Michael Kerrisk
c246714df1
The longstanding bug that if delta was NULL, olddelta didn't return the
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outstanding clock adjustment, is now fixed (since glibc 2.8 + kernel 2.6.26).
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug?id=2449
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
2008-06-22 05:20:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cb772f766a
Rewrote various pieces, and added some details.
2008-06-22 02:01:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a64c6ae1fb
s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/
2008-09-18 12:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
84db13a46f
Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built
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without CONFIG_PRINTK.
2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
e7dfa844ec
tweaks
2008-09-18 12:30:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bddd0b2edc
Alphabetize SEE ALSO.
2008-09-18 12:30:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
14c069537c
Document guest (virtual CPU) time field in /proc/stat.
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Document guest (virtual CPU) time fields in /proc/PID/stat.
2008-09-18 12:30:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cfd8e328ea
Minor tweaks
2008-09-18 12:30:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7d06c53726
sync
2008-09-18 12:30:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
26d4d0d6d4
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
8846324af9
Clarify description of 'times' array for utrimes().
2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
61792fc66b
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5cbdf286a5
sync
2008-09-18 12:30:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b24ac2ee70
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a3c5b73c67
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
1df2213318
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
bf66f9bde2
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
5eab0978cf
ffix
2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
7c40de088e
wfix
2008-09-18 12:30:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dbeeb714f1
sync
2008-06-18 20:30:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
24d2f49a4f
Describe the unconventional error return provided by the wrapper
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function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if the system call
is invoked via syscall(2)).
2008-06-18 20:24:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ddc676f488
Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition.
2008-06-18 12:57:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
9ed0f08124
Add a Usage subsection that recommends most users to use /dev/urandom,
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and emphasizes parsimonious usage of /dev/random.
2008-06-18 10:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
fb5fd02088
sync
2008-06-18 09:41:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c5565cf1ec
minor fixes
2008-06-18 09:41:30 +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
530f49fe98
sync
2008-06-18 09:17:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
16d2122c01
tfix
2008-06-18 09:10:22 +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
7bcd433363
Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field.
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Reorder DT_ entries alphabetically.
2008-06-18 08:50:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
382d87bd5f
Document d_type field; other minor edits.
2008-06-17 21:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
602995ec2c
Minor wording fixes.
2008-06-17 20:50:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
58f362c32a
Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field.
2008-06-17 15:32:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
33af850128
LC_TIME: Describe first_weekday and first_workday
2008-06-17 14:11:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
16b5f7ba5d
Documented /proc/PID/status
2008-06-17 13:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
a18e2edbf8
SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7).
2008-06-17 08:32:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
28f2c98d3a
Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7).
2008-06-16 20:16:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
04af291ff4
Small wording fix.
2008-06-16 14:27:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
b11e2adf59
Further tweaks
2008-06-16 11:35:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
ea6100ea21
SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
2008-06-16 11:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
c2fdb71b57
sync
2008-06-16 11:08:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
f4b5a0b0c8
Updated text referring to syscalls(2).
2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
dc2f55497e
Added system call history back to version 1.2.
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Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
2008-06-16 10:07:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
4e5925162e
Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an unprivileged process with a non-zero
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RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit changes policy and priority.
2008-06-16 08:41:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
35a09d71ec
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request
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queue size. For some background, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
2008-06-13 10:51:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
cd1aabe6b1
Remove statement that inet_pton() extends inet_ntoa();
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that's not really true, since inet_pton() doesn't support
all of the string forms that are supported by inet_ntoa();
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482987 .
Describe IPv6 address formats.
Describe dotted decimal format in more detail.
Add an example program.
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
Make NAME line more precise.
Make description of return value more precise.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3), Add getaddrinfo(3).
2008-06-13 10:37:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
3b26a174e5
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
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SEE ALSO: Add inet(3) and getnameinfo(3).
Make NAME line more precise.
Move errors to an ERRORS section.
Add EXAMPLE section pointing to inet_pton(3).
2008-06-13 10:23:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
054f5228c6
inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1.
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Rewrite discussion of why inet_addr() is disfavored.
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482979 .
Describe the various address forms supported by inet_aton().
Rewrite description of inet_network().
Clarify discussion of inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr().
Add discussion of Classful Addressing, noting that it is obsolete.
Added an EXAMPLE program.
Relocate discussion of i386 byte order to NOTES.
Note that inet_aton() returns an address in network byte order.
SEE ALSO: Add byteorder(3) and getnameinfo(3).
2008-06-13 10:22:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk
444aa1ce8c
DESCRIPTION: Add reference to inet_addr(3) for dotted notation.
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SEE ALSO: add inet(3).
Added BUGS section noting that gethostbyname() does not
recognize hexadecimal components in dotted address strings;
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482973
2008-06-13 10:14:55 +00:00