Michael Kerrisk
1850e19a35
syslog.2: Substantially reorganize discussion of commands
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Make the layout if the discussion of the commands
more readable.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-28 14:42:27 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f924d1702
syslog.2: Clarify discussion of privileges for commands 3 and 10
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-28 12:04:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e4a952a1a9
syslog.2: Add kernel symbolic 'type' names
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-28 11:53:10 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
784a11da36
exec.3: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-27 08:35:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
00a1fbcfc4
wait.2: BUGS: Document odd waitid() behavior when 'infop' is NULL
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-27 07:49:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
1113a8fcc1
strcmp.3: Enhance RETURN VALUE text and remove redundant text from DESCRIPTION
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Note that sign of result equals sign of difference between
first two bytes that differ (treated as "unsigned char")."
Reported-by: Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-27 07:49:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
3b5b9fd8b5
memcmp.3: Enhance RETURN VALUE text and remove redundant text from DESCRIPTION
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Note that sign of result equals sign of difference between
first two bytes that differ (treated as "unsigned char")."
Reported-by: Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-27 07:49:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
27bada1fa1
getrlimit.2: Document Linux's nonstandard treatment or RLIMIT_CPU soft limit
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Upon encountering the RLIMIT_CPU soft limit when a SIGXCPU handler
has been installed, Linux invokes the signal handler *and* raises
the soft limit by one second. This behavior repeats until the
limit is encountered. No other implementation that I tested
(Solaris 10, FreeBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 5.0) does this, and it seems
unlikely to be POSIX-conformant. The (Linux-specific)
RLIMIT_RTTIME soft limit exhibits similar behavior.
Reported-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-27 07:49:59 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e1282f176c
proc.5: Note change of /proc/[pid]/limits file permissions in 2.6.36
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-24 09:14:31 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
6d0620d865
getrlimit.2: Point reader at discussion of /proc/[pid]/limits in proc(5)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-24 09:08:04 +01:00
Thierry Vignaud
b8d5a242bf
ipc.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-22 05:38:06 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
4fb45673f8
rpc.3: ffix
2012-11-16 13:07:29 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
2ff4446136
fopen.3: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-16 13:06:31 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
06f38b2f30
confstr.3: ffix
2012-11-16 13:05:49 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
c16d4f25c7
proc.5: Correct description of SwapFree in /proc/meminfo
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Reported-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-16 07:58:27 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
46fbfc072b
proc.5: tfix
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Reported-by: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-16 07:28:27 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
bbeb81bdf3
getifaddrs.3: Update description of ifa_data to Linux 2.6+ reality
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526778
Reported-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 13:02:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
3036baf00e
rtnetlink.7: Update description of IFLA_STATS to Linux 2.6+ reality
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526778
Reported-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 13:01:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
94c0ab851a
rtnetlink.7: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 12:58:41 +01:00
Simon Paillard
b1171e214e
resolv.conf.5: Document IPv6 format for nameserver
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See: http://bugs.debian.org/610036
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 12:08:29 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
4bcf05347c
ttyname.3: Fix confused text in ERRORS
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The existing text suggested that the ERRORS applied
only for ttyname_r(). However, 2 of the 3 errors
can occur for ttyname().
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 11:57:30 +01:00
Simon Paillard
fec75159e1
stat.2: Clarify description of EOVERFLOW error
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The EOVERFLOW error is not only for st_size, but also
inode and block size fields. See glibc source file
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstatconv.c and kernel source
file fs/stat.c. Also, fix bit/byte confusion
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604928
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 11:40:23 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
46fccf2d8e
io_getevents.2: io_getevents() may cause segfault when called with invalid ctx_id
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For reference see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-aio&m=130089887002435&w=2
Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 09:08:32 +01:00
David Prévot
1e4a9e188a
getauxval.3: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 08:57:52 +01:00
David Prévot
16a21eeaa6
prctl.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-11 08:56:50 +01:00
Andi Kleen
f327722042
socket.7: Explain effect of SO_SNDTIMEO for connect()
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When SO_SNDTIMEO is set before connect(), then connect()
may return EWOULDBLOCK when the timeout fires.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-09 06:59:57 +01:00
David Prévot
45fa8fcb8a
ld.so.8: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-09 06:54:37 +01:00
David Prévot
80380b8e1b
getenv.3: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-09 06:54:20 +01:00
David Prévot
d2ea1bd4bd
ptrace.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-09 06:53:19 +01:00
David Prévot
3685fa98f3
time.7: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-09 06:52:09 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
35f6968001
delete_module.2: Small rewording of description of effect of O_TRUNC
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-08 13:44:13 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e64bdfcf3c
delete_module.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-08 13:37:10 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
04324dee8d
Start of man-pages-3.45: updating Changes and Changes.old
2012-11-07 14:30:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
f1e3ce1d74
Start of man-pages-3.45: updating .Announce and .lsm files
2012-11-07 14:30:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
5463b3c58c
Start of man-pages-3.45: renaming .Announce and .lsm files
2012-11-07 14:30:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
9a8aaf6918
Ready for 3.44
2012-11-07 14:24:36 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
fa1d274987
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2012-11-07 14:24:27 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
0d3bd76037
clock_getres.2, clock_nanosleep.2, ipv6.7: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 14:23:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
8463b88011
Changes: Ready for 3.44
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 14:19:25 +01:00
David Prévot
8321eae507
init_module.2: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 13:58:21 +01:00
David Prévot
f7fbc7a95e
ipc.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 13:47:30 +01:00
David Prévot
b2fc8e9f28
delete_module.2: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 13:46:38 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
8b38565c7b
getenv.3: SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 13:04:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
2a8d4230be
ld.so.8: SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 13:04:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
4946106cae
getauxval.3: Document getauxval() function added in glibc 2.16
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-07 13:02:54 +01:00
Simon Paillard
aa8a6b4fbf
proc.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-05 17:17:27 +01:00
David Prévot
99e9158609
proc.5: Minor fixes
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-05 17:14:57 +01:00
David Prévot
7bccb7d474
proc.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-05 17:02:55 +01:00
David Prévot
b33062e53b
ipv6.7: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-11-02 06:57:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
029599913b
clock_getres.2, clock_nanosleep.2: Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-10-29 09:27:58 +01:00