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184 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 87cee315d8 An almost total rewrite! 2005-11-17 17:55:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 817e5eab95 Formerly, the pge said that all systems declare memalign() in
<malloc.h>.  In fact, many declare it in <stdlib.h>.
2005-11-15 18:17:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55b447e61f Formatting fix 2005-11-15 17:57:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f820196915 Although the glibc implementation returns -1 on error (and some
other man pages (e.g., the BSDs) also document that value for 
error returns), SUSv3 merely says "non-zero" (and this is what 
manual pages on many implementations also say).
2005-11-15 17:57:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 054fccc0d1 Formatting fix 2005-11-15 17:56:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a2af275c39 Fixed to point out that that frexp() returns a number whose
*absolute* value is >= 0.5 and < 1.  Amended the example
program to demonstrate this.
2005-11-14 14:19:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bd5e3de9e Added comment 2005-11-03 14:29:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9a562e4236 New page taken from BSD (FreeBSD 5.4) 2005-11-03 14:27:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd12ab88af Formatting fixes 2005-11-03 12:47:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8478ee0279 Formatting fixes 2005-11-02 13:55:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 836f07c1c3 Change things like "NULL-terminated string" to "null-terminated string" 2005-11-02 11:55:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c02d27b62f space clean-up 2005-11-02 11:44:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31e9a9ec99 Change itacised function names and page xrefs to bold 2005-11-02 11:34:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8a9648b96f Formatting fixes 2005-11-02 11:10:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e1ffb9817 Formatting fix 2005-10-28 13:43:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a94dba21dc Formatting fixes 2005-10-28 13:35:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf93c935d1 s/GNU_SOURCE/_GNU_SOURCE/ 2005-10-28 13:27:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d1a6e6ff04 Change <netinet/in.h> to <arpa/inet.h> in prototype; add text
explaining that some systems need the former header.
As per Debian bug 265244
2005-10-27 09:58:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a749f870a8 s/XXX/FIXME/ 2005-10-26 11:27:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e32103455 Formatting fixes 2005-10-20 15:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f87925c6bf Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 16:30:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bee2a27738 Fix capitalisations 2005-10-19 14:57:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d52e8f81c Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 14:54:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5cc2ffbaa Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 14:48:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a225b7a41 Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 14:16:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35e21ba7ca Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 13:48:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d302a9a9c3 spelling fixx 2005-10-19 13:20:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ef334c7cc remove parens from function name in .SH NAME section 2005-10-19 13:19:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27e59a1f0b Minor wording fix 2005-10-19 13:18:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 826b3f2763 Formatting fix 2005-10-19 13:17:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c4700c568 Minor change to RETURN VALUE text. 2005-10-19 13:15:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3382bd94ff Manual fixes of parentheses formatting 2005-10-19 08:35:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e1d6264d9f Manual fixes for parentheses formatting 2005-10-19 07:29:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 63aa9df02f Automated unformatting of parentheses using unformat_parens.sh 2005-10-19 07:07:02 +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 834fec09e7 Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are
BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
2005-10-12 14:11:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88ab292b0d Added SEE ALSO for pty.7 2005-10-10 13:14:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6546fec22c s/getrpcent/setrpcent/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7). 2005-10-04 13:01:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6da0ad1883 Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7) 2005-10-04 12:48:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3302970d23 Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7). 2005-10-04 12:42:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be9dccdff6 Improved "a+" description (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7). 2005-10-04 12:35:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b2fc2945f Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
pointing out that applications should preferentially
inspect HOME
2005-09-21 12:02:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84a0a0510d Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
As per debian bug 328629
2005-09-21 11:23:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk edac57cf3e Further fix of "one has..." test 2005-09-21 10:45:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 52850de794 Change:
One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
to:
     One has carg(z) = atan(cimag(z) / creal(z))
2005-09-19 14:08:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 57734e8257 We don't have an rpc_secure.3 page in the set at the moment 2005-09-19 11:39:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9559eb50bb Mention "little endian" and "big endian".
Added note about octal and hex interpretation of numbers-and-dots notation.
2005-09-15 17:14:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b8ebc9d9fe Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype 2005-09-15 12:40:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e4ce80c966 s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ 2005-08-16 11:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 279d6eeaee glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug 2005-08-12 11:41:25 +00:00