Commit Graph

55 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Kerrisk 028cb0809b prctl.2: Correct PR_SET_KEEPCAPS description
The "keep capabilities" flag only affects the treatment of
permitted capabilities, not effective capabilities.

Also: other improvements to make the PR_SET_KEEPCAPS text clearer.

Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-13 06:16:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 623ba005ca prctl.2: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-05-10 05:30:56 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk bd74a87338 prctl.2, putgrent.3, strcat.3, strcpy.3, console_ioctl.4: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-01-16 18:56:17 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b28f6e5645 prctl.2, fmtmsg.3, gethostbyname.3, getnameinfo.3: Global fix: s/non-recoverable/nonrecoverable/
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 18:01:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fda57bd09 _syscall.2, accept.2, epoll_create.2, inotify_add_watch.2, ioctl.2, msgget.2, msgop.2, open.2, prctl.2, sched_setscheduler.2, semctl.2, semget.2, swapon.2, addseverity.3, cacosh.3, csqrt.3, dirfd.3, drand48.3, fputws.3, mq_send.3, posix_openpt.3, puts.3, sched_getcpu.3, shm_open.3, sqrt.3, sysconf.3, tgamma.3, ulimit.3, credentials.7, svipc.7: Global fix: s/non-negative/nonnegative/
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 17:44:48 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c7094399ad intro.1, time.1, adjtimex.2, capget.2, eventfd.2, fcntl.2, getrlimit.2, getsockopt.2, gettimeofday.2, intro.2, ioctl_list.2, ioperm.2, mlock.2, pivot_root.2, poll.2, prctl.2, ptrace.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, semget.2, sigaltstack.2, signalfd.2, sysctl.2, timer_settime.2, timerfd_create.2, wait.2, CPU_SET.3, argz_add.3, assert_perror.3, atexit.3, backtrace.3, bcmp.3, clearenv.3, ctime.3, dl_iterate_phdr.3, dlopen.3, ecvt.3, errno.3, error.3, ether_aton.3, exit.3, fenv.3, ferror.3, finite.3, flockfile.3, fnmatch.3, fpathconf.3, fpclassify.3, ftime.3, ftok.3, ftw.3, fwide.3, getaddrinfo.3, gethostbyname.3, getlogin.3, getnameinfo.3, getnetent.3, getopt.3, getprotoent.3, getrpcent.3, getservent.3, glob.3, hsearch.3, inet.3, isalpha.3, iswalnum.3, iswalpha.3, iswblank.3, iswcntrl.3, iswctype.3, iswdigit.3, iswgraph.3, iswlower.3, iswprint.3, iswpunct.3, iswspace.3, iswupper.3, iswxdigit.3, longjmp.3, lsearch.3, malloc.3, matherr.3, mblen.3, mbsinit.3, mbtowc.3, on_exit.3, printf.3, pthread_attr_init.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3, pthread_attr_setguardsize.3, pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3, pthread_attr_setschedparam.3, pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3, pthread_attr_setscope.3, pthread_attr_setstack.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push.3, pthread_equal.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_setconcurrency.3, pthread_setschedparam.3, pthread_setschedprio.3, ptsname.3, putenv.3, putgrent.3, raise.3, rcmd.3, regex.3, rexec.3, rpc.3, rpmatch.3, rtnetlink.3, scandir.3, sem_init.3, setaliasent.3, setbuf.3, setenv.3, setjmp.3, signbit.3, stdio_ext.3, strtod.3, strtol.3, strtoul.3, system.3, termios.3, timeradd.3, tzset.3, ualarm.3, wctomb.3, xdr.3, st.4, tty_ioctl.4, core.5, elf.5, proc.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, icmp.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, math_error.7, mdoc.samples.7, mq_overview.7, pthreads.7, raw.7, regex.7, socket.7, tcp.7, tzselect.8: Global fix: s/non-zero/nonzero/
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 17:40:55 +01:00
Nicolas François 44e5793157 Typo and wording fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2008-09-29 11:00:36 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c45bd688fd s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively. 2008-07-23 02:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88989295a8 Place options in some semblance of alphabetical order.
(No content or formatting changes were made.)
2008-07-16 14:01:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4bb193f3c s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
2008-07-10 20:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2914a14d30 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-07-09 13:55:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8ab8b43f0e Document PR_CAPBSET_READ and PR_CAPBSET_DROP.
Document PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC.
Document PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP.
PR_SET_KEEPCAPS and PR_GET_KEEPCAPS operate on a per-thread
setting, not a per-process setting.
Clarify fork(2) details for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG.
Add description of PR_SET_SECUREBITS and PR_GET_SECUREBITS,
as well as pointer to further info in capabilities(7).
PR_GET_ENDIAN returns endianness info in location pointed to by
arg2 (not as function result, as was implied by previous text).
Expand description of PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME.
RETURN VALUE: bring up to date for various options.
Various improvements in ERRORS.
Note that PR_SET_TIMING setting of PR_TIMING_TIMESTAMP is not
currently implemented.
Minor changes:
* Clarify wording for PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_FPEMU, and PR_GET_FPEXC.
* Some reformatting of kernel version information.
* Reorder PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN entries.
2008-07-09 11:53:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2be221988c Added FIXME 2008-05-20 08:09:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eba722884d s/nonzero/non-zero/ 2008-03-19 13:16:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c382a36592 hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 22:02:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8382f16db1 grfix 2007-12-25 21:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1a329b567a ffix 2007-12-10 07:16:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eaf7a6918e Linux 2.6.22 added support for PR_SET_UNALIGN. 2007-10-15 18:11:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0daa9e92d0 Fix redundant formatting macros 2007-09-20 16:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c11b1abf2e Change mtk's email address 2007-09-20 06:52:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf1c0ede48 Remove trailing whitespace 2007-08-27 08:02:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a62944088a Updated date in .TH line. 2007-07-08 19:21:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20f75f5fe2 Update arches/kernel versions for PR_SET_UNALAIGN / PR_GET_UNALIGN. 2007-07-08 17:17:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bd58774dc Formatted signal names 2007-06-21 05:38:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af5f950813 Update copyright notice 2007-06-02 08:19:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5f77cc8 Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
2007-05-18 16:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a759cc870f Renamed .SH AVAILABILITY to .SH VERSIONS 2007-05-16 04:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c44bd5b0b Wrap long lines; start sentences on new lines 2007-04-24 16:44:51 +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 521bf58405 ffix 2007-04-03 14:04:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b48e9d74 Various fixes to CONFORMING TO 2006-12-17 01:34:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4775da652 tfix 2006-10-02 04:48:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64536a1bf4 Document PR_GET_ENDIAND and PR_SET_ENDIAN. 2006-09-26 13:01:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e87fdd92fa Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
2006-09-26 12:03:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3b7f00b4a Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer possible. 2006-09-26 08:36:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1c9135d0 ffix 2006-08-03 03:02:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e1a9bc1bc7 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new core.5 page 2006-03-31 07:10:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 218e46f883 Small FIXME formatting fixes 2006-03-23 02:13:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b0c93735cd Removed outdated FIXME 2006-03-05 20:34:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92057f4dbc Updated FIXMEs 2006-02-08 09:44:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e32103455 Formatting fixes 2005-10-20 15:11:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5cc2ffbaa Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 14:48:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a225b7a41 Formatting fixes 2005-10-19 14:16:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e511ffb6bc Automated addition of parentheses by add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh 2005-10-19 06:54:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b327744384 Wording improvements to new dumpable text 2005-09-16 15:36:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c0dc044574 Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2. 2005-09-16 14:05:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9df8ff80a Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID". 2005-07-18 16:55:22 +00:00