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Michael Kerrisk a23bf8a396 Uncommented description of RLIMIT_NICE that I wrote earlier 2005-09-19 14:57:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 58d323a7f7 Formatting fix 2005-09-19 12:18:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b327744384 Wording improvements to new dumpable text 2005-09-16 15:36:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c0dc044574 Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2. 2005-09-16 14:05:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1b6145807d fix typo in version number 2005-09-15 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1176900f3e formatting fix 2005-09-15 12:06:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 924dca35fe New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added NOTES on usage.
Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
2005-09-15 11:50:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7ff599e2ac New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
       and SIGSEGV.
Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
2005-09-15 11:48:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bfac9793eb New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Changed CONFORMING TO.
2005-09-15 11:48:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00161f1ba6 Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
into separate new pages.

Other minor changes

NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in
                all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2
List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Signal handling possibly wrong
From:       Bodo Stroesser
Date:       2005-08-09 17:44:06
2005-09-15 11:47:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b469222561 Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
Some formatting fixes.
2005-09-15 11:46:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 479377fb38 Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
2005-09-15 09:20:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22b6a68b91 Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards. 2005-09-14 13:51:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d2243fd63e Minor change to FIXME 2005-09-14 08:16:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbc53ca8b2 Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7. 2005-09-14 08:15:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ceb6743d1f Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
Added entries to SEE ALSO.
Some formatting fixes.
2005-09-13 10:27:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f55c92c489 Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID 2005-08-16 15:13:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 96296ef0fa nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t; as per Debian bug 322934
Some wording and formatting improvements.
2005-08-16 08:46:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8a1dd51447 Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when vector size
exceeds IOV_MAX.
Formatting clean-ups.
2005-08-09 17:32:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18bc490536 fix typo 2005-08-02 12:12:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 79dded64b7 Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions. 2005-08-02 12:09:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24ed820aca Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions. 2005-08-02 12:09:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f302169769 Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions. 2005-08-02 12:09:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e1f91cfd1 Commented out RLIMIT_NICE text, pending the fix to align
the 2.6.12 mismatch between [gs]etpriority() and RLIMIT_NICE.
See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
2005-07-29 11:44:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1bf844f164 Added RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE 2005-07-28 14:38:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd04afa828 Modified discussion of privileges; added mention of RLIMIT_RTPRIO 2005-07-28 14:37:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0fdbc1eb4a Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privilegs and resource limits. 2005-07-28 14:36:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4c11163972 spelling fix 2005-07-28 14:29:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d818502d25 Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
representations of the nice value.
Added mention of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to getrlimit.2 
under the description of the EACCES error.
2005-07-28 13:21:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d5b6eb812 Added sentence noting that range of nice value is described in getpriority.2 2005-07-28 12:33:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7dc020ccf4 Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
As per Debian bug 263756
2005-07-25 11:45:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 998c7b3d5b Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
As per Debian bug 314435
2005-07-25 11:33:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6ca594c529 Add EINTR error
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
2005-07-25 11:22:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29de83af2a Fix typo 2005-07-25 09:55:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 331da7c3a0 RFC references are now always writen as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or
"RFCnnn").
2005-07-20 07:50:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14ee3bff41 Formatting fixes 2005-07-19 15:38:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5e0a0e427 Formatting fixes. 2005-07-19 15:36:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 32f3001571 Improve st_blocks description. 2005-07-19 14:20:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 310b79194a Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with explanatory text,
instead if atime/ctime/mtime.
2005-07-19 07:15:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e360c3a9cf s/pid/PID/ 2005-07-19 06:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1aa1268f29 s/super user/superuser/ 2005-07-18 17:13:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e568304e5 s/file pointer/file offset/ 2005-07-18 17:10:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9df8ff80a Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID". 2005-07-18 16:55:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5a5add044 euid-> effective UID 2005-07-18 16:17:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 499d62f2a6 s/\\-ID/ ID/ 2005-07-18 16:13:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7400a2caf set-(group|user)-ID fixes 2005-07-18 16:09:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 357cf3fe97 id --> ID 2005-07-18 16:02:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e75a454257 gid --> GID 2005-07-18 15:54:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fdc196f51f uid --> UID 2005-07-18 15:51:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b14d4aa5b8 Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
2005-07-18 15:05:56 +00:00