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Michael Kerrisk 538d54d9e9 Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17. 2007-03-25 13:40:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6a4055f3a Various improvements to DESCRIPTION. 2007-03-25 12:59:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 814521a7d8 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2007-03-25 12:39:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae39cf8f79 Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION. 2007-03-18 06:20:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 33e820cb39 Improve ENOENT description. 2007-03-18 06:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5bb80360ee ffix 2007-03-18 05:30:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b857d3daac Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure. 2007-03-11 07:08:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0579929938 tripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section. 2007-03-06 06:37:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87f434dfce If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed 
in array order.  All Unix systems that I know of do this,
and some Linux applications depend on this behaviour.  SUSv3
made no explicit statement here, but SUSv3 will explicitly
require this behaviour.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
 2007-03-04 17:29:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24825f2786 2.6.21 fixed several bugs in mincore() (according to Nick Piggin). 
Small fix to ENONEM description.
 2007-03-04 02:35:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d44417fb63 Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS 2007-03-01 02:31:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b438981878 Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177. 
* s/effective/real/ in description test.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
 2007-03-01 02:25:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c5405c0894 Fix EINVAL description 2007-03-01 01:43:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00877d8f0f tfix 2007-03-01 01:27:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1954b6a9b4 Remove duplicate word typo. 2007-03-01 01:12:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 11dcec1d2a Small wording clarification. 2007-03-01 00:48:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc0b1e23b6 Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag. 2007-02-26 14:30:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 926b6e378b Document MS_RELATIME, new in kernel 2.6.20. 2007-02-10 17:37:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60bb61aaee Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7 2007-02-02 05:47:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0a90178cbb Add feature_test_macros(7) to SEE ALSO 2007-01-28 20:00:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cce6cb992 The cpusetsize argument was only absent in glibc 2.3.3. 2007-01-12 18:07:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 182d662267 Substantial rewrites to make clearer. 2007-01-07 21:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f5773f75b On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a 
32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
 2007-01-06 23:31:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ca6357577 tfix 2007-01-04 18:54:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7e91e5d883 Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to "open(2) and NFS". 2006-12-27 04:59:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c2e8c91d54 Add reference to ipv6 to table. 2006-12-27 04:06:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 459f24d56a ffix 2006-12-27 03:56:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f74a33f53 Fix .TH line. 2006-12-27 03:55:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3547839964 wrap long source lines 2006-12-27 03:54:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f921239486 Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION. 
Small wording improvement.
 2006-12-27 03:54:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5d693709d0 ffix 2006-12-27 03:44:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 945dc55a8a wfix 2006-12-27 02:50:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 79b8032e17 wfix 2006-12-27 02:48:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a832b2d85b wfix 2006-12-27 02:47:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd2cf680a5 ffix 2006-12-27 02:42:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 37d4cd1cee Slight rewording. 2006-12-27 02:41:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9606a1f374 wfix 2006-12-27 02:39:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ecbd70cd8b tfix 2006-12-27 02:37:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bc07c5149f pfix 2006-12-27 02:37:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bedd18e502 tfix 2006-12-27 02:36:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1b3fc756cd s/EACCESS/EACCES/ 2006-12-27 01:47:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b7c33c9d2 Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD". 
This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
See Debian bug 403888.
 2006-12-27 01:10:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 98a9c4b789 Updated CONFORMING TO 2006-12-18 00:46:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b48e9d74 Various fixes to CONFORMING TO 2006-12-17 01:34:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ec1c522895 wspfix 2006-12-17 01:17:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d24e23199c s/Unices/Unix systems/ 2006-12-17 01:04:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1eb85d1484 Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions 
are and are not part of C89.  Also fixed/improved a few other
CONFORMING TO entries.
 2006-12-16 22:11:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9110c53a81 ffix 2006-12-16 20:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd270bc04b fix long line in source 2006-12-16 19:23:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d3925acc3 When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set, the child 
is not in the normal signal delivery path.  This means the parent 
cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL).  
kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be used instead to kill the child 
process after receiving one of these messages.
 2006-12-16 19:18:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a62f51211f Further substantial rewrites. 2006-12-05 07:40:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 609af441be Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case. 2006-12-04 05:36:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff929e3b15 Added more details to prototype. 
Added discussion of IA-64's clone2() system call.
 2006-12-04 05:25:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e8cde2f2e Rewrote various parts to be clearer. 2006-12-04 04:50:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2b013adbc s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS 
changed return type from "long" to "int"
 2006-12-01 04:23:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ee930c498f Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on 
threads.
 2006-12-01 03:49:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 882b85db93 Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's not true. 2006-11-30 05:48:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6cfd01694 Elimitae duplicated text; grfix 2006-11-26 22:10:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f363434666 Clarify discussion of privilege requirements. 
Added ENOMEM to ERRORS.
 2006-11-26 04:13:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f3d8b28cd Clarify O_LARGEFILE description. 2006-11-25 18:35:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2dcbf4f7af tfix 2006-11-25 18:22:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 037510969c tfix 2006-11-25 06:19:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e061497331 Added FIXME 2006-11-25 04:13:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be352a313b Add text describoing behaviour of the Linux brk() system call 
and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different behaviour.
Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc that 
calls the brk() system call.
 2006-11-25 04:13:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 266a5e9172 FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007. 2006-11-25 01:57:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53e4da489a Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available 
for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
 2006-11-25 01:21:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bcdd964e2d Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test macros. 2006-11-25 01:00:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e97b529a2a MNT_FORCE can cause data loss. 2006-10-04 14:44:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5535400717 Mosts systems support the synonym _SC_PAGE_SIZE (the only exception I 
know is Darwin, and maybe it supports it by now as well).
 2006-10-02 04:58:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ec86f2990 Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable applications. 2006-10-02 04:54:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 96d969a22a Slight rewording 2006-10-02 04:51:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4775da652 tfix 2006-10-02 04:48:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ebad513a93 Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable applications. 2006-10-02 04:48:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64536a1bf4 Document PR_GET_ENDIAND and PR_SET_ENDIAN. 2006-09-26 13:01:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e6055f467 Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op. 2006-09-26 12:41:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e87fdd92fa Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced. 
Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
 2006-09-26 12:03:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3b7f00b4a Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer possible. 2006-09-26 08:36:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34f7665a1c Added FIXME for priority inheritance operations. 2006-09-26 06:38:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2bc4bb77a9 New system calls in 2.6.17. 2006-09-18 12:35:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8231ec7de4 Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page. 2006-09-18 12:32:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cdcaddfc07 Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs. 2006-09-17 06:21:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fe247268a9 The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve(). 2006-09-13 14:08:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fc594a121 Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS. 2006-09-09 06:37:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8106981956 s/SUID/set-user-ID/ 
s/SGID/set-group-ID/
 2006-09-06 15:23:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e743a18476 Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS. 2006-09-06 14:27:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3747f3976c Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS. 2006-09-06 13:58:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b6832a92b Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17. 2006-09-06 09:17:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f339d4e28 Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to a locked region. 2006-09-06 08:36:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 62a04c814e Added some EINVAL errors. 2006-09-06 04:44:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8f3e58070 Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of length==0. 2006-09-05 12:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 835c4d5ce4 Document MADV_REMOVE. 
Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK.
 2006-09-05 11:47:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 78cb591178 Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited by child. 2006-09-05 11:35:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e7d3b0705c added FIXME 2006-09-05 08:03:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80a34ae3aa Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec(). 2006-09-04 12:27:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dff08bbcbf Update .TH line 2006-09-04 11:30:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a99426d3cf Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ in parent and child. 2006-09-04 11:27:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f55461f02f wfix/ffix 2006-09-04 09:26:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa43415854 Restore SEE ALSO reference to path_resolution.2. 2006-09-04 09:21:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7422469fd Fix header in example program. 2006-09-04 09:00:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef0b81712f wfix/tfix 2006-09-04 08:57:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3bd6a9b118 Memory policy is preserved across execve(). 2006-09-04 08:21:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5053dcb15 Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words. 2006-09-04 06:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ab9260357e Document AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW (new in 2.6.18). 2006-08-10 06:39:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed93deb2ba SEE ALSO should refer to writev.2, not writev.3 2006-08-10 05:15:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 39b9794d6d wfix 2006-08-09 15:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1343b6043b Make naming of 'pathname' argument consistent; various minor rewordings. 2006-08-09 09:08:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b328773d4d tfix/wfix 2006-08-08 16:34:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db71f2e2a5 tfix 2006-08-08 16:26:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7fadb5558 Updated CONFOMRING TOs and/or standards references. 2006-08-04 12:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d9dc1e854 Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references 2006-08-04 09:41:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 953ba3f070 x 2006-08-04 08:41:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ead8304237 _XOPEN_SOURCE=500 also gets fchdir() prototype. 2006-08-04 08:39:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ae3116f0b ffix 2006-08-04 08:23:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e3d68ad97 Removed information on standards to new standards.7. 2006-08-03 06:24:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c5342731 Added SEE ALSO referring to standards.7 2006-08-03 06:13:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7741d967a4 Minor wording change. 2006-08-03 03:40:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29973b4e7b wfix 2006-08-03 03:03:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1c9135d0 ffix 2006-08-03 03:02:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 160c2d5a26 ffix 2006-08-03 02:45:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 43487dbb6e ffix 2006-08-03 02:40:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 635c9a5437 pfix 2006-08-03 02:38:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b5cefe852 Noted buggy behaviour in Linux 2.4 and earlier when 
nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
 2006-07-31 15:18:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dd28cb72a8 Some rewording; included text describing required file permissions. 2006-07-27 07:38:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 68ed2733d2 ffix 2006-07-27 05:03:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5356032615 ffix 2006-07-27 04:29:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2cfa66cf54 Fix description of EBADF error. 2006-07-22 17:37:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 07b501d1b9 Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to 
saved set-IDs during execve().
 2006-07-22 17:24:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8de811e83f Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 15:54:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73ac06664b Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 14:45:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb57f0f568 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits. 2006-07-22 14:37:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef828a01d8 Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 14:26:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75fcdb0894 Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 14:21:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddb51c37d0 Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve(). 2006-07-22 14:14:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27cb988470 (Previous change) Noted effect of fork() and execve() on nice value. 2006-07-22 14:12:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2cab31c61d Very minor rewording. 2006-07-22 14:10:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70cbdedffa Very minor rewording. 2006-07-22 14:07:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 51ffcca030 Expand description of MAP_POPULATE. 
Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
Various minor formatting fixes.
 2006-07-21 22:23:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16fd68e14f ffix 2006-07-21 21:40:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a28e26a155 s%IO%I/O% 2006-07-21 14:56:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c07981e716 New page for readlinkat(2). 2006-07-21 14:41:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 591f90f794 Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2. 2006-07-21 14:38:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50bf674b91 spfix 2006-07-21 00:12:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c51897d0e spfix 2006-07-21 00:09:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6183de06a ffix 2006-07-21 00:08:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk defcceb3e7 ffix 2006-07-20 16:16:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7fc86905d pfix 2006-07-12 14:08:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f5284ed8f Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO. 2006-07-11 15:42:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24b3ed1dad Updated FIXME 2006-07-11 04:24:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9cded8e86 Removed FIXME 2006-07-11 04:23:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a31272feff Updated FIXME 2006-07-11 04:19:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72052bcef3 Removed old FIXME 2006-07-11 04:15:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db04da1f6e Fix description of 'offset' argument to explain the case 
where 'offset' is NULL.
 2006-07-10 15:48:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fe0927c3c9 tfix 2006-07-10 08:44:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb8617d480 Added SEE ALSO referring to sync_file_range.2. 2006-07-06 09:34:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ca974e398 New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17. 2006-07-06 08:53:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 423124e8d1 Minor fix to example code 2006-07-05 15:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1ba452d4db Add EADDRNOTAVAIL error. 2006-07-05 15:04:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a71c2e569 Make example code more complete. 2006-07-05 14:40:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f518005cb wfix 2006-07-05 12:18:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92d6e4039d wfix 2006-07-05 12:17:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dee8c26fc ffix 2006-07-05 12:16:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cffd8e71d4 Updated FIXME 2006-07-05 09:42:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af34a13871 wfix 2006-07-05 09:37:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4df1559b70 pfix 2006-07-05 09:26:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d44c4bf375 Added comment containing patch justification. 2006-07-04 13:26:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4595d739ff Nowadays, readlink() returns 'ssize_t', as required in POSIX.1-2001. 2006-07-04 11:13:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d36f9ff105 ffix 2006-07-03 06:24:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23cb3cb55d Added POLLRDHUP description. 
The correct header file is <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h>.
Rewrote and reformatted various other parts.
 2006-07-01 08:30:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04706fd7e2 Added EPOLLRDHUP description. 
Added SEE ALSO referring to poll.2.
 2006-07-01 08:30:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a98bcd58d8 Minor updates 2006-06-20 08:00:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc387badcb s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error. 2006-06-13 11:01:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f33547665 ffix 2006-06-08 18:38:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f7203c96cc ffix 2006-06-08 18:21:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a90440ba21 spfix 2006-06-08 17:59:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6a4c7d1f0 spfix 2006-06-08 17:58:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b98f0a349f s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS. 2006-06-07 22:51:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06c97d412b Moved BUGS to inotify.7. 2006-06-05 10:59:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 211ec15cf1 Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send() and sendto() calls. 2006-06-05 04:51:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93440c026d Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'. 
inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
 2006-06-05 02:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f5774a93b The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify file descriptor. 2006-06-05 02:34:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ace17ecf07 Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY. 2006-06-05 01:51:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7145b9a93c spfix 2006-06-03 01:26:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8dc8552af5 spfix 2006-06-02 23:12:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e969f2255 s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes. 2006-06-02 19:43:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 859ae99c76 spfix 2006-05-31 23:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c10859eb0d Fix unbalanced quotes 2006-05-31 22:16:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cedfddcd13 Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2. 2006-05-29 05:48:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef276d2f2d Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2. 2006-05-29 05:47:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93c57ed012 Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3. 2006-05-29 05:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61fccf7c75 Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3. 2006-05-29 05:12:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 931e4e2511 Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2. 2006-05-29 05:01:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a5b4ffb74 Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2. 2006-05-29 05:00:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f02720dde7 Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2. 2006-05-29 04:56:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7677b814cf SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3. 2006-05-29 04:48:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0dde28982b SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3. 2006-05-29 04:48:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65c06b4eb3 Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5. 2006-05-29 04:37:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk de84c94263 Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION. 2006-05-26 22:01:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dcc57a0171 ffix 2006-05-26 19:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 56bbbf8ef7 Relocated "Note" about f_fsid. 2006-05-26 19:32:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e3498e0e8 Link to new ioprio_set.2 2006-05-24 20:47:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b3b2ce10b New page for ioprio_set(2) 2006-05-24 20:47:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6883b3e731 Changed copyright commnents to add 'and' in some cases 2006-05-22 23:52:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24bd9a4926 Note that EINVAL can also be caused by flags == MS_SYNC | MS_ASYNC. 2006-05-22 22:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b33650560 wfix 2006-05-22 19:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a004e7ff00 ffix 2006-05-18 05:25:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6beba96d8e Add CPU_ISSET, CPU_CLR, CPU_SET, CPU_ZERO to NAME section. 2006-05-18 05:23:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1fb8c49be6 wfix 2006-05-17 21:19:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f75c3a3bf8 Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO. 
See Debian bug 367401.
 2006-05-15 20:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8e7c990dc Rename ftm.7 to feature_test_macros.7 2006-05-15 09:13:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d883fde06f tfix 2006-05-14 21:38:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b83ccc3734 tfix + removed old FIXME 2006-05-14 21:36:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6efed4df1f Various minor changes 2006-05-13 06:08:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8e01c783b Removed much material that is redundant with select.2. 
Various other changes.
 2006-05-13 06:04:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e5f22f8d5 ffix 2006-05-13 05:03:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 616c0fd3c6 ffix 2006-05-13 04:57:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 691938a16b ffix 2006-05-12 23:36:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc513f7faf Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC. 2006-05-12 23:35:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2983ceac2f Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC. 
POSIX does now document ELOOP.
 2006-05-12 23:22:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c80909ad8f substantial rewrite of description of 'mask' 2006-05-12 22:48:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 77dc7e2bde New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2). 2006-05-12 19:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b548b3131 Expand text noting that ftruncate()/truncate() may fail 
if asked to extend a file beyond its current length.
Add EPERM error.
 2006-05-09 05:28:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e0037472fe ffix 2006-05-05 22:03:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c51fc3c114 tfix 2006-05-02 20:03:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4006dcaccb Updated discussion of MAP_NORESERVE since it 
is no longer restricted to MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
Add reference to discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory in proc.5
 2006-05-02 03:08:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 320479713e Document SHM_NORESERVE flag, new in 2.6.15. 2006-05-02 03:00:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd83ecfba4 Removed FIXME 2006-05-02 01:50:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e592f2be04 Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread. 2006-05-02 01:49:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e1357d0c8 removed a FIXME. 2006-05-02 00:07:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60652159ef New page for futimesat(2) 2006-05-02 00:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a53b8cb2a0 New page for new fchmodat(2) 2006-05-02 00:05:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e386d41a0 New page for fchownat(2) 2006-05-02 00:04:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7ae4e787a New page for faccessat(2) 2006-05-02 00:04:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22e3b8b11c Add SEE ALSO references to new *at.2 pages 2006-05-02 00:03:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ee2fa12076 ffix 2006-05-01 23:05:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ade10f9902 Correct wording of EBUSY case. 
Add ".." case to ENOTEMPTY error
 2006-05-01 01:52:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dffb0109be Modified text referring to adjtime(); added SEE ALSO for new adjtime.3 page. 2006-04-30 23:45:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 13218d42ae Clarify RETURN VALUE discussion. 2006-04-30 22:10:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbd411a49c Remove bogus BUGS text. 2006-04-30 21:18:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 344135a82b wfix 2006-04-28 20:24:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eaded2c555 spfix 2006-04-27 23:40:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1d793a5188 other minor changes 2006-04-27 23:39:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f67cdb5d4d Rewrote most of the DESCRIPTION, as well as some other parts 
the page, to clarify use and operation of, and rationale for,
fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
 2006-04-27 23:31:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a85a10cb73 wfix 2006-04-27 22:41:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b8ff97a12 wfix 2006-04-27 22:40:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 093a7ea09b Update on scheduled fix for tv_usec 2006-04-26 20:00:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 563711249d Added text to note that current incorrect behaviour of 
normalising tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
kernel; applications should be fixed now.
 2006-04-26 19:39:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eafd5ce11f Added SEE ALSO referring to new time.7 2006-04-26 07:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 79893ac3a4 wfix 2006-04-26 06:51:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8bbb90693 Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact 
that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
Added a FIXME.
 2006-04-26 04:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 178b977b7f Detail exactly which mount flags can be changed on MS_REMOUNT. 2006-04-25 09:32:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 83b21473f7 added FIXME 2006-04-25 09:13:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 564d99410b Since kernel 2.6.16, MS_NOATIME and MS_NODIRATIME are settable on a per- mount basis. 2006-04-25 08:18:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cdab486d3f Updated FIXME 2006-04-25 06:57:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0eee473cb8 Added FIXME 2006-04-25 06:55:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7998dde242 ffix 2006-04-25 06:09:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66679b1f0f 4.x BSD --> 4.xBSD 2006-04-23 23:29:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d1331c6fb7 Noted that all threads should block signal being waited for. 2006-04-22 20:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84564be219 Added SEE ALSO for new sockatmark.3. 2006-04-22 03:18:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7005bc229e Solaris also has the system call. 2006-04-22 00:00:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 69b7b9e5fc Minor changes 2006-04-22 00:00:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4d34a38da Correct header file in synopsis 2006-04-21 23:12:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ce372a5bde wfix 2006-04-21 22:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 956a644642 new fstatat(2) page 2006-04-21 22:39:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 39179b3eec wfix 2006-04-21 18:17:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e01a1de98 Improve opening para describing purpose of select(). 2006-04-21 10:41:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50e5322c85 Added SEE ALSO reference to ftm.7 2006-04-21 06:49:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fb961f311e Simplified wording about requirement for _BSD_SOURCE macro. 2006-04-21 06:28:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2c5e151c7f ipc.7 --> svipc.7 2006-04-21 03:53:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6319e935b0 Add text noting that contents of newly created segment are zero values. 2006-04-21 02:02:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af5b2ef2cc fifo.4 --> fifo.7 2006-04-21 01:46:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8bda63671 complex.5 --> complex.7 2006-04-21 01:24:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa949e2d59 environ.5 --> environ.7 2006-04-21 00:45:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 922436594f ipc.5 --> ipc.7 2006-04-21 00:38:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2315114c72 epoll.4 is now epoll.7 2006-04-21 00:29:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22f348ca27 Note more clearly that fd_set args can be NULL; various other minor edits and ffixes 2006-04-20 21:21:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c382af469 Point out more explicitly that 'tz' argument should normally be NULL. 
Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
 2006-04-20 21:07:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9c1c7397a0 Added NOTE that st_size is always returned as zero for most /proc files. 2006-04-19 20:44:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 601dff4a19 Remove mention of SOCK_RDM from this page, since this socket 
type does not support accept()ing connections.
 2006-04-18 07:39:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f595890250 Updates SEE ALSO 2006-04-06 08:48:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f352ee52b new for symlinkat.2. 2006-04-06 08:42:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16d863a465 new for unlinkat(2). 2006-04-06 08:41:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 552dfd96f4 New for rename(2). 2006-04-06 08:41:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db01a90324 new for linkat(2). 2006-04-06 08:41:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c0488f3e Minor changes 2006-04-06 05:19:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64603adfb7 Substantial rewrite of NOTES; minor changes elsewhere. 2006-04-05 05:43:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fe3091da4 Minor changes 2006-04-05 05:42:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66e46895b9 new page for mknodat(2). 2006-04-05 05:17:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b4255672a Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mknodat.2 2006-04-05 05:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a929ee119 New page for mkdirat(2). 2006-04-05 04:44:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d2927a1b1e Added SEE ALSO mkdirat(2). 2006-04-05 04:43:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d03c00944 Added comment on inconsistent naming of *at() functions. 2006-04-04 19:48:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6057e7a9fa Added BUGS text on 2.6.x handling of RLIMIT_CPU limit 
of zero seconds.  See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
 2006-04-04 04:12:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9aad1caae1 Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further 
circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
 2006-04-04 02:59:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cdc9620e3a Remove text saying that specifying invalid flags "is likely 
to cause compatibility problems" since the kernel now
(2.6.17-rc1) contains an explicit check for invalid buts
with a consequent EINVAL error.
 2006-04-03 23:55:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0c373d0150 Added FIXME. 2006-04-03 23:35:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70f4032165 removed tabs 2006-04-03 21:25:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5250b79560 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2006-04-03 20:36:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d5346bba6a Added FIXME. 2006-04-03 01:35:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c511da218 Updated FIXME. 2006-04-03 01:35:31 +00:00