Marko Myllynen
6ad542bfd6
locale.1: Add "locale -c charmap" as an example
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Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104511 .
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-02-01 15:27:26 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
6c3453059b
select.2: Add details on the glibc fixed-size fd_set limitation
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No modern application should use select() on Linux.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-02-01 15:21:54 +01:00
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
6b6e918550
select.2: Mention the 'fd_set' size limitation early and refer to poll(2)
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Change this because of the serious limitation of select()
imposing a limit on the range of file descriptors that can
be monitored. This is currently mentioned too late in the
documentation (in the NOTES section). The man page should
warn early and refer to poll(2) as soon as possible.
Signed-off-by: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-02-01 15:21:54 +01:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
148c6e74c0
aio.7: Improve example
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When aio_sigevent.sigev_notify is set to SIGEV_SIGNAL, signal
handlers called for asynchronous I/O operations will have
si->si_code set to SI_ASYNCIO. Check to make sure that
si->si_value.sival_ptr is defined.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-02-01 15:21:41 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
555c23c278
personality.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-31 16:34:02 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
2d41eca319
personality.2: Greatly expand, to add descriptions of personality domains.
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2016-01-30 17:31:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
6d8e9b7e76
readv.2: wrcfix
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2016-01-28 21:48:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
833dec2bd1
elf.5: ffix
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2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e2e52667d0
elf.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
34fe0d694e
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
aec0c1d559
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
661c038ccf
elf.5: Parameterize top-level indent
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
c3a4517149
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
b57b5c8885
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
1e90e9f8e5
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
0b5e05e935
elf.5: ffix
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2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
252dec8977
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
c9925fbd04
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
bdd7d0d87b
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
28c7227aab
elf.5: ffix: remove "." on short list entries
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
9c08fc7d47
elf.5: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
cf79eeed0e
elf.5: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
9f5d962b9a
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
a38ab67832
elf.5: Reword discussion of range values a little
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Reported-by: Chris Pick <kernel@chrispick.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
34d4e61def
accept.2, perf_event_open.2, unlink.2, lirc.4, proc.5, inotify.7: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:01 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
fc543c7623
elf.5: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:01 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
072c57a87d
elf.5: grfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:01 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
10cbe8453b
elf.5: ffix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:44:01 +01:00
Chris Pick
1d8595fd1e
elf.5: Remove erroneous, duplicate SHN_* section
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The ELF header section's e_shstrndx contained a duplicate
description of the SHN_* special section header indices.
Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-28 10:43:49 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
0ea48b19d5
core.5: ffix
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2016-01-27 17:18:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
2bea5d44a5
copy_file_range.2: Add notes on copy_on_write() filesystem optimizations
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Based on Anna Schumaker's noted in the initial commit for
this man page.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-27 09:10:32 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
a5918afa92
syscalls.2: Add copy_file_range(2)
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2016-01-27 09:00:36 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
9876bc24d0
sendfile.2: SEE ALSO: add copy_file_range(2)
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2016-01-26 10:51:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
d1de085084
copy_file_range.2: EXAMPLE: remove unused variable from example program
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2016-01-26 10:42:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
b4fe696c8a
copy_file_range.2: NOTES: expand details on the use of lseek()
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Mention SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE explicitly.
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2016-01-26 10:42:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
4cfafd7910
copy_file_range.2: ERRORS: clarify EXDEV description
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:42:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
f0558db88d
copy_file_range.2: ERRORS: clarify EINVAL O_APPEND description
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:42:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
ee43ffde93
copy_file_range.2: Minor fixes to Anna's new page
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:42:19 +01:00
Anna Schumaker
903b48079c
copy_file_range.2: New page documenting copy_file_range()
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copy_file_range() is a new system call for copying ranges of data
completely in the kernel. This gives filesystems an opportunity to
implement some kind of "copy acceleration", such as reflinks or
server-side-copy (in the case of NFS).
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:15:24 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
c72249c562
fork.2, read.2, sendfile.2, splice.2, write.2, aio_read.3, aio_write.3, proc.5: Wording fix: "current file offset" ==> "file offset"
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"File offset" is the preferred POSIX terminology.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:13:47 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
f180e30bc2
lseek.2: wfix ("open file description")
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:08:39 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
e2b89c5c8c
lseek.2: wfix
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:06:41 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
930fa2cd5a
llseek.2: wfix
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2016-01-26 10:05:32 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
14a9ad4952
llseek.2, lseek.2, readahead.2: Wording fix: use "open file description" rather than "open file"
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:02:21 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk
162ce82786
llseek.2: SEE ALSO: add open(2)
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Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-26 10:02:21 +01:00
Jakub Wilk
1a6de32849
perfmonctl.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-25 14:33:57 +01:00
Jakub Wilk
99bf434550
mcheck.3: tfix
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Remove duplicated word.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-25 14:33:30 +01:00
Jakub Wilk
2beeae4065
Changes.old: tfix
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Remove duplicated words.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-25 14:32:58 +01:00
Joe Stein
f0e9ccbc88
keyctl.2: tfix
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Signed-off-by: Joe Stein <joeaarons@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-25 14:32:09 +01:00
Dmitry V. Levin
b8a38e27a9
vcs.4: tfix
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Fixes: 42c3e94740
("Convert inline formatting (\fX...\fP) to dot-directive formatting")
Reported-by: Pakin Yury <zxwarior@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2016-01-25 14:27:31 +01:00