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1553 Commits

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Michael Kerrisk 84c517a450 Change use of quote characters to get better UTF-8 rendering. 2008-06-05 20:14:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8a07a2154 s/'/\\'/ to improve rendering in UTF-8. 2008-06-05 17:52:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 41325efd9a tfix 2008-06-03 12:24:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65132f861c Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6d57a94af tfix 2008-06-03 09:19:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d051e0c01e Update FIXME. 2008-06-03 09:19:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f95ef6d51f Reformat DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE sections to be more
consistent with man-pages style.
Add some more detail to descriptions of system calls.
Clarified what happens if caller of getgroups() is a member of
more than 'size' supplementary groups.
ERRORS: Add ENOMEM.
2008-06-03 09:07:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55b8a252d7 NGROUPS_MAX increased in kernel 2.6.4.
SEE ALSO: Add credentials(7).
2008-06-02 21:15:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25fddfcd83 Note that this system is made obsolete by utimensat(2). 2008-06-02 14:12:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04527fe52c wfix 2008-05-30 14:12:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46cdb99741 wfix 2008-05-30 13:25:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b98a4c61 Update timestamp 2008-05-29 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ce14e4094 Remove statement that (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE |
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) is
a traditional fdatasync(2) operation.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482 comments 129 to 131.
2008-05-29 07:55:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7921f13b4c SEE ALSO: add shmat(2). 2008-05-27 02:59:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54504ac3d3 SEE ALSO: add mprotect(2). 2008-05-27 02:57:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b524e2533 SYNOPSIS: s/size_t \*len/size_t len/ 2008-05-26 11:12:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8660aec07e Re PTRACE_PEEKUSER: the offsets and data returned might not
match with the defintion of struct user.
2008-05-21 20:23:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da36351ec7 FUTEX_FD has been removed, as of kernel 2.6.26. 2008-05-21 13:48:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 80d17cfa1a NOTES: Added details on mapping address that is selected by
kernel when MAP_FIXED is / isn't specified.
2008-05-21 12:33:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ba1eb78cfb Clarify that "unused" fields in shminfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for shminfo structure.
2008-05-20 21:20:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffc19357d9 Clarify that "unused" fields in seminfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for seminfo structure.
2008-05-20 21:20:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 767b89e84b Clarify that "unused" fields in msginfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
msginfo.msgpool is measured in kilobytes, not bytes.
Minor rewordings in comments for msginfo structure.
2008-05-20 21:18:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2be221988c Added FIXME 2008-05-20 08:09:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9967820f26 Add NOTES section pointing out that 'size' argument is unused
since kernel 2.6.8.
2008-05-17 21:03:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 42ab9eb994 Rename 'buf' argument of utime() to 'times' (like utimes()).
Clarify explanation of EACCES and EPERM errors.
Remove BUGS section, since it doesn't seem add useful information.
Clarified discussion of capabilities, and noted that
CAP_DAC_OVVERIDE also has a role.
Other minor rewordings.
2008-05-16 13:40:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b77e081d31 wfix 2008-05-14 06:46:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd9ff0c9e4 tfix 2008-05-14 06:25:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 79ad39a7d4 Clarify meaning of "BSD group semantics". 2008-05-13 12:42:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3bf802265 Add chown.2/chmod.2 to SEE ALSO 2008-05-13 11:29:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 373485dde6 spfix--This line, and those below, will be ignored--
M    man2/chown.2
2008-05-13 10:57:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b39ad6681 More than just ext2 supports "mount -o bsdgroups" nowadays, so make the
discussion about group ownership of new files a bit more generic.
2008-05-13 10:54:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d77eb76422 spfix 2008-05-12 14:38:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ba7cb080d9 spfix 2008-05-12 14:37:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61b7c1e18f spfix/wfix 2008-05-12 14:30:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7364dea652 wfix 2008-05-12 12:35:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bc3375d27 The location of the numactl package has changed. 2008-05-12 12:34:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a20e907fde Remove out-of-date FIXME 2008-05-09 21:15:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60948d6886 Add .\" comment 2008-05-09 21:09:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3eed760e97 Remove wrongheaded FIXME 2008-05-09 21:08:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f56387016 POSIX.1 also allows EEXIST for the ENOTEMPTY error condition. 2008-05-09 13:48:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31daf529b7 Reformat kernel version information for flags. 2008-05-07 13:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f99fc19730 ffix 2008-05-07 13:41:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64d6219cf0 s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux s.y.z/ 2008-05-07 13:33:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24ad90c3b4 Added FIXME. 2008-05-06 23:14:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f38fa944aa MAP_POPULATE supports both file and anonymous mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_POPULATE supports private mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_NONBLOCK causes MAP_POPULATE to be a no-op.
2008-05-05 20:10:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22cddee1cd SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3). 2008-05-04 18:31:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 15b17877ea tfix 2008-05-04 08:35:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb1abbbd18 Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities. 2008-04-29 13:45:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49d3590362 s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/;
(The page referred-to page still doesn't exit yet, but hopefully
will do sometime soon.)
2008-04-28 18:27:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bac0a11532 Added FIXME 2008-04-28 18:25:49 +00:00