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Michael Kerrisk 969d3d9e76 sendmmsg.2: srcfix: Added FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-27 11:10:11 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 53aeb9c2da send.2: Add mention of sendmmsg(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-27 11:10:11 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 82c182484a sendmmsg.2: New page for sendmmsg(2)
Some pieces inspired by an initial attempt by Stephan Mueller.

Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-27 11:10:11 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk d5563c9427 dup.2: SYNOPSIS: Add "#include <fntl.h>" for O_* constants
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-14 10:19:54 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 509b5e8b73 pipe.2: SYNOPSIS: Add "#include <fntl.h>" for O_* constants
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659750

Reported-by: Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-14 10:16:21 +13:00
Jessica McKellar 0deb3ce930 open.2: Fix grammar in O_DIRECT description
Some small grammar fixes to the O_DIRECT description.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-13 10:22:05 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b2e0ce503 mremap.2: spfix
Reported-by: Vijay Rao <vijay@portuosus.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-12 22:53:31 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk c799ca6250 sync.2: PROTOTYPE: Fix return type of syncfs()
Reported-by: Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-12 06:01:35 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk f49ee36532 vfork.2: CONFORMING TO: Note that POSIX.1-2001 marked vfork() obsolete
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 12:05:46 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 619c3d1b2d vfork.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 12:05:46 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk c59392ff61 vfork.2: Add some notes on reasons why vfork() still exists
Reported-by: starlight@binnacle.cx
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 12:05:36 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk ab47b8bc20 vfork.2: Note clone() flags equivalent to vfork()
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 10:03:58 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 60875c0427 vfork.2: Clarify what is duplicated in the child
Add some words to make it clear to the reader that vfork(),
like fork(), creates duplicates of process attributes
in the child.

Reported-by: starlight@binnacle.cx
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 10:00:41 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 6de06bb89f fork.2: NOTES: Descibe clone() call equivalent to fork()
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 09:30:07 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk cf2b18fe6d vfork.2: Clarify that calling *thread* is suspended during vfork()
Reported-by: starlight@binnacle.cx
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 09:28:06 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 82d0acff52 mount.2: Removed erroneous statement about MS_RDONLY and bind mounts
Reported-by: Junjiro Okajima <jro@mx3.ttcn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-01-18 23:23:51 +13:00
Clemens Ladisch 45b4eda6e8 sched_rr_get_interval.2: Update notes on modifying quantum
Since Linux 2.6.24, it is no longer possible to
modify the SCHED_RR quantum using setpriority(2).
(Slight edits to Clemens' patch by mtk.)

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-16 07:01:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 585d38140f sched_rr_get_interval.2: Reworded text of ESRCH error
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-16 06:54:16 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ca016ea98b sched_rr_get_interval.2: srcfix: Changed in-line formatting to dot directives
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-16 06:50:04 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e2621b57e sched_rr_get_interval.2: Reordered various pieces of text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-16 06:45:57 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f03801baa recvmmsg.2: srcfix: Added FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-05 06:45:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk dc43a89191 syscalls.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-05 06:44:40 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c409c4ffa3 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2011-10-04 08:34:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 41acdb62c9 Changes, setns.2, stat.2, proc.5, capabilities.7: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 08:32:21 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1eee8505ff recvmmsg.2: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 07:58:49 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6df3494543 recvmmsg.2: SEE ALSO: add sendmmsg(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 07:55:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 946fb6e2ce recvmmsg.2: Added copyright and license notice
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 07:55:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d92f6e8405 recv.2: Add mention of recvmmsg(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 07:55:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 8b0ea18b39 recvmmsg.2: Various improvements and formatting fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 07:55:35 +02:00
Andi Kleen 242966fd5b recvmmsg.2: New man page for recvmmsg(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 07:55:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9eff286780 mount.2, prctl.2: s/task/thread/ for consistency with other pages
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 15:40:42 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 5503c85ea4 intro.1, fork.2, futex.2, open.2, rename.2, select_tut.2, semop.2, spu_create.2, stat.2, netlink.3, random.3, scanf.3, shm_open.3, strftime.3, console.4, console_codes.4, sk98lin.4, st.4, bootparam.7, cpuset.7, credentials.7, man-pages.7, path_resolution.7, uri.7: Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash
Normal English typographical convention is not to have
spaces around em dashes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:47:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7aa166c58d setns.2: Edited in review comments from Eric Biederman
Reviewed-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 92dcb22063 setns.2: Various improvements
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b93a34b5a2 setns.2: Minor improvements
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e1e208d0f setns.2: srcfix: Added FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 63b6ef4127 setns.2: Note privileges required
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c07ad242fd setns.2: Minor improvements
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman dfa22c8b77 setns.2: New manual page for setns(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 9c1e33bc99 sigwaitinfo.2: Note that attempts to wait for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are silently ignored
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:14:23 +02:00
Kevin Lyda 8be7707745 rt_sigqueueinfo.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 07:43:42 +02:00
Kevin Lyda 59e754b885 mknodat.2: scrfix: spelling fix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 07:41:50 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 295bb82e56 stat.2: Regarding automounter action, add a reference to fstatat(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-01 07:16:10 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d3e8b1410a stat.2: Note POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 requirements for lstat()
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-01 07:16:10 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk beb0ebc887 stat.2: Clean up text describing which POSIX descibes S_IF* constants
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-01 07:16:10 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e5ded49fc8 send.2: CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 adds MSG_NOSIGNAL
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-01 07:16:10 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 280ff2097b stat.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 06:27:15 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ad3fd4c0e3 execve.2, recv.2, getaddrinfo.3, getcwd.3, getipnodebyname.3, getlogin.3, mbsinit.3: Global fix: s/null pointer/NULL pointer/
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 06:25:05 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cebca1bd40 flock.2, recv.2, btree.3, dbopen.3, des_crypt.3, fts.3, mpool.3, recno.3: Global fix: use ORing
Use "ORing", not "OR'ing", nor an italic ".IR OR ing".

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 05:06:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 435b60754a capget.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 05:05:10 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 836830b4c9 readlink.2, getsubopt.3, termcap.5, tzfile.5, unix.7: srcfix: change single quote to "\(aq"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 04:56:17 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e83614439 clock_getres.2, clone.2, mbind.2, set_mempolicy.2, atan2.3, getipnodebyname.3, ilogb.3, lgamma.3, elf.5, capabilities.7, math_error.7: srcfix: Remove double space
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-27 05:17:10 +02:00
Guillem Jover 25675bff81 lseek.2: CONFORMING TO: Note other systems that have SEEK_HOLE+SEEK_DATA
Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-25 07:09:58 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f497e4567d readlink.2: Minor fixes (copyright, example program)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-25 06:54:33 +02:00
David Prévot 4ada4f45a4 lseek.2: wfix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-24 07:54:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1976f57a63 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2011-09-23 08:01:18 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fe48639fc3 set_mempolicy.2, getcwd.3: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-23 07:17:13 +02:00
David Prévot 8c3fb60451 madvise.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-23 07:13:09 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b18e759d8c fstatat.2, rt_sigqueueinfo.2, sendfile.2, hsearch.3, matherr.3, rtld-audit.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-23 07:11:27 +02:00
David Prévot 62fc472fa8 posix_fadvise.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-23 07:07:58 +02:00
David Prévot fb30b09644 lseek.2, inet_pton.3, tzfile.5: tfix
Please find attach a consistency fix: there were only five
"zeroes" but twenty four "zeros" in those manual pages.
(Make all instances "zeros".)

Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-23 07:02:06 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f7cac3c341 sigqueue.2: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-22 16:35:41 +02:00
David Prévot c0e140e64c madvise.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-22 04:58:20 +02:00
Denis Barbier 928b19706f fallocate.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-22 04:54:53 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d4b49b0a1 madvise.2: Minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-21 06:59:45 +02:00
Doug Goldstein e8dd3ed2f1 madvise.2: Add MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
Document the MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flags added to
madvise() in Linux 2.6.38.

Signed-off-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-21 06:59:38 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f98857ab9 sched_setscheduler.2: Document 2.6.39 changes to rules governing changes from SCHED_IDLE policy
Since Linux 2.6.39, unprivileged processes under the
SCHED_IDLE policy can switch to another nonrealtime
policy if their nice value falls within the range
permitted by their RLIMIT_NICE limit.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 18:25:40 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 96f6255496 readlink.2: Added copyright text + changelog note for Guillem Jover's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 08:50:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b61acee948 readlink.2: Minor edits to Guillem Jover's previous patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 08:39:57 +02:00
Guillem Jover f91c6bd76f readlink.2: Document using st_size to allocate the buffer
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 08:19:52 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e0819c860 lseek.2: Document SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA
These flags, designed for discovering holes in a file,
were added in Linux 3.1. Included comments from Eric
Blake and Sunil Mushran.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 08:07:47 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b9d482436e fstatat.2: AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT has no effect if mount has already occurred
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 07:05:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk cdc839c3ee fstatat.2: Document AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 07:05:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 363f71eb27 sigqueue.2: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 07:05:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b6646e855 clone.2: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-20 07:05:48 +02:00
David Prévot 5243e7b3b8 ptrace.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-19 17:32:54 +02:00
David Prévot 4a7300fe45 mlock.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-19 17:32:54 +02:00
David Prévot 26d5d1fd84 sendfile.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
2011-09-19 17:32:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 45eb0d22b7 fallocate.2: ERRORS: Add EPERM and ESPIPE errors
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-19 17:32:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 710fdd5d6b lseek.2: Remove suspect note about 'whence' being incorrect English.
As noted by Alan Curry:

According to man2/lseek.2,

 This document's use of whence is incorrect English, but
 maintained for historical reasons.

What is the grammatical objection?

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
 whence
     adv 1: from what place, source, or cause

Wiktionary:
 [edit] Adverb
 whence (not comparable)
  1. From where; from which place or source.

lseek's second parameter is a distance to be traveled, and
the third parameter chooses the starting point from which
that distance is measured.  How is that not a "whence"?

Looking at some man page archives, I found that the accusation
of incorrect English goes back to before 4.4BSD. It survives
not just in the linux-man-pages but also in recent versions
of {Net,Open,Free}BSD. The name "whence" for this parameter
goes back at least to V7.

Of all the people who have read this page over the years,
am I the only one wondering... what's this about? Who decided
that "whence" was incorrect and put that note in the man page?
Was there ever anything wrong, or do we have someone's
20-year-old unresearched pet peeve lingering in the man pages?

Reported-by: Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
Reported-by: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-19 17:32:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a19d2ace3 tkill.2: SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo (2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-19 17:32:54 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 485ab7013e getrlimit.2, kill.2, rt_sigqueueinfo.2, sigaction.2, signal.2, signalfd.2, sigprocmask.2, sigwaitinfo.2, psignal.3, pthread_sigqueue.3, credentials.7, signal.7: Change reference to "sigqueue(2)" to "sigqueue(3)"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-19 17:32:53 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7767750f4b syscalls.2: srcfix: remove unneeded comments
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-19 17:32:53 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 27b93dae24 sigqueue.2: Create link to page that was relocated to section 3
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-18 06:58:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ae88a0d6b1 sigqueue.3: Move this page to section 3
Now that the underlying system call rt_sigqueueinfo(2) is
properly documented, move sigqueue() to Section 3, since
it is really a library function.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-18 06:58:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b203e4d582 rt_tgsigqueueinfo.2: New link to new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-18 06:58:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 23f438b540 rt_sigqueueinfo.2: New page for rt_sigqueueinfo(2) and rt_tgsigqueueinfo(2)
This replaces the previous '.so' man page link file for
rt_sigqueueinfo.2, which linked to ths sigqueue() man page.

Reported-by: Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-18 06:58:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d0e1cbceeb syscalls.2: Minor: remove duplicated open_by_handle() entry
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-17 07:11:02 +02:00
Paul Pluzhnikov cadcf1b16b prctl.2: PR_SET_DUMPABLE makes process non-ptrace-attachable
We've recently discovered that GDB will fail to attach to any
process that sets itself non-dumpable. Tested on kernel 2.6.32,
with:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if (prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0, 0, 0) != 0) {
        perror("prctl");
    }
    printf("Run gdb %s %d\n", argv[0], getpid());
    sleep(20);
    abort();
}

./a.out
Run gdb ./a.out 30476

gdb -q  ./a.out 30476
Reading symbols from /tmp/a.out...done.
Attaching to program: /tmp/a.out, process 30476
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
/tmp/30476: No such file or directory.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-17 06:10:54 +02:00
Paul Pluzhnikov 2e781e2082 prctl.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-17 06:08:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1ad008e71e Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2011-09-17 05:45:55 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1293f354e2 sendfile.2: wfix
Reported-by: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-17 05:16:43 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f81c6cc693 fcntl.2, recv.2, crypt.3, err.3, strtoul.3, proc.5: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:02:06 +02:00
Hendrik Jan Thomassen 3d5be2aa85 unlink.2: Improve EBUSY description
The current version of the page says (under ERRORS):

> EBUSY (not on Linux)
>  The  file pathname cannot be unlinked because it is being
>  used by the system or another process and the
>  implementation considers this an error.

But if you look in the kernel source file fs/namei.c
at routine may_delete() you'll see two occasions where
an EBUSY is generated. So the above "not on Linux" is wrong.

I suggest that this '(not on Linux)' be removed. It may
also improve the page if the commentary is reworded to give a
better description of the two situations. Something along
the lines of:
> The file pathname cannot be unlinked because it is being used
> by the system, e.g. if some (relative) rootdir is mounted upon it,
> or because the NFS client software created it to represent an
> active but otherwise nameless inode ("NFS silly renamed").

Just FYI: the NFS silly rename (you'll find this term mentioned
in the kernel source code) is described at:
       http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#section_d
under section D2. The reason I found this manpage bug is because
I stumbled upon one of these silly renamed files, and an strace
of the rm-command revealed the EBUSY return errno.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 12e263f178 open.2: wfix
Reported-by: Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Tomislav Jonjic 612144c541 timerfd_create.2: Fix small error in description of timerfd_settime()
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 963da6c54d mlock.2: Clarify EINVAL error
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?625747

Reported-by: Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Simon Paillard 3cbd3fee32 get_mempolicy.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e8a0addef execve.2: Note that the first argv[] value should contain name of executable
Reported-by: Sebastian Geiger <sbastig@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
Tolga Dalman 866ed7369f sendfile.2: Add an explicit reference to splice(2)
Unlike sendfile(), splice() can transfer data
between a pair of sockets.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00