486fccf2e7
nologin.5: nologin must not only exist, but *be readable* to be effective
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Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-04-17 23:09:04 +12:00
7534ecb2ca
nsswitch.conf.5: Minor fix-ups after comments from Mark Bannister
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-04-14 11:37:22 +12:00
9aa96150d0
nsswitch.conf.5: Light edits to Mark Bannister's changes
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-04-14 11:37:22 +12:00
79e2fba2d9
nsswitch.conf.5: Significant rewrites and improvements
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This patch applies to nsswitch.conf.5 in man-pages-3.36.
My changes almost completely rewrite large sections of the
man page. They are needed to add clarity, correct grammar,
reduce confusion, and bring up-to-date with the latest glibc.
I have checked the man page against the nss source code in
glibc 2.14.90.
Historical notes are demoted to the footer.
The rewrite makes the man page much clearer to
understand, more authoratitive, and easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-04-14 11:37:22 +12:00
a9d8228059
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-03-24 11:59:07 +13:00
156f55f623
passwd.5: s/asterisk/asterisk (*)/ to improve clarity
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Reported-by: Walter Haidinger <walter.haidinger@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-14 07:22:01 +13:00
98afd65767
resolv.conf.5: Describe syntax used for comments
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656994
Reported-by: Slaven Rezic <srezic@iconmobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 07:29:23 +13:00
c1b273fce8
passwd.5: Correct note on passwd field value when shadowing is enabled
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When password shadowing is enabled, the password field
contains an 'x' (not a "8').
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 07:01:11 +13:00
78fc91ec1b
proc.5: Fix description of fourth field of /proc/loadavg
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SIgned-off-by: Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-02-08 06:21:20 +13:00
d7e34031fb
core.5: Document %E specifier for core_pattern
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Reported-by: Junjiro Okajima <jro@mx3.ttcn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2012-01-17 21:36:44 +13:00
2c4201f01a
proc.5: srcfix: Added pointer to a commit
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-05 07:38:45 +02:00
c409c4ffa3
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2011-10-04 08:34:28 +02:00
41acdb62c9
Changes, setns.2, stat.2, proc.5, capabilities.7: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-04 08:32:21 +02:00
80e6365593
proc.5: Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
b4a185e5cc
proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]/ns/
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 08:36:41 +02:00
9948b994bc
nsswitch.conf.5: wfix
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Reported-by: Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-10-03 07:55:37 +02:00
71d9e7ae77
gets.3, mbtowc.3, printf.3, puts.3, scanf.3, stpcpy.3, stpncpy.3, strcat.3, strlen.3, strnlen.3, strsep.3, strstr.3, strxfrm.3, utmp.5: Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
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Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null byte"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null byte ('\0')".
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 06:20:52 +02:00
836830b4c9
readlink.2, getsubopt.3, termcap.5, tzfile.5, unix.7: srcfix: change single quote to "\(aq"
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-28 04:56:17 +02:00
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
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-27 05:17:10 +02:00
fb30b09644
lseek.2, inet_pton.3, tzfile.5: tfix
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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
f81c6cc693
fcntl.2, recv.2, crypt.3, err.3, strtoul.3, proc.5: tstamp
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:02:06 +02:00
c3074d7061
fallocate.2, kexec_load.2, poll.2, spu_run.2, atan2.3, cbrt.3, clock_getcpuclockid.3, end.3, frexp.3, getgrouplist.3, getifaddrs.3, matherr.3, modf.3, pow.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, sched_getcpu.3, tgamma.3, mouse.4, proc.5, feature_test_macros.7, spufs.7: Global fix: properly escape minus sign
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:48 +02:00
6ee625ebd6
proc.5: Add description of 'SigQ' field of /proc/PID/status
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Reported-by: Stan Sieler <sieler@me.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:46 +02:00
a1bc91d55e
proc.5: Add description of 'PPid' field of /proc/PID/status
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Reported-by: Stan Sieler <sieler@me.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-16 07:00:46 +02:00
e9b7792542
core.5: Change single quote to double quote in shell session example
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The example section has a sample shell session containing:
But $PWD won't be expanded in single quotes. It should be double
quotes around the entire argument or some other form.
Reported-by: Roger Pate <roger@qxxy.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-11-15 07:19:26 +01:00
37a2356720
proc.5: spfix
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603134
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-11-15 07:02:06 +01:00
3e5c319e24
clock_nanosleep.2, getpriority.2, kexec_load.2, nanosleep.2, nice.2, sched_setaffinity.2, timer_create.2, timer_delete.2, timer_settime.2, utime.2, btowc.3, futimes.3, log.3, pthread_attr_setguardsize.3, pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_setschedparam.3, pthread_setschedprio.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, strcoll.3, strcpy.3, string.3, strxfrm.3, networks.5, aio.7, sigevent.7, udplite.7: SEE ALSO: Place entries in correct order
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-11-01 06:35:42 +01:00
eebc6bfc7f
hosts.5, protocols.5, spufs.7, termio.7: Remove definite article from NAME section
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Please find inline another tiny patch in order to shrink
the definite article from some other pages (found with
"rgrep -i ' \\\- the' man*").
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-30 07:38:50 +02:00
fde39195fa
proc.5: Add reference to mlock(2) for further info on /proc/PID/status VmLck
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-30 07:33:57 +02:00
df0c9b98a7
passwd.5: Various minor rewordings
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-21 11:43:32 +02:00
91567885b5
group.5: Various minor rewordings
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-21 11:43:32 +02:00
056247673c
group.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-21 10:51:39 +02:00
f03743fde2
passwd.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-21 10:50:45 +02:00
b218b02329
open.2, poll.2, select_tut.2, getpt.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, ptsname.3, unlockpt.3, pts.4, tty_ioctl.4, proc.5, pty.7: spfix: s/psuedoterminal/psuedoterminal/g
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Reported-by: Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-13 05:32:15 +02:00
662b2137e8
open.2, poll.2, select_tut.2, getpt.3, grantpt.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, ptsname.3, unlockpt.3, pts.4, tty_ioctl.4, proc.5, pty.7: Global fix: s/pseudo-terminal/pseudoterminal/
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-12 06:51:51 +02:00
fef0efe40b
ttytype.5: wfix (s/Unixes/UNIX systems/)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-12 06:49:35 +02:00
008f1ecc43
intro.1, time.1, accept.2, bind.2, connect.2, execve.2, flock.2, getdents.2, getpriority.2, getuid.2, intro.2, ioctl.2, mincore.2, mknod.2, personality.2, ptrace.2, read.2, recv.2, select_tut.2, send.2, sendfile.2, shmctl.2, sigaction.2, signal.2, stat.2, times.2, truncate.2, umask.2, wait.2, MB_CUR_MAX.3, MB_LEN_MAX.3, argz_add.3, btowc.3, clearenv.3, clock.3, cmsg.3, end.3, endian.3, errno.3, exit.3, fgetwc.3, fgetws.3, fopen.3, fputwc.3, fputws.3, fseek.3, fwide.3, getfsent.3, getgrnam.3, gethostid.3, getipnodebyname.3, getmntent.3, getpwnam.3, getwchar.3, grantpt.3, iconv.3, iconv_close.3, iconv_open.3, insque.3, intro.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, malloc.3, mblen.3, mbrlen.3, mbrtowc.3, mbsinit.3, mbsnrtowcs.3, mbsrtowcs.3, mbstowcs.3, mbtowc.3, mkstemp.3, mktemp.3, nl_langinfo.3, openpty.3, posix_openpt.3, printf.3, ptsname.3, putwchar.3, qecvt.3, rcmd.3, readdir.3, rexec.3, rpc.3, setnetgrent.3, shm_open.3, sigpause.3, stdin.3, stpcpy.3, strftime.3, strptime.3, syslog.3, towctrans.3, towlower.3, towupper.3, ttyslot.3, ungetwc.3, unlocked_stdio.3, wcpcpy.3, wcpncpy.3, wcrtomb.3, wcscasecmp.3, wcscat.3, wcschr.3, wcscmp.3, wcscpy.3, wcscspn.3, wcsdup.3, wcslen.3, wcsncasecmp.3, wcsncat.3, wcsncmp.3, wcsncpy.3, wcsnlen.3, wcsnrtombs.3, wcspbrk.3, wcsrchr.3, wcsrtombs.3, wcsspn.3, wcsstr.3, wcstok.3, wcstombs.3, wcswidth.3, wctob.3, wctomb.3, wctrans.3, wctype.3, wcwidth.3, wmemchr.3, wmemcmp.3, wmemcpy.3, wmemmove.3, wmemset.3, wprintf.3, console_ioctl.4, pts.4, elf.5, filesystems.5, hosts.5, proc.5, ttytype.5, boot.7, capabilities.7, credentials.7, epoll.7, glob.7, koi8-r.7, path_resolution.7, pty.7, signal.7, suffixes.7, time.7, unicode.7, unix.7, uri.7, utf-8.7: global fix: s/Unix/UNIX/
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The man pages were rather inconsistent in the use of "Unix"
versus "UNIX". Let's go with the trademark usage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-10-12 06:49:17 +02:00
5fab2e7c9c
Changes.old, clone.2, execve.2, fcntl.2, futex.2, getitimer.2, getpriority.2, mmap.2, mount.2, mprotect.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, setuid.2, sigaltstack.2, vfork.2, div.3, fenv.3, fmod.3, memchr.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, queue.3, scanf.3, trunc.3, st.4, proc.5, services.5, utmp.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, feature_test_macros.7, futex.7, glob.7, man.7, netlink.7, unicode.7: Switch to American usage: "-wards" ==> "-ward"
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American English uses "afterward" in preference to "afterwards",
and so on
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-09-26 07:34:47 +02:00
64fb5aedb0
tzfile.5: Add information on version 2 format timezone files
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Updated using information from the tzcode 2010l release at
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub.
(It's an open question whether or not a version of tzfile.5
should live independently in man-pages. It was added to the
man-pages set many years ago. For now, I'll follow a
conservative course that causes least pain to downstream,
by continuing to maintain a separate copy in man-pages.)
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594219
Reported-by: Yitzchak Gale <gale@sefer.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-31 07:58:38 +02:00
825e3c0f07
termcap.5: Minor fix: clarify "null character"
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 08:59:05 +02:00
6596d27062
proc.5: Minor wording fix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
2010-08-29 08:55:29 +02:00
b911dcb076
Removed trailing white space at end of lines
2010-06-20 06:43:23 +02:00
6866d935b3
elf.5: Document PN_XNUM extension
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In linux-2.6.34-rc1, an ELF core extension was added; user-land tools
manipulating ELF core dump such as gdb and binutils has already been
modified before; so elf.5 needs to be modified accordingly.
You can follow information on the ELF extension via the LKML post:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/3/103
Date Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:06:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject [RESEND][mmotm][PATCH v2, 0/5] elf coredump: Add extended numbering support
This Linux-specific extension was added in kernel 2.6.34.
Reviewed-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
eed79eed5b
elf.5: Remove words under '.note': "described below"
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The existing text is broken, because there is
no '"Note Section" format' describe below. Simplest
solution is to remove the words "described below".
Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
888e004861
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
b520dffcc6
elf.5: Remove EI_BRAND
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As reported by Yuri Kozlov and confirmed by Mike Frysinger, EI_BRAND is
not in GABI (http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html )
It looks to be a BSDism
Reported-by: Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 13:10:51 +02:00
b2d3abb847
proc.5: Improve description of /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-19 04:40:23 +02:00
7191605652
proc.5: Document /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 00:31:58 +02:00
49236d3c71
proc.5: Simplify description of /proc/sys and /proc/sys/fs
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In the description of these directories, there's no need
to list all the files and subdirectories that they contain;
that information is provided by the entries that follow.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-17 00:23:56 +02:00
c7fb034b88
proc.5: spfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2010-06-12 13:37:20 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk