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Michael Kerrisk fbc6aee251 msgop.2: Document two MSG_COPY failure modes
Since Linux 3.14, the kernel now diagnoses two errors
when using msgrcv() MSG_COPY:
* MSG_COPY must be specified with IPC_NOWAIT
* MSG_COPY can't be specified with MSG_EXCEPT

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 10:32:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 5904142b57 msgop.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 10:13:37 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7153dabd0e proc.5: Document /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 09:02:51 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 71af773f9c mount.2: SEE ALSO: add blkid(1)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 08:46:40 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk deed406ee1 feature_test_macros.7: tfix
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 08:46:40 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6cf19e6234 open.2: Document O_DSYNC and rewrite discussion of O_SYNC
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 08:46:40 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 5dc8986d0d open.2: Organize some material under additional subheadings in NOTES
There's an amorphous mass of material under NOTES.  Structure
it with some subheadings, and do a little reorganizing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 08:46:40 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 3b7aa6b116 cacosh.3: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-17 08:46:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7e2cb38315 fcntl.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 11:36:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 71e7d7f1a3 select.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 11:36:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 216b9e6182 poll.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 11:36:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f001135d9 perfmonctl.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 11:36:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 0bca57f378 shmget.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 11:36:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b3a695fcd8 readahead.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 11:36:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 644ee9c73b man-pages.7: Add preferred term "superblock"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 05:35:25 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 68d86eac00 proc.5: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-16 05:33:25 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 0226bea188 readahead.2: tfix
Reported-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-15 17:24:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c41881de19 readahead.2: Place note about blocking behavior of readahead() under BUGS
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-15 13:30:17 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a7c9c0a7f readahead.2: Tweaks to Phillip Susi;s patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-15 10:04:57 +01:00
Phillip Susi afc9c3a076 readahead.2: Don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read
The readahead(2) man page was claiming that the call blocks until
all data has been read into the cache.  This is incorrect.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54271

Corrado Zoccolo noted:
        it simply calls force_page_cache_readahead (the same called
        by fadvise/madvise), that just post a prefetch, and it may
        block only when the I/O queue is full.

Reported-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Gregory P. Smith <gps@google.com>
Reported-by: Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-15 09:38:10 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b9ed1fbb8b core.5: Rearrange core_pattern specifiers alphabetically
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-14 15:10:57 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk fd9c713ba3 core.5: Tweaks to Mike Frysinger's %d patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-14 15:06:55 +01:00
Mike Frysinger 23ed840284 core.5: Document core_pattern %d specifier
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-14 14:49:13 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 3e11881012 core.5: Tweaks to Mike Frysinger's %P patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-14 14:47:09 +01:00
Mike Frysinger b6a92a9ac0 core.5: Document %P core_pattern specifier
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-14 14:36:16 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk da6aad026b feature_test_macros.7: Add packaging note for _BSD_SOURCE/_SVID_SOURCE/_DEFAULT_SOURCE
To compile warning-free across glibc < 2.20 and glibc >= 2.20
code may been to define both _DEFAULT_SOURCE and either
_BSD_SOURCE or _SVID_SOURCE.

Reported-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-14 10:37:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7280750886 feature_test_macros.7: Reword description of C90
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-13 09:21:32 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk cfba52fc5b feature_test_macros.7: Remove mention of bogus _ISOC95_SOURCE macro
The _ISOC95_SOURCE macro is defined in <features.h>, but it
does nothing. So remove discussion of it, and move some of
the discussion of C95 under the ISOC99_SOURCE subhead.

Reported-by: Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-13 09:15:34 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c7c46d4f7d Changes.old: Fixes to 3.62 changelog
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-12 08:51:10 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 5229d5de88 Start of man-pages-3.63: updating Changes and Changes.old 2014-03-11 22:40:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2ee0f61d09 Start of man-pages-3.63: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2014-03-11 22:40:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f1774d5e3 Start of man-pages-3.63: renaming .Announce and .lsm files 2014-03-11 22:40:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ae71d89790 Ready for 3.62 2014-03-11 22:33:26 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e9f22b0ac0 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2014-03-11 22:33:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ab0a73af9 gethostbyname.3: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 22:33:01 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c4630e5578 Changes: Ready for 3.62
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 22:32:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 9ac2ee45bb qecvt.3: Recommend snprintf(3) not sprintf(3)
Reported-by: Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 22:32:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ed725bac60 feature_test_macros.7: Note version number for _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L implies C99/C95
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L causes C95 definitions to be
exposed only since glibc 2.12 and C99 definitions only
since 2.10.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 22:32:14 +01:00
Simon Paillard 7af4d3183e mount.2: srcfix: remove non-ascii trailing space
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 22:32:05 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 4edd4149dd locale.1: Various minor fixes after review by Mike Frysinger
Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 12:36:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 73155a2975 locale.1: New page describing locale(1)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 12:36:47 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk bd297db00b clone.2: srcfix: Remove FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 11:41:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk cba9638bfb unshare.2: srcfix: remove FIXME
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 11:41:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 64eb1484fb feature_test_macros.7: _ISOC99_SOURCE also exposes C95 definitions
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 11:41:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 08d695652c feature_test_macros.7: _GNU_SOURCE implicitly defines other macros
Saying that _GNU_SOURCE has the "effects of" other macros is not
quite precise.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 11:41:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b694081ac3 feature_test_macros.7: Minor clarification for _POSIX_C_SOURCE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 11:41:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk df553d91c2 feature_test_macros.7: Rework discussion of _ISOC99_SOURCE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 11:41:40 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b4608d288 feature_test_macros.7: Reword glibc version for _ISOC95_SOURCE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 08:42:18 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk d4e80b4d09 feature_test_macros.7: _XOPEN_SOURCE may implicitly defined _POSIX_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 08:32:17 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e8349edb50 feature_test_macros.7: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L implies C95 and C95 features
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-11 07:56:06 +01:00