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Michael Kerrisk fd48405669 Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same 
thing as a POSIX thread ID.
 2008-01-12 12:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da8cb51e61 Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros. 2008-01-12 08:57:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c10faeadb3 tfix 2008-01-12 08:20:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0d26ae944e Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-01-09 17:35:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d3a62d67e A few rewrites and additions. 2008-01-09 17:26:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d227bc540 Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text. 2008-01-09 10:17:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eacd521cd9 minor wording change. 2008-01-09 09:41:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7db44341af Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release. 2008-01-05 04:50:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a028f2edaf ffix 2008-01-04 04:30:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 447bb15ee0 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-01-03 16:06:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4b9d6a511 Clarify initial description of O_EXCL. 
Clarify description of behavious of O_CREAT | O_EXCL for symbolic links.
Clarify text describing use of lockfiles without O_EXCL.
O_EXCL is supported on NFSv3 and later, with Linux 2.6 and later.
 2008-01-03 08:12:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca92ce95a3 Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros. 2008-01-01 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 984886049d Remove exstraneous .sp macros. 2008-01-01 13:44:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b53dd031e Remove extraneous .br macro before/after .SH/.SS. 2008-01-01 13:38:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6c9e43eb5c spfix 2008-01-01 07:49:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4989f80d27 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-12-30 09:18:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 20b627b65d Remove unneeded formatting macro 2007-12-30 05:54:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3c5e62b618 Fix a/an usage 2007-12-29 18:01:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 763f0e477c Fix usage of a/an before following vowel/consonant. 2007-12-29 17:42:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c1660a22f4 hyphenation fix 2007-12-29 15:00:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk faa1d321d4 Fix section number in .TH line. 2007-12-29 14:58:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e23e4c2685 Use proper tables for layout, and various formatting fixes. 2007-12-29 10:01:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92f9f654ef Put EPERM in right alphabetical position in ERRORS list. 2007-12-28 13:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ee6a53ec5 Remove section numbers for page self refs 2007-12-28 08:11:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8b55e76ea ffix 2007-12-28 06:52:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e4b4caa6b8 wfix 2007-12-28 04:39:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1ffe9f5a2 s/current process/calling process/ 2007-12-27 16:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk edd1fa35e3 s/cwd/current working directory/ 2007-12-27 16:01:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0786e30815 Add credentials(7) to SEE ALSO, and updated copyright credits, 
to reflect my rewrite of a few months ago.
 2007-12-27 15:47:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 78110b787e Add getsid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO. 2007-12-27 15:32:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24e4598352 Add getresgid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO. 2007-12-27 15:26:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 520b53c642 Add getresuid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO. 2007-12-27 15:26:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a3dd911f2 Rewrote various parts. 2007-12-27 15:19:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e48734a07 Rewrote various parts. 2007-12-27 15:06:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 791ce3b986 Minor rewrites 2007-12-27 14:37:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 938576af95 Since kernel 2.2, AF_UNSPEC for unconnecting a connected socket *is* supported. --This line, and those below, will be ignored-- 
M    man2/connect.2
 2007-12-26 16:41:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e57ba8a908 Remove FIXME 2007-12-26 16:33:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f74d4c4cc Added FIXME. 2007-12-26 11:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34bdd96ab0 Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-26 11:46:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 12d8baeb45 Clarify relationship of file descriptor and open file description. 2007-12-26 11:43:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a43eed0cdc Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-26 11:17:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b4deed8dc Small rewording 2007-12-26 11:15:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2706f299e5 Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-26 08:00:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c382a36592 hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 22:02:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e415892486 ffix 2007-12-25 21:41:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 222ad5f146 ffix 2007-12-25 21:39:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d19a206dbb grfix 2007-12-25 21:30:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8382f16db1 grfix 2007-12-25 21:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2badfdf26 Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-25 20:50:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b55dde281 grfix 2007-12-25 20:39:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 498c6aa666 Clarify interpretation of 'addr'; plus a few other minor edits and updates. 2007-12-25 17:06:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 781b97e6a4 grfix 2007-12-25 16:36:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a325cc6045 ffix 2007-12-25 16:16:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 863b571e68 ffix 2007-12-25 16:11:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 438825e097 ffix 2007-12-24 22:25:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 47752f332c s/fildes/fd/ 2007-12-24 22:04:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a17e03f5cb Rename 'filedes' argument 'pipefd'. 2007-12-24 22:02:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34cd540ed6 Add comma to clarify meaning of a sentence. 2007-12-24 17:34:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34ccb744ec s/x86/i386/ 2007-12-24 17:31:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d1b4e37d41 ffix 2007-12-23 22:24:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca62583fcf tfix 2007-12-23 22:20:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7670ac9d8e ffix 2007-12-23 22:20:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 218dfacd71 ffix 2007-12-23 22:13:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 187339e696 ffix 2007-12-23 22:04:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54f73b77a1 ffix 2007-12-23 22:02:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3b03141a9 s/filedes/fd/ 2007-12-23 21:56:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk de5c8e39f9 Nowadays there are seven macros. 2007-12-23 21:51:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d4b19a0066 Modify explanation of EINVAL 'maxnode' error. 2007-12-23 21:40:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9a7f80e209 Minor formatting/wording changes. 2007-12-23 21:26:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c825020667 Fixed unbalanced .nf/fi pairs. 2007-12-23 21:05:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8568021d3b white space clean-ups. 2007-12-23 17:46:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49b50a1812 wfix 2007-12-23 17:30:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aeb4b1fc8b s/u_long/unsigned long/ 
s/ulong/unsigned long/
s/u_char/unsigned char/
s/u_short/unsigned short/
s/ushort/unsigned short/
s/u_int8_t/uint8_t
s/u_int16_t/uint16_t
s/u_int32_t/uint16_t
s/u_int/unsigned int/
 2007-12-23 17:26:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6d508165e ffix 2007-12-23 16:55:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f89ebc011 Indent structure definitions by +4n. 2007-12-23 14:14:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ad4ddcd0b Indent structure defintions by +4n, 2007-12-23 14:03:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5895e7eb8d wspace in SYNOPSIS 2007-12-23 13:45:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 62218dc0fd Format SYNOPSIS consistently. 2007-12-23 08:20:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ec0ea9000 ffix 2007-12-22 23:05:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf29f7772a ffix 2007-12-22 22:56:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0967c11fb9 s/etc/etc./ 2007-12-22 22:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d061dbacc3 spfix 2007-12-22 20:50:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 728dbc291c Remove duplicate "#include <fcntl.h>" from SYNOPSIS. 2007-12-22 20:48:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 495846d9eb Format SYNOPSIS in manner consistent with other pages. 2007-12-22 17:10:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a8d10ef27 Minor rewordings 2007-12-22 17:00:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d2be0ee63 ffix 2007-12-22 16:56:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4922b5d50b ffix 2007-12-22 16:46:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94e9d9febd Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required. 2007-12-22 16:40:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 009df872f7 Format casts so that there is a non-breaking space after the 
type, and remove unnecessary parentheses around the casted value.
Thus, for example, the following:

     .IR "(size_t) (\-1)" .

becomes:
    .IR "(size_t)\ \-1" .
 2007-12-22 16:26:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5f414585bc ffix 2007-12-20 12:44:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 30f6523ba5 We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls. 2007-12-20 11:49:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf94921b75 ffix 2007-12-20 11:25:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26cf2565db Updated date in .TH line 2007-12-19 07:24:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6e2f12821 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session 
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
 2007-12-19 07:19:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 088a639be3 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session 
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
 2007-12-19 06:57:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cfadad462c remove superflous white space in text 2007-12-19 06:29:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd19142309 enclose code smaples/structure defns/etc in ".in +4n / .in" 2007-12-19 06:16:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a08ea57c20 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session 
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
 2007-12-19 05:53:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c1bdeb84c5 Fix typos in argument names; ffixes 2007-12-18 15:59:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 40271293b2 Update date in .TH line 2007-12-18 15:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be9634cfdd s/epoch/Epoch/ 2007-12-18 15:37:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e27f149be http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2 
Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
return -1 indicating an error.

Remove cruft HZ text.

Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
 2007-12-18 15:36:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d986c928c Replace `...' with alternate formatting (e.g., ".." or .I) 2007-12-18 07:47:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92a5f98331 ffix 2007-12-17 17:06:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d2296c225b wfix/ffix 2007-12-17 17:05:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 56d22987d2 Various formatting changes. 2007-12-17 16:43:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc8d39abe6 Fix date in TH line (s/2005/2007/ which was wrongly changed in 2.63). 2007-12-17 16:25:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1e50031bf5 spfix 2007-12-17 14:58:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aedcbc663c Update date in .TH line 2007-12-17 14:28:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 882a943574 Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the functionality provided 
by MS_NOATIME.
 2007-12-17 14:21:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 14d8dd3ba1 ffix 2007-12-17 11:28:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0c2b92ba41 Add missing commans in SEE ALSO section. 2007-12-17 11:24:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9e20ad2440 Minor rewording. 2007-12-17 11:24:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 979c2c91c2 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2007-12-17 10:22:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 40dedbfef9 ffix 2007-12-16 16:12:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 91443f6c60 ffix 2007-12-16 13:47:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9091595d88 ffix 2007-12-16 13:13:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 891e16290b ffix 2007-12-16 13:10:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6c5dedd333 ffix 2007-12-14 17:42:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d6cfc1a82 ffix 2007-12-14 14:15:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 722bd1d0fc ffix 2007-12-14 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4bd8c61461 ffix 2007-12-14 13:23:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 85c4be5ade s/read system call/input system call/ 2007-12-14 09:14:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3920c8caf6 Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod(). 
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
 2007-12-14 07:04:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3c8f8e2d6 ffix 2007-12-13 20:42:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 90a0494840 ffix 2007-12-13 20:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bfd91cc898 wfix 2007-12-11 16:07:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 551d5b7aa5 spfix 2007-12-11 09:31:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1368e8476d ffix 2007-12-10 15:03:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65cac33344 s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line. 2007-12-10 09:02:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 37cd82ad20 Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS. 2007-12-10 08:49:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1a329b567a ffix 2007-12-10 07:16:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 173e100104 ffix 2007-12-10 06:31:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e92e8cc83 Remove section number from page self ref 2007-12-09 08:30:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9a13a5057 Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>"). 2007-12-09 08:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e39138d190 ffix 2007-12-07 19:53:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a7e771398 ffix 2007-12-07 19:52:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b6da70802 ffix 2007-12-07 19:30:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2de12c279 ffix 2007-12-05 21:12:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 56ef4d2989 ffix 2007-12-05 14:07:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7992edccf Removed tabs 2007-12-05 13:47:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1197dd11de Fix incorrect path for somaxconn. 2007-11-29 21:04:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e17aa4873c ffix 2007-11-29 18:15:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d243a27fd8 ffix 2007-11-29 18:07:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef203e4559 ffix 2007-11-29 17:59:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7653389dcf wspace cleanup 2007-11-24 10:38:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5aa7f157d4 Add CONFORMING TO section. 2007-11-24 10:15:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2777b1caec Remove section numbers for page references where the 
reference refers to the page itself.  (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
 2007-11-24 10:10:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e201255411 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry. 2007-11-24 09:32:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94208b1f4e Remove redundant SEE ALSO entries. 2007-11-24 09:29:05 +00:00