Restore SEE ALSO reference to path_resolution.2.
2006-09-04 09:21:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7422469fd
Fix header in example program.
2006-09-04 09:00:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ef0b81712f
wfix/tfix
2006-09-04 08:57:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3bd6a9b118
Memory policy is preserved across execve().
2006-09-04 08:21:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a5053dcb15
Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words.
2006-09-04 06:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ab9260357e
Document AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW (new in 2.6.18).
2006-08-10 06:39:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed93deb2ba
SEE ALSO should refer to writev.2, not writev.3
2006-08-10 05:15:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
39b9794d6d
wfix
2006-08-09 15:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1343b6043b
Make naming of 'pathname' argument consistent; various minor rewordings.
2006-08-09 09:08:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b328773d4d
tfix/wfix
2006-08-08 16:34:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
db71f2e2a5
tfix
2006-08-08 16:26:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7fadb5558
Updated CONFOMRING TOs and/or standards references.
2006-08-04 12:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9d9dc1e854
Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references
2006-08-04 09:41:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
953ba3f070
x
2006-08-04 08:41:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ead8304237
_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 also gets fchdir() prototype.
2006-08-04 08:39:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0ae3116f0b
ffix
2006-08-04 08:23:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
97c1eac86f
Updated CONFORMING TO section
2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5e3d68ad97
Removed information on standards to new standards.7.
2006-08-03 06:24:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
97c5342731
Added SEE ALSO referring to standards.7
2006-08-03 06:13:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7741d967a4
Minor wording change.
2006-08-03 03:40:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
29973b4e7b
wfix
2006-08-03 03:03:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cb1c9135d0
ffix
2006-08-03 03:02:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
160c2d5a26
ffix
2006-08-03 02:45:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
43487dbb6e
ffix
2006-08-03 02:40:44 +00:00