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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