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Michael Kerrisk 4eaa04c556 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2012-10-15 11:13:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 19f9d5935d proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks 
Based on text in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt by Kees Cook

Cowritten-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-10-15 11:11:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c2b035115c proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks 
Based on text in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt by Kees Cook

Cowritten-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	man5/proc.5
 2012-10-15 11:09:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4129825b52 proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-10-15 08:56:36 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 31a6818e3c time.1, atexit.3, bsearch.3, dlopen.3, envz_add.3, errno.3, fmtmsg.3, getgrent_r.3, getline.3, getmntent.3, getnameinfo.3, getpass.3, getpwent_r.3, gets.3, isalpha.3, printf.3, puts.3, recno.3, scandir.3, stdarg.3, sysconf.3, termios.3, wordexp.3, null.4, core.5, dir_colors.5, issue.5, proc.5, termcap.5, utmp.5, ascii.7, cpuset.7, glob.7, man-pages.7, man.7, mdoc.7, mdoc.samples.7, regex.7: Revert 9f8e673e62 (whose global s%\\e%\\\\% caused problems) 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-09-26 23:56:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f8e673e62 time.1, atexit.3, bsearch.3, dlopen.3, envz_add.3, errno.3, fmtmsg.3, getgrent_r.3, getline.3, getmntent.3, getnameinfo.3, getpass.3, getpwent_r.3, gets.3, isalpha.3, printf.3, puts.3, recno.3, scandir.3, stdarg.3, sysconf.3, termios.3, wordexp.3, null.4, core.5, dir_colors.5, issue.5, proc.5, termcap.5, utmp.5, ascii.7, cpuset.7, glob.7, man-pages.7, man.7, mdoc.7, mdoc.samples.7, regex.7: Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash 
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-09-24 10:23:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 66a9882e46 bdflush.2, get_robust_list.2, kexec_load.2, madvise.2, mmap.2, mount.2, prctl.2, query_module.2, rt_sigqueueinfo.2, shmget.2, sigaction.2, syscalls.2, umount.2, malloc.3, hpsa.4, initrd.4, proc.5, bootparam.7, icmp.7, netlink.7, signal.7: Global fix: use "Linux kernel source" consistently 
Rather than "kernel source".

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-09-24 10:02:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 67914165b3 proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-08-22 15:28:19 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 055024ed2e proc.5: Update description of 'starttime' field of /proc/PID/stat 
The unit of measurement changed from jiffies to clock ticks in
Linux 2.6.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675891

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-08-22 15:27:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 00702accc4 proc.5: Clarify header file referred related to 'flags' field of /proc/PID/stat 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-08-14 21:10:51 +02:00
Tolga Dalman 2b5407af0c proc.5: wfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-08-13 09:30:21 +02:00
David Prévot 8d708d6bf6 proc.5: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-05-11 06:24:37 +12:00
Michael Kerrisk 4175f99924 add_key.2, query_module.2, request_key.2, resolver.3, stpcpy.3, strftime.3, elf.5, proc.5, mdoc.samples.7: srcfix: Wrap source lines at sentence boundaries 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-05-07 15:30:17 +12:00
Michael Kerrisk b5d204d02b proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/cgroup 
Upstreamed from Red Hat / Fedora

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-05-07 15:30:15 +12:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ab6bd3188 proc.5: Note that CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes can override file-max 
Upstreamed from red Hat / Fedora

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-05-07 15:30:15 +12:00
Michael Kerrisk b9c48803b8 proc.5: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-05-07 15:30:15 +12:00
Elie De Brauwer 78fc91ec1b proc.5: Fix description of fourth field of /proc/loadavg 
SIgned-off-by: Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2012-02-08 06:21:20 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 2c4201f01a proc.5: srcfix: Added pointer to a commit 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-10-05 07:38:45 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c409c4ffa3 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2011-10-04 08:34:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 41acdb62c9 Changes, setns.2, stat.2, proc.5, capabilities.7: tstamp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-10-04 08:32:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 80e6365593 proc.5: Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman b4a185e5cc proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/ns/ 
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f81c6cc693 fcntl.2, recv.2, crypt.3, err.3, strtoul.3, proc.5: tstamp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-09-16 07:02:06 +02:00
Simon Paillard c3074d7061 fallocate.2, kexec_load.2, poll.2, spu_run.2, atan2.3, cbrt.3, clock_getcpuclockid.3, end.3, frexp.3, getgrouplist.3, getifaddrs.3, matherr.3, modf.3, pow.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, sched_getcpu.3, tgamma.3, mouse.4, proc.5, feature_test_macros.7, spufs.7: Global fix: properly escape minus sign 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6ee625ebd6 proc.5: Add description of 'SigQ' field of /proc/PID/status 
Reported-by: Stan Sieler <sieler@me.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-09-16 07:00:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a1bc91d55e proc.5: Add description of 'PPid' field of /proc/PID/status 
Reported-by: Stan Sieler <sieler@me.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2011-09-16 07:00:46 +02:00
A. Costa 37a2356720 proc.5: spfix 
See  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603134

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-11-15 07:02:06 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk fde39195fa proc.5: Add reference to mlock(2) for further info on /proc/PID/status VmLck 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-10-30 07:33:57 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b218b02329 open.2, poll.2, select_tut.2, getpt.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, ptsname.3, unlockpt.3, pts.4, tty_ioctl.4, proc.5, pty.7: spfix: s/psuedoterminal/psuedoterminal/g 
Reported-by: Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-10-13 05:32:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 662b2137e8 open.2, poll.2, select_tut.2, getpt.3, grantpt.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, ptsname.3, unlockpt.3, pts.4, tty_ioctl.4, proc.5, pty.7: Global fix: s/pseudo-terminal/pseudoterminal/ 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-10-12 06:51:51 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 008f1ecc43 intro.1, time.1, accept.2, bind.2, connect.2, execve.2, flock.2, getdents.2, getpriority.2, getuid.2, intro.2, ioctl.2, mincore.2, mknod.2, personality.2, ptrace.2, read.2, recv.2, select_tut.2, send.2, sendfile.2, shmctl.2, sigaction.2, signal.2, stat.2, times.2, truncate.2, umask.2, wait.2, MB_CUR_MAX.3, MB_LEN_MAX.3, argz_add.3, btowc.3, clearenv.3, clock.3, cmsg.3, end.3, endian.3, errno.3, exit.3, fgetwc.3, fgetws.3, fopen.3, fputwc.3, fputws.3, fseek.3, fwide.3, getfsent.3, getgrnam.3, gethostid.3, getipnodebyname.3, getmntent.3, getpwnam.3, getwchar.3, grantpt.3, iconv.3, iconv_close.3, iconv_open.3, insque.3, intro.3, iswalnum.3, iswalpha.3, iswblank.3, iswcntrl.3, iswctype.3, iswdigit.3, iswgraph.3, iswlower.3, iswprint.3, iswpunct.3, iswspace.3, iswupper.3, iswxdigit.3, malloc.3, mblen.3, mbrlen.3, mbrtowc.3, mbsinit.3, mbsnrtowcs.3, mbsrtowcs.3, mbstowcs.3, mbtowc.3, mkstemp.3, mktemp.3, nl_langinfo.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, printf.3, ptsname.3, putwchar.3, qecvt.3, rcmd.3, readdir.3, rexec.3, rpc.3, setnetgrent.3, shm_open.3, sigpause.3, stdin.3, stpcpy.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, syslog.3, towctrans.3, towlower.3, towupper.3, ttyslot.3, ungetwc.3, unlocked_stdio.3, wcpcpy.3, wcpncpy.3, wcrtomb.3, wcscasecmp.3, wcscat.3, wcschr.3, wcscmp.3, wcscpy.3, wcscspn.3, wcsdup.3, wcslen.3, wcsncasecmp.3, wcsncat.3, wcsncmp.3, wcsncpy.3, wcsnlen.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcspbrk.3, wcsrchr.3, wcsrtombs.3, wcsspn.3, wcsstr.3, wcstok.3, wcstombs.3, wcswidth.3, wctob.3, wctomb.3, wctrans.3, wctype.3, wcwidth.3, wmemchr.3, wmemcmp.3, wmemcpy.3, wmemmove.3, wmemset.3, wprintf.3, console_ioctl.4, pts.4, elf.5, filesystems.5, hosts.5, proc.5, ttytype.5, boot.7, capabilities.7, credentials.7, epoll.7, glob.7, koi8-r.7, path_resolution.7, pty.7, signal.7, suffixes.7, time.7, unicode.7, unix.7, uri.7, utf-8.7: global fix: s/Unix/UNIX/ 
The man pages were rather inconsistent in the use of "Unix"
versus "UNIX". Let's go with the trademark usage.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-10-12 06:49:17 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5fab2e7c9c Changes.old, clone.2, execve.2, fcntl.2, futex.2, getitimer.2, getpriority.2, mmap.2, mount.2, mprotect.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, setuid.2, sigaltstack.2, vfork.2, div.3, fenv.3, fmod.3, memchr.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, queue.3, scanf.3, trunc.3, st.4, proc.5, services.5, utmp.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, feature_test_macros.7, futex.7, glob.7, man.7, netlink.7, unicode.7: Switch to American usage: "-wards" ==> "-ward" 
American English uses "afterward" in preference to "afterwards",
and so on

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-09-26 07:34:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6596d27062 proc.5: Minor wording fix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
 2010-08-29 08:55:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b911dcb076 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2010-06-20 06:43:23 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b2d3abb847 proc.5: Improve description of /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-19 04:40:23 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7191605652 proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-17 00:31:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 49236d3c71 proc.5: Simplify description of /proc/sys and /proc/sys/fs 
In the description of these directories, there's no need
to list all the files and subdirectories that they contain;
that information is provided by the entries that follow.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-17 00:23:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c7fb034b88 proc.5: spfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-12 13:37:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ed71412616 proc.5: Document CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE 
This config option is needed to make memory_failure_early_kill
and memory_failure_recovery available.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-12 13:36:27 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3dd0750093 proc.5: Document /proc/sys/vm/memory_failure_recovery 
New in Linux 2.6.32.  Description based on the text in
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-12 13:33:03 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3477f9f628 proc.5: Document /proc/sys/vm/memory_failure_early_kill 
New in 2.6.32. Description based on the text in
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-12 13:29:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f6c65333e proc.5: Minor fix: put /proc/sys/vm/swappiness in alphabetical order 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-06-12 13:14:27 +02:00
Yuri Kozlov b97deb971e proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-05-22 05:29:25 +02:00
Michael Witten f49c451a62 stime.2, time.2, utimensat.2, ctime.3, difftime.3, ftime.3, getspnam.3, mq_receive.3, mq_send.3, rtime.3, sem_wait.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, timeradd.3, rtc.4, core.5, proc.5, icmp.7, time.7: Global fix: Consistently define the Epoch 
All definitions of the Epoch have been refactored to the following:

  1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)

That form is more consistent, logical, precise, and internationally
recognizable than the other variants.

Also, some wording has been altered as well.

Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-17 04:55:05 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 01d0a44739 ftw.3, resolver.3, issue.5, proc.5, pty.7, suffixes.7: Global fix: s/pre-/pre/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "pre-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 18:41:29 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 310672d6b1 ioctl_list.2, mount.2, select_tut.2, stat.2, getifaddrs.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, proc.5, bootparam.7: Global fix: s/sub-/sub/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "sub-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 18:36:10 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 24b74457e7 accept.2, access.2, acct.2, clock_nanosleep.2, mbind.2, mincore.2, remap_file_pages.2, sched_setscheduler.2, set_mempolicy.2, splice.2, stat.2, syslog.2, timer_create.2, timerfd_create.2, truncate.2, fenv.3, ferror.3, fflush.3, fgetwc.3, fgetws.3, flockfile.3, fputwc.3, fputws.3, fread.3, getopt.3, gets.3, getwchar.3, glob.3, iconv.3, longjmp.3, pow.3, printf.3, puts.3, putwchar.3, regex.3, rpc.3, scanf.3, setjmp.3, termios.3, unlocked_stdio.3, wcswidth.3, hd.4, rtc.4, st.4, core.5, dir_colors.5, elf.5, proc.5, arp.7, ascii.7, boot.7, bootparam.7, charsets.7, futex.7, ip.7, iso_8859-11.7, man-pages.7, man.7, mdoc.samples.7, path_resolution.7, pipe.7, posixoptions.7, unicode.7, unix.7, uri.7, utf-8.7, ld.so.8: s/non-/non/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 18:20:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c7094399ad intro.1, time.1, adjtimex.2, capget.2, eventfd.2, fcntl.2, getrlimit.2, getsockopt.2, gettimeofday.2, intro.2, ioctl_list.2, ioperm.2, mlock.2, pivot_root.2, poll.2, prctl.2, ptrace.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, semget.2, sigaltstack.2, signalfd.2, sysctl.2, timer_settime.2, timerfd_create.2, wait.2, CPU_SET.3, argz_add.3, assert_perror.3, atexit.3, backtrace.3, bcmp.3, clearenv.3, ctime.3, dl_iterate_phdr.3, dlopen.3, ecvt.3, errno.3, error.3, ether_aton.3, exit.3, fenv.3, ferror.3, finite.3, flockfile.3, fnmatch.3, fpathconf.3, fpclassify.3, ftime.3, ftok.3, ftw.3, fwide.3, getaddrinfo.3, gethostbyname.3, getlogin.3, getnameinfo.3, getnetent.3, getopt.3, getprotoent.3, getrpcent.3, getservent.3, glob.3, hsearch.3, inet.3, isalpha.3, iswalnum.3, iswalpha.3, iswblank.3, iswcntrl.3, iswctype.3, iswdigit.3, iswgraph.3, iswlower.3, iswprint.3, iswpunct.3, iswspace.3, iswupper.3, iswxdigit.3, longjmp.3, lsearch.3, malloc.3, matherr.3, mblen.3, mbsinit.3, mbtowc.3, on_exit.3, printf.3, pthread_attr_init.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3, pthread_attr_setguardsize.3, pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3, pthread_attr_setschedparam.3, pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3, pthread_attr_setscope.3, pthread_attr_setstack.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push.3, pthread_equal.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_setconcurrency.3, pthread_setschedparam.3, pthread_setschedprio.3, ptsname.3, putenv.3, putgrent.3, raise.3, rcmd.3, regex.3, rexec.3, rpc.3, rpmatch.3, rtnetlink.3, scandir.3, sem_init.3, setaliasent.3, setbuf.3, setenv.3, setjmp.3, signbit.3, stdio_ext.3, strtod.3, strtol.3, strtoul.3, system.3, termios.3, timeradd.3, tzset.3, ualarm.3, wctomb.3, xdr.3, st.4, tty_ioctl.4, core.5, elf.5, proc.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, icmp.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, math_error.7, mdoc.samples.7, mq_overview.7, pthreads.7, raw.7, regex.7, socket.7, tcp.7, tzselect.8: Global fix: s/non-zero/nonzero/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:40:55 +01:00
Fang Wenqi bc918a3acd proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-31 18:23:37 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2843ba93d4 stat.2, posix_fallocate.3, proc.5, tcp.7, udp.7: tstamp 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-09-30 03:28:34 +02:00