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Michael Kerrisk a522769fdb Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
kernel 2.6.23 and later.
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
2008-03-05 15:22:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6958017ffd Refine previous changes a little. 2008-03-05 15:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ceb141cf58 Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(32), and setstate_r(3),
which are the reentrant equivalents of random(3), srandom(3),
initstate(32), and setstate(3).
2008-03-05 13:37:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f9c3f32ab7 ffix 2008-03-05 11:34:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4903137bae ffix 2008-03-05 11:30:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2cac6f0b67 Fix missing piece in 2.76 changes 2008-03-05 11:22:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccabfaa0f5 wfix 2008-03-05 11:14:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b475602ef Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded appliucations that need
independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and "Numerical Recipes",
formerly in rand(3), to this page.
Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
2008-03-03 16:51:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5ed744769 Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of random(3) instead. 2008-03-03 16:47:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c00194abf0 Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
2008-03-03 14:20:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 877645840e Start of 2.80 2008-03-03 13:46:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65c7828685 Start of 2.80 2008-03-03 13:43:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 165e117f52 Ready for 2.79 2008-03-03 13:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31981fa15b Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-03-03 13:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b93a300187 Removed tabs 2008-03-03 13:24:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a060baecc Update .TH timestamp 2008-03-03 13:20:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 335611e730 sync 2008-03-03 12:43:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 845d36d6e8 Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO. 2008-03-03 10:24:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c0ced2c258 Fix type for ssi_ptr field. 2008-03-03 10:12:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b78bd687d sync 2008-03-03 09:55:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54d02f32e9 Further reworking of Q5/A5. 2008-02-29 16:28:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d377b54d0a Further work on Q6/A6, plus added some .\" comments for Q1/A1. 2008-02-29 16:08:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 146c1764f0 tfix 2008-02-28 16:10:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3bc917f6ca ffixes 2008-02-28 16:04:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1de8d77d Futher refinement of Q9/A9. 2008-02-28 15:54:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e698277c0 Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT. 2008-02-28 14:47:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 160c5be13e spfix 2008-02-28 14:40:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc65f7d823 Chgange A3, to note that when events are available,
the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
2008-02-28 14:25:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f11af7daa2 Refine Q9/A9. 2008-02-28 13:49:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fb5cf0fb6 Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
set is [file descriptor, open file description]
2008-02-28 13:24:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf3eb59854 wfix 2008-02-28 12:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21c1d4034e s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS. 2008-02-28 11:57:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f946c58059 wfix 2008-02-28 11:35:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28afd4f49a ffix 2008-02-26 14:20:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93f17eadb1 Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files. 2008-02-26 14:19:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 958fe8069b Remove COLOPHON text, which was added to the source by mistake. 2008-02-26 13:32:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7025a2fe92 tfix 2008-02-26 13:29:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b22933411 Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.
2008-02-26 13:29:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f2e101d0ca minor rewordings. 2008-02-26 12:44:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7647b3a10b wfix 2008-02-26 12:35:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4fecd70377 Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set. 2008-02-26 12:34:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4a120c768 Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain open.
2008-02-26 12:33:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 752cb57f78 ffix 2008-02-26 10:21:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 865c9fd869 Refinements to last change. 2008-02-26 09:26:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0af804ac5e clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites. 2008-02-26 08:27:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 202bf2c868 tfix 2008-02-26 07:30:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2229c7ae74 Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7). 2008-02-22 16:45:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddcc46729e Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7). 2008-02-22 16:45:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c15e4069f6 Added FIXME. 2008-02-22 15:38:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e5a7fca5cc Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ. 2008-02-22 15:18:34 +00:00