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>
The poorly constructed part receding "\-" causes apropos
not to be able to find the subject.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558300
Reported-by: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
It seems to me that "algorithm" is missing here.
Or maybe "choices" could be replaced by "algorithms".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
tcp_congestion_control is not a boolean. The default is explained in the
text. It cannot be enabled by default.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man complex (from release 3.18) contains the following code:
complex z = cexp(I * pi);
Reading the C99 standard, "complex" is not a valid type, and several
compilers (Intel ICC, ARM RVCT) will refuse to compile.
It should be
double complex z = cexp(I * pi);
instead.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Gallmeister and Lewine are rather old books. Probably,
there are better books to consult nowadays, and anyway,
this man page isn't intended to be a bibliography.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This example program makes it possible to explore what
feature test macros are set depending on the glibc version
and the macros that are explicitly set.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
From glibc 2.10, <features.h> understands the values 200809
for _POSIX_C_SOURCE and 700 for _XOPEN_SOURCE, and makes
corresponding changes to defaults for other feature test macros.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nowadays mandb has provision to understand a character set
encoding that is explicitly indicated in the first line
of the source. As pointed out by Colin Watson, including
such an explicit indication on pages encoded in anything
other than ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8 is useful for man-pages
that aren't shipped in UTF-8.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519209
and for some other background (responded to by Colin Watson
in the above report):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.internationalization.linux/6040
("man page encoding", 5 Jul 2005)
Reported-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The page should use the type specified by POSIX,
rather than the (equivalent) type used in the kernel
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The page should use the types specified by POSIX,
rather than the (equivalent) types used in the kernel.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517074
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Probably it's clearer to describe the length of the IPC object
name as a count that excludes the null terminator.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Because of the "sem." prefix added by glibc to a semaphore
name, the limit on the length of the name (excluding the
terminating null byte) is 251 characters.
Reported-by: Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
No actual change to formatted output, but this makes the
page sources more consistent for the purpose of grepping, etc.
Reported-by: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>