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Michael Kerrisk ca7b3c180c Wrapped source lines at sentence boundaries. 2007-06-08 11:25:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb1af89677 Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes 
independent of fixes for American spelling).
 2007-06-08 10:58:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9daed02662 spfix 2007-06-08 10:06:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55f7ee2a7f Note that spelling convention is now fixed on American. 2007-06-08 10:04:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53a1443cce Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7. 2007-06-08 07:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e5a067ad0 An overview of process identifiers on Linux. 2007-06-08 07:47:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f9d18f8ac spfix 2007-06-07 12:55:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f7aa9fc0f ffix 2007-06-02 06:23:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5998eb256a Modify requirements for example programs a little. 2007-06-02 06:13:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28442c8f31 grfix 2007-06-02 05:49:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 91749c0ca6 Wrapped long source lines 2007-06-02 05:44:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6116ff440b wrapped long source lines 2007-06-02 05:43:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2a85592a6d Correct some section numbers in page xrefs. 2007-06-01 05:51:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 680347c7e1 grfix 2007-06-01 05:33:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d0fb1e4d2 wfix 2007-06-01 05:24:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1bdcbc0140 spfix 2007-06-01 05:21:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7174626ff7 grfix 2007-06-01 05:18:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 641b2d63b5 Add "Linux" to .TH line 2007-05-30 05:43:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7413163f9 Added EXAMPLE section with pointer to bind.2 EXAMPLE. 2007-05-28 15:50:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 86b86ab3b7 Updated TH line. 2007-05-27 21:56:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5ce8911931 Fix order of commands listed under 'init='. 2007-05-27 21:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2addd91025 Add /media, remove /dos. 2007-05-27 15:30:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7e3ee6faa Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to read(2) 
is too small to return information about the next event, and noting
the behaviour change in 2.6.21.
 2007-05-27 14:21:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 09f49246cf Added text to note that ERRORS list should be in alphabetical order. 2007-05-27 13:56:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6026c417a6 Added SEE ALSO reference to groff_mdoc(7). 2007-05-27 13:09:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f0a15fe06a ffix 2007-05-27 11:48:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3191983f50 Was path_resolution.2 2007-05-26 12:43:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5acd77eb40 ffix 2007-05-24 21:18:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8843c2ecd Minor updates after comments by AEB. 2007-05-23 21:35:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04bc882719 Minor changes. 2007-05-23 06:16:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ac8903bdb0 Added SEE ALSO referring to new man-pages.7. 2007-05-22 23:49:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5e87f4264 Updated date in TH line 2007-05-22 23:49:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa10b88dcd Removed outdated FIXMES. 2007-05-22 23:48:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ba83bc0d89 Conventions for writing Linux man-pages. 2007-05-22 23:46:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e7cbacd4af Moved various text out of here into new man-pages.7. 2007-05-22 23:42:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccd2b351c8 Removed "." at end of SEE ALSO list 2007-05-22 21:49:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27fcc638b7 Minor rewording under BUGS. 2007-05-22 20:58:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d2d6c2f086 Shorten a line in table so it fits in 80 columns. 2007-05-22 20:56:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f66194a102 Eliminate error: 
mdoc.samples.7:1082: warning: `int' not defined (probable missing space after `in')
 2007-05-22 20:14:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d5a33292f6 ffix 2007-05-22 20:08:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c930827f44 s/exec()/execve(2)/ in various places. 2007-05-21 22:12:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e1c01a76 ffix 2007-05-21 21:25:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9a77f5ef62 Changed "atan(1)" to "atan(1.0)" to prevent some versions of 
man2html(1) from mistaking that string as a page cross reference.
 2007-05-21 17:02:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 728d0dcf0e Added FIXME 2007-05-21 16:44:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be1d83d432 Small restructuring to avoid 'cannot adjust line' from man(1). 2007-05-21 16:41:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9044f1b87e Added FIXME 2007-05-21 16:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0dac954be5 ffix 2007-05-21 16:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 677653bb2c ffix 2007-05-21 16:12:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c0f153c6c4 Minor rearrangement of order of text. 2007-05-21 13:08:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 051815fe3d ffix 2007-05-21 12:46:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1da4ccb032 ffix 2007-05-21 12:40:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70b2f1e824 ffix 2007-05-21 12:28:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10523c1472 Removed outdated FIXME. 2007-05-21 10:19:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 506774c8a9 ffix 2007-05-21 10:17:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6c1725da8f Removed outdated FIXME. 2007-05-21 10:16:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fbe4cd56e1 Removed out-of-date FIXME. 2007-05-21 10:15:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d548bfe96 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2007-05-21 10:10:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e9329f6ddc Where there is an instruction in the SYNOPIS about linking 
or compiling with a certain option, the option is now
marked up in itlacs (e.g., "\fI-lm\fP").
 2007-05-21 09:56:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 71162f2e89 Removed this page since it is out of date, and the proper place to go 
for up-to-date information is http://www.tldp.org/.
 2007-05-21 07:33:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b2581ee37 Fix inconsistencies in order of .SH sections 2007-05-19 04:30:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 89c77752ec More updates. 2007-05-18 14:28:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1b5382be5b ffix 2007-05-18 13:08:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 889829be48 Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs 
under another section e.g., NOTES.
 2007-05-18 11:59:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ebb451fb69 Minor changes 2007-05-18 10:29:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 69289f8a29 Fix inconsistencies in .TH line 2007-05-18 10:09:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 241455b804 Minor changes 2007-05-18 10:08:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 05eabe6576 Fix inconsistencies in .TH line 2007-05-18 09:21:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d5a3539b7 Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines 2007-05-18 09:11:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c6cbc9f2bc minir change 2007-05-18 09:09:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6b9359dca Various updates 2007-05-18 08:55:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ed55ece49 Make "manual" in .TH line "Linux Programmers Manual" 2007-05-18 08:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4da8f5148e Added FIXME 2007-05-16 19:50:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 226ae424f9 Substantial rewrite, revising and extending the discussion 
about desired conventions for writing pages.
 2007-05-16 19:46:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e37e328263 Move SEE ALSO section to end of page 2007-05-16 18:25:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b5dc6f115 s/RETURN VALUES/RETURN VALUE/ 2007-05-16 05:00:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 874c4068bd Added some FIXMEs 2007-05-16 04:37:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6459c9ca10 ffix 2007-05-16 04:00:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c1d51bcd85 Commented out .SH CREDITS section with authorship info. 2007-05-16 03:47:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd7f0a7f58 Commented out .SH AUTHOR sections 2007-05-16 03:40:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e628c5ce2 Rewrote .SH AUTHOR line as a .SS line 2007-05-16 03:39:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 19c98696a2 s/SH NOTE$/SH NOTES/ 2007-05-16 02:54:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4fca0d3ed3 Minor wording and formatting fixes 2007-05-15 06:01:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc9470cfa7 ffix 2007-05-12 13:28:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9c1ae6480 Use bold for function name, not underline. 2007-05-12 13:12:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60a90ecdae Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to ".BR name ()". 2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 63f6a20a1a Add section numbers to page xrefs 2007-05-11 23:29:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd8a9ce442 Defintions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR 
were added to glibc in version 2.5.
 2007-05-11 19:59:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d89be9f3bb spfix 2007-05-04 22:53:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6d70cf942 Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and sysv_signal.3 pages. 2007-05-04 21:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e8f5dd81ab Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on 
async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2).
 2007-05-04 20:31:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 32875790e8 Make hyphens into minus signs. 2007-05-01 07:57:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c44bd5b0b Wrap long lines; start sentences on new lines 2007-04-24 16:44:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc936104cd .SH doesn't require quotes. 
See Debian bug 411303.
 2007-04-24 16:22:46 +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 b59874b963 Document IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, which will be in 2.6.22. 2007-04-05 15:47:26 +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 1954b6a9b4 Remove duplicate word typo. 2007-03-01 01:12:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7c740cb83 Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ. 2007-02-02 05:41:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dac02dc671 Reword sentence for _REENTRANT 2007-02-01 06:11:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3bbf18d91 Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE, _REENTRANT, and _THREAD_SAFE. 2007-01-28 19:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6a7a7820e Added some text warning that the "__" macros the <features.h> 
defines internally should never be directly defined by programs.
 2007-01-28 17:44:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18d31cc0be Removed CONFIGURATION section, which doesn't applly on Linux. 2007-01-03 22:59:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2949f48301 Drief discussion of System V termio, with pointers to pages the 
reader probably wants.
 2006-12-28 04:22:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3fc9c0fd7 wfix 2006-12-27 04:35:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a767e49a6 spfix 2006-12-27 04:35:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e975ae7d5 ffix 2006-12-27 04:34:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3547839964 wrap long source lines 2006-12-27 03:54:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae7098c726 Fix data types in associated datastructures; 
remove non-existent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
 2006-12-27 02:24:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d24e23199c s/Unices/Unix systems/ 2006-12-17 01:04:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d91909cb29 The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4. 2006-12-02 18:01:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 441082ad91 Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova 
Documented "mem=nopentium".
 2006-11-30 03:31:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 45313e9e16 The LFS spec is now at http://opengroup.org/platform/lfs.html. 2006-11-25 20:20:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk edd260bc5d Describe the correct default for UDP/RAW path MTU discovery. 2006-11-25 19:17:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b8732547c wfix 2006-11-25 00:50:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48102e9d12 wfix 2006-09-26 13:54:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b86408509 Place socket options in alpha order. 2006-09-26 13:48:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0759233426 Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP. 2006-09-19 14:39:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e8b726f68 Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL. 2006-09-12 06:38:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e83e4364d Updates FIXMEs. 2006-09-07 07:28:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5d9e65b94d Restore text accidentally deleted in 2.39. 2006-09-04 09:16:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fa203d8506 Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2". 2006-09-04 09:07:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4dc36d0294 tfix 2006-08-09 13:31:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 237aa7c5b7 ffix 2006-08-08 16:35:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf31de0ee4 s/Unix/UNIX/ 2006-08-05 04:10:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e670f72217 Some more updates 2006-08-05 04:05:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7fadb5558 Updated CONFOMRING TOs and/or standards references. 2006-08-04 12:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f27112696 Added a few more standards. 2006-08-04 12:38:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4dec66f990 Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:58:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b886a2880 More updates 2006-08-03 13:56:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4314687b70 Mention "POSIX.4". 2006-08-03 08:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d8f1eb2eb4 Based on material taken from intro.2, but expanded to 
include discussion of many additional standards.
 2006-08-03 06:25:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c5342731 Added SEE ALSO referring to standards.7 2006-08-03 06:13:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a12ee81d69 wfix 2006-08-03 02:51:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk edf9050892 Updated date in .TH line 2006-07-31 12:53:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7c1e564b7 Added material on privileges required for move_pages(). 
CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
 2006-07-31 12:52:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a28e26a155 s%IO%I/O% 2006-07-21 14:56:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk defcceb3e7 ffix 2006-07-20 16:16:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d7090f5bd5 ffix 2006-07-19 23:59:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4291b3e4c4 wfix 2006-07-19 12:55:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6da5d70799 tcp_windows_scaling is ENabled by default 2006-07-11 04:36:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c16301e39 ffix 2006-07-10 11:05:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14b101fe07 Added FIXME for IP_FREEBIND 2006-07-06 13:06:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55014d7af6 Add sentence on "low memory" limit for tcp_mem on 32-bit systems. 2006-07-05 11:00:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60eca5f686 Update RFC reference for ECN. 2006-07-05 10:03:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f5ef9cad5 wfix 2006-06-20 09:35:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a1b91fa4e ffix 2006-06-08 18:47:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed7b0235b0 Added BUGS section. 2006-06-05 11:00:07 +00:00