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Michael Kerrisk 0c2ec4f115 ffix 2007-06-13 22:13:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ff8384a43 Small wording change. 2007-06-13 22:05:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e1ad98ccf Updated FIXMEs 2007-06-13 21:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b0fa18232 replace form `....' with \fI...\fP where the enclosed string is a pathname, 
type name, or argument name.
 2007-06-12 21:19:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ee62201f94 Fixed description of EACCES error. 
Added sentence defining "curret working directory".
Other minor wording changes.
 2007-06-12 05:23:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3363301f11 wfix 2007-06-11 20:36:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 589cdb95ce ffix 2007-06-11 20:35:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a622ed8f93 Made NOTES text into a VERSIONS section, since that's what it really describes. 2007-06-11 19:57:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a43e21f0b4 Added details about seekable files and file offset. 
Noted that write() may write less than 'count' bytes, and
gave some examples of why this might occur.
Noted what happens if write() is interrupted by a signal.
Minor wording changes.
 2007-06-11 19:51:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 460e6363dc s/i-node/inode/ 2007-06-11 19:23:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc7ba05735 s/process' /process's/ 2007-06-11 19:20:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7eeba17aac Minor wording changes 2007-06-11 19:13:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 51a138ce9a Minore rewordings; added a FIXME. 2007-06-11 19:07:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c1bc63f44 ffix 2007-06-11 18:45:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7dbfafa8ca Minore rewordings. 2007-06-11 18:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed15fce22c Update .TH line; previous commit noted what happens if 
gethostid() can't open /etc/hostid.
 2007-06-10 18:18:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53a6b01dee Add NOTES paragraph noting that <sys/types.h> isn't required by 
POSIX.1-2001 or Linux, but was required on some implementations.
 2007-06-10 18:08:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c36973a3d6 s/w.r.t./with respect to/ 2007-06-08 12:11:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75b94dc35c Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ". 
Change "i.e. " to i.e.., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
 2007-06-08 11:56:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb1af89677 Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes 
independent of fixes for American spelling).
 2007-06-08 10:58:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9bfdb9c21 Convert to American spelling conventions 2007-06-08 09:56:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 53a1443cce Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7. 2007-06-08 07:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 677f47663e Wrap source lines at sentence breaks. 2007-06-08 03:17:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5edee42039 Updated discussion of somaxconn limit. 2007-06-06 19:08:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06dc77641b wfix 2007-06-06 18:44:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f821a554d Added some comments to example program. 2007-06-06 18:40:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk deec2da39c Updated VERSIONS section 2007-06-05 19:36:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f94034628 Added VERSIONS section. 2007-06-05 07:06:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed0e2b2fb9 Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2. 2007-06-05 06:54:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 570dd97898 Added VERSIONS section. 2007-06-05 06:32:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f73a46c64 Added VERSIONS section 2007-06-05 06:21:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a16bf48ff In Linux 2.6, the 'modify_ldt_ldt_s' structure was renamed 'user_desc'. 
Include definition of 'user_desc' structure.
Minor rewordings.
 2007-06-02 20:55:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3b5ab8237 Small changes in EXAMPLE program. 2007-06-02 08:31:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 544195a1d6 spfix 2007-06-02 08:20:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af5f950813 Update copyright notice 2007-06-02 08:19:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4594917527 Reformatted code example 2007-06-02 06:08:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28442c8f31 grfix 2007-06-02 05:49:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3758f6dad4 Minor wording fixes 2007-06-02 05:45:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8427b6a4f2 grfix 2007-06-02 05:32:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8fc3da7ec0 Removed reference to non-existent sigsend(2). 2007-06-01 06:05:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e82e185fc6 fix xref 2007-06-01 06:01:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28dfb19d8b fix xref 2007-06-01 05:59:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk deff900024 Correct xref 2007-06-01 05:57:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21a50d3348 Added some .\" comments 2007-06-01 05:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 76375bc632 wfix 2007-06-01 05:55:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a326a8527 grfix 2007-06-01 05:25:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 19f6943dce grfix 2007-06-01 05:25:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f5ccfc8a7 Remove SEE ALSO reference to non-existent mt.4. 2007-06-01 05:21:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b0742c81c6 Small clarification of description of 'mode'. 2007-05-30 15:49:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dfaae36266 Minor wording fixes 2007-05-30 15:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7218bcea37 Minor wording fixes. 2007-05-30 15:32:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f67f9e203e Update .TH line to include "Linux" 2007-05-30 05:40:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9343c5c13 Removed version number from .TH line 2007-05-30 05:36:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ceaeac2470 spfix 2007-05-29 04:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f3db3125d spfix 2007-05-29 04:36:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88210f5f31 ffix 2007-05-29 04:15:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 43940e36a9 ffix 2007-05-28 15:52:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70d1cb2d51 spfix 2007-05-28 15:42:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 973a928ae1 Modified .TH line 2007-05-28 12:07:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bc7ff20e70 Added EXAMPLE program. 2007-05-28 11:43:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 735f354f03 wfix 2007-05-28 11:07:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c27853f55 Added new EXAMPLE section referring to example in getaddrinfo.3 2007-05-28 10:53:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f11e5e44f7 Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2. 2007-05-28 10:40:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 185f68728f Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section. 2007-05-28 10:38:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 218d23e5a3 Rewrote various parts. 2007-05-27 21:33:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bc0d5df316 Strengthen warning against the use of signal(). 
Add siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
 2007-05-27 21:03:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2720c2ed56 Added '\" comment 2007-05-27 17:04:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 08fcffef9a Updated FIXME. 2007-05-27 15:23:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7190cf218e Updated TH line 2007-05-27 14:35:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 78f2eeab03 Add ENOSYS error. 2007-05-27 14:06:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d880b21c28 Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Document/* in kernel source. 2007-05-27 12:13:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a3c945b37d Added .\" comment about l_sysid. 2007-05-27 11:52:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c12fd10dcb Update these pages to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros have 
gone away.
 2007-05-26 15:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c046a64128 Conver to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE. 2007-05-26 14:10:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bd0a01ce48 Added ERRORS section (saying that the call always succeeds). 2007-05-26 12:54:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 74fa514a71 Added comment (.\") 2007-05-26 12:47:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad7cc990f2 Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolutiion.7 2007-05-26 12:41:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad1750a30d This is now a link to the the page that has been placed in Section 7. 2007-05-26 12:29:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 568f8f435f Added FIXME. 2007-05-26 12:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5f23447594 Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are always successful). 2007-05-26 12:20:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d41b3324d Added a RETURN VALUE section. 2007-05-26 12:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6686472b86 Added ERRORS heading 2007-05-26 12:15:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b5ab5947e Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2. 2007-05-26 12:08:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9a79c6ed6 Added an ERRORS section. 2007-05-26 12:05:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3961a41b93 Added RETURN VALUE section. 2007-05-26 07:34:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cff29b795 Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING to and note that 
this call is Linux-specific.  Other minor rewordings.
 2007-05-26 07:28:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c057ec9864 Small rewording to fix "fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK" 
rather than "returns EWOULDBLOCK".
 2007-05-26 06:29:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2a5e0dcd1a Substantial rewitres/additions. 2007-05-25 19:54:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f20d7d8ea3 A much improved eample program. 2007-05-25 18:57:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af5267b2f4 Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2. 2007-05-25 18:42:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccd2b351c8 Removed "." at end of SEE ALSO list 2007-05-22 21:49:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cbc2a267b1 grfix 2007-05-22 21:37:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c66cb57033 Fix bad link path. 2007-05-22 18:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 08b7e58416 Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section. 2007-05-21 22:49:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6ef95cb01a Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section. 2007-05-21 22:46:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f5cb430b7c Added ERRORS section. 2007-05-21 22:41:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e1c01a76 ffix 2007-05-21 21:25:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d806e10376 Added section numbers to xrefs 2007-05-21 21:07:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65e7dad22c wfix 2007-05-21 15:49:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa4962263b s/manpage/man page/ 2007-05-21 12:58:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d1dcf59840 Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing 
some outdated text.
 2007-05-21 11:16:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed7a722d13 Updated FIXME 2007-05-21 10:14:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 128e7c364b ffix 2007-05-21 09:19:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e5ec74e16e Updated FIXME 2007-05-21 07:04:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0e99f2a5c0 Relocated text for "Versions and Library Support". 2007-05-21 06:55:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7b9318d06 Updated FIXME. 2007-05-21 06:52:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8e86ff2a6 Updated FIXME 2007-05-21 06:51:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b5d63e490d Remove text about the non-existent BSD meremap() -- too 
much information, in my opinion.
 2007-05-21 06:46:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 49ba0d2aaa Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being equivalent to 
fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note about this historical behaviour.
 2007-05-21 06:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87eca6b7b3 Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling 
open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
 2007-05-21 06:34:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b2581ee37 Fix inconsistencies in order of .SH sections 2007-05-19 04:30:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2dd578fd5b Reordered sections for consistency. 2007-05-18 16:30:46 +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 af4d911a52 wfix 2007-05-18 14:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 889829be48 Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs 
under another section e.g., NOTES.
 2007-05-18 11:59:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2a995424e0 ffix 2007-05-18 11:17:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 413901b165 wfix 2007-05-18 11:01:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4fb3134194 Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES 2007-05-18 10:39:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d597239cbd Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES 2007-05-18 10:30:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6996254443 Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines 2007-05-18 09:55:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 05eabe6576 Fix inconsistencies in .TH line 2007-05-18 09:21:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d5a3539b7 Fix inconsistencies in .TH lines 2007-05-18 09:11:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e127c16af7 Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM. 2007-05-18 08:56:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ed55ece49 Make "manual" in .TH line "Linux Programmers Manual" 2007-05-18 08:43:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e37e328263 Move SEE ALSO section to end of page 2007-05-16 18:25:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b07cd0a96b Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a RESTRICTIONS 
section under existing NOTES section.
 2007-05-16 05:33:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b5dc6f115 s/RETURN VALUES/RETURN VALUE/ 2007-05-16 05:00:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 405f0560fe ffix 2007-05-16 04:54:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a759cc870f Renamed .SH AVAILABILITY to .SH VERSIONS 2007-05-16 04:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9aba2fed65 wrap a source line 2007-05-16 04:48:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ff457ccbea Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS 2007-05-16 04:39:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e8a7fb3a8 wrappped source line 2007-05-16 04:32:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6459c9ca10 ffix 2007-05-16 04:00:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc919d094d Commented out/rewrote .SH AUTHORS sections 2007-05-16 03:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fcd0a03701 Made a .SH line into .SS 2007-05-16 03:15:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be29323e9e Small rewording. 2007-05-16 03:12:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8f6b98e17 Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2 contains 
the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
 2007-05-16 03:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 90b36dddb0 ffix 2007-05-16 03:06:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef17a8a1ae ffix 2007-05-16 03:05:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a19cb8cd1 Made ".SH UNDOCUMENTED" into ".SS Undocumented" and relocated under NOTES 2007-05-16 03:03:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a2c875ff29 s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/ 2007-05-16 03:00:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc171723b1 Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated within page. 2007-05-16 02:57:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 19c98696a2 s/SH NOTE$/SH NOTES/ 2007-05-16 02:54:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c87824d61 Made .SH into .SS 2007-05-16 02:45:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6c36ac81bf s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/ 2007-05-16 02:41:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ea165b17e4 s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/ 2007-05-16 02:41:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d4c46761de ffix 2007-05-16 02:31:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e81969abf7 ffix 2007-05-16 02:30:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffc78e2c0b s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/ 2007-05-16 02:25:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3fc15e600d Made a .SH line into .SS 2007-05-16 02:21:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5bc8c34c03 s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() function example program 2007-05-16 02:09:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3618596929 Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE". 2007-05-16 02:01:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0784f93ce4 s/return 0/exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)/ in example program. 2007-05-16 01:57:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61b48f9328 Made sme .SH headings .SS 2007-05-16 01:56:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 042bae96ef ffix 2007-05-15 20:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 374d1d23c6 Commented out AUTHOR note 2007-05-15 20:51:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a05dfaec95 ffix 2007-05-15 05:44:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4c44ffe5dc Use symbolic constants in exit(2) calls 2007-05-14 21:11:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 19dbfd0a98 ffix 2007-05-14 21:10:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 646f46f029 s/exit(0)/exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)/ 2007-05-14 21:06:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6c4ce1b9c ffix 2007-05-14 20:39:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3fdbf2a227 ffix 2007-05-14 19:25:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d140095082 wfix 2007-05-14 19:23:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d12800ee8 ffix 2007-05-14 19:20:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 552524a660 ffix 2007-05-14 19:19:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk be7fff26d5 Wrap source lines 2007-05-12 13:26:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9e370fbab6 tfix 2007-05-12 13:20:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 32792f3553 wfix 2007-05-12 13:19:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 375d884714 tfix 2007-05-12 13:19:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 825f35381a wfix 2007-05-12 13:17:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9c1ae6480 Use bold for function name, not underline. 2007-05-12 13:12:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c93fec03d Wrapped source lines 2007-05-12 12:58:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a44012756e Minor repairs after global edits 2007-05-12 12:53:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60a90ecdae Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to ".BR name ()". 2007-05-12 09:06:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3623e341c3 Add section number to xref 2007-05-12 00:47:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d504a99411 spfix 2007-05-12 00:47:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bfa087b03 Add section numbers to references to other pages 2007-05-11 23:07:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f8aa9e3b4 ffix 2007-05-11 18:35:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8a784debdf Fix wrong argument names in text. 2007-05-11 18:34:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d975050ce5 Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page 2007-05-06 08:38:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fdc4620460 spfix 2007-05-06 07:40:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1a549f8cea Modified FIXME to mention bug report 2007-05-06 07:01:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6d70cf942 Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and sysv_signal.3 pages. 2007-05-04 21:22:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f82d75e0b Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7). 
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
 2007-05-04 20:32:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e519bf2eb Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe 
functions in signal(7).
A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
 2007-05-04 20:32:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f9a848cb2b Removed out of date FIXME 2007-05-01 15:27:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 83314009c0 Place MAP_* flags list in alphabeitical order. 2007-05-01 15:23:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae0318dfac Removed out-of-date FIXME. 2007-05-01 15:12:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b364fca092 Removed some comment text about interpreter scripts, placing 
it instead in Changes file.
 2007-05-01 14:34:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e506533603 hyphen --> minus 2007-05-01 07:58:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 32875790e8 Make hyphens into minus signs. 2007-05-01 07:57:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 35f0f2f954 wfix 2007-04-30 16:11:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3996edf642 Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19. 2007-04-30 16:08:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0265cd0106 Link to epoll_wait.2 2007-04-30 16:06:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ab44d3d652 A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things fixes the 
reported by Kyle Sluder in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
And added some example code.
 2007-04-30 15:32:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6f223a7e3 Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID programs. 
Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
may be treated specially.
 2007-04-30 14:30:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6b33ad7da Added an example program. 
Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be released.
 2007-04-30 12:25:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b5804b409 spfix 2007-04-30 10:58:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 456960740c Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be 
NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
and should be avoided in portable programs.
Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
is an ABI change.
 2007-04-30 10:39:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd24c68794 ffix 2007-04-30 09:00:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fd8a3c9db wfix 2007-04-30 08:55:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bab1c5df34 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2007-04-30 06:16:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0fcd5bc9cb "-1" should be "\-1" 2007-04-27 17:11:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18be658d0c s/nonnegative/non-negative/ 2007-04-24 19:10:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 099c2a5971 Wrap long lines 2007-04-24 16:56:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c44bd5b0b Wrap long lines; start sentences on new lines 2007-04-24 16:44:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88933758db Added some formatting fixes 2007-04-21 11:02:46 +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 273691af91 Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented. 
The nice interval can be used to control the size of the round-robin
quantum.
 2007-04-05 14:37:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 41798314b6 Code formatting fixes 2007-04-05 14:17:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7295b7eda0 Replaced tabs with spaces 2007-04-05 13:29:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1bef0ec265 Moved timespec definition from SYNOPSIS into description. 2007-04-05 12:50:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf0a9ace57 ffix 2007-04-05 12:36:57 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b9208776db Make SYNOPSIS match select.2. 2007-04-03 18:03:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 332f4bb952 Include <sys/daemon.h> header in SYNOPSIS 2007-04-03 18:02:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66ac438177 tfix 2007-04-03 17:56:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b9f027105c ffix 2007-04-03 15:32:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 521bf58405 ffix 2007-04-03 14:04:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed9ed0f576 ffix 2007-04-03 13:03:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70d67e7929 ffix 2007-04-03 12:49:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d12c14243e Formatting fixes + fixed return values. 2007-04-03 12:47:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 538d54d9e9 Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17. 2007-03-25 13:40:58 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6a4055f3a Various improvements to DESCRIPTION. 2007-03-25 12:59:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 814521a7d8 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2007-03-25 12:39:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae39cf8f79 Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION. 2007-03-18 06:20:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 33e820cb39 Improve ENOENT description. 2007-03-18 06:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5bb80360ee ffix 2007-03-18 05:30:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b857d3daac Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure. 2007-03-11 07:08:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0579929938 tripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section. 2007-03-06 06:37:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87f434dfce If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed 
in array order.  All Unix systems that I know of do this,
and some Linux applications depend on this behaviour.  SUSv3
made no explicit statement here, but SUSv3 will explicitly
require this behaviour.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
 2007-03-04 17:29:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24825f2786 2.6.21 fixed several bugs in mincore() (according to Nick Piggin). 
Small fix to ENONEM description.
 2007-03-04 02:35:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d44417fb63 Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS 2007-03-01 02:31:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b438981878 Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177. 
* s/effective/real/ in description test.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
 2007-03-01 02:25:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c5405c0894 Fix EINVAL description 2007-03-01 01:43:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00877d8f0f tfix 2007-03-01 01:27:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1954b6a9b4 Remove duplicate word typo. 2007-03-01 01:12:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 11dcec1d2a Small wording clarification. 2007-03-01 00:48:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc0b1e23b6 Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag. 2007-02-26 14:30:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 926b6e378b Document MS_RELATIME, new in kernel 2.6.20. 2007-02-10 17:37:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60bb61aaee Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7 2007-02-02 05:47:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0a90178cbb Add feature_test_macros(7) to SEE ALSO 2007-01-28 20:00:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cce6cb992 The cpusetsize argument was only absent in glibc 2.3.3. 2007-01-12 18:07:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 182d662267 Substantial rewrites to make clearer. 2007-01-07 21:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f5773f75b On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a 
32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
 2007-01-06 23:31:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ca6357577 tfix 2007-01-04 18:54:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7e91e5d883 Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to "open(2) and NFS". 2006-12-27 04:59:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c2e8c91d54 Add reference to ipv6 to table. 2006-12-27 04:06:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 459f24d56a ffix 2006-12-27 03:56:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f74a33f53 Fix .TH line. 2006-12-27 03:55:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3547839964 wrap long source lines 2006-12-27 03:54:41 +00:00