Michael Kerrisk
22399250c3
Name "ia64" consistently.
2007-07-08 16:06:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b47f1a095f
Link to man3/clock_getres.3.
2007-07-08 16:02:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
292d25b095
Fix page cross references
2007-07-08 15:05:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e3d6f7b71f
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonextistent fadvise.2.
2007-07-08 15:03:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f902bebcd5
spfix
2007-07-08 14:57:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3edb8da410
Replace discussion of timer* macros with a pointer to new page timeradd.3.
2007-07-08 14:57:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3f624b939f
grfix
2007-07-08 12:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e0bf91271f
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2007-07-08 12:39:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cc4615cc78
Added/updated glibc feature test macro requirements
2007-07-08 12:11:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
52b78335ac
Wrapped long line in SYNOPSIS
2007-07-08 11:13:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
61d7d93cd1
More fixes after comments by AEB.
2007-07-07 19:18:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
96b8e49f27
grfix
2007-07-07 19:18:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8179def107
Added som .\" comments
2007-07-07 18:51:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6ce49601e
Minor fixes
2007-07-07 09:55:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aadd7709ec
More small changes
2007-07-06 05:50:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0bbb92a373
Fairly substantial changes and corrections, including adding
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coverage of all of the interfaces that get/set PGIDs.
2007-07-05 21:19:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7d50a840e7
Varous rewordings; clear up some imprecisions.
2007-07-03 18:01:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3fffa7b679
ffix
2007-07-03 11:05:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3af8df2f46
ffix
2007-07-02 20:06:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8e5a4d5a46
Fix beoken link
2007-07-02 13:29:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f9e4d811be
Various improvements
2007-07-01 14:42:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9d9430106b
ffix
2007-07-01 12:41:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e92040156
Minor change
2007-07-01 06:19:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f9f7c04229
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
2007-07-01 06:03:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6f5ff36aac
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
2007-07-01 06:03:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ab7b478b84
ffix
2007-07-01 05:21:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
10f5f29476
s/bitmask/bit mask/
2007-07-01 04:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
02e6bca302
s/bitfield/bit field/
2007-07-01 04:22:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
02d79ece57
Fairly substantial rewrites, and a few additions.
2007-07-01 03:23:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5b6adad130
Added a blank line to example prog
2007-07-01 02:00:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c8760c6822
Added .\" comment about set_zone_reclaim.2
2007-07-01 01:58:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6a21f96dc8
Link to clone.2
2007-07-01 01:50:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
70bbe1fe18
This file was created by accident
2007-07-01 01:45:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aa15d676bb
Link to select.2
2007-07-01 01:35:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
74fa61b798
Added an example program.
2007-06-30 14:11:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dd9b25a6ca
Added an EXAMPLE code segment.
2007-06-30 13:14:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6a2df4ee5e
Add an example program.
2007-06-30 13:03:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af4c9a828f
Minor changes
2007-06-29 18:30:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3245700528
Added tuxcall
2007-06-29 18:18:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
792603dbb4
Added as link to unimplemented.2
2007-06-29 18:15:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eb94ed02ab
Updated date in .TH line
2007-06-29 17:34:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1812a94934
Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and wording changes.
2007-06-29 17:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
88276dadd8
Added .\" comment
2007-06-29 16:49:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
257f138a5c
On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not the system page size.
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Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
invokes this system call.
2007-06-29 16:36:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5636a29a5e
Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
2007-06-29 06:40:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1df962c865
Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
2007-06-28 20:44:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2a37862f9c
Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
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other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
2007-06-28 20:43:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e3ce1314dd
Link to getrlimit.2
2007-06-28 20:32:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3309b6dca7
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
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need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
2007-06-28 20:30:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0926883520
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
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either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
2007-06-28 20:29:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f78ec19d19
wfix
2007-06-28 19:47:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f484ad4995
Minor wiording change
2007-06-28 19:06:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9cb3c68a5f
tfix
2007-06-28 19:05:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
437a918274
grfix
2007-06-28 19:04:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
09de4bf118
Rewrite, expand, and update to 2.6.22 state of affairs.
2007-06-28 06:26:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
360ed6b354
Added FIXMEs.
2007-06-28 06:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0564ba6d7b
Added FIXME.
2007-06-27 07:26:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b9c8008b2c
Add madvise1 to NAME line.
2007-06-27 06:40:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d0da2c9b47
New link to unimplemented.2.
2007-06-27 06:39:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
13c212ade3
This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult to maintain.
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Information about undocumented system calls is maintained in the
HOWTOHELP file, and probably in othe rplaces soon.
2007-06-27 06:20:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f8d55bc6e6
Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in respective man pages.
2007-06-27 06:10:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cefacf7f35
Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
2007-06-27 06:09:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b9159777d3
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
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have appeared over time.
2007-06-27 06:07:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
42d0b3944e
minor changes
2007-06-27 06:06:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7660c85765
Change link to poit to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
2007-06-27 05:53:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed4510c437
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
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have appeared over time.
2007-06-27 05:49:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
07b88ec8d4
spfix
2007-06-27 05:48:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cd66755373
Minor changes
2007-06-27 05:46:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d28a0b7789
Minor changes.
2007-06-27 05:29:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5cd9ef1903
Change to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
2007-06-27 05:16:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b8f9d9dd7f
Add notes on the different system call service routines that have
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appeared over time.
2007-06-27 05:12:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3b5dffbcc9
ffix
2007-06-26 08:21:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e9669c27c
Added as link to unimplemented.2
2007-06-26 07:18:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
70866e8ea8
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
2007-06-26 06:57:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7fdd2ee18c
Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
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top of sigtimedwait().
2007-06-26 06:49:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cdd160d9e5
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
2007-06-26 06:44:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
520ebc8a9a
Link to sigqueue.2.
2007-06-26 06:28:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
88dc60256d
Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
2007-06-26 06:22:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
67944331a6
Links to posix_fadvise.2.
2007-06-26 05:59:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6a1692abcd
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
2007-06-26 05:54:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7eade6fa9f
Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
2007-06-26 05:43:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0fa2491f1e
Minor fixes
2007-06-26 02:34:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c58418c912
Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
2007-06-25 12:57:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b582c7a74b
Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 page.
2007-06-25 12:06:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c48ef83f02
A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
2007-06-25 12:01:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
32ac9452b3
This link is about to be replaced with a real man page.
2007-06-25 12:01:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e3e255598e
Minor wording changes.
2007-06-25 10:03:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d4725a0e26
s/NNbit/NN-bit/
2007-06-25 09:55:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f531acc327
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
2007-06-25 08:51:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4a6515efe0
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
2007-06-24 17:28:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4068436347
wfix
2007-06-24 17:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3b13618d5d
grfix
2007-06-23 08:22:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eee0a2ec83
minor wording fix
2007-06-23 08:19:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af21031765
wfix
2007-06-23 08:17:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0643ee28f8
wfix
2007-06-23 08:16:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b7d35dc76a
Minor wording fix
2007-06-23 08:13:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
43232e4357
ffix
2007-06-23 08:11:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
66ee0c7e89
ffix
2007-06-23 07:19:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c91e381d47
ffix
2007-06-23 07:05:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c1a6449fe7
ffix
2007-06-22 20:54:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
097585edcb
ffix
2007-06-22 20:40:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2f0af33ba6
ffix
2007-06-22 19:42:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1274071a69
ffix
2007-06-22 18:25:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
db4e96b771
ffix
2007-06-22 17:48:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c3dfd2c880
ffix
2007-06-22 17:42:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
682edefb1b
ffix
2007-06-22 17:16:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
09b235db2a
Format errno.
2007-06-22 06:05:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
988db66164
strip trailing white space
2007-06-21 22:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
52087dd3e8
ffix
2007-06-21 21:58:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8bd58774dc
Formatted signal names
2007-06-21 05:38:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7b2b5ea4fb
ffix
2007-06-20 22:20:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0b9bdf82fb
ffix
2007-06-20 22:15:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5917ad3d34
ffix
2007-06-20 22:11:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f25eaea8f3
ffix
2007-06-20 22:09:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c84371c688
Italics for header file references
2007-06-20 21:53:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
29059a6548
s/-/\\-/
2007-06-20 21:39:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
89f9f5b25d
ffix
2007-06-20 20:48:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bf25f45cf8
Note that some architectures don't have socketcall(2); instead
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real system calls are provided for socket(), bind(), etc.
2007-06-20 20:15:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d398968003
Note that some architectures don't have ipc(2); instead
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real system calls are provided for shmctl(), semctl(), etc.
2007-06-20 20:14:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
34f2460ed5
Rewrite to reflect the fact that the _syscallN
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macros are no longer available.
2007-06-20 18:53:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3442f570a8
Remove reference to _syscall0() macro.
2007-06-20 18:43:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
02a5cdc5ea
Add semtimedop() to SEE ALSO.
2007-06-20 06:05:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed2a6c7314
Add recvmsg() and sendmsg() to SEE ALSO.
2007-06-20 06:04:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0fb58b282d
Fix small wording error.
2007-06-19 20:42:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9b0e0996ee
the syscall is exported as "__clone2" not "clone2".
2007-06-19 20:09:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
49363fa6ab
ffix
2007-06-18 19:56:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4db7cf5dbd
Update text for EPERM error describing the maximum number of
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swap files. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
2007-06-16 18:22:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
97bc00947f
Add NOTES para about permissions required to call sched_setscheduler()
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on other systems.
2007-06-16 12:25:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4f4d2facf2
wfix
2007-06-16 11:58:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3a928a5078
Updated FIXME.
2007-06-16 11:45:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2b83e9fe13
Updated FIXME.
2007-06-16 11:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
228688f9ea
Changed text for EINVAL error.
2007-06-16 11:27:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5766b19637
Noted that timeout can also be changed is select() is interrupted by a signal.
2007-06-16 10:46:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e42dfb375
tfix
2007-06-15 21:44:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bb54fa0226
Fix include in SYNOPSIS.
2007-06-15 05:47:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5537bcf8d3
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
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Fih includes in SYNOPSIS.
2007-06-15 05:47:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d676e60b93
spfix
2007-06-14 06:33:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f5b031864e
Reordered .SH sections.
2007-06-14 06:31:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f4a411231c
ffix
2007-06-13 22:32:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0c2ec4f115
ffix
2007-06-13 22:13:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0ff8384a43
Small wording change.
2007-06-13 22:05:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0e1ad98ccf
Updated FIXMEs
2007-06-13 21:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2b0fa18232
replace form `....' with \fI...\fP where the enclosed string is a pathname,
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type name, or argument name.
2007-06-12 21:19:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ee62201f94
Fixed description of EACCES error.
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Added sentence defining "curret working directory".
Other minor wording changes.
2007-06-12 05:23:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3363301f11
wfix
2007-06-11 20:36:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
589cdb95ce
ffix
2007-06-11 20:35:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a622ed8f93
Made NOTES text into a VERSIONS section, since that's what it really describes.
2007-06-11 19:57:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a43e21f0b4
Added details about seekable files and file offset.
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Noted that write() may write less than 'count' bytes, and
gave some examples of why this might occur.
Noted what happens if write() is interrupted by a signal.
Minor wording changes.
2007-06-11 19:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
460e6363dc
s/i-node/inode/
2007-06-11 19:23:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fc7ba05735
s/process' /process's/
2007-06-11 19:20:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7eeba17aac
Minor wording changes
2007-06-11 19:13:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
51a138ce9a
Minore rewordings; added a FIXME.
2007-06-11 19:07:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7c1bc63f44
ffix
2007-06-11 18:45:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7dbfafa8ca
Minore rewordings.
2007-06-11 18:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed15fce22c
Update .TH line; previous commit noted what happens if
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gethostid() can't open /etc/hostid.
2007-06-10 18:18:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
53a6b01dee
Add NOTES paragraph noting that <sys/types.h> isn't required by
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POSIX.1-2001 or Linux, but was required on some implementations.
2007-06-10 18:08:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c36973a3d6
s/w.r.t./with respect to/
2007-06-08 12:11:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
75b94dc35c
Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
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Change "i.e. " to i.e.., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
2007-06-08 11:56:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
eb1af89677
Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
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independent of fixes for American spelling).
2007-06-08 10:58:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d9bfdb9c21
Convert to American spelling conventions
2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
53a1443cce
Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7.
2007-06-08 07:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
677f47663e
Wrap source lines at sentence breaks.
2007-06-08 03:17:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5edee42039
Updated discussion of somaxconn limit.
2007-06-06 19:08:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
06dc77641b
wfix
2007-06-06 18:44:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1f821a554d
Added some comments to example program.
2007-06-06 18:40:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
deec2da39c
Updated VERSIONS section
2007-06-05 19:36:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0f94034628
Added VERSIONS section.
2007-06-05 07:06:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed0e2b2fb9
Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2.
2007-06-05 06:54:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
570dd97898
Added VERSIONS section.
2007-06-05 06:32:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4f73a46c64
Added VERSIONS section
2007-06-05 06:21:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5a16bf48ff
In Linux 2.6, the 'modify_ldt_ldt_s' structure was renamed 'user_desc'.
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Include definition of 'user_desc' structure.
Minor rewordings.
2007-06-02 20:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d3b5ab8237
Small changes in EXAMPLE program.
2007-06-02 08:31:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
544195a1d6
spfix
2007-06-02 08:20:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af5f950813
Update copyright notice
2007-06-02 08:19:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4594917527
Reformatted code example
2007-06-02 06:08:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
28442c8f31
grfix
2007-06-02 05:49:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3758f6dad4
Minor wording fixes
2007-06-02 05:45:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8427b6a4f2
grfix
2007-06-02 05:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8fc3da7ec0
Removed reference to non-existent sigsend(2).
2007-06-01 06:05:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e82e185fc6
fix xref
2007-06-01 06:01:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
28dfb19d8b
fix xref
2007-06-01 05:59:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
deff900024
Correct xref
2007-06-01 05:57:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
21a50d3348
Added some .\" comments
2007-06-01 05:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
76375bc632
wfix
2007-06-01 05:55:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6a326a8527
grfix
2007-06-01 05:25:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
19f6943dce
grfix
2007-06-01 05:25:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0f5ccfc8a7
Remove SEE ALSO reference to non-existent mt.4.
2007-06-01 05:21:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b0742c81c6
Small clarification of description of 'mode'.
2007-05-30 15:49:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dfaae36266
Minor wording fixes
2007-05-30 15:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7218bcea37
Minor wording fixes.
2007-05-30 15:32:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f67f9e203e
Update .TH line to include "Linux"
2007-05-30 05:40:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d9343c5c13
Removed version number from .TH line
2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ceaeac2470
spfix
2007-05-29 04:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7f3db3125d
spfix
2007-05-29 04:36:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
88210f5f31
ffix
2007-05-29 04:15:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
43940e36a9
ffix
2007-05-28 15:52:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
70d1cb2d51
spfix
2007-05-28 15:42:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
973a928ae1
Modified .TH line
2007-05-28 12:07:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bc7ff20e70
Added EXAMPLE program.
2007-05-28 11:43:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
735f354f03
wfix
2007-05-28 11:07:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1c27853f55
Added new EXAMPLE section referring to example in getaddrinfo.3
2007-05-28 10:53:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f11e5e44f7
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
2007-05-28 10:40:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
185f68728f
Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section.
2007-05-28 10:38:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
218d23e5a3
Rewrote various parts.
2007-05-27 21:33:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bc0d5df316
Strengthen warning against the use of signal().
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Add siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
2007-05-27 21:03:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2720c2ed56
Added '\" comment
2007-05-27 17:04:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
08fcffef9a
Updated FIXME.
2007-05-27 15:23:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7190cf218e
Updated TH line
2007-05-27 14:35:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
78f2eeab03
Add ENOSYS error.
2007-05-27 14:06:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d880b21c28
Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Document/* in kernel source.
2007-05-27 12:13:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a3c945b37d
Added .\" comment about l_sysid.
2007-05-27 11:52:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c12fd10dcb
Update these pages to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros have
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gone away.
2007-05-26 15:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c046a64128
Conver to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE.
2007-05-26 14:10:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bd0a01ce48
Added ERRORS section (saying that the call always succeeds).
2007-05-26 12:54:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
74fa514a71
Added comment (.\")
2007-05-26 12:47:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ad7cc990f2
Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolutiion.7
2007-05-26 12:41:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ad1750a30d
This is now a link to the the page that has been placed in Section 7.
2007-05-26 12:29:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
568f8f435f
Added FIXME.
2007-05-26 12:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5f23447594
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are always successful).
2007-05-26 12:20:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2d41b3324d
Added a RETURN VALUE section.
2007-05-26 12:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6686472b86
Added ERRORS heading
2007-05-26 12:15:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7b5ab5947e
Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2.
2007-05-26 12:08:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a9a79c6ed6
Added an ERRORS section.
2007-05-26 12:05:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3961a41b93
Added RETURN VALUE section.
2007-05-26 07:34:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0cff29b795
Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING to and note that
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this call is Linux-specific. Other minor rewordings.
2007-05-26 07:28:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c057ec9864
Small rewording to fix "fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK"
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rather than "returns EWOULDBLOCK".
2007-05-26 06:29:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2a5e0dcd1a
Substantial rewitres/additions.
2007-05-25 19:54:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f20d7d8ea3
A much improved eample program.
2007-05-25 18:57:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af5267b2f4
Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2.
2007-05-25 18:42:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ccd2b351c8
Removed "." at end of SEE ALSO list
2007-05-22 21:49:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cbc2a267b1
grfix
2007-05-22 21:37:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c66cb57033
Fix bad link path.
2007-05-22 18:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
08b7e58416
Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section.
2007-05-21 22:49:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6ef95cb01a
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section.
2007-05-21 22:46:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f5cb430b7c
Added ERRORS section.
2007-05-21 22:41:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7e1c01a76
ffix
2007-05-21 21:25:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d806e10376
Added section numbers to xrefs
2007-05-21 21:07:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
65e7dad22c
wfix
2007-05-21 15:49:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
aa4962263b
s/manpage/man page/
2007-05-21 12:58:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d1dcf59840
Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing
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some outdated text.
2007-05-21 11:16:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ed7a722d13
Updated FIXME
2007-05-21 10:14:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
128e7c364b
ffix
2007-05-21 09:19:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e5ec74e16e
Updated FIXME
2007-05-21 07:04:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0e99f2a5c0
Relocated text for "Versions and Library Support".
2007-05-21 06:55:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a7b9318d06
Updated FIXME.
2007-05-21 06:52:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8e86ff2a6
Updated FIXME
2007-05-21 06:51:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b5d63e490d
Remove text about the non-existent BSD meremap() -- too
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much information, in my opinion.
2007-05-21 06:46:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
49ba0d2aaa
Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being equivalent to
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fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note about this historical behaviour.
2007-05-21 06:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
87eca6b7b3
Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
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open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
2007-05-21 06:34:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2b2581ee37
Fix inconsistencies in order of .SH sections
2007-05-19 04:30:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2dd578fd5b
Reordered sections for consistency.
2007-05-18 16:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a1d5f77cc8
Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
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sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
2007-05-18 16:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
af4d911a52
wfix
2007-05-18 14:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
889829be48
Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs
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under another section e.g., NOTES.
2007-05-18 11:59:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2a995424e0
ffix
2007-05-18 11:17:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
413901b165
wfix
2007-05-18 11:01:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4fb3134194
Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES
2007-05-18 10:39:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d597239cbd
Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES
2007-05-18 10:30:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6996254443
Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines
2007-05-18 09:55:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
05eabe6576
Fix inconsistencies in .TH line
2007-05-18 09:21:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3d5a3539b7
Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines
2007-05-18 09:11:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e127c16af7
Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM.
2007-05-18 08:56:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0ed55ece49
Make "manual" in .TH line "Linux Programmers Manual"
2007-05-18 08:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e37e328263
Move SEE ALSO section to end of page
2007-05-16 18:25:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b07cd0a96b
Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a RESTRICTIONS
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section under existing NOTES section.
2007-05-16 05:33:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0b5dc6f115
s/RETURN VALUES/RETURN VALUE/
2007-05-16 05:00:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
405f0560fe
ffix
2007-05-16 04:54:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a759cc870f
Renamed .SH AVAILABILITY to .SH VERSIONS
2007-05-16 04:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9aba2fed65
wrap a source line
2007-05-16 04:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ff457ccbea
Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS
2007-05-16 04:39:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e8a7fb3a8
wrappped source line
2007-05-16 04:32:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6459c9ca10
ffix
2007-05-16 04:00:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dc919d094d
Commented out/rewrote .SH AUTHORS sections
2007-05-16 03:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fcd0a03701
Made a .SH line into .SS
2007-05-16 03:15:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
be29323e9e
Small rewording.
2007-05-16 03:12:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a8f6b98e17
Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2 contains
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the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
2007-05-16 03:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
90b36dddb0
ffix
2007-05-16 03:06:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ef17a8a1ae
ffix
2007-05-16 03:05:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4a19cb8cd1
Made ".SH UNDOCUMENTED" into ".SS Undocumented" and relocated under NOTES
2007-05-16 03:03:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a2c875ff29
s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/
2007-05-16 03:00:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cc171723b1
Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated within page.
2007-05-16 02:57:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
19c98696a2
s/SH NOTE$/SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:54:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8c87824d61
Made .SH into .SS
2007-05-16 02:45:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6c36ac81bf
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:41:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ea165b17e4
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:41:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d4c46761de
ffix
2007-05-16 02:31:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e81969abf7
ffix
2007-05-16 02:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ffc78e2c0b
s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/
2007-05-16 02:25:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3fc15e600d
Made a .SH line into .SS
2007-05-16 02:21:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5bc8c34c03
s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() function example program
2007-05-16 02:09:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3618596929
Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE".
2007-05-16 02:01:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0784f93ce4
s/return 0/exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)/ in example program.
2007-05-16 01:57:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
61b48f9328
Made sme .SH headings .SS
2007-05-16 01:56:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
042bae96ef
ffix
2007-05-15 20:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
374d1d23c6
Commented out AUTHOR note
2007-05-15 20:51:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a05dfaec95
ffix
2007-05-15 05:44:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4c44ffe5dc
Use symbolic constants in exit(2) calls
2007-05-14 21:11:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
19dbfd0a98
ffix
2007-05-14 21:10:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
646f46f029
s/exit(0)/exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)/
2007-05-14 21:06:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a6c4ce1b9c
ffix
2007-05-14 20:39:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3fdbf2a227
ffix
2007-05-14 19:25:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d140095082
wfix
2007-05-14 19:23:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
6d12800ee8
ffix
2007-05-14 19:20:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
552524a660
ffix
2007-05-14 19:19:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
be7fff26d5
Wrap source lines
2007-05-12 13:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9e370fbab6
tfix
2007-05-12 13:20:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
32792f3553
wfix
2007-05-12 13:19:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
375d884714
tfix
2007-05-12 13:19:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
825f35381a
wfix
2007-05-12 13:17:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d9c1ae6480
Use bold for function name, not underline.
2007-05-12 13:12:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7c93fec03d
Wrapped source lines
2007-05-12 12:58:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a44012756e
Minor repairs after global edits
2007-05-12 12:53:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
60a90ecdae
Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to ".BR name ()".
2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3623e341c3
Add section number to xref
2007-05-12 00:47:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d504a99411
spfix
2007-05-12 00:47:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0bfa087b03
Add section numbers to references to other pages
2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7f8aa9e3b4
ffix
2007-05-11 18:35:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8a784debdf
Fix wrong argument names in text.
2007-05-11 18:34:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d975050ce5
Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page
2007-05-06 08:38:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fdc4620460
spfix
2007-05-06 07:40:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1a549f8cea
Modified FIXME to mention bug report
2007-05-06 07:01:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6d70cf942
Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and sysv_signal.3 pages.
2007-05-04 21:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7f82d75e0b
Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
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Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
2007-05-04 20:32:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
2e519bf2eb
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
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functions in signal(7).
A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
2007-05-04 20:32:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f9a848cb2b
Removed out of date FIXME
2007-05-01 15:27:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
83314009c0
Place MAP_* flags list in alphabeitical order.
2007-05-01 15:23:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ae0318dfac
Removed out-of-date FIXME.
2007-05-01 15:12:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b364fca092
Removed some comment text about interpreter scripts, placing
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it instead in Changes file.
2007-05-01 14:34:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e506533603
hyphen --> minus
2007-05-01 07:58:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
32875790e8
Make hyphens into minus signs.
2007-05-01 07:57:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
35f0f2f954
wfix
2007-04-30 16:11:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3996edf642
Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
2007-04-30 16:08:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0265cd0106
Link to epoll_wait.2
2007-04-30 16:06:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ab44d3d652
A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things fixes the
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reported by Kyle Sluder in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
And added some example code.
2007-04-30 15:32:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
d6f223a7e3
Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID programs.
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Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
may be treated specially.
2007-04-30 14:30:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e6b33ad7da
Added an example program.
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Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be released.
2007-04-30 12:25:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3b5804b409
spfix
2007-04-30 10:58:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
456960740c
Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
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NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
and should be avoided in portable programs.
Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408 )
to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
is an ABI change.
2007-04-30 10:39:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cd24c68794
ffix
2007-04-30 09:00:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7fd8a3c9db
wfix
2007-04-30 08:55:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bab1c5df34
Removed out-of-date FIXME
2007-04-30 06:16:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
0fcd5bc9cb
"-1" should be "\-1"
2007-04-27 17:11:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
18be658d0c
s/nonnegative/non-negative/
2007-04-24 19:10:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
099c2a5971
Wrap long lines
2007-04-24 16:56:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1c44bd5b0b
Wrap long lines; start sentences on new lines
2007-04-24 16:44:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
88933758db
Added some formatting fixes
2007-04-21 11:02:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c13182efa3
Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
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white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
273691af91
Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented.
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The nice interval can be used to control the size of the round-robin
quantum.
2007-04-05 14:37:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
41798314b6
Code formatting fixes
2007-04-05 14:17:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7295b7eda0
Replaced tabs with spaces
2007-04-05 13:29:41 +00:00