Michael Kerrisk
0368720957
proc.5: Alert the reader that UID/GID changes can reset the "dumpable" attribute
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Reported-by: Eric Hopper <hopper@omnifarious.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-21 14:27:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
bad1c6c80c
tzfile.5: Explain UT abbreviation
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From a conversation with Paul Eggert:
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: tzfile(5): Typo?
On 4/20/20 12:27 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> I think "UT" here is intended to mean "Universal Time", and as such
> should not be "UTC". Perhaps Paul can comment.
Yes, that's right. The tzfile format covers timestamps that predate the
introduction of UTC in 1960, so the documentation uses the sloppier and
more-general term "UT" instead of the more-precise term "UTC".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-21 07:50:12 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
fb51288cb2
locale.5: Improve description of 'first_weekday'
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 11:59:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
c7169ee565
proc.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 11:24:27 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
f68d810435
proc.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 11:06:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
dd8e0737a6
networks.5: wfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 11:04:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
4f8b740da8
securetty.5: Improve wording of .SH one-line description
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 10:06:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
31572c7125
proc.5: Minor tweaks to /proc/[pid]/mountstats example line
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 09:34:09 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
a6a5e521ab
proc.5: Better explanation of some /proc/ide fields
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Taken from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 09:32:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
ea89336966
proc.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 00:07:19 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
67df396fe6
proc.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-20 00:02:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
4a95bc0281
utmp.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:37:18 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
a15037250d
utmp.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:35:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
151e4ef316
termcap.5: wfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:26:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
83a20af064
proc.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:23:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
a3d4007cc6
pipe.2, st.4, filesystems.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:17:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
42b070e639
proc.5: wfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:13:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
34891dc551
filesystems.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:06:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
03306e1829
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/protected_regular
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Text heavily based on Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-13 12:27:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
7dcb9d213a
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/protected_fifos
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Text heavily based on Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-13 12:27:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f51687a32
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr and /proc/sys/fs/aio-nr
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Text taken nearly verbatim from
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-13 12:27:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
84eb2279b1
proc.5: Minor tweaks to Keno Fischer's patch
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-13 09:25:42 +02:00
Keno Fischer
6a036b00bd
proc.5: Fix an outdated note about map_files
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The restriction to CAP_SYS_ADMIN was removed from map_files in
2015 [1]. There was a fixme that indicted this might happen, but
the main text was never updated when this commit landed. While
we're at it, add a note about the ptrace access check that is
still required.
[1] bdb4d100af
Signed-off-by: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-13 09:25:22 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
e8426ca2b4
getent.1, localedef.1, accept.2, arch_prctl.2, clock_getres.2, clock_nanosleep.2, connect.2, dup.2, epoll_create.2, epoll_ctl.2, epoll_wait.2, execve.2, getitimer.2, getsockopt.2, gettid.2, inotify_add_watch.2, inotify_init.2, io_submit.2, ioctl.2, lseek.2, madvise.2, mlock.2, mmap.2, mprotect.2, msgctl.2, msgop.2, open_by_handle_at.2, openat2.2, pidfd_open.2, poll.2, prctl.2, quotactl.2, s390_sthyi.2, select.2, select_tut.2, semctl.2, semget.2, semop.2, setns.2, shmctl.2, shmget.2, shmop.2, sigaction.2, stat.2, statx.2, syscalls.2, timer_create.2, timerfd_create.2, unshare.2, wait.2, CPU_SET.3, aio_init.3, atoi.3, des_crypt.3, dirfd.3, fmemopen.3, fopencookie.3, ftok.3, fts.3, getaddrinfo.3, getifaddrs.3, getrpcent.3, gsignal.3, lio_listio.3, nl_langinfo.3, posix_memalign.3, posix_openpt.3, posix_spawn.3, scanf.3, sem_init.3, sem_post.3, shm_open.3, strcmp.3, strftime.3, st.4, elf.5, group.5, proc.5, services.5, aio.7, cgroups.7, feature_test_macros.7, keyrings.7, man-pages.7, namespaces.7, path_resolution.7, sigevent.7, signal.7, socket.7, sysvipc.7, time.7, udp.7: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-11 22:07:24 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
b258106ff9
proc.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-11 21:38:07 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
ee669ccaa7
proc.5: Clarify /proc/[pid]/cmdline mutability
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The cmdline file is a window into memory that is controlled by the
target process, and that memory may be changed arbitrarily, as can
the window via prctl settings. Make sure people understand that
this file is all an illusion.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-10 10:14:21 +02:00
Jakub Wilk
184d797d8c
proc.5: tfix
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Escape hyphens.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-03-12 06:40:25 +01:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov
6ba949de0a
filesystems.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-02-23 21:38:29 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
0019177eac
getent.1, localedef.1, clock_nanosleep.2, fcntl.2, getitimer.2, getsockopt.2, inotify_init.2, ioctl.2, mlock.2, mprotect.2, quotactl.2, s390_sthyi.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2, shmget.2, wait.2, CPU_SET.3, aio_init.3, des_crypt.3, fmemopen.3, fopencookie.3, fts.3, getaddrinfo.3, getrpcent.3, lio_listio.3, posix_spawn.3, shm_open.3, st.4, elf.5, group.5, proc.5, services.5, aio.7, feature_test_macros.7, keyrings.7, man-pages.7, sigevent.7, tcp.7, udp.7: Global formatting fix: disfavor nonstandard .TP indents
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In many cases, these don't improve readability, and (when stacked)
they sometimes have the side effect of sometimes forcing text
to be justified within a narrow column range.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-02-23 09:58:23 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
465b6c35e9
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/vm/unprivileged_userfaultfd
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-01-21 22:01:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
dca4bbfc0a
elf.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Robin Kuzmin <kuzmin.robin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-12-11 23:01:08 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
a5409de92c
clone.2, fallocate.2, ioctl_iflags.2, ioctl_list.2, pidfd_open.2, pivot_root.2, quotactl.2, seccomp.2, select.2, wait.2, proc.5, cgroups.7, netdevice.7, uts_namespaces.7: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-11-19 15:31:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
85d764718b
resolv.conf.5: srcfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-11-07 13:21:53 +01:00
Florian Weimer
551162f54f
resolv.conf.5: Attempt clarify domain/search interaction
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The domain directive is historic at this point; it should not
be used.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-11-07 13:20:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
400027959e
clone.2, proc.5: Adjust references to namespaces(7)
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Adjust references to namespaces(7) to be references to pages
describing specific namespace types.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-10-31 11:34:08 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
867c9b3408
localedef.1, close.2, copy_file_range.2, execve.2, get_robust_list.2, getdomainname.2, gethostname.2, inotify_add_watch.2, io_submit.2, ioctl_fideduperange.2, kcmp.2, kill.2, mmap.2, move_pages.2, perf_event_open.2, ptrace.2, rt_sigqueueinfo.2, sched_setaffinity.2, sched_setparam.2, setns.2, sigaction.2, signalfd.2, statx.2, syscall.2, syscalls.2, uname.2, write.2, errno.3, fexecve.3, getauxval.3, printf.3, pthread_mutex_consistent.3, pthread_mutexattr_init.3, pthread_mutexattr_setrobust.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, regex.3, strtok.3, strtol.3, ttyname.3, smartpqi.4, core.5, resolv.conf.5, man-pages.7, mq_overview.7, operator.7, pthreads.7, signal-safety.7, sysvipc.7: Update timestamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-10-11 10:45:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
8952468409
resolv.conf.5: srcfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-09-13 16:01:58 +02:00
Nikola Forró
c594a728b2
resolv.conf.5: Update information about search list
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Since glibc 2.26, the number of domains in the search list is
no longer limited.
Reference:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=3f853f22c87f0b671c0366eb290919719fa56c0e
Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-09-13 16:00:27 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
344bbbd16a
core.5: Minor tweaks to Paul Wise's patch
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-09-13 15:01:33 +02:00
Paul Wise
a33adb814a
core.5: Explain the new situation with argument splitting
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Things changed in Linux v5.3-rc3 commit 315c69261dd3 from
splitting after template expansion to splitting beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-09-13 14:58:55 +02:00
Jakub Wilk
8d839a5673
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-08-03 13:59:35 +02:00
Ingo Schwarze
8bfbac5d14
proc.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 14:35:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
adb5263fcc
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 08:37:26 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
63121bd499
pldd.1, bpf.2, chdir.2, clone.2, fanotify_init.2, fanotify_mark.2, intro.2, ipc.2, mount.2, mprotect.2, msgctl.2, msgget.2, msgop.2, pivot_root.2, pkey_alloc.2, poll.2, prctl.2, semctl.2, semget.2, semop.2, setxattr.2, shmctl.2, shmget.2, shmop.2, tkill.2, dlopen.3, exec.3, ftok.3, getutent.3, on_exit.3, strcat.3, cpuid.4, proc.5, capabilities.7, cgroup_namespaces.7, credentials.7, fanotify.7, mount_namespaces.7, namespaces.7, sched.7, signal.7, socket.7, unix.7, user_namespaces.7, vdso.7, xattr.7, ld.so.8: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 08:34:32 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
9b8887eb94
proc.5: Correct description of /pro/PID/status 'ShdPnd' and 'SigPnd' fields
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These fields are signal masks, not counters.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-07-10 14:54:10 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
a4e6603a52
proc.5: Clarify that various mask fields in /proc/PID/status are in hexadecimal
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-07-10 14:14:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
8e2ca125e4
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-07-10 14:11:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
1d03bca07f
ipc.5: Remove old link to svipc.7/sysvipc.7 page
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Long ago, the sysvipc.7 page was called ipc.5, which was both a
misnaming (too general a name) and an inconsistent section. The
page was renamed (to svipc.7) many years ago, and the link with
the old name has probably ceased to be needed. So, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-06-25 06:40:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
343cdc5ac9
clone.2, intro.2, ipc.2, msgctl.2, msgget.2, msgop.2, semctl.2, semget.2, semop.2, shmctl.2, shmget.2, shmop.2, ftok.3, proc.5, namespaces.7: Change reference to svipc(7) to sysvipc(7)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-06-25 06:38:01 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk
8adf58622f
proc.5: Minor fix: add some paragraph breaks to /proc/[pid]/attr/current text
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Break the text up a little, to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-06-18 20:51:11 +02:00