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Michael Kerrisk c5662d5de0 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2010-12-03 08:01:44 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk dd09a14ed5 setuid.2: Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4 2010-11-22 08:52:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 489376f89c setuid.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-11-22 08:44:00 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 48ef9f70f8 setuid.2: Minor fix: remove redundant subheading in NOTES
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-11-22 08:43:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e6ce241912 setuid.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-11-22 08:42:43 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 5fab2e7c9c Changes.old, clone.2, execve.2, fcntl.2, futex.2, getitimer.2, getpriority.2, mmap.2, mount.2, mprotect.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, setuid.2, sigaltstack.2, vfork.2, div.3, fenv.3, fmod.3, memchr.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, queue.3, scanf.3, trunc.3, st.4, proc.5, services.5, utmp.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, feature_test_macros.7, futex.7, glob.7, man.7, netlink.7, unicode.7: Switch to American usage: "-wards" ==> "-ward"
American English uses "afterward" in preference to "afterwards",
and so on

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-26 07:34:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 821c035685 setuid.2: Remove crufty statement that seteuid() is not in POSIX
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
Michael Kerrisk 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/
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
Michael Kerrisk 00b08db3b4 clone.2, ptrace.2, setuid.2, statvfs.2, ulimit.3, nologin.5: Global fix: s/non-root/unprivileged/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:24:09 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d01c530c s/filesystem/file system/ 2008-03-19 07:26:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1ffe9f5a2 s/current process/calling process/ 2007-12-27 16:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c4f34f89b ffix 2007-07-08 16:21:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66ee0c7e89 ffix 2007-06-23 07:19:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f0af33ba6 ffix 2007-06-22 19:42:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53a1443cce Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7. 2007-06-08 07:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28442c8f31 grfix 2007-06-02 05:49:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8427b6a4f2 grfix 2007-06-02 05:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4fb3134194 Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES 2007-05-18 10:39:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a2c875ff29 s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/ 2007-05-16 03:00:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +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 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e1d6264d9f Manual fixes for parentheses formatting 2005-10-19 07:29:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e511ffb6bc Automated addition of parentheses by add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh 2005-10-19 06:54:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9df8ff80a Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID". 2005-07-18 16:55:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 880f5b4bc3 Consistent use of "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID". 2005-07-18 14:25:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3c8b3e9b7 minor wording chnages 2004-12-13 08:58:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305a0578bf Global change of email address for MTK (now: mtk-manpages@gmx.net) 2004-11-03 14:43:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fea681dafb Import of man-pages 1.70 2004-11-03 13:51:07 +00:00