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27 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Yuri Kozlov a26a0d7be5 random.4: Minor wording fix (s/above/below)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 06:37:19 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b777affca close.2, epoll_create.2, epoll_ctl.2, fcntl.2, madvise.2, mmap.2, mremap.2, select_tut.2, setgid.2, setuid.2, syscalls.2, vmsplice.2, dlopen.3, fts.3, getpw.3, stdio.3, fd.4, initrd.4, random.4, sd.4, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, cpuset.7, epoll.7, inotify.7, man.7, socket.7, x25.7: Global fix: s/re-/re/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "re-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:45:23 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 23588a6ab4 random.4: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:21:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ff40dbb354 accept.2, connect.2, eventfd.2, flock.2, open.2, posix_fadvise.2, read.2, recv.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, send.2, signalfd.2, splice.2, timerfd_create.2, write.2, flockfile.3, mkfifo.3, mq_notify.3, mq_open.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, scanf.3, random.4, ddp.7, epoll.7, fifo.7, ip.7, pipe.7, socket.7, spufs.7: Global fix: s/non-blocking/nonblocking/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 17:43:10 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c8b34bdfbf random.4: spfix 2009-02-21 07:13:48 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e7dfa844ec tweaks 2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cfd8e328ea Minor tweaks 2008-09-18 12:30:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ed0f08124 Add a Usage subsection that recommends most users to use /dev/urandom,
and emphasizes parsimonious usage of /dev/random.
2008-06-18 10:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26868e5b26 s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for
proper rendering in UTF-8.
2008-06-05 12:26:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da84883c2d Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.
2008-01-05 06:04:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8eb40c9c69 Reformatted headings 2007-06-15 19:35:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35490a1f81 Made CONFIG/CONFIGURING heading ==> CONFIGURATION 2007-06-15 19:23:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc919d094d Commented out/rewrote .SH AUTHORS sections 2007-05-16 03:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be7fff26d5 Wrap source lines 2007-05-12 13:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e21af3ab8 Added section numbers to xrefs to other pages 2007-05-11 23:18:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7295b7eda0 Replaced tabs with spaces 2007-04-05 13:29:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8478ee0279 Formatting fixes 2005-11-02 13:55:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31e9a9ec99 Change itacised function names and page xrefs to bold 2005-11-02 11:34:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 63aa9df02f Automated unformatting of parentheses using unformat_parens.sh 2005-10-19 07:07:02 +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 2bc2f4798f hyphen/dash fixes 2005-07-06 12:57:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 704a18f06d Fixed typos and spelling mistakes 2005-04-18 13:35:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c892f4ca9f AEB, Improved descrtiption of read from /dev/urandom 2005-04-08 07:58:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8deb0f0d5b After bug report from John V. Belmonte
Updated init and quit scripts to reflect kernel 2.4/2.6 reality
     (Scripts taken from drivers/char/random.c)
     as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247779
2004-12-16 14:24:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fea681dafb Import of man-pages 1.70 2004-11-03 13:51:07 +00:00