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Michael Kerrisk 0368720957 proc.5: Alert the reader that UID/GID changes can reset the "dumpable" attribute
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:37:18 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a15037250d utmp.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-19 22:35:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 151e4ef316 termcap.5: wfix
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-04-11 22:07:24 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b258106ff9 proc.5: ffix
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
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
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
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
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2020-01-21 22:01:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk dca4bbfc0a elf.5: tfix
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-11-19 15:31:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 85d764718b resolv.conf.5: srcfix
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
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)
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-10-11 10:45:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8952468409 resolv.conf.5: srcfix
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
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
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
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
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-08-02 14:35:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk adb5263fcc proc.5: tfix
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
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
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
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2019-07-10 14:14:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e2ca125e4 proc.5: tfix
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
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)
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
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