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Michael Kerrisk 70ccce1140 group.5: s/passwd/password/ 
The page inconsistently used "passwd" and "password"
to refer to the same field.

Reported-by: Jason Goldfine-Middleton <jasonwoodfine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:47:27 +02:00
Andries E. Brouwer 130b2e49b1 clone.2: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:39:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a8fe6a940 setgid.2: Fix EPERM error description 
s/effective group ID/real group ID/
This bug lived in man pages for 15 years before Jason
spotted it! I checked back in Linux 1.0, and the behavior
was as the fixed man page describes.

Reported-by: Jason Noakes <jjnoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:36:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1eef2ba881 fcntl.2: s/F_OWNER_GID/F_OWNER_PGRP/ 
Peter Zijlstra took the name change I suggested.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:00:04 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk dd164bfcd5 fcntl.2: Document F_[SG]ETOWN_EX; update details on F_SETOWN 
Linux 2.6.32 adds F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX.
Linux 2.6.12 changed (broke) the former behavior of
F_SETOWN with respect to threads.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-03 17:23:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4c88340a5b Changes.old: spfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-03 07:41:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 52725cd997 Start of man-pages-3.24: updating Changes and Changes.old 2009-09-30 05:21:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk dc7e17a319 Start of man-pages-3.24: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2009-09-30 05:21:55 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 37d717a405 Start of man-pages-3.24: renaming .Announce and .lsm files 2009-09-30 05:21:55 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a5bfc11c2c Ready for 3.23 2009-09-30 03:36:19 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 17e5e6779a Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2009-09-30 03:34:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2843ba93d4 stat.2, posix_fallocate.3, proc.5, tcp.7, udp.7: tstamp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-30 03:28:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a63a7bcd8c Changes: Update for 3.23 release 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-30 03:25:50 +02:00
Nicolas François 576b0bccd1 capabilities.7: Reword a bad sentence in description of capability bounding set. 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:31 +02:00
Nicolas François 4d1de263eb cpuset.7: Minor wording fixes 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:31 +02:00
Nicolas François e46256a48c strftime.3: Fix error in description: s/Monday/Thursday/ 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:31 +02:00
Nicolas François 71a8ab18b9 tcp.7: wfix: be more consistent in usage of infinitive or indicative 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:31 +02:00
Nicolas François b8f094b3d6 tcp.7, udp.7: Replace references to syctl interfaces with /proc 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c440fe01d3 clone.2: Minor wording fixes 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:30 +02:00
Nicolas François c20cd2f0cb proc.5: Fix page cross reference 
max_user_watches is better explained in epoll(7) than inotify(7).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:30 +02:00
Nicolas François 315dc3cd78 posix_fallocate.3: Fix reference to POSIX.1-2008 
The sentence mentions twice POSIX.1-2001.
I guess the second one should be POSIX.1-2008.
This should be checked in the standard.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e4f09fd444 timer_getoverrun.2: wfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:30 +02:00
Nicolas François bdfd22665a stat.2: Fix small bug in example program 
Since it is a failure, EXIT_FAILURE looks more appropriate
than EXIT_SUCCESS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:29 +02:00
Nicolas François a4d45bc1b9 semctl.2: Remove some redundant words 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:29 +02:00
Nicolas François 5feae95791 move_pages.2: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:29 +02:00
Nicolas François 64f6ff57b8 epoll_ctl.2: wfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:29 +02:00
Nicolas François 05f6c8ef65 tcp.7: Minor fix 
It seems to me that "algorithm" is missing here.
Or maybe "choices" could be replaced by "algorithms".

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 17b7878618 sigaction.2: Minor fixes 
Minor grammar fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a8974b6de4 getdomainname.2: Minor change 
s/current processors/host system/, which is a little clearer.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:28 +02:00
Nicolas François 19a7edd645 koi8-u.7: Minor fixes 
Unneeded double spaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:28 +02:00
Nicolas François 8b2096a905 iso_8859-4.7: Minor fixes 
The decimal did not match with octal and hexa values.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:28 +02:00
Nicolas François de1d448783 iso_8859-10.7: Minor fixes 
Spelling fix.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:28 +02:00
Nicolas François 531178c584 ip.7: Minor fixes 
Consistently use the infinitive.
Other typos.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:28 +02:00
Nicolas François 0b8403b824 feature_test_macros.7: Minor fixes 
Fix important typos in constant values.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:27 +02:00
Nicolas François 1188776ff7 udp.7: Minor fixes 
Grammar and formatting fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:27 +02:00
Nicolas François 7b67ce431a tcp.7: Minor fixes 
tcp_congestion_control is not a boolean. The default is explained in the
text. It cannot be enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:27 +02:00
Nicolas François 669cf85752 rtld-audit.7: Minor fixes 
Wording and formatting fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:27 +02:00
Nicolas François cb0858c7bf pthreads.7: Minor fixes 
Grammar fix.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:26 +02:00
Nicolas François b464dbdf47 numa.7: Minor fixes 
Spelling and formatting fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:26 +02:00
Nicolas François 9040938e5a resolv.conf.5: Minor fixes 
The value itself is capped, not the maximum for this value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:26 +02:00
Nicolas François 228eac2b6f proc.5: Minor fixes 
Formatting fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:26 +02:00
Nicolas François 4cd0814b5c cpuid.4: Minor fixes 
Use the same formatting conventions as other manpages.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:26 +02:00
Nicolas François 7391478f8b updwtmp.3: Minor fixes 
Spelling fix (s/utmp/wtmp/)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:25 +02:00
Nicolas François 8856a9dc45 readdir.3: Minor fixes 
Spelling fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:25 +02:00
Nicolas François 3849d36538 pthread_getattr_np.3: Minor fixes 
Spelling fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:25 +02:00
Nicolas François 3f1a745d44 timer_settime.2: Minor fixes 
Fix typos:
 * duplicate the
 * curr_value is a pointer
 * misplaced 'a'.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:25 +02:00
Nicolas François 37f0c8322e timer_create.2: Minor fixes 
Add missing parenthesis
Explicitly indicate that conditions are ORed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:25 +02:00
Nicolas François ec28c6b988 stat.2: Minor fixes 
Fix to formatting issues:
 * remove ending tabulation
 * add missing parenthesis

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:25 +02:00
Nicolas François b6a046323e set_thread_area.2: Minor fixes 
set_thread_area is a system call, not a library function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:24 +02:00
Nicolas François dc99a2a724 select_tut.2: Minor fixes 
Wording and spelling fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-28 12:46:24 +02:00