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Michael Kerrisk a0f7c7d8ba Update list of async-sygnal-safe functions for POSIX.1-2008. 2008-08-21 06:38:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b042551e7 Fix C Lameter's email address 2008-08-13 13:25:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dc5933fac spfix 2008-08-13 13:23:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dae645c6c8 Remove old FIXME 2008-08-13 11:14:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d817ee341 A new page giving overview details for the Linux NUMA interfaces. 
Incorporates some material from mbind.2, and the description
of /proc/PID/numa_maps from proc.5.
 2008-08-13 08:12:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6021646873 SEE ALSO: add numa(7). 2008-08-13 08:08:05 +00:00
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
Michael Kerrisk 506bee474a tstamp 2008-07-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0de5014fe0 Document cpuset mechanism for confining processes to processors and nodes. 2008-07-03 19:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c85aa6ba5 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4564433c99 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard 
signals is unspecified.
 2008-07-02 12:54:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 095e060410 Overview of POSIX shared memory API. 2008-07-02 05:03:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27e8d1a56d ffix 2008-07-01 16:32:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6e731d1f4 ffix 2008-06-26 13:38:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f6b8245d1 ffix 2008-06-26 13:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 027ebd3c4b Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions. 2008-06-26 13:15:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9085070854 ffix 2008-06-26 12:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73858a07dd Wfix 2008-06-24 14:05:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bb26f2df6 Note that HRTs are not supported on all h/w. 2008-06-23 11:21:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46f14bc7b0 Added some details about where jiffies come into play. 
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various points in the page.
 2008-06-23 09:19:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8cacdebdab tstamp 2008-06-18 09:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7eb11a9fe7 formatting and wording improvements 2008-06-18 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fadbfb588 For consistency, "fix" cases where aregument of .B or .I was on the following source line. 2008-06-18 08:57:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4b5a0b0c8 Updated text referring to syscalls(2). 2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 905c9e1c05 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:47:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b84b38312 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:46:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305865606d Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores since 2.6.19. 2008-06-11 22:32:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f36e23f07 Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX message queues. 2008-06-11 22:31:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94b40171e1 Provide a clear description of the three types of address that can 
appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed, and abstract.
 2008-06-11 22:11:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b061b28a6 Minor tweaks 2008-06-11 21:50:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eae3689b44 A description of symbolic links, taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and heavily edited. 2008-06-11 21:25:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06b00cff20 A description of hostnames, taken from FreeBSD. 2008-06-11 21:24:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 294544e7b2 Expand description of VERSIONS section. 2008-06-11 13:41:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bb93cd4bb Control character names (^X) are writte boldface, without quotes. 2008-06-10 08:44:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45660d7d7 wrap long source lines 2008-06-09 21:12:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8062a09161 Add FIXME 2008-06-09 21:07:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 333a424b0e Try and bring some consistency to quotes. 2008-06-09 21:03:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f81fb4445b s/\\'/\\(aq/ 2008-06-09 15:49:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84c517a450 Change use of quote characters to get better UTF-8 rendering. 2008-06-05 20:14:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b8b45978b0 /'/\\'/ to produce better UTF rendering 2008-06-05 19:01:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9377e6281a ffix 2008-06-05 18:53:46 +00:00