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Alexander Miller 741abfa1b7 man-pages.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Alexander Miller <alex.miller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-24 14:26:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 1848bcfbce pty.7: Mention a couple of other applications of pseudoterminals
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-22 21:10:41 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 69b2432159 credentials.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-21 08:13:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 06b8a13be7 unix.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-18 20:42:58 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c05935a2c3 xattr.7: SEE ALSO: add ioctl_iflags(2)
People sometimes confuse xattrs and inode flags. Provide a link
to the page that describes inode flags to give them a tip.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-17 19:26:49 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 745329676b xattr.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-17 16:26:54 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 302b4b875b epoll.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-17 06:54:32 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk afa27faacf Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2017-03-13 21:17:48 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 31a1b45ece add_key.2, execve.2, fork.2, fsync.2, getrandom.2, getrlimit.2, getxattr.2, inotify_add_watch.2, ioctl.2, ioctl_fat.2, kcmp.2, keyctl.2, link.2, listxattr.2, lseek.2, madvise.2, mincore.2, mlock.2, nanosleep.2, poll.2, posix_fadvise.2, read.2, readv.2, recv.2, request_key.2, select.2, send.2, setxattr.2, sigaction.2, stat.2, statfs.2, syscall.2, tkill.2, truncate.2, unlink.2, vfork.2, write.2, __ppc_set_ppr_med.3, aio_suspend.3, backtrace.3, bcmp.3, bcopy.3, bzero.3, exec.3, fopen.3, fts.3, ftw.3, getline.3, getmntent.3, getopt.3, memccpy.3, memchr.3, memcmp.3, memcpy.3, memfrob.3, memmem.3, memmove.3, memset.3, random.3, random_r.3, resolver.3, scandir.3, scanf.3, sem_post.3, sem_wait.3, setjmp.3, sleep.3, strerror.3, strverscmp.3, system.3, random.4, core.5, intro.5, resolv.conf.5, slabinfo.5, environ.7, ip.7, keyrings.7, man.7, persistent-keyring.7, pipe.7, process-keyring.7, random.7, session-keyring.7, signal-safety.7, signal.7, thread-keyring.7, unix.7, user-keyring.7, user-session-keyring.7, ld.so.8: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-13 21:14:49 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 261a725edf keyrings.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-12 12:45:43 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7d26aff88e signal.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-12 11:58:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 70a95af3a6 signal.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-12 11:58:03 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk de340b15cf namespaces.7: SEE ALSO: add ip-netns(8)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-02 14:40:30 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b480342040 ip.7: SEE ALSO: add ip(8)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-03-02 14:39:37 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 4dbcdd1532 environ.7: Mention prctl(2) PR_SET_MM_ENV_START and PR_SET_MM_ENV_END operations
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-20 22:01:15 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c58a465366 environ.7: tfix/ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-19 22:50:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 09a7d9a39b environ.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-19 22:50:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 3d8988755f pipe.7: Since Linux 4.9, pipe-max-size is ceiling for the default pipe capacity
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-10 08:58:18 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk de694c9840 pipe.7: Clarify that default pipe capacity is 16 pages
The statement that the default pipe capacity is 65536 bytes
is accurate only on systems where the page size is 4096B.
See the use of PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS in the kernel source.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-10 08:58:18 +01:00
Jakub Wilk 6ade226b38 man.7, uri.7: Use "www.kernel.org" in example URLs
Apparently www.kernelnotes.org is now a spam site.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-05 00:03:08 +13:00
Jakub Wilk 0a9755c6f7 netlink.7: Update libnl homepage URL
The original URL is 404.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-02-05 00:00:48 +13:00
Jakub Wilk 5465ae9568 futex.2, open_by_handle_at.2, seccomp.2, socket.2, console_codes.4, protocols.5, aio.7, capabilities.7, libc.7, netlink.7, raw.7, standards.7, unicode.7, uri.7, vdso.7: tfix
Escape hyphens in URLs.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-30 08:33:49 +13:00
Jakub Wilk ff391afb77 man-pages.7: tfix
Escape hyphens when explaining how to escape hyphens.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-30 08:33:24 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e9219f775 capabilities.7: Further enhance the recommendation against new uses of CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-26 09:10:30 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk fa50d3d48b capabilities.7: Explicitly point from CAP_SYS_ADMIN to "Notes for kernel developers"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-26 09:10:24 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk ddb624a9e5 capabilities.7: Improvements after feedback from Casey Schaufler
Reported-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 17:04:44 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 8de5616fd7 capabilities.7: Add subsection with notes to kernel developers
Provide some notes to kernel developers considering how to choose
which capability should govern a new kernel feature.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 17:04:07 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk f13970357e random.7: Mention getentropy(3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:14:06 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 933ab9c7f6 random.7: SEE ALSO: add getentropy(3)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:14:06 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 3dcc463a03 mount_namespaces.7: Rework the discussion of defaults for mount propagation types
Add rather more detail. In particular, note the cases where the
default propagation type is MS_PRIVATE vs MS_SHARED.

Reported-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:23 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 1dc9bca64f capabilities.7: Adjust references to chattr(1) to point to ioctl_iflags(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:23 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 156d8c8480 capabilities.7: srcfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:23 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk e39561aac8 netlink.7: Add NETLINK_RDMA to list
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:22 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 4338604d01 netlink.7: Add NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT to list
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:22 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 1fcf200311 netlink.7: NETLINK_IP6_FW went away in Linux 3.5
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:22 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk d7fd538cd0 netlink.7: NETLINK_NFLOG was removed in Linux 3.17
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:22 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 326ccb6cf6 netlink.7: NETLINK_W1 went away in Linux 2.6.18
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:22 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk fddeaabaa0 netlink.7: NETLINK_FIREWALL was removed in Linux 3.5
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-25 00:01:22 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk c9a39feadc unix.7: Since Linux 3.4, UNIX domain sockets support MSG_TRUNC
This was correctly noted in recv(2), but the unix(7) page
was not correspondingly updated for the Linux 3.4 change.

Reported-by: Sergey Polovko <sergey@polovko.me>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-16 09:57:12 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk 09860f3162 pid_namespaces.7, user_namespaces.7: Adjust references to namespaces(7) to ioctl_ns(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-09 15:48:57 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk e0ab72cb98 namespaces.7: Remove content split out into ioctl_ns(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-09 15:48:57 +13:00
Jakub Wilk 4529d4e536 unix.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-04 15:27:41 +13:00
Jakub Wilk b41d621b95 mdoc.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-04 15:25:51 +13:00
Jakub Wilk 82d46d9993 keyrings.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-04 15:25:42 +13:00
Michael Kerrisk bd741e0f3e signal.7: SIGXFSZ: add reference to setrlimit(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-02 20:09:11 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk eb8e63a9d0 signal.7: SIGXCPU: add reference to setrlimit(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-02 20:09:11 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 0288ee4c59 signal.7: SIGSYS: add reference to seccomp(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-02 20:09:11 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 9af4022a02 signal.7: SIGPIPE: add reference to pipe(7)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-02 20:09:11 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk daf5983b11 signal.7: Add a name for SIGEMT
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-02 20:09:11 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk fc635dd8ae pkeys.7, signal.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2017-01-02 20:09:11 +01:00