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Michael Kerrisk 72710182cd tweaks 2008-07-07 04:16:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 495edd812c tweaks 2008-07-04 20:07:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72ee5ec277 tweaks + update async-signal-safe function to that given in POSIX.1-2004 2008-07-04 19:40:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0005e334d7 wfix 2008-07-04 19:33:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b24473a39b wfix 2008-07-04 16:24:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 01538d0d51 ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in dicussion of EINTR. 2008-07-04 15:50:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c1667735e0 tfix 2008-07-04 15:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c69c9232a Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid.
SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
2008-07-04 15:09:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 743bc3957a tweaks 2008-07-04 14:36:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48b9ec3fe1 Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal
plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
signal handler has been established, and note the system
calls that behave this way.
2008-07-04 13:15:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af3c87d084 Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting
which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
system calls are never restarted.
2008-07-04 13:13:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a665dfb6e wfix 2008-07-03 20:29:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 506bee474a tstamp 2008-07-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0de5014fe0 Document cpuset mechanism for confining processes to processors and nodes. 2008-07-03 19:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c85aa6ba5 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4564433c99 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard
signals is unspecified.
2008-07-02 12:54:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 095e060410 Overview of POSIX shared memory API. 2008-07-02 05:03:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27e8d1a56d ffix 2008-07-01 16:32:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6e731d1f4 ffix 2008-06-26 13:38:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f6b8245d1 ffix 2008-06-26 13:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 027ebd3c4b Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions. 2008-06-26 13:15:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9085070854 ffix 2008-06-26 12:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73858a07dd Wfix 2008-06-24 14:05:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bb26f2df6 Note that HRTs are not supported on all h/w. 2008-06-23 11:21:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46f14bc7b0 Added some details about where jiffies come into play.
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various points in the page.
2008-06-23 09:19:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8cacdebdab tstamp 2008-06-18 09:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7eb11a9fe7 formatting and wording improvements 2008-06-18 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fadbfb588 For consistency, "fix" cases where aregument of .B or .I was on the following source line. 2008-06-18 08:57:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4b5a0b0c8 Updated text referring to syscalls(2). 2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 905c9e1c05 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:47:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b84b38312 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:46:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305865606d Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores since 2.6.19. 2008-06-11 22:32:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f36e23f07 Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX message queues. 2008-06-11 22:31:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94b40171e1 Provide a clear description of the three types of address that can
appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed, and abstract.
2008-06-11 22:11:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b061b28a6 Minor tweaks 2008-06-11 21:50:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eae3689b44 A description of symbolic links, taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and heavily edited. 2008-06-11 21:25:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06b00cff20 A description of hostnames, taken from FreeBSD. 2008-06-11 21:24:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 294544e7b2 Expand description of VERSIONS section. 2008-06-11 13:41:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bb93cd4bb Control character names (^X) are writte boldface, without quotes. 2008-06-10 08:44:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45660d7d7 wrap long source lines 2008-06-09 21:12:25 +00:00