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Michael Kerrisk ead8304237 _XOPEN_SOURCE=500 also gets fchdir() prototype. 2006-08-04 08:39:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0ae3116f0b ffix 2006-08-04 08:23:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c1eac86f Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e3d68ad97 Removed information on standards to new standards.7. 2006-08-03 06:24:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c5342731 Added SEE ALSO referring to standards.7 2006-08-03 06:13:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7741d967a4 Minor wording change. 2006-08-03 03:40:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29973b4e7b wfix 2006-08-03 03:03:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1c9135d0 ffix 2006-08-03 03:02:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 160c2d5a26 ffix 2006-08-03 02:45:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 43487dbb6e ffix 2006-08-03 02:40:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 635c9a5437 pfix 2006-08-03 02:38:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b5cefe852 Noted buggy behaviour in Linux 2.4 and earlier when 
nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
 2006-07-31 15:18:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dd28cb72a8 Some rewording; included text describing required file permissions. 2006-07-27 07:38:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 68ed2733d2 ffix 2006-07-27 05:03:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5356032615 ffix 2006-07-27 04:29:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2cfa66cf54 Fix description of EBADF error. 2006-07-22 17:37:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 07b501d1b9 Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to 
saved set-IDs during execve().
 2006-07-22 17:24:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8de811e83f Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 15:54:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73ac06664b Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 14:45:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eb57f0f568 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits. 2006-07-22 14:37:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef828a01d8 Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 14:26:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 75fcdb0894 Noted effect of fork() and execve(). 2006-07-22 14:21:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddb51c37d0 Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve(). 2006-07-22 14:14:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27cb988470 (Previous change) Noted effect of fork() and execve() on nice value. 2006-07-22 14:12:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2cab31c61d Very minor rewording. 2006-07-22 14:10:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70cbdedffa Very minor rewording. 2006-07-22 14:07:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 51ffcca030 Expand description of MAP_POPULATE. 
Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
Various minor formatting fixes.
 2006-07-21 22:23:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16fd68e14f ffix 2006-07-21 21:40:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a28e26a155 s%IO%I/O% 2006-07-21 14:56:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c07981e716 New page for readlinkat(2). 2006-07-21 14:41:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 591f90f794 Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2. 2006-07-21 14:38:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50bf674b91 spfix 2006-07-21 00:12:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5c51897d0e spfix 2006-07-21 00:09:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6183de06a ffix 2006-07-21 00:08:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk defcceb3e7 ffix 2006-07-20 16:16:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7fc86905d pfix 2006-07-12 14:08:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f5284ed8f Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO. 2006-07-11 15:42:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24b3ed1dad Updated FIXME 2006-07-11 04:24:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d9cded8e86 Removed FIXME 2006-07-11 04:23:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a31272feff Updated FIXME 2006-07-11 04:19:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 72052bcef3 Removed old FIXME 2006-07-11 04:15:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db04da1f6e Fix description of 'offset' argument to explain the case 
where 'offset' is NULL.
 2006-07-10 15:48:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fe0927c3c9 tfix 2006-07-10 08:44:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bb8617d480 Added SEE ALSO referring to sync_file_range.2. 2006-07-06 09:34:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3ca974e398 New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17. 2006-07-06 08:53:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 423124e8d1 Minor fix to example code 2006-07-05 15:06:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1ba452d4db Add EADDRNOTAVAIL error. 2006-07-05 15:04:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a71c2e569 Make example code more complete. 2006-07-05 14:40:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4f518005cb wfix 2006-07-05 12:18:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92d6e4039d wfix 2006-07-05 12:17:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dee8c26fc ffix 2006-07-05 12:16:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cffd8e71d4 Updated FIXME 2006-07-05 09:42:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af34a13871 wfix 2006-07-05 09:37:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4df1559b70 pfix 2006-07-05 09:26:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d44c4bf375 Added comment containing patch justification. 2006-07-04 13:26:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4595d739ff Nowadays, readlink() returns 'ssize_t', as required in POSIX.1-2001. 2006-07-04 11:13:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d36f9ff105 ffix 2006-07-03 06:24:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23cb3cb55d Added POLLRDHUP description. 
The correct header file is <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h>.
Rewrote and reformatted various other parts.
 2006-07-01 08:30:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04706fd7e2 Added EPOLLRDHUP description. 
Added SEE ALSO referring to poll.2.
 2006-07-01 08:30:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a98bcd58d8 Minor updates 2006-06-20 08:00:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc387badcb s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error. 2006-06-13 11:01:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f33547665 ffix 2006-06-08 18:38:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f7203c96cc ffix 2006-06-08 18:21:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a90440ba21 spfix 2006-06-08 17:59:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6a4c7d1f0 spfix 2006-06-08 17:58:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b98f0a349f s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS. 2006-06-07 22:51:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06c97d412b Moved BUGS to inotify.7. 2006-06-05 10:59:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 211ec15cf1 Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send() and sendto() calls. 2006-06-05 04:51:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93440c026d Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'. 
inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
 2006-06-05 02:46:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f5774a93b The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify file descriptor. 2006-06-05 02:34:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ace17ecf07 Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY. 2006-06-05 01:51:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7145b9a93c spfix 2006-06-03 01:26:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8dc8552af5 spfix 2006-06-02 23:12:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e969f2255 s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes. 2006-06-02 19:43:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 859ae99c76 spfix 2006-05-31 23:56:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c10859eb0d Fix unbalanced quotes 2006-05-31 22:16:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cedfddcd13 Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2. 2006-05-29 05:48:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ef276d2f2d Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2. 2006-05-29 05:47:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93c57ed012 Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3. 2006-05-29 05:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61fccf7c75 Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3. 2006-05-29 05:12:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 931e4e2511 Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2. 2006-05-29 05:01:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a5b4ffb74 Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2. 2006-05-29 05:00:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f02720dde7 Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2. 2006-05-29 04:56:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7677b814cf SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3. 2006-05-29 04:48:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0dde28982b SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3. 2006-05-29 04:48:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65c06b4eb3 Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5. 2006-05-29 04:37:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk de84c94263 Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION. 2006-05-26 22:01:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dcc57a0171 ffix 2006-05-26 19:40:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 56bbbf8ef7 Relocated "Note" about f_fsid. 2006-05-26 19:32:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e3498e0e8 Link to new ioprio_set.2 2006-05-24 20:47:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b3b2ce10b New page for ioprio_set(2) 2006-05-24 20:47:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6883b3e731 Changed copyright commnents to add 'and' in some cases 2006-05-22 23:52:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24bd9a4926 Note that EINVAL can also be caused by flags == MS_SYNC | MS_ASYNC. 2006-05-22 22:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b33650560 wfix 2006-05-22 19:44:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a004e7ff00 ffix 2006-05-18 05:25:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6beba96d8e Add CPU_ISSET, CPU_CLR, CPU_SET, CPU_ZERO to NAME section. 2006-05-18 05:23:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1fb8c49be6 wfix 2006-05-17 21:19:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f75c3a3bf8 Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO. 
See Debian bug 367401.
 2006-05-15 20:51:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8e7c990dc Rename ftm.7 to feature_test_macros.7 2006-05-15 09:13:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d883fde06f tfix 2006-05-14 21:38:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b83ccc3734 tfix + removed old FIXME 2006-05-14 21:36:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6efed4df1f Various minor changes 2006-05-13 06:08:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8e01c783b Removed much material that is redundant with select.2. 
Various other changes.
 2006-05-13 06:04:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8e5f22f8d5 ffix 2006-05-13 05:03:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 616c0fd3c6 ffix 2006-05-13 04:57:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 691938a16b ffix 2006-05-12 23:36:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc513f7faf Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC. 2006-05-12 23:35:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2983ceac2f Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC. 
POSIX does now document ELOOP.
 2006-05-12 23:22:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c80909ad8f substantial rewrite of description of 'mask' 2006-05-12 22:48:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 77dc7e2bde New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2). 2006-05-12 19:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b548b3131 Expand text noting that ftruncate()/truncate() may fail 
if asked to extend a file beyond its current length.
Add EPERM error.
 2006-05-09 05:28:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e0037472fe ffix 2006-05-05 22:03:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c51fc3c114 tfix 2006-05-02 20:03:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4006dcaccb Updated discussion of MAP_NORESERVE since it 
is no longer restricted to MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
Add reference to discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory in proc.5
 2006-05-02 03:08:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 320479713e Document SHM_NORESERVE flag, new in 2.6.15. 2006-05-02 03:00:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fd83ecfba4 Removed FIXME 2006-05-02 01:50:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e592f2be04 Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread. 2006-05-02 01:49:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e1357d0c8 removed a FIXME. 2006-05-02 00:07:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60652159ef New page for futimesat(2) 2006-05-02 00:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a53b8cb2a0 New page for new fchmodat(2) 2006-05-02 00:05:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4e386d41a0 New page for fchownat(2) 2006-05-02 00:04:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7ae4e787a New page for faccessat(2) 2006-05-02 00:04:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22e3b8b11c Add SEE ALSO references to new *at.2 pages 2006-05-02 00:03:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ee2fa12076 ffix 2006-05-01 23:05:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ade10f9902 Correct wording of EBUSY case. 
Add ".." case to ENOTEMPTY error
 2006-05-01 01:52:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dffb0109be Modified text referring to adjtime(); added SEE ALSO for new adjtime.3 page. 2006-04-30 23:45:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 13218d42ae Clarify RETURN VALUE discussion. 2006-04-30 22:10:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dbd411a49c Remove bogus BUGS text. 2006-04-30 21:18:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 344135a82b wfix 2006-04-28 20:24:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eaded2c555 spfix 2006-04-27 23:40:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1d793a5188 other minor changes 2006-04-27 23:39:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f67cdb5d4d Rewrote most of the DESCRIPTION, as well as some other parts 
the page, to clarify use and operation of, and rationale for,
fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
 2006-04-27 23:31:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a85a10cb73 wfix 2006-04-27 22:41:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b8ff97a12 wfix 2006-04-27 22:40:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 093a7ea09b Update on scheduled fix for tv_usec 2006-04-26 20:00:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 563711249d Added text to note that current incorrect behaviour of 
normalising tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
kernel; applications should be fixed now.
 2006-04-26 19:39:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eafd5ce11f Added SEE ALSO referring to new time.7 2006-04-26 07:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 79893ac3a4 wfix 2006-04-26 06:51:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8bbb90693 Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact 
that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
Added a FIXME.
 2006-04-26 04:42:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 178b977b7f Detail exactly which mount flags can be changed on MS_REMOUNT. 2006-04-25 09:32:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 83b21473f7 added FIXME 2006-04-25 09:13:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 564d99410b Since kernel 2.6.16, MS_NOATIME and MS_NODIRATIME are settable on a per- mount basis. 2006-04-25 08:18:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cdab486d3f Updated FIXME 2006-04-25 06:57:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0eee473cb8 Added FIXME 2006-04-25 06:55:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7998dde242 ffix 2006-04-25 06:09:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66679b1f0f 4.x BSD --> 4.xBSD 2006-04-23 23:29:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d1331c6fb7 Noted that all threads should block signal being waited for. 2006-04-22 20:57:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84564be219 Added SEE ALSO for new sockatmark.3. 2006-04-22 03:18:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7005bc229e Solaris also has the system call. 2006-04-22 00:00:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 69b7b9e5fc Minor changes 2006-04-22 00:00:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4d34a38da Correct header file in synopsis 2006-04-21 23:12:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ce372a5bde wfix 2006-04-21 22:53:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 956a644642 new fstatat(2) page 2006-04-21 22:39:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 39179b3eec wfix 2006-04-21 18:17:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5e01a1de98 Improve opening para describing purpose of select(). 2006-04-21 10:41:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 50e5322c85 Added SEE ALSO reference to ftm.7 2006-04-21 06:49:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fb961f311e Simplified wording about requirement for _BSD_SOURCE macro. 2006-04-21 06:28:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2c5e151c7f ipc.7 --> svipc.7 2006-04-21 03:53:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6319e935b0 Add text noting that contents of newly created segment are zero values. 2006-04-21 02:02:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af5b2ef2cc fifo.4 --> fifo.7 2006-04-21 01:46:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a8bda63671 complex.5 --> complex.7 2006-04-21 01:24:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk aa949e2d59 environ.5 --> environ.7 2006-04-21 00:45:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 922436594f ipc.5 --> ipc.7 2006-04-21 00:38:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2315114c72 epoll.4 is now epoll.7 2006-04-21 00:29:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22f348ca27 Note more clearly that fd_set args can be NULL; various other minor edits and ffixes 2006-04-20 21:21:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c382af469 Point out more explicitly that 'tz' argument should normally be NULL. 
Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
 2006-04-20 21:07:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9c1c7397a0 Added NOTE that st_size is always returned as zero for most /proc files. 2006-04-19 20:44:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 601dff4a19 Remove mention of SOCK_RDM from this page, since this socket 
type does not support accept()ing connections.
 2006-04-18 07:39:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f595890250 Updates SEE ALSO 2006-04-06 08:48:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f352ee52b new for symlinkat.2. 2006-04-06 08:42:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16d863a465 new for unlinkat(2). 2006-04-06 08:41:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 552dfd96f4 New for rename(2). 2006-04-06 08:41:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db01a90324 new for linkat(2). 2006-04-06 08:41:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 97c0488f3e Minor changes 2006-04-06 05:19:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64603adfb7 Substantial rewrite of NOTES; minor changes elsewhere. 2006-04-05 05:43:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fe3091da4 Minor changes 2006-04-05 05:42:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 66e46895b9 new page for mknodat(2). 2006-04-05 05:17:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b4255672a Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mknodat.2 2006-04-05 05:14:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a929ee119 New page for mkdirat(2). 2006-04-05 04:44:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d2927a1b1e Added SEE ALSO mkdirat(2). 2006-04-05 04:43:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6d03c00944 Added comment on inconsistent naming of *at() functions. 2006-04-04 19:48:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6057e7a9fa Added BUGS text on 2.6.x handling of RLIMIT_CPU limit 
of zero seconds.  See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
 2006-04-04 04:12:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9aad1caae1 Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further 
circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
 2006-04-04 02:59:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cdc9620e3a Remove text saying that specifying invalid flags "is likely 
to cause compatibility problems" since the kernel now
(2.6.17-rc1) contains an explicit check for invalid buts
with a consequent EINVAL error.
 2006-04-03 23:55:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0c373d0150 Added FIXME. 2006-04-03 23:35:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 70f4032165 removed tabs 2006-04-03 21:25:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5250b79560 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2006-04-03 20:36:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d5346bba6a Added FIXME. 2006-04-03 01:35:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1c511da218 Updated FIXME. 2006-04-03 01:35:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7080c286cd Removed a misleading cross-ref to socket.2. 2006-03-31 22:58:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16c892d319 Documented EINVAL error for 'len' < 0. 2006-03-31 22:12:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00d7bbcfbf Expanded discussion of mandatory locking. 2006-03-31 21:14:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk db28bfac79 Clarified discussion of file types affected by O_NONBLOCK. 2006-03-31 21:12:45 +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 898d60e1c6 Updated FIXME 2006-03-30 06:03:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d42c5c3ee Fix broken link 2006-03-26 12:58:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 217b389ac5 Removed FIXME. 2006-03-25 21:29:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e63ad01dce Wrapped long lines (no content changes). 2006-03-25 21:28:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4b9d4c1ac5 Added FIXME 2006-03-25 21:07:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dd97b0c2d Added FIXME 2006-03-25 20:58:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f675ea3792 Add SEE ALSO pointing to the new sem_overview.7 page, which gives an 
overview of the POSIX semaphores AP.
 2006-03-25 20:50:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7f2e3e4e64 Edited FIXME 2006-03-23 22:00:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 44b35ee067 Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz, 
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
    Document the following ptrace requests: 
        PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
            plus associated flags:
                PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
                PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
                PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
                PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
                PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
                PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
                PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
        PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
        PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
        PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
        PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
        PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
 2006-03-23 22:00:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 218e46f883 Small FIXME formatting fixes 2006-03-23 02:13:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92c37d8cb0 Modified to document new SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16. 
Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
message containing the patch that implemented this policy.

Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
 2006-03-23 01:06:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ed812a69b4 ffix 2006-03-22 06:25:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8107e4b78d Clarified the description of MREMAP_FIXED and restructured 
the text to reflect the fact that this flag is exposed
by glibc since version 2.4.
 2006-03-22 06:21:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4ec7624c9 Added FIXME. 2006-03-22 05:33:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29514e2da9 Removed old FIXME 2006-03-22 05:22:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2a5980bb9e MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL requires CAP_SYS_NICE not CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. 2006-03-21 20:56:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d0cab0e22 ffix 2006-03-21 10:59:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d5f459509 Various rewordings and updates to 2.6.16 reality. 2006-03-21 05:42:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5cc01e9c88 Document unshare(2), new in 2.6.16. 2006-03-20 21:29:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 785e717bc1 We won't add unshare(2) just yet, so remove SEE ALSO entries for now. 2006-03-20 06:38:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4cb7bd37e Not yet ready for 2.26. 2006-03-20 06:33:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c3742154c1 Minor changes 2006-03-20 06:32:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 777f5a9ef7 Updated FIXMEs 2006-03-20 04:46:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 347e325b6a Updated FIXME 2006-03-20 04:31:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd31a0d631 spfix 2006-03-20 00:52:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c8a55a3d73 spfix 2006-03-20 00:19:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 22ca838f59 ppoll() proto needs _GNU_SOURCE 2006-03-19 23:37:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b81374196 pselect() prototype needs "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600". 2006-03-19 23:32:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 16718a1c3d Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be 
preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
 2006-03-16 00:50:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb2431bf34 ffix 2006-03-16 00:28:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e755a587cd Further changes for ppoll.2. 2006-03-16 00:06:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 424a895034 shm_open() is in section 3, not 2. 2006-03-15 22:26:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f11acf57e Minor changes 2006-03-15 10:27:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 123a769478 Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions, 
from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
Plus a few other smaller fixes.
 2006-03-15 10:26:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9b54d4fa8b Modified wording referring that refers to raw(8) to 
indicate that this interface is deprecated.
 2006-03-12 21:18:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b650f4770 New link to poll.2 2006-03-12 01:45:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af800319ee Added FIXME for SCHED_BATCH 2006-03-12 01:39:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e1dda04bf6 Added FIXME for new MADV_* constants in 2.6.16-rc6 2006-03-12 01:36:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7bbd888bbb Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM. 2006-03-11 23:33:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ea4adf4ba9 Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen 
should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
Various formatting fixes.
 2006-03-12 19:09:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d02aa9bc8c Fixes for pselect() description. 2006-03-12 03:09:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 19017a1626 ffix 2006-03-12 03:09:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26a9dd2f79 Fix SYNOPSIS formatting 2006-03-08 02:48:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 77f00d75f1 Noted pselect() treatment of timeout. 2006-03-07 22:38:11 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc9befa9ac Updated to reflect the fact that pselect() has been implemented 
in the kernel in 2.6.16; various other minor wording changes.
 2006-03-07 02:25:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9d7f3355ef Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3. 2006-03-07 02:20:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fdcdf23b2 ffix 2006-03-06 04:40:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 51fa356ef2 openat(2) is new in 2.6.16. 2006-03-06 04:36:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28c54d4593 Added SEE ALSO pointing to new openat.2. 
Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate NOTES section.
 2006-03-06 04:36:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9b305d61e Added SEE ALSO reference to mq_overview.7. 2006-03-05 20:58:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0f75fe20df Updated FIXME 2006-03-05 20:41:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 51f930362d Updated FIXME 2006-03-05 20:39:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b0c93735cd Removed outdated FIXME 2006-03-05 20:34:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 212dd19f6e Updated FIXMEs 2006-03-05 20:29:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d63e9a260b Added SEE ALSO for new unshare.2 2006-03-05 20:27:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ac5d787d2a Changed FIXME formatting 2006-03-05 20:19:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a19b251fd5 Minor wording changes 2006-03-05 20:19:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4558058c03 new page describing unshare(2). 2006-03-05 19:11:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e91fec0909 Removed FIXME for IN_ONESHOT, since the bug is now confirmed 
fixed in 2.6.16-rc5
 2006-03-04 03:05:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60e94b7cef Added FIXME 2006-03-02 05:04:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 248eff92eb Added FIXME 2006-03-02 04:12:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2374c17872 Add a case to the EINVAL error text. 
Various minor wording fixes
 2006-03-02 00:51:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk efb2cf158b wfix 2006-03-01 04:09:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f0ea6d8b7 Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3. 2006-03-01 03:34:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f5441d2af5 Added "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600" to prototype. 2006-03-01 03:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82a060204c minor punctuation clarification 2006-02-16 04:55:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29546c248f Comented out crufty text describing EINVAL error 
for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
Under CLONE_SIGHAND, noted that 'flags' must also include
CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
 2006-02-16 04:00:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2ccb99ea53 Remove duplicate CLONE_STOPPED text. 2006-02-16 03:17:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk efa25b17c6 Modify formatting of copyright notices 2006-02-15 23:19:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1130df606b Amend copyright notices, in particular those where I had significant 
authorship.
 2006-02-15 23:15:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2486cacf6d ffix 2006-02-14 18:16:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3adb464791 tfix 2006-02-13 22:46:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2d7195b8fb Change "path name" to "pathname" 2006-02-12 22:19:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2c5f10893e Change "file name" to "filename" 2006-02-12 22:15:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 069c98bab0 Minor wording fix. 2006-02-12 01:54:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 435827ff1d tfix 2006-02-11 20:54:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 360c175e1a Documented the EAGAIN error for msgrcv(). 2006-02-11 20:53:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0483625f84 ffix 2006-02-11 20:16:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8548d8e240 Under ERRORS: Separate out EAGAIN error for locking mmaped files. 2006-02-10 20:29:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c533af9d27 Reformatted FIXMEs 2006-02-10 18:46:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dcec8eb551 Formatting fixes 2006-02-09 20:29:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ff08aad91 Formatting fixes 2006-02-09 20:24:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c4d4162c93 Modified versions of old GPL pages on kernel modules API. 2006-02-09 19:32:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0b3189d89a minor wording change 2006-02-08 19:36:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad31978e25 Minor changes after suggestions from Robert Love. 2006-02-08 19:16:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 92057f4dbc Updated FIXMEs 2006-02-08 09:44:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64c7bb8a52 Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2). 2006-02-08 04:18:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6188db2db4 Add SEE ALSO for pread(2). 
As per Debian bug 351873.
 2006-02-08 04:18:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4d2b74dded New pages for inotify API 2006-02-08 04:13:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 314093c9cd New pages on NUMA memory allocation policy API. 2006-02-08 03:20:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1363cf9511 Added xref under dnotify description to inotify.7. 2006-02-06 22:43:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 083ddbc2c7 Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. 
See the following LKML thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
"Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
 2006-02-03 20:56:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cbea10b39a Small wording change under NOTES to clarify 
what happends when a process sends a signal to itself.
See Debian bug 350236.
 2006-02-03 03:46:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a5a997ca09 On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall, 
but directly through "int $0x80".
 2006-02-03 03:32:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48be114450 Major rewrite. 2006-02-02 19:46:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21045df8dd Other minor wording changes. 2006-02-02 18:18:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 071dbad970 Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(), 
FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
 2006-02-02 18:15:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e0e514c76 Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response 
to Debian bug report 350884.
Various other wording fixes.
 2006-02-02 10:47:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 68b93ce208 Small wording changes 2006-02-02 03:25:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bfe9ba6712 Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and 
"file status flags".
 2006-02-02 03:25:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 74f3f90ba5 Noted that portable applications should specify fd as -1 
when using MAP_ANONYMOUS.
Some rewriting of description of MAP_ANONYMOUS.
 2006-02-01 19:19:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c72dada18f tfix 2006-02-01 18:39:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 04d6ea6b8a Noted that waitid() does not set infop->si_uid field on 
most other implementations.
 2006-01-23 06:41:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6c1d7e0b5 New link to sigreturn.2 2006-01-17 21:45:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cd84309e6b new link to sigsuspend.2 2006-01-17 21:45:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 736e551b25 tfix 2006-01-16 19:40:20 +00:00