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Michael Kerrisk c1667735e0 tfix 2008-07-04 15:16:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c69c9232a Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid. 
SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
 2008-07-04 15:09:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 743bc3957a tweaks 2008-07-04 14:36:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 48b9ec3fe1 Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal 
plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
signal handler has been established, and note the system
calls that behave this way.
 2008-07-04 13:15:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk af3c87d084 Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting 
which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
system calls are never restarted.
 2008-07-04 13:13:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a665dfb6e wfix 2008-07-03 20:29:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 506bee474a tstamp 2008-07-03 20:14:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0de5014fe0 Document cpuset mechanism for confining processes to processors and nodes. 2008-07-03 19:57:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c85aa6ba5 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). 2008-07-02 13:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4564433c99 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard 
signals is unspecified.
 2008-07-02 12:54:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 095e060410 Overview of POSIX shared memory API. 2008-07-02 05:03:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 27e8d1a56d ffix 2008-07-01 16:32:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0425de01c7 s/ / / 2008-07-01 14:15:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18701562c1 s/user name/username/ 2008-06-30 14:36:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6387216bb2 Wrap lines at sentence breaks. 2008-06-28 04:57:20 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddaec46d7f s/host name/hostname/ 2008-06-27 03:37:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6e731d1f4 ffix 2008-06-26 13:38:01 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5b8dbfd4d0 ffixes 2008-06-26 13:23:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2f6b8245d1 ffix 2008-06-26 13:19:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 027ebd3c4b Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions. 2008-06-26 13:15:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9085070854 ffix 2008-06-26 12:56:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 73858a07dd Wfix 2008-06-24 14:05:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9bb26f2df6 Note that HRTs are not supported on all h/w. 2008-06-23 11:21:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 46f14bc7b0 Added some details about where jiffies come into play. 
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various points in the page.
 2008-06-23 09:19:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61792fc66b ffix 2008-09-18 12:30:41 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8cacdebdab tstamp 2008-06-18 09:37:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7eb11a9fe7 formatting and wording improvements 2008-06-18 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fadbfb588 For consistency, "fix" cases where aregument of .B or .I was on the following source line. 2008-06-18 08:57:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f4b5a0b0c8 Updated text referring to syscalls(2). 2008-06-16 10:08:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1d5601bee Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-06-12 11:52:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 905c9e1c05 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:47:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6b84b38312 tstamp 2008-06-12 11:46:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 305865606d Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores since 2.6.19. 2008-06-11 22:32:40 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8f36e23f07 Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX message queues. 2008-06-11 22:31:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad22ad5568 ffix 2008-06-11 22:19:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 94b40171e1 Provide a clear description of the three types of address that can 
appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed, and abstract.
 2008-06-11 22:11:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a9cfde1dbc SEE ALSO: add symlink.7 2008-06-11 21:50:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b061b28a6 Minor tweaks 2008-06-11 21:50:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eae3689b44 A description of symbolic links, taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and heavily edited. 2008-06-11 21:25:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 06b00cff20 A description of hostnames, taken from FreeBSD. 2008-06-11 21:24:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 294544e7b2 Expand description of VERSIONS section. 2008-06-11 13:41:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9708eb3749 Quote fixes 2008-06-10 12:29:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8bb93cd4bb Control character names (^X) are writte boldface, without quotes. 2008-06-10 08:44:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c45660d7d7 wrap long source lines 2008-06-09 21:12:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8062a09161 Add FIXME 2008-06-09 21:07:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 333a424b0e Try and bring some consistency to quotes. 2008-06-09 21:03:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f81fb4445b s/\\'/\\(aq/ 2008-06-09 15:49:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 84c517a450 Change use of quote characters to get better UTF-8 rendering. 2008-06-05 20:14:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b8b45978b0 /'/\\'/ to produce better UTF rendering 2008-06-05 19:01:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9377e6281a ffix 2008-06-05 18:53:46 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8a07a2154 s/'/\\'/ to improve rendering in UTF-8. 2008-06-05 17:52:37 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 26868e5b26 s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for 
proper rendering in UTF-8.
 2008-06-05 12:26:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 379402b0b5 Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 65132f861c Update timestamp 2008-06-03 09:44:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f8850a3888 Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001. 2008-06-03 09:05:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b15f36380d sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of 
supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
 2008-06-02 21:18:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 82f2286be4 tweak quotes 2008-05-30 13:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 185ec3e44a Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostophe (') in tablees 2008-05-30 13:14:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 23b98a4c61 Update timestamp 2008-05-29 08:02:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 740944a8e7 ffix 2008-05-26 16:33:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 882bbb69e4 For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming 
may be required".
 2008-05-21 14:33:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c850029715 wfix 2008-05-20 21:24:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 500beae6f3 Update FIXME 2008-05-14 06:15:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0d07ad302a Add list of thread-safe functions. 2008-05-12 22:20:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk da5461a83e Added FIXME 2008-05-12 21:19:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3a5c365a01 Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail. 2008-05-09 13:24:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c841cb6b87 Update timestamp 2008-05-08 13:53:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31daf529b7 Reformat kernel version information for flags. 2008-05-07 13:43:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 64d6219cf0 s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux s.y.z/ 2008-05-07 13:33:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6923f52c33 NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and 
GIDs.  But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread.  NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
 2008-04-29 21:53:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk df18528cf0 Added FIXME 2008-04-24 09:36:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4372daaa5e tfix 2008-04-22 13:04:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 407252794e Batch wfix/ffix 2008-04-18 15:52:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 59aa15de7d s/unicode.com/unicode.org/ 2008-04-18 15:46:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ccea2d571b tfix 2008-04-17 19:37:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 81b36e1d0b tfix 2008-04-09 15:30:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0000daa58e Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors. 
Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
file descriptor as readable.
 2008-03-25 10:10:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a7e7c7fcfe wfix 2008-03-25 06:29:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca22189dfe Note location of online info for POSIX.1-2008 revision. 2008-03-19 14:22:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 21247ac688 Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision. 2008-03-19 14:19:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f36deb49c s/realtime/real-time/ 2008-03-19 13:23:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk eba722884d s/nonzero/non-zero/ 2008-03-19 13:16:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1f04cc9731 s/nonempty/non-empty/ 2008-03-19 13:11:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 972a8ec74e grfix 2008-03-19 11:52:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 415d4dd0eb grfix 2008-03-19 11:46:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7b01461a26 s/zeroes/zeros/ 2008-03-19 09:04:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fcbe9025d0 grfix 2008-03-19 08:53:45 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf50118f48 Use "run time" when non-attributive, "run-time" when attributive. 2008-03-19 08:46:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 29aceda46e grfix 2008-03-19 08:43:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 76c44d83f3 s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively. 2008-03-19 08:37:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d01c530c s/filesystem/file system/ 2008-03-19 07:26:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 10d76543fe Modify the license on these pages to be the standard verbatim license. 2008-03-18 14:47:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b69987f6de s/time stamp/timestamp/ 2008-03-18 09:52:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 85c087efeb added FIXME 2008-03-10 14:28:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e935e108ac Replace (il)legal by "permitted" or "valid" 2008-03-10 10:04:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 31981fa15b Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2008-03-03 13:24:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 845d36d6e8 Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO. 2008-03-03 10:24:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 54d02f32e9 Further reworking of Q5/A5. 2008-02-29 16:28:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d377b54d0a Further work on Q6/A6, plus added some .\" comments for Q1/A1. 2008-02-29 16:08:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 146c1764f0 tfix 2008-02-28 16:10:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3bc917f6ca ffixes 2008-02-28 16:04:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cb1de8d77d Futher refinement of Q9/A9. 2008-02-28 15:54:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 160c5be13e spfix 2008-02-28 14:40:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cc65f7d823 Chgange A3, to note that when events are available, 
the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
 2008-02-28 14:25:56 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f11af7daa2 Refine Q9/A9. 2008-02-28 13:49:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7fb5cf0fb6 Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll 
set is [file descriptor, open file description]
 2008-02-28 13:24:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk cf3eb59854 wfix 2008-02-28 12:10:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 28afd4f49a ffix 2008-02-26 14:20:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 93f17eadb1 Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files. 2008-02-26 14:19:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 958fe8069b Remove COLOPHON text, which was added to the source by mistake. 2008-02-26 13:32:12 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7025a2fe92 tfix 2008-02-26 13:29:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b22933411 Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same 
file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.
 2008-02-26 13:29:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f2e101d0ca minor rewordings. 2008-02-26 12:44:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7647b3a10b wfix 2008-02-26 12:35:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4fecd70377 Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set. 2008-02-26 12:34:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a4a120c768 Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file 
descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain open.
 2008-02-26 12:33:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2229c7ae74 Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7). 2008-02-22 16:45:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ddcc46729e Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7). 2008-02-22 16:45:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fc3b7dbede Added FIXME 2008-02-22 06:59:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c33a62d8c1 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2. 2008-02-12 14:40:53 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 058c11652c Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page. 2008-02-11 11:41:18 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 25715c9631 tfix 2008-01-30 09:43:13 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2dec881bfe Added FIXME 2008-01-14 13:37:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 88ac3d6568 remove junk line 2008-01-14 07:51:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3f174f7d71 ffix 2008-01-13 09:29:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dda869a41d ffix 2008-01-13 09:15:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a45ebabfc5 Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros. 2008-01-11 13:59:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 98518ca0a3 ffix 2008-01-08 13:48:33 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ffe649e940 minor changes. 2008-01-08 13:22:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a6c99d332c s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/ 2008-01-04 05:40:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a46458f9db s/SPE/SPU/ 2008-01-03 07:06:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e736150261 ffix and update timestamp 2008-01-02 07:14:42 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ca92ce95a3 Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros. 2008-01-01 14:13:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dfc3d47ac7 Fix description of RTM_F_EQUALIZE. 
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458325.
 2008-01-01 08:04:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ab9616d3e7 tfix 2008-01-01 07:52:59 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cbdb2b376 Remove unneeded formatting macros 2007-12-30 06:01:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7466c69bcc ffix 2007-12-30 05:59:36 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 763f0e477c Fix usage of a/an before following vowel/consonant. 2007-12-29 17:42:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d7ee36076 update timestamp 2007-12-29 09:15:39 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f36234fa1e Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>). 2007-12-29 09:13:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a1ffe9f5a2 s/current process/calling process/ 2007-12-27 16:06:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24d6938351 Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC. 2007-12-26 11:31:06 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk a43eed0cdc Hyphenation fixes 2007-12-26 11:17:23 +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 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 47752f332c s/fildes/fd/ 2007-12-24 22:04:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 34ccb744ec s/x86/i386/ 2007-12-24 17:31:35 +00:00