13a36929ad
recv.2: Minor tweaks
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-12 14:42:50 +02:00
687b7c838d
pread.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-12 14:35:03 +02:00
f01470e6e3
migrate_pages.2: New page documenting migrate_pages(2).
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Andi's text based on the move_pages.2 page; additional edits by mtk.
migrate_pages(2) was new in Linux 2.6.16.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-12 14:27:49 +02:00
b8c599cba0
poll.2: Fix discussion of ppoll() timeout argument
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1. Rename ppoll)(_ argument to "timeout_ts" to distinguish it
from the poll() argument in the text.
2. More accurately describe the poll() call that is equivalent
to ppoll().
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-12 14:15:00 +02:00
ed31c5727f
prctl.2: Document the hwpoison prctls in 2.6.32
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-12 13:47:27 +02:00
81fff50bbf
move_pages.2: minor tweaks
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 14:26:36 +02:00
ebbb5118f0
mremap.2: Clarify existence of fifth argument.
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Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 08:07:47 +02:00
1fd0fa4338
move_pages.2: minor tweak to Andi's patch
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 07:38:13 +02:00
cb8fbbcd47
Clarify includes/libraries in move_pages page
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Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 07:38:13 +02:00
665f1e69cf
sigaction.2: Improve description of various siginfo_t fields
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 07:38:13 +02:00
f402032c67
sigaction.2: Document hwpoison signal extensions
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 07:38:12 +02:00
b2b49ccb2d
select_tut.2: Fix bug in example program
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Reported-by: Andrew Klossner <andrew@cesa.opbu.xerox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-11 07:38:10 +02:00
a30508988b
statfs.2: Add definition EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC = 0xEF53
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 15:05:59 +02:00
84492c365b
setsid.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 14:43:43 +02:00
57440a987d
getrusage.2: Enhanced description of various fields
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 05:21:17 +02:00
e3f4bf3ee4
getrusage.2: srcfix: Update change history to note Mark Hills' updates
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 05:21:05 +02:00
c90ccb4e1b
getrusage.2: Add ru_maxrss
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See kernel commit 1f10206.
Signed-off-by: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 04:27:40 +02:00
d1cd1e055a
getrusage.2: Description of maintained fields
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These descriptions are taken from NetBSD 5.0's getrusage(2).
Signed-off-by: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 04:27:28 +02:00
3a7c32f47e
timer_create.2, timer_delete.2, timer_getoverrun.2, timer_settime.2, getline.3: Add 'L' to constants in feature test macro specifications
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Be consistent with POSIX, which uses constants such as 200809L.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 03:58:26 +02:00
b182a7e530
msgop.2: tfix: s/msg_bytes/msg_qbytes/
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Reported-by: Mihai Paraschivescu <paraschivescu_mihail@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-23 03:19:34 +02:00
2dc48048f4
mount.2: Fix incorrect path
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-22 05:32:46 +02:00
9b936e9eec
futex.2: Various fixes in SEE ALSO
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Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-22 05:23:14 +02:00
028cb0809b
prctl.2: Correct PR_SET_KEEPCAPS description
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The "keep capabilities" flag only affects the treatment of
permitted capabilities, not effective capabilities.
Also: other improvements to make the PR_SET_KEEPCAPS text clearer.
Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-13 06:16:25 +02:00
623ba005ca
prctl.2: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-10 05:30:56 +02:00
12062404f9
mmap.2: Document MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag
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New in Linux 2.6.33.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-03-13 08:08:06 +01:00
7c7adcbe55
mmap.2: minor: fix text ordering (MAP_STACK)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-03-13 07:11:08 +01:00
285bf67e18
syscalls.2: Bring system call list up to date with Linux 2.6.33
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-03-06 06:46:15 +01:00
d3ea5e9928
syscalls.2: Fix kernel version number for utimes()
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-03-06 06:31:08 +01:00
ec8bcce2a8
mlock.2: /proc/PID/status VmLck shows how much memory a process has locked
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After a note from Tom Swigg, it seems sensible mention VmLck here.
Reported-by: Tom Swigg <swiggtc@lsbu.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-03-05 04:02:19 +01:00
736bedf67b
sigprocmask.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-26 11:15:26 +01:00
d5dd3a91dc
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2010-02-26 05:45:27 +01:00
513051f769
add_key.2, keyctl.2, request_key.2, stime.2, time.2, ctime.3, difftime.3, ftime.3, getspnam.3, mq_receive.3, mq_send.3, rtime.3, sem_wait.3, string.3, timeradd.3, tzset.3, rtc.4, core.5, icmp.7, time.7, zic.8: Updated .TH timestamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-25 10:43:57 +01:00
4509c62e84
keyctl.2: New page documenting keyctl(2)
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Taken from keyutils-1.1 package.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-25 08:29:42 +01:00
6dd17d2301
request_key: New page documenting request_key(2)
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Taken from keyutils-1.1 package.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-25 08:29:02 +01:00
2e2f82fc2a
add_key.2: New page documenting add_key(2)
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Taken from keyutils-1.1 package.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-25 08:24:00 +01:00
38271a2dc6
sched_setscheduler.2: srcfix: Added FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-21 15:18:42 +01:00
821c035685
setuid.2: Remove crufty statement that seteuid() is not in POSIX
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569812
Reported-by: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-21 15:14:09 +01:00
5d469421e6
madvise.2: srcfix: added FIXME
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-21 15:14:09 +01:00
f859dc58b6
setpgid.2: tfix
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Reported-by: Kevin <tsubasa.xw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-21 15:14:08 +01:00
5227ef33b5
sendfile.2: Clarify behavior when offset is NULL
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-21 15:14:08 +01:00
763cccc52e
intro.2, intro.3: Make subsection heading consistent with other intro.? pages
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These pages used "Copyright Terms"; the other intro.? pages
used "Copyright Conditions". Make these pages like the others.
Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yoray@komyakino.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-03 06:14:26 +01:00
a113440ce6
clock_getres.2: Update text on nonsetabble CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID clocks
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SUSv3 permits, but does not require CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID and
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID to be settable.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11972 .
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-02-03 04:27:11 +01:00
db3e674548
sync_file_range.2: Add some big warnings re data integrity
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This system call is by design completely unsuitable for any data
integrity operations. Make that very clear in the manpage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-17 05:44:25 +01:00
ef2e066053
stime.2, time.2, difftime.3, rtime.3, core.5: srcfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-17 04:58:36 +01:00
f49c451a62
stime.2, time.2, utimensat.2, ctime.3, difftime.3, ftime.3, getspnam.3, mq_receive.3, mq_send.3, rtime.3, sem_wait.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, timeradd.3, rtc.4, core.5, proc.5, icmp.7, time.7: Global fix: Consistently define the Epoch
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All definitions of the Epoch have been refactored to the following:
1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
That form is more consistent, logical, precise, and internationally
recognizable than the other variants.
Also, some wording has been altered as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-17 04:55:05 +01:00
750d65df7d
stime.2, strftime.3, tzset.3, zic.8: GMT -> UTC (where appropriate)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 19:17:39 +01:00
bd74a87338
prctl.2, putgrent.3, strcat.3, strcpy.3, console_ioctl.4: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:56:17 +01:00
3b777affca
close.2, epoll_create.2, epoll_ctl.2, fcntl.2, madvise.2, mmap.2, mremap.2, select_tut.2, setgid.2, setuid.2, syscalls.2, vmsplice.2, dlopen.3, fts.3, getpw.3, stdio.3, fd.4, initrd.4, random.4, sd.4, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, cpuset.7, epoll.7, inotify.7, man.7, socket.7, x25.7: Global fix: s/re-/re/
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The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "re-" etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:45:23 +01:00
310672d6b1
ioctl_list.2, mount.2, select_tut.2, stat.2, getifaddrs.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, proc.5, bootparam.7: Global fix: s/sub-/sub/
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The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "sub-" etc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:36:10 +01:00
488007e867
nanosleep.2: minor: Remove unneeded word "non-blocked"
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:30:49 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk