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Michael Kerrisk f74bac5df4 spu_create.2, getopt.3, passwd.5: Global fix: s/non-existing/nonexistent/ 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 18:04:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 44732c9c88 sendfile.2, wctrans.3, wctype.3, pipe.7, zic.8: Global fix: s/Non-/Non/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 18:02:43 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk b28f6e5645 prctl.2, fmtmsg.3, gethostbyname.3, getnameinfo.3: Global fix: s/non-recoverable/nonrecoverable/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 18:01:12 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk fb0e9c4809 mincore.2, remap_file_pages.2, random.3: Global fix: s/non-linear/nonlinear/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:58:03 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ffa1b462e4 timer_settime.2: s/non-zero/nonzero/ 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:57:16 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 54d75d6c14 getgrent_r.3, gethostbyname.3, getmntent.3, getnetent_r.3, getprotoent_r.3, getpwent_r.3, getrpcent_r.3, getservent_r.3, getspnam.3: Global fix: s/non-reentrant/nonrentrant/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:55:51 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk a6712802e2 getitimer.2, termios.3: Gloabl fix: s/non-canonical/noncanonical/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:54:51 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 80c9146c4f bootparam.7, spufs.7: s/non-numeric/nonnumeric/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:50:28 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk cfea513249 getitimer.2, getrusage.2, times.2, utimensat.2, pthread_create.3, pthreads.7, utf-8.7: Global fix: s/non-conform/nonconform/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:48:00 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 657316c092 msgop.2, semop.2, lgamma.3, tgamma.3, mdoc.samples.7: Global fix: s/non-positive/nonpositive/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:47:13 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk d603cc27b6 execve.2, fallocate.2, futex.2, sched_rr_get_interval.2, select_tut.2, shmget.2, timer_getoverrun.2, times.2, pthread_attr_init.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_self.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, sem_open.3, stdin.3, rtc.4, tty_ioctl.4, unix.7: Global fix: s/non-portable/nonportable/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:46:09 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2fda57bd09 _syscall.2, accept.2, epoll_create.2, inotify_add_watch.2, ioctl.2, msgget.2, msgop.2, open.2, prctl.2, sched_setscheduler.2, semctl.2, semget.2, swapon.2, addseverity.3, cacosh.3, csqrt.3, dirfd.3, drand48.3, fputws.3, mq_send.3, posix_openpt.3, puts.3, sched_getcpu.3, shm_open.3, sqrt.3, sysconf.3, tgamma.3, ulimit.3, credentials.7, svipc.7: Global fix: s/non-negative/nonnegative/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:44:48 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ff40dbb354 accept.2, connect.2, eventfd.2, flock.2, open.2, posix_fadvise.2, read.2, recv.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, send.2, signalfd.2, splice.2, timerfd_create.2, write.2, flockfile.3, mkfifo.3, mq_notify.3, mq_open.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, scanf.3, random.4, ddp.7, epoll.7, fifo.7, ip.7, pipe.7, socket.7, spufs.7: Global fix: s/non-blocking/nonblocking/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:43:10 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk aa79648125 mbind.2, rename.2, sched_setscheduler.2, set_mempolicy.2, syslog.2, argz_add.3, dlopen.3, scanf.3, strtod.3, strtok.3, tcgetpgrp.3, hd.4, cpuset.7, regex.7, ld.so.8: Global fix: s/non-empty/nonempty/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:41:47 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c7094399ad intro.1, time.1, adjtimex.2, capget.2, eventfd.2, fcntl.2, getrlimit.2, getsockopt.2, gettimeofday.2, intro.2, ioctl_list.2, ioperm.2, mlock.2, pivot_root.2, poll.2, prctl.2, ptrace.2, sched_setscheduler.2, select_tut.2, semget.2, sigaltstack.2, signalfd.2, sysctl.2, timer_settime.2, timerfd_create.2, wait.2, CPU_SET.3, argz_add.3, assert_perror.3, atexit.3, backtrace.3, bcmp.3, clearenv.3, ctime.3, dl_iterate_phdr.3, dlopen.3, ecvt.3, errno.3, error.3, ether_aton.3, exit.3, fenv.3, ferror.3, finite.3, flockfile.3, fnmatch.3, fpathconf.3, fpclassify.3, ftime.3, ftok.3, ftw.3, fwide.3, getaddrinfo.3, gethostbyname.3, getlogin.3, getnameinfo.3, getnetent.3, getopt.3, getprotoent.3, getrpcent.3, getservent.3, glob.3, hsearch.3, inet.3, isalpha.3, iswalnum.3, iswalpha.3, iswblank.3, iswcntrl.3, iswctype.3, iswdigit.3, iswgraph.3, iswlower.3, iswprint.3, iswpunct.3, iswspace.3, iswupper.3, iswxdigit.3, longjmp.3, lsearch.3, malloc.3, matherr.3, mblen.3, mbsinit.3, mbtowc.3, on_exit.3, printf.3, pthread_attr_init.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3, pthread_attr_setguardsize.3, pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3, pthread_attr_setschedparam.3, pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3, pthread_attr_setscope.3, pthread_attr_setstack.3, pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3, pthread_attr_setstacksize.3, pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push.3, pthread_equal.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_getcpuclockid.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_setconcurrency.3, pthread_setschedparam.3, pthread_setschedprio.3, ptsname.3, putenv.3, putgrent.3, raise.3, rcmd.3, regex.3, rexec.3, rpc.3, rpmatch.3, rtnetlink.3, scandir.3, sem_init.3, setaliasent.3, setbuf.3, setenv.3, setjmp.3, signbit.3, stdio_ext.3, strtod.3, strtol.3, strtoul.3, system.3, termios.3, timeradd.3, tzset.3, ualarm.3, wctomb.3, xdr.3, st.4, tty_ioctl.4, core.5, elf.5, proc.5, bootparam.7, capabilities.7, icmp.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, math_error.7, mdoc.samples.7, mq_overview.7, pthreads.7, raw.7, regex.7, socket.7, tcp.7, tzselect.8: Global fix: s/non-zero/nonzero/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:40:55 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c8f2dd479b accept.2, execve.2, futimesat.2, getresuid.2, getrlimit.2, madvise.2, mq_getsetattr.2, msgctl.2, nice.2, open.2, poll.2, setresuid.2, shmctl.2, sigaction.2, times.2, utimensat.2, __setfpucw.3, atoi.3, endian.3, err.3, euidaccess.3, fenv.3, fopencookie.3, fpurge.3, getgrouplist.3, getutmp.3, j0.3, lgamma.3, netlink.3, pthread_attr_init.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, pthread_yield.3, random_r.3, readdir.3, rtnetlink.3, scanf.3, setenv.3, significand.3, sigsetops.3, strerror.3, strstr.3, sysv_signal.3, termios.3, timegm.3, unlocked_stdio.3, y0.3, locale.5, bootparam.7, feature_test_macros.7, ip.7, locale.7, pthreads.7, rtld-audit.7, nscd.8: Global fix: s/non-standard/nonstandard/ 
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:40:20 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 509718c075 rtnetlink.3: Various fixes in example code 
Edward reported a problem in the example code, where a variable
seems to be misnamed. Upon inspection, there seem to be a few
such instances, and this patch is my best guess at how things
should look.

Reported-by: Edward Welbourne <eddy@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-16 17:27:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7111f89ff2 open.2: srcfix: Added FIXME 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-05 17:49:46 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk a417046130 madvise.2: srcfix: Added FIXME 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-05 17:20:52 +01:00
Colin Watson 9ec8f8605e execve.2: Fix description of treatment of caught signals 
Caught signals reset to their default on an execve() (not
to being ignored).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2010-01-05 15:07:22 +01:00
Fang Wenqi bc918a3acd proc.5: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-31 18:23:37 +01:00
Tobias Stoeckmann dfacdd0a3d dlopen.3: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-31 18:16:00 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7cc796ee52 faccessat.2, fchmodat.2, fchownat.2, fstatat.2, futimesat.2, linkat.2, mkdirat.2, mknodat.2, openat.2, readlinkat.2, renameat.2, symlinkat.2, unlinkat.2, utimensat.2, mkfifoat.3: Update feature test macro requirements 
Starting in glibc 2.10, defining _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700,
or _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809 exposes the declarations of
these functions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-13 22:54:45 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 8a8c6284f7 feature_test_macros.7: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE 
Since glibc 2.10, _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-13 17:49:38 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6a56bbb532 sched_getcpu.3: Place correct header file in SYNOPSIS 
Reported-by: Samy Al Bahra <sbahra@repnop.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-08 02:29:14 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk ac049785a2 nextafter.3: Fix notable error in DESCRIPTION. 
"less than y" should be "less than x".

Reported-by: Jann Poppinga <jann.poppinga@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 15:08:00 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 6deb7a03ce getline.3: Update to reflect that these functions were standardized in POSIX.1-2008 
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 14:58:09 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 51a492bdd0 daemon.3: Fix description of 'nochdir' argument. 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554819

Reported-by: Frdric Brire <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 14:39:32 +01:00
Mark Hills 513785e299 string.3: Add stpcpy() to this list of string functions 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 07:40:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e70f27ec76 path_resolution.7: Fix NAME line 
The poorly constructed part receding "\-" causes apropos
not to be able to find the subject.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558300

Reported-by: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 07:26:44 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 8d24c515fc pts.4: wfix in NAME section 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 07:12:52 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk fba89f025f console_ioctl.4: tfix in NAME section 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 07:12:24 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk e463809843 tty_ioctl.4: tfix in NAME line 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 07:11:32 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 2908c4cf0b path_resolution.7: Add readlink(2) to SEE ALSO 
Reported-by: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 07:01:02 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 7e6b1afb45 strptime.3: Initialize tm structure in example program 
Reported-by: Doug Manley <doug.manley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 06:49:17 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 183d08ce41 fopencookie.3: tfix 
Reported-by: Stuart Kemp <skemp@alertlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 06:11:59 +01:00
Mark Hills 2cd33eb56c strcpy.3: tfix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 06:03:25 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 13a7959b69 memchr.3: Add feature text macro requirements for memrchr() 
Reported-by: Markus Peuhkuri <puhuri@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-05 04:55:33 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk c162db87db pthread_join.3: wfix: s/pthread_create/pthread_join/ 
Reported-by: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-03 15:44:01 +01:00
Yuri Kozlov 1f79eca5ac getaddrinfo.3: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-03 15:36:19 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 42afc4076c getpwnam.3: tfix 
Reported-by: <sunjiangangok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-03 15:17:53 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk a10ab4c695 getnameinfo.3: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-03 13:57:42 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk f87ab54768 gethostbyname.3: Document feature test macro requirements for herror() and hstrerror() 
Since glibc 2.8, one of _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE,
or _GNU_SOURCE is required.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-03 13:54:24 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 0d4b699de2 getnameinfo.3: Document feature test macros requirements for NI_MAXHOST and NI_MAXSERV 
Since glibc 2.8, one of _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE, or _GNU_SOURCE
must be defined to obtain these definitions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-12-03 13:54:16 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 43ada5d427 madvise.2: scrfix: Added FIXME 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-11-27 08:17:35 +01:00
Michael Kerrisk 715e4bec08 setreuid.2: Add more detail on POSIX.1 specification for these syscalls 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 07:35:40 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk b033d60f29 seteuid.2: Note unstandardized behavior for effective ID 
PSOIX.1 doesn't require that the effective ID can be changed
to the same value it currently has (a no-op). The man page
should note this, since some other implementations
don't permit it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 07:06:46 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 70ccce1140 group.5: s/passwd/password/ 
The page inconsistently used "passwd" and "password"
to refer to the same field.

Reported-by: Jason Goldfine-Middleton <jasonwoodfine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:47:27 +02:00
Andries E. Brouwer 130b2e49b1 clone.2: ffix 
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:39:02 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7a8fe6a940 setgid.2: Fix EPERM error description 
s/effective group ID/real group ID/
This bug lived in man pages for 15 years before Jason
spotted it! I checked back in Linux 1.0, and the behavior
was as the fixed man page describes.

Reported-by: Jason Noakes <jjnoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 2009-10-17 06:36:12 +02:00