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Michael Kerrisk 8c7b566cec clone.2: Add an example program (CLONE_NEWUTS)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-01-01 03:03:43 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f2b4a6555 unshare.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-01-01 01:29:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk f7b8bdbe44 unshare.2: Fix text problems in description of CLONE_FS
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-01-01 01:28:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 3c4e652d75 unshare.2: Update NOTES on unimplemented flags
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-01-01 01:25:22 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2901522578 unshare.2: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-01-01 01:21:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 8403481fcd clone.2: SEE ALSO: add setns(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2013-01-01 01:09:24 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 47b0eb1e5e unshare.2: SEE ALSO: add setns(2) 2013-01-01 01:08:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 1285ff3d2d lseek.2, read.2, setsid.2, vhangup.2, getttyent.3, login.3, openpty.3, console_codes.4, console_ioctl.4, securetty.5, signal.7: Global fix: s/tty/terminal/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:54:44 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 60947e72d6 ttytype.5: Add proper xref for termcap and terminfo pages
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:54:44 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2806f68e28 shells.5: Add /etc/bash to list of example shells
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:33:38 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk d1fc9433bb shells.5: Minor wording updates
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:33:11 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 56587252ff __setfpucw.3: Add proper page cross refs for alternate functions
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:29:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 824464a9be fseek.3: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:22:49 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 949aff4c2d fseek.3: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:22:16 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e2bfd6dfce fpathconf.3: srcfix: Added FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:20:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e357a0a487 catgets.3: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:15:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 3fd39c7a12 outb.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:14:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk dc43bf71f7 outb.2: Add SYNOPSIS
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:14:03 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 1330fa2959 idle.2: Minor wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 21:00:03 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 5fa1bc65ba __after_morecore_hook.3: New link to malloc_hook.3
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 20:53:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b68539c5b __realloc_hook.3: New link to malloc_hook.3
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 20:53:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 080a24b6ee __free_hook.3: New link to malloc_hook.3
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 20:53:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 66cd84deea __memalign_hook.3: New link to malloc_hook.3
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 20:53:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 44f8986447 __malloc_initialize_hook.3: New link to malloc_hook.3
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-31 20:53:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk cb42fb5682 proc.5: Add field numbers for /proc/[pid]/statm
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553413

Reported-by: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Reported-by: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 23:47:50 +01:00
Justin Lebar 04dcb3c8f8 proc.5: statm's "shared" field refers to pages backed by files
I noticed that statm's "shared" field doesn't match the sum of
all the "shared" entries in smaps [1].

The kernel docs explain that statm's "shared" field is "number of
pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file)" [2].  smaps appears
to call a page shared if it's mapped by at least two processes,
which explains this discrepancy.

I'm not a kernel hacker, but it appears to me they do mean "i.e."
and not "e.g." in the statm description: In
fs/proc/task_mmu.c::task_statm, I see

    *shared = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES);

Here's a patch which updates the man page to match the (hopefully
correct) kernel docs.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807181
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt;h=a1793d670cd01bd374eddf54ffdfc768504291ff;hb=HEAD

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 23:47:50 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 4cb1deb76f proc.5: Minor wording fix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 23:47:50 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e04a1f931d proc.5: srcfix: Update FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 23:47:50 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk d4fd412082 proc.5: Document /proc/stat "cpu" "nice_guest" field
Info taken from commit ce0e7b28fb75cb003cfc8d0238613aaf1c55e797

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 23:47:50 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ea0841f6c2 proc.5: Add numbering to /proc/stat "cpu" fields
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553413

Reported-by: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Reported-by: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 23:47:43 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ae3b804737 proc.5: Reorganize text describing /proc/stat "cpu" fields
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 20:36:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk aa610245c8 proc.5: Add field numbers for /proc/PID/stat
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553413

Reported-by: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Reported-by: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-26 20:16:08 +01:00
Cédric Boutillier ad379f3a37 if_nameindex.3: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-24 03:52:48 +01:00
David Prévot 431dcaebd1 sysctl.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-23 20:03:04 +01:00
David Prévot 437b953c23 ipv6.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-23 20:03:04 +01:00
David Prévot 1f6aa3ea7b proc.5: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-23 18:51:43 +01:00
Elie De Brauwer bbb9456ec4 recvmmsg.2: Add/correct kernel version info for recvmmsg() and MSG_WAITFORNONE
This patch isolates the since/version related fixes as requested.
This change introduces the following delta:
 * The page states it was added in 2.6.32 but it is only added
    2.6.33 (ref: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33)
 * The MSG_WAITFORONE flag was in turn only added in 2.6.34
   (ref: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_34)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-23 18:47:05 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 97927abec0 sendmmsg.2: Minor fix to example program: s/main()/main(void)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 22:39:23 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d2f6aff6d recvmmsg.2: srcfix: Note kernel commit that added syscall
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 22:39:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2c208a7a60 recvmmsg.2: Minor fixes to Elie de Brauwer's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 22:39:20 +01:00
Elie De Brauwer f2246260a9 recvmmsg.2: Add an example program
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 19:54:30 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e3b419fae8 symlink.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 18:59:11 +01:00
Mark Hills a1f016851a link.2, mkdir.2, mknod.2, open.2, rename.2, symlink.2, write.2, mkfifo.3: Document EDQUOT error
The return error EDQUOT is not documented in open(2), write(2),
symlink(2) etc..

Whether inodes or disk blocks are required for each function
is something I based on received wisdom and BSD documentation,
rather than tracing the code to the kernel. For symlink(2)
this certainly depends on the file system type.

This patch was previously sent to the linux-man mailing list
as an RFC in September 2010.

Signed-off-by: Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 18:56:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 38b6e5b098 capabilities.7: Add kcmp(2) under CAP_SYS_PTRACE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 08:06:24 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 19a98048b7 unshare.2: SEE ALSO: add kcmp(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 08:05:16 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f8746e45c clone.2: SEE ALSO: add kcmp(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 08:05:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 98ef180325 kcmp.2: Add copyright and license
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 08:05:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b73f9ed61d kcmp.2: Substantial reworking/extension of Cyrill Gorcunov's page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 08:05:15 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov aab0b384fd kcmp.2: New page for kcmp(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 08:05:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b742d43e3d difftime.3: Remove crufty text about 'time_t' on "other systems"
Back in 2006, some text came in via Debian patches that seems
crufty. Remove it.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46731

Reported-by: Michal Gorny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-12-22 02:44:19 +01:00