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624 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk f8850a3888 Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001. 2008-06-03 09:05:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b15f36380d sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of
supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
2008-06-02 21:18:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82f2286be4 tweak quotes 2008-05-30 13:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 185ec3e44a Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostophe (') in tablees 2008-05-30 13:14:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b98a4c61 Update timestamp 2008-05-29 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 740944a8e7 ffix 2008-05-26 16:33:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 882bbb69e4 For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming
may be required".
2008-05-21 14:33:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c850029715 wfix 2008-05-20 21:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 500beae6f3 Update FIXME 2008-05-14 06:15:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0d07ad302a Add list of thread-safe functions. 2008-05-12 22:20:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da5461a83e Added FIXME 2008-05-12 21:19:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a5c365a01 Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail. 2008-05-09 13:24:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c841cb6b87 Update timestamp 2008-05-08 13:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31daf529b7 Reformat kernel version information for flags. 2008-05-07 13:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64d6219cf0 s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux s.y.z/ 2008-05-07 13:33:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6923f52c33 NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and
GIDs.  But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread.  NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
2008-04-29 21:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk df18528cf0 Added FIXME 2008-04-24 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4372daaa5e tfix 2008-04-22 13:04:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 407252794e Batch wfix/ffix 2008-04-18 15:52:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59aa15de7d s/unicode.com/unicode.org/ 2008-04-18 15:46:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccea2d571b tfix 2008-04-17 19:37:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 81b36e1d0b tfix 2008-04-09 15:30:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0000daa58e Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors.
Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
file descriptor as readable.
2008-03-25 10:10:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e7c7fcfe wfix 2008-03-25 06:29:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca22189dfe Note location of online info for POSIX.1-2008 revision. 2008-03-19 14:22:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21247ac688 Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision. 2008-03-19 14:19:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f36deb49c s/realtime/real-time/ 2008-03-19 13:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eba722884d s/nonzero/non-zero/ 2008-03-19 13:16:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f04cc9731 s/nonempty/non-empty/ 2008-03-19 13:11:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 972a8ec74e grfix 2008-03-19 11:52:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 415d4dd0eb grfix 2008-03-19 11:46:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b01461a26 s/zeroes/zeros/ 2008-03-19 09:04:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fcbe9025d0 grfix 2008-03-19 08:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf50118f48 Use "run time" when non-attributive, "run-time" when attributive. 2008-03-19 08:46:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29aceda46e grfix 2008-03-19 08:43:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 76c44d83f3 s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively. 2008-03-19 08:37:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d01c530c s/filesystem/file system/ 2008-03-19 07:26:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10d76543fe Modify the license on these pages to be the standard verbatim license. 2008-03-18 14:47:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b69987f6de s/time stamp/timestamp/ 2008-03-18 09:52:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 85c087efeb added FIXME 2008-03-10 14:28:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e935e108ac Replace (il)legal by "permitted" or "valid" 2008-03-10 10:04:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31981fa15b Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-03-03 13:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 845d36d6e8 Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO. 2008-03-03 10:24:38 +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 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