Michael Kerrisk
4922b5d50b
ffix
2007-12-22 16:46:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
94e9d9febd
Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required.
2007-12-22 16:40:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
009df872f7
Format casts so that there is a non-breaking space after the
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type, and remove unnecessary parentheses around the casted value.
Thus, for example, the following:
.IR "(size_t) (\-1)" .
becomes:
.IR "(size_t)\ \-1" .
2007-12-22 16:26:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5f414585bc
ffix
2007-12-20 12:44:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
30f6523ba5
We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
2007-12-20 11:49:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cf94921b75
ffix
2007-12-20 11:25:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
26cf2565db
Updated date in .TH line
2007-12-19 07:24:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a6e2f12821
Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
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logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
2007-12-19 07:19:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
088a639be3
Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
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logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
2007-12-19 06:57:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cfadad462c
remove superflous white space in text
2007-12-19 06:29:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bd19142309
enclose code smaples/structure defns/etc in ".in +4n / .in"
2007-12-19 06:16:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a08ea57c20
Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
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logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
2007-12-19 05:53:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c1bdeb84c5
Fix typos in argument names; ffixes
2007-12-18 15:59:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
40271293b2
Update date in .TH line
2007-12-18 15:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
be9634cfdd
s/epoch/Epoch/
2007-12-18 15:37:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5e27f149be
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
...
Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
return -1 indicating an error.
Remove cruft HZ text.
Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
2007-12-18 15:36:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2d986c928c
Replace `...' with alternate formatting (e.g., ".." or .I)
2007-12-18 07:47:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
92a5f98331
ffix
2007-12-17 17:06:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d2296c225b
wfix/ffix
2007-12-17 17:05:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
56d22987d2
Various formatting changes.
2007-12-17 16:43:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fc8d39abe6
Fix date in TH line (s/2005/2007/ which was wrongly changed in 2.63).
2007-12-17 16:25:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1e50031bf5
spfix
2007-12-17 14:58:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aedcbc663c
Update date in .TH line
2007-12-17 14:28:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
882a943574
Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the functionality provided
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by MS_NOATIME.
2007-12-17 14:21:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
14d8dd3ba1
ffix
2007-12-17 11:28:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0c2b92ba41
Add missing commans in SEE ALSO section.
2007-12-17 11:24:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9e20ad2440
Minor rewording.
2007-12-17 11:24:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
979c2c91c2
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2007-12-17 10:22:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
40dedbfef9
ffix
2007-12-16 16:12:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
91443f6c60
ffix
2007-12-16 13:47:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9091595d88
ffix
2007-12-16 13:13:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
891e16290b
ffix
2007-12-16 13:10:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6c5dedd333
ffix
2007-12-14 17:42:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2d6cfc1a82
ffix
2007-12-14 14:15:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
722bd1d0fc
ffix
2007-12-14 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4bd8c61461
ffix
2007-12-14 13:23:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
85c4be5ade
s/read system call/input system call/
2007-12-14 09:14:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3920c8caf6
Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod().
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as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
2007-12-14 07:04:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d3c8f8e2d6
ffix
2007-12-13 20:42:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
90a0494840
ffix
2007-12-13 20:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bfd91cc898
wfix
2007-12-11 16:07:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
551d5b7aa5
spfix
2007-12-11 09:31:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1368e8476d
ffix
2007-12-10 15:03:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
65cac33344
s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line.
2007-12-10 09:02:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
37cd82ad20
Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS.
2007-12-10 08:49:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1a329b567a
ffix
2007-12-10 07:16:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
173e100104
ffix
2007-12-10 06:31:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0e92e8cc83
Remove section number from page self ref
2007-12-09 08:30:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a9a13a5057
Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").
2007-12-09 08:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e39138d190
ffix
2007-12-07 19:53:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5a7e771398
ffix
2007-12-07 19:52:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6b6da70802
ffix
2007-12-07 19:30:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e2de12c279
ffix
2007-12-05 21:12:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
56ef4d2989
ffix
2007-12-05 14:07:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c7992edccf
Removed tabs
2007-12-05 13:47:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1197dd11de
Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.
2007-11-29 21:04:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e17aa4873c
ffix
2007-11-29 18:15:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d243a27fd8
ffix
2007-11-29 18:07:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ef203e4559
ffix
2007-11-29 17:59:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7653389dcf
wspace cleanup
2007-11-24 10:38:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5aa7f157d4
Add CONFORMING TO section.
2007-11-24 10:15:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2777b1caec
Remove section numbers for page references where the
...
reference refers to the page itself. (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
2007-11-24 10:10:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e201255411
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
2007-11-24 09:32:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
94208b1f4e
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entries.
2007-11-24 09:29:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
99d097ae9d
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
2007-11-24 09:26:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2ccfac8b3e
Update date in .TH line
2007-11-24 07:49:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
254255afd0
Added comment about PTRACE_{POKE,PEEK}US[E]R spelling.
2007-11-24 07:34:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8e09de4eb4
wfix
2007-11-24 07:25:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1931a36642
Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have
...
more than 5 arguments.
2007-11-24 07:25:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5c1088731a
tfix
2007-11-24 07:06:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d24596d517
Many and various updates and improvements.
2007-11-24 06:55:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3735227dd5
wfix
2007-11-23 18:01:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f50f6cb5a8
Fix copyright line to include word "Copyright"
2007-11-21 18:22:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3a16ac7aed
ffix
2007-11-21 18:17:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
33c6f37475
Update date in .TH line
2007-11-19 08:12:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
531d750bb3
Update date in .TH line
2007-11-19 08:06:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d61ff56aa8
Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
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sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
2007-11-19 04:24:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4407d3d81e
Handle errors using a custom handle_errror() macro.
2007-11-19 03:34:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6a578b8823
s/dir(/handle_error(/
2007-11-19 03:25:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
43ea35457d
Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
2007-11-19 01:34:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a406395c86
Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
2007-11-19 01:26:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ea53895cb8
Clarify details in description of file leases.
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Minor wording edits.
2007-11-19 01:21:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
71f66746c7
ffix
2007-11-18 07:31:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
276adee157
Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.
2007-11-17 06:23:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
90e261f2a3
wfix
2007-11-17 06:13:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
facdd3f468
ffix
2007-11-17 05:51:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cedab4493d
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2007-11-17 05:46:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e267688bfa
tfix
2007-11-17 05:18:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eb25159b7f
Eliminate duplicate blank lines in rendered output.
2007-11-17 04:53:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
527ea91285
Fix name in .TH line.
2007-11-16 06:23:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
38f76cd278
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2007-11-15 03:28:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a5b9e01508
Update date in TH line
2007-11-15 03:21:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a209ce803c
Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
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Moved _syscallN() material to new _syscall(2) page.
2007-10-23 14:40:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
80984672da
Removed reference to example in intro(2).
2007-10-23 14:35:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bad3caa42b
Added _syscall(2) and intro(2) to SEE ALSO section.
2007-10-23 14:33:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
53780d2eff
Created as a new page, by taking the content specific to the _syscall()
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macros from intro(2).
2007-10-23 13:21:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b3a7b55e83
Reorder ERRORS sctions alphabetically
2007-10-23 06:21:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8c55d428e2
Reorder ERRORS alphabetically
2007-10-23 06:15:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
389fe6c8dc
ffix
2007-10-22 07:03:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6a31cfdd74
tfix
2007-10-22 06:55:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
428d352029
s/PTRACE_POKEUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER/
...
s/PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_PEEKUSER/
2007-10-17 20:49:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6beb1671d2
tfix/wfix
2007-10-16 19:18:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7aa32276fa
wfix
2007-10-16 19:08:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
da62bae1df
wfix
2007-10-16 19:07:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
47c20452eb
Updated FIXME
2007-10-16 05:50:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eaf7a6918e
Linux 2.6.22 added support for PR_SET_UNALIGN.
2007-10-15 18:11:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c5871a7dc1
spfix
2007-10-15 18:05:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
49ec013ce2
Fix version numbers in cross references.
2007-10-14 18:33:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8b17f282d1
spfix
2007-10-13 20:29:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1d93c27249
Updated FIXME
2007-10-13 12:51:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6397da8c48
Add fallocate(2); remove timerfd(2)
2007-10-13 12:42:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
40b89fc71a
Removed old FIXMEs
2007-10-13 11:03:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6c57ce6df
ffix
2007-10-12 06:46:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a4f3e8d6a0
tfix
2007-10-12 06:41:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b3f30a82c9
Added <fcntl.h> to SYNOPSIS.
2007-10-08 18:45:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0f7bde2b5a
grfix
2007-10-04 16:02:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b87dcfb900
grfix
2007-10-03 19:56:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fbbfa7ce8a
Fix syntax error in example program.
2007-10-03 06:25:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d314dbfda1
ffix
2007-10-03 06:22:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
45cbde66dd
tfix
2007-10-03 06:20:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
028f847b00
tfix
2007-10-03 06:19:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
56e0e87ff5
Add text desribing EINVAL error for read(2).
2007-09-27 17:59:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ca313a6891
ffix
2007-09-23 17:26:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
01a734ef2b
ffix
2007-09-23 11:41:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0daa9e92d0
Fix redundant formatting macros
2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c11b1abf2e
Change mtk's email address
2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fb7339dfa0
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2007-09-19 21:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8da9ae243a
s/sync (3)/sync ()/
2007-09-19 05:25:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0d95c3d5c6
wfix
2007-09-18 18:50:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ad3fa0f2a3
ffix
2007-09-18 18:47:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
623c00d49e
ffix
2007-09-18 18:43:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aadd727c4f
Add text cautioning about use of close() in
...
multithreaded programs.
2007-09-13 19:38:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3efbc18c81
Strengthened the warning against using this system call
...
and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
2007-09-13 17:41:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
499f416724
Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
2007-09-10 04:35:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fe75ec04d3
Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
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minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
2007-09-10 04:34:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d739f5f8c7
Add text describing limit on total size of argv + evnp,
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and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
2007-09-10 04:31:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d9a0b2a566
Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
2007-09-10 04:30:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f3edaabb5d
Add text noting that PROT_WRITE may (and on x86 does) imply PROT_READ.
2007-09-10 04:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af9c7ff296
Add "#include <stdlib.h>" (to declatre exit(3)) to example program.
2007-09-10 02:44:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4df883b963
ffix
2007-09-04 06:30:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8a3ed0f00d
ffix
2007-09-01 20:35:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0f67421e4c
Udpdate date in .TH line
2007-09-01 17:30:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9947a8d79c
Update some details on set_zone_reclaim()
2007-09-01 17:29:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
331dcbfb3a
Since kernel 2.6.22, Linux setitimer() now conforms to POSIX.1,
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giving an EINVAL error for a non-canonical tv_usec value.
2007-08-28 13:15:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cf4224d404
Fixed argument type for BLKGETSIZE.
2007-08-27 13:25:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e2f9e1bed2
ffix
2007-08-27 11:38:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
00045cbb7e
Minor edits.
2007-08-27 11:34:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
05c7d833f8
+ changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" through out the
...
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
+ added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
+ rewrite portions of description for clarification.
+ added all errors currently returned by sys call.
+ removed cautionary note that use of MPOL_F_NODE|MPOL_F_ADDR
is not supported. This is no longer true.
+ added mmap(2) to See Also list.
2007-08-27 11:09:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
45ca54fea8
Minor fixes
2007-08-27 11:01:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
73ae0a09ae
+ changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" through out the
...
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
+ added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
+ rewrite portions of description for clarification.
++ clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files.
++ defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
++ mention what happens if local/target node contains no
free memory.
++ clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
this happens.
+ added all errors currently returned by sys call.
+ added mmap(2) to See Also list.
2007-08-27 11:01:10 +00:00