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Michael Kerrisk 7acf5ebe43 sigaction.2: Clarify that sa_mask affects the *per-thread* signal mask
The page didn't previously clearly explain the scope of the
signal mask that is affected by sa_mask.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2008-10-29 14:54:12 -05:00
Michael Kerrisk 3fb46b2b3b sigaction.2: wfix 2008-10-04 08:27:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f7d174ea1b sigaction.2: refer reader to signal(7) for an overview of signals
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Gergely Soos <sogerc1@gmail.com>
2008-10-04 08:01:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ac0def44d sigaction.2: explain semantics of signal disposition during fork() and execve()
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2008-10-04 07:49:53 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f200f076c Add/fix feature test macro requirements. 2008-08-29 15:50:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45bd688fd s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively. 2008-07-23 02:57:20 +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 c810983b11 Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
Add some text for si_trapno field.
The si_errno field is *generally* unused.
Put descriptions of SA_* constants in alphabetical order.
2008-07-07 09:17:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bbd7e60a1b Note that SA_NOCLDSTOP is only meaningful if establishing a
handler for SIGCHLD.
Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for
SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD.
Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7)
describing system call restarting.
Other minor edits.
2008-07-04 11:26:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00ac6ce430 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-02 13:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d03d9a05b3 Added FIXME. 2008-06-30 08:59:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae4a72b7b2 Remove orphaned formatting macros. 2008-06-26 13:39:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 058c11652c Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page. 2008-02-11 11:41:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c382a36592 hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 22:02:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2badfdf26 Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 20:50:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca62583fcf tfix 2007-12-23 22:20:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd19142309 enclose code smaples/structure defns/etc in ".in +4n / .in" 2007-12-19 06:16:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc8d39abe6 Fix date in TH line (s/2005/2007/ which was wrongly changed in 2.63). 2007-12-17 16:25:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e39138d190 ffix 2007-12-07 19:53:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6beb1671d2 tfix/wfix 2007-10-16 19:18:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 688e23c6f7 s/SIGILL/SIGCHLD/ for paragraph describing SIGCHLD. 2007-08-27 08:06:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 040471f18b Added FIXME. 2007-07-17 18:53:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c797f8d3c7 Added FIXME 2007-07-17 18:49:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73932e1279 s/si_sign/si_errno/ in statement about which field is unused. 2007-07-14 03:08:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 292d25b095 Fix page cross references 2007-07-08 15:05:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb94ed02ab Updated date in .TH line 2007-06-29 17:34:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1812a94934 Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and wording changes. 2007-06-29 17:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 437a918274 grfix 2007-06-28 19:04:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0643ee28f8 wfix 2007-06-23 08:16:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 988db66164 strip trailing white space 2007-06-21 22:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bd58774dc Formatted signal names 2007-06-21 05:38:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8fc3da7ec0 Removed reference to non-existent sigsend(2). 2007-06-01 06:05:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af5267b2f4 Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2. 2007-05-25 18:42:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2dd578fd5b Reordered sections for consistency. 2007-05-18 16:30:46 +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 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e519bf2eb Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
2007-05-04 20:32:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7295b7eda0 Replaced tabs with spaces 2007-04-05 13:29:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf0a9ace57 ffix 2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 521bf58405 ffix 2007-04-03 14:04:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e1a9bc1bc7 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new core.5 page 2006-03-31 07:10:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1130df606b Amend copyright notices, in particular those where I had significant
authorship.
2006-02-15 23:15:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92057f4dbc Updated FIXMEs 2006-02-08 09:44:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 30ecea55d4 Changed SEE ALSO to reflect movement of sig* pages between sections. 2005-11-29 15:01:54 +00:00