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Michael Kerrisk 5109fcf93f SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb4abad3dc Note that these functions are deprecated. 
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections referring to lgamma(3).
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6777.
 2008-08-01 05:26:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a57ce78dec SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f6f581dab Removed material for the y*() functions to a separate y0.3 page. 
Reason: the return values and errors/exceptions differ, and it
would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805.
 2008-08-01 05:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d33cd73d6a SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set, and in some
cases an exception is not raised; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6794.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
 2008-08-01 05:26:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6bc15b8b59 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: note that calculation is done without causing
undue overflow or underflow.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6795.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccf0443179 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 
Added (null) RETURN VALUE section referring to tgamma(3).
Added (null) ERRORS section referring to tgamma(3).
CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
 2008-08-01 05:26:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6717c6ea6f SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added details to RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
 2008-08-01 05:26:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5840de13c8 Minor wording changes. 
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO: Add signbit(3).
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
 2008-08-01 05:26:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1cc72c09fc SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6bd01965d4 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f813ec1308 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fde78e66f SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 2008-08-01 05:26:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dfd49d3cd Updated CONFORMING TO. 2008-08-01 05:26:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a637b7284a SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 824eec7e02 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 77c9946afa SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for overflow;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6788.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section, describing bogus underflow exception for -large;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6778.
 2008-08-01 05:26:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 898cf0a01f Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections. 
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4fe98d1ad SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for underflow;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6787.
 2008-08-01 05:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3888e21988 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6786.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d5ff921e4 Removed the erfc() material (there is now a new erfc page). 
Reason: the functions are logically separate; also their
return values differ, and it would have been confusing
to document them on the same page.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6785.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5bb52d98d0 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b3a8137db SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6780.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db002ad78d Added RETURN VALUE section. 
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 578d105f4a SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
NOTES: Added some details.
 2008-08-01 05:26:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54b0fbfb44 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 138b47a97e SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6759.
 2008-08-01 05:26:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f71288ac30 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:26:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9732b053bc SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:25:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5ef3a12882 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:25:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6d7b49b06 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:25:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e2209ddde SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements. 
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:25:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e279ffc370 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements. 
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
 2008-08-01 05:25:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3ee711e46 tstamp 2008-07-30 08:41:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk caa21260fb Tweak discuss text describing support for Blowfish. 2008-07-28 08:48:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61f56d7274 SEE ALSO: Add signbit(3). 2008-07-28 04:36:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ebd85884b CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001. 2008-07-25 20:34:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14a05a52aa minor wording changes 2008-07-25 20:25:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cfe08d1e4a CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001. 2008-07-25 20:21:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f761505ced ffix 2008-07-25 20:07:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5584a528f3 Small wording changes. 2008-07-25 18:44:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d4748beffa Changed these links to point to new scalbln.3. 2008-07-25 14:17:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fcf3394e3 Remove FIXME 2008-07-25 06:43:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b7f1d126d NAME: Make description clearer 
Improve the description of isunordered().
Add RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Formatting fixes.
A few wording improvements.
 2008-07-24 15:19:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6c974e73d NAME: Make description clearer 
SYNOPSIS: Add feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2001.
Add RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
 2008-07-24 14:29:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ba63496e7 Changed these links to point to new y0.3 page. 2008-07-24 09:57:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 329b1c25b9 Changed these links to point to new erfc.3 page. 2008-07-24 09:55:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e8fe3b46f Add some words to make clear that the string returned by 
ctime() and asctime() is null-terminated.
 2008-07-23 20:38:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5f1f495c1d A description of the SVID-specified mechanism for reporting math exceptions. 
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/266.
 2008-07-23 14:06:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d39e8d56be Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece in SYNOPSIS. 
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
 2008-07-23 13:04:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a81ff34c42 SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7). 2008-07-23 13:04:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b6e464c07a still not in glibc as at 2.8 2008-07-23 10:36:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4613095a5 wfix 2008-07-23 03:24:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45bd688fd s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively. 2008-07-23 02:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6457ee5a49 For consistency with majority usage: 
s/plus infinity/positive infinity/
s/minus infinity/negative infinity/
 2008-07-23 02:54:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94d5cb11d0 s/resp./respectively,/ 2008-07-22 15:08:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ba00ca748a Added .\" comment 2008-07-18 10:03:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3cf81850db tfix 2008-07-18 08:37:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4391d17314 wfix, ffix 2008-07-18 04:08:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c2a80b761f ffix 2008-07-18 03:57:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 920aac2cf7 tfix 2008-07-18 03:55:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 038fcbb1da wfix + grfix + remove FIXME 2008-07-17 14:03:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 39a22d9275 Fix errors introduced into a few prototypes when converting 
function declarations to use modern C prototypes in man-pages-2.75.
 2008-07-17 13:33:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd7193f57a Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-16 13:11:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29b16b4c74 Link to utimensat.2. 2008-07-16 08:42:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50ff69bba7 SEE ALSO: remove futimesat(2); add utimensat(2). 2008-07-16 08:28:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 44a2c3286c Even when the CONFORMING TO section is just a list of standards, 
they should be terminated by a period.
 2008-07-15 13:39:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 894d8eb522 Move example into proper EXAMPLE section. 2008-07-14 19:40:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e85c1a756f tfix 2008-07-14 18:44:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60d38add84 s/can/should/ for use of free(3) 2008-07-14 18:41:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97de53cad0 tfix 2008-07-14 18:39:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47e9b9f131 Prepend "POSIX.1-2001 specifies that: " to the sentence stating 
that tmpfile() may write to stdout.  (AFAICS, glibc's tmpfile()
does not do this.)
 2008-07-14 17:39:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7febebb7a2 Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS. 2008-07-14 17:06:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b8d000138 ffix 2008-07-14 15:57:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f0c34053bc Put SEE ALSO section into alphabetical order. 2008-07-14 15:52:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60e91186bf tfix 2008-07-14 15:26:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c4045cbb1 wfix 2008-07-14 14:26:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ba63d8ea4 Rename CONSIDERATIONS section to NOTES, and relocate 
to approprate place on page.
 2008-07-14 12:21:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 52d80137f3 ffix 2008-07-14 11:08:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3887f6e1e ffix 2008-07-14 11:04:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c789ed8789 Remove netdate(1) and rdate(1) from SEE ALSO, since these pages 
don't seem to exist on Linux systems.
 2008-07-13 20:30:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef55629d84 Clarify meaning of midnight on 1 Jan 1900/1970. 2008-07-13 20:30:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 67c27c77cc x 2008-07-13 19:55:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddba45e118 ffix 2008-07-13 17:39:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31550ee104 ffix 2008-07-13 17:37:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b9d705d2c tfix 2008-07-13 16:38:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bc7c3dc52f Put SEE ALSO in alpha order 2008-07-13 16:37:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c9d4f958a ffix 2008-07-12 21:17:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b983ad10fc ffix 2008-07-12 21:11:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65e8e0f5ed Small wording improvement. 2008-07-12 21:01:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c59f8dfefc Many small formatting fixes. 2008-07-12 20:57:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 512c4c1a1f many ffixes 2008-07-12 20:49:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a4ac59b3a Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS. 2008-07-12 20:31:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6f4ee12fe ffix 2008-07-12 15:08:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d7e02b73a2 Small wording improvement. 2008-07-12 12:41:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 883b0fef4b ffix 2008-07-12 12:38:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 55265deb37 tfix 2008-07-12 12:38:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk df5f3ac44d ffix 2008-07-12 12:37:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cba678df2d Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS. 2008-07-12 11:02:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d7ba51f9c5 Small wording fixes -- express <=, <, >=, > in words when in running text. 
+ffix
 2008-07-11 13:21:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbe21e1d70 tfix 2008-07-11 11:31:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f4d7f9e49 wfixes 2008-07-11 11:30:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4bb193f3c s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given 
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
 2008-07-10 20:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be9c618d66 minor rewording 2008-07-10 20:35:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 911634563e Minor rewording w.r.t. use of the term "parameter". 2008-07-10 20:33:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 56b1ae210c Minor rewording w.r.t. use of the term "parameter". 2008-07-10 20:27:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e4a8f2dc RETURN VALUE: note that errno is set on error. 
Add EINVAL error.
ffix
 2008-07-10 14:54:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50963b3676 ffix 2008-07-10 14:53:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b213341443 ffix 2008-07-10 12:54:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd4995f5fc tfx + ffix 2008-07-10 12:06:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 433dc4d53f ffix 2008-07-10 10:46:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c3022783f1 ffix 2008-07-10 10:42:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e94c735e3f Add a NOTES section describing the glibc-specific behavior 
when optind is reset to 0 (rather than 1).
Note glibc extensions under CONFORMING TO.
 2008-07-10 09:30:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 109b6459e8 Add section numbers to page xrefs 2008-07-10 07:41:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 74aace8a7f Small wording fixes -- express <= and >= in words when in running text. 2008-07-09 19:38:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d998d0152 wfix 2008-07-09 15:33:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ec1a3d9f9a Wording fix 2008-07-09 15:22:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8ee190da4a s/UNIX/Unix/, when not used as part of a trademark, 
for consistency with majority usage in pages.
 2008-07-09 14:17:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2914a14d30 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-09 13:55:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e23ab2934d CONFORMING TO: Add C99. 2008-07-09 13:26:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 279325d802 Add reference to passwd(5). 
Minor rewordings.
SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
 2008-07-09 10:47:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fb3dcb4a5d Add reference to group(5). 
Minor rewordings.
SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
 2008-07-09 10:46:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0912b48d80 SEE ALSO: Add exp10(3). 2008-07-09 09:59:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 344dd45ee5 SEE ALSO: Add log10(3). 2008-07-09 09:58:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9561de28f2 Add C99 to CONFORMING TO. 2008-07-09 09:54:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5502dfc13 Small rewording. 2008-07-09 09:51:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66b08231a1 Add details on initial value of optind, and note that it can 
be reset to restart scanning of an argument vector.
 2008-07-09 05:22:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb3797a494 Added some .\" comments 2008-07-09 05:01:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f33d7814ea Added FIXME. 2008-07-09 04:54:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 331dcdd6c6 wfix 2008-07-09 04:54:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c5263f428 Improve comments on struct spwd. 2008-07-08 22:14:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cefb5a1792 Describe additional encryption algorithms. 2008-07-08 22:12:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 712a8e85f4 Links to end.3 2008-07-08 15:36:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 37da8d9766 Documents etext, edata, and end symbols. 2008-07-08 15:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf5a72471e Added "Copyright" string to lines that had "([Cc])" for copyright. 2008-07-08 14:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f37855d179 Add "Copyright" word to copyright notices 2008-07-08 14:21:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e346bc5a42 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-08 12:44:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5907e75988 Link to perror.3. 2008-07-08 12:34:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 929ccaa3db Small rewrites in DESCRIPTION. 2008-07-08 12:32:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ff5d591ff Link to memchr.3. 2008-07-08 12:09:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7cb2bdbfd tfix 2008-07-08 12:09:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2a8bb904db Add description of rawmemchr(). 2008-07-08 12:08:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22fb6e2260 Link to getdate.3. 2008-07-08 07:25:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b9be6a3231 Link to getopt.3. 2008-07-08 06:42:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3575b10016 Link to gethsotbyname.3. 2008-07-08 06:40:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f9d17bc4fb Clarify treatment of intial white space by %% conversion specification. 
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
 2008-07-07 14:37:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f89dd3d82 SEE ALSO: Add elf(5). 2008-07-07 14:08:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e69ecf9339 ffix 2008-07-07 13:00:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c16f93565c ffix 2008-07-07 11:35:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 76e533c419 Add ref to signal(7) under EINTR error. 2008-07-07 05:24:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6602d44be1 Add reference to signal(7) for EINTR error. 2008-07-07 04:40:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d54a9102a Wrapped long source lines 2008-07-06 15:10:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d70f215a20 ffix 2008-07-05 15:09:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1cdac39d7c ffix 2008-07-05 14:04:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b22161d1a7 Link to readdir.3. 2008-07-04 22:39:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 15dd4fb58b Add documentation of readdir_r(). 
Remove <sys/types.h> from SYNOPSIS; POSIX.1-2001 does not require it.
Some minor rewordings.
 2008-07-04 22:38:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f041c2fd18 POSIX.1-2001 also does not document EINVAL. 2008-07-04 19:56:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cfd4a9a6cb RETURN VALUE: explicitly mention interruption by signal handler. 
SEE ALSO: add signal(7).
 2008-07-04 19:52:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 01538d0d51 ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in dicussion of EINTR. 2008-07-04 15:50:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 85ea971667 ffix 2008-07-04 15:16:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b6d88cf86 Add a pointer to signal(7) for further explanation of EINTR. 2008-07-04 11:32:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8404ecb514 spfix 2008-07-04 10:49:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5744079a15 SEE ALSO: Add passwd(5). 2008-07-03 15:20:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e87edf19db tstamp 2008-07-03 14:52:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d58b4f81e Link to updwtmp.3 2008-07-03 14:50:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 620792cf6f wfix 2008-07-03 14:47:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b65a83f29 Documents sched_getcpu(3), a wrapper for getcpu(2), provided since 
glibc 2.6.
 2008-07-03 12:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8018ea0925 wfix + remove FIXME 2008-07-03 09:23:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f65dd8529 spfix 2008-07-03 09:21:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00ac6ce430 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-02 13:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e95c17261a Documents sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:28:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca9484da96 Add a RETURN VALUE section pointing out that these functions do not 
return a value.
 2008-07-02 13:07:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f9799dc8c Documents gnu_get_libc_version(3) and gnu_get_libc_release(3). 2008-07-02 11:57:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8a1ed66ec4 Add changelog entry. 2008-07-02 11:37:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d957336ec8 Remove FIXMEs 2008-07-02 11:37:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ad7707a3f SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3) 2008-07-02 11:32:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a950f85c1 Document updwtmpx(3). 2008-07-02 11:27:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 155a5e73d9 RETURN VALUE: describe return value on success. 
Add an ERRORS section documenting POSIX.1-specified errors.
 2008-07-02 11:25:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2745bd69d3 Link to getutmp.3. 2008-07-02 09:54:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35e0c2ec1c Documents getutmp(3) and getutmpx(3). 2008-07-02 09:53:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4549f8807a Link to getutent.3. 2008-07-02 08:07:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f93af9c668 SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7). 2008-07-02 05:01:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5abf2394cb spfix 2008-07-01 14:29:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 307b4a04a4 A near complete rewrite, including additional information and 
a new example program.
 2008-06-30 14:44:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 57e5ca03e2 spfix 2008-06-30 13:00:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d68eac852 grfix 2008-06-30 10:48:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20f81e4bdb ffix 2008-06-30 09:11:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b587e0933 Add an ERRORS section. 2008-06-29 07:57:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 490b25e1d4 Add paragraph to start of DESCRIPTION recommending 
use of POSIX.1 "utmpx" functions.
CONFORMING TO: mention utmpxname().
 2008-06-29 07:48:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 76492ece62 tstamp 2008-06-29 07:38:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1de9af4660 ERRORS: add ENOTTY. 2008-06-29 07:34:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 853a397f04 Clarify discussion of return values. 2008-06-29 07:12:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5412da6f70 clarify discussion of utmpx file on other systems 2008-06-29 07:05:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5018c1b4c5 wording improvements. 2008-06-29 06:28:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23c36287fb POSIX.1 does not specify utmpx _r() functions. 2008-06-29 05:53:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 747f898c32 There are no utmpx equivalents of the _r reentrant functions. 2008-06-29 05:52:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff6953dcb9 Replace defintion of utmp structure by pointer to utmp(5). 2008-06-29 04:42:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1bced40f58 SEE ALSO: add utmp(5). 2008-06-29 04:07:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 11f0ca5eb1 Add definition of utmp structure. 2008-06-29 03:56:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 043945ef16 Clarify return value of pututline(). 2008-06-29 03:04:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ce515cd45f utmpname() does return a value. 2008-06-29 02:48:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a56b9b2f5 Remove just-added text aboout scope-IDs -- it's bogus: scpe-IDs could only 
be used by functions that fll in a sockkaddr_in6 structure, which
inet_pton() does not.
 2008-06-27 04:19:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e02685531b inet_pton() does not support specifying IPv6 scope-IDs. 2008-06-26 14:34:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c783f23753 getaddrinfo() supports specifying IPv6 scope-IDs. 2008-06-26 14:33:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8dcc7633ed Fix error in description of IPv6 presentation format. 
s/x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x/x❌x❌x❌x:x/
 2008-06-26 14:20:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5ab17ae7b0 Fix confused wording for return value of setvbuf(). 
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488104.
Other minor rewordings.
 2008-06-26 14:02:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7316d60fea wfix 2008-06-26 13:45:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae4a72b7b2 Remove orphaned formatting macros. 2008-06-26 13:39:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd60dedde9 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-25 15:32:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1d7c4d16b2 SEE ALSO: add time(7) 2008-06-23 08:48:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7042009b7c tweaks 2008-06-22 13:15:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 194f4ccb72 Document the GNU 'a' modifier for dynamically allocating strings. 
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
Document the GNU 'm' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
 2008-06-22 10:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46bbbb3519 .\" comment fix 2008-06-22 08:36:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 646af540e4 Add an ERRORS section documenting at least some of the errors 
that may occur for scanf().
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
 2008-06-22 08:35:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c246714df1 The longstanding bug that if delta was NULL, olddelta didn't return the 
outstanding clock adjustment, is now fixed (since glibc 2.8 + kernel 2.6.26).
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug?id=2449
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
 2008-06-22 05:20:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb772f766a Rewrote various pieces, and added some details. 2008-06-22 02:01:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26d4d0d6d4 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b24ac2ee70 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3c5b73c67 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1df2213318 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf66f9bde2 ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5eab0978cf ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fadbfb588 For consistency, "fix" cases where aregument of .B or .I was on the following source line. 2008-06-18 08:57:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7bcd433363 Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field. 
Reorder DT_ entries alphabetically.
 2008-06-18 08:50:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 58f362c32a Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field. 2008-06-17 15:32:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd1aabe6b1 Remove statement that inet_pton() extends inet_ntoa(); 
that's not really true, since inet_pton() doesn't support
all of the string forms that are supported by inet_ntoa();
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482987.
Describe IPv6 address formats.
Describe dotted decimal format in more detail.
Add an example program.
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
Make NAME line more precise.
Make description of return value more precise.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3), Add getaddrinfo(3).
 2008-06-13 10:37:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b26a174e5 Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS. 
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3) and getnameinfo(3).
Make NAME line more precise.
Move errors to an ERRORS section.
Add EXAMPLE section pointing to inet_pton(3).
 2008-06-13 10:23:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 054f5228c6 inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1. 
Rewrite discussion of why inet_addr() is disfavored.
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482979.
Describe the various address forms supported by inet_aton().
Rewrite description of inet_network().
Clarify discussion of inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr().
Add discussion of Classful Addressing, noting that it is obsolete.
Added an EXAMPLE program.
Relocate discussion of i386 byte order to NOTES.
Note that inet_aton() returns an address in network byte order.
SEE ALSO: Add byteorder(3) and getnameinfo(3).
 2008-06-13 10:22:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 444aa1ce8c DESCRIPTION: Add reference to inet_addr(3) for dotted notation. 
SEE ALSO: add inet(3).
Added BUGS section noting that gethostbyname() does not
recognize hexadecimal components in dotted address strings;
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482973
 2008-06-13 10:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3edd71dc4 Improve description or 'hints' and 'res' arguments. 
Add details on numeric strings that can be specified for 'node'.
Other fairly major restructrings and rewrites to improve
logical structure and clarity of the page.
 2008-06-13 10:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 481c58cae6 Remove mention of sa_len field from example code. 
That field is a BSDism not present on Linux.
 2008-06-13 09:54:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd117d4875 s/strcat/strncat/ (a typo that changed the semantics in DESCRIPTION). 2008-06-13 09:40:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d50dd9efa Modify SYNOPSIS to show protoypes of both versions of strerror_r(), 
and make other small clarifications of the description regarding
the two versions.
 2008-06-13 09:10:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c1decfcc2 Remove outdated FIXME. 2008-06-12 06:20:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d2394ac80 Link to mkstemp.3 2008-06-12 06:20:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20523df7ef Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line. 2008-06-12 06:09:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6cefc99668 Add description of mkostemp(), new in glibc 2.7. 
Fix discussion of O_EXCL flag.
These functions may also fail for any of the errors described in open(2).
Various other rewordings.
 2008-06-12 05:18:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c81e8a4261 Various minor changes. 2008-06-12 05:16:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60435a752c SEE ALSO: Add hostname (7) 2008-06-11 21:31:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d6299e824 Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a 
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
 2008-06-11 15:26:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f4d082329 Note that these functions are included in the next POSIX revision. 
Remove editorial discussion about what the functions should have been named.
 2008-06-11 13:52:05 +00:00