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Michael Kerrisk d7c081a94f Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these 
functions may be into some part of 'path'.
 2007-03-25 13:15:27 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f6a4055f3a Various improvements to DESCRIPTION. 2007-03-25 12:59:30 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 814521a7d8 Removed out-of-date FIXME 2007-03-25 12:39:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e6bcc1287b Ad a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific double-colon 
feature, which allows options to have optional arguments.
 2007-03-18 06:41:29 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ae39cf8f79 Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION. 2007-03-18 06:20:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 33e820cb39 Improve ENOENT description. 2007-03-18 06:00:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5bb80360ee ffix 2007-03-18 05:30:51 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b857d3daac Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure. 2007-03-11 07:08:35 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0579929938 tripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section. 2007-03-06 06:37:48 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87f434dfce If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed 
in array order.  All Unix systems that I know of do this,
and some Linux applications depend on this behaviour.  SUSv3
made no explicit statement here, but SUSv3 will explicitly
require this behaviour.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
 2007-03-04 17:29:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 24825f2786 2.6.21 fixed several bugs in mincore() (according to Nick Piggin). 
Small fix to ENONEM description.
 2007-03-04 02:35:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2b50ade454 Small comment fix. 2007-03-02 07:16:05 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f1b981147e Find duplicate consecutive words in files 2007-03-01 16:24:55 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d44417fb63 Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS 2007-03-01 02:31:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk b438981878 Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177. 
* s/effective/real/ in description test.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
 2007-03-01 02:25:14 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c5405c0894 Fix EINVAL description 2007-03-01 01:43:47 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 00877d8f0f tfix 2007-03-01 01:27:34 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7669b5a605 Remove duplicated word. 2007-03-01 01:22:38 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 1954b6a9b4 Remove duplicate word typo. 2007-03-01 01:12:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 11dcec1d2a Small wording clarification. 2007-03-01 00:48:07 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dc0b1e23b6 Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag. 2007-02-26 14:30:21 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 926b6e378b Document MS_RELATIME, new in kernel 2.6.20. 2007-02-10 17:37:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 5a7f195c23 Removed BSD prototype from synopsis. 
Various rewordings.
 2007-02-02 06:26:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk e2ba4f8ea7 tfix 2007-02-02 06:13:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 117086832e Added FTM to prototype 2007-02-02 06:07:43 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 60bb61aaee Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7 2007-02-02 05:47:09 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c7c740cb83 Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ. 2007-02-02 05:41:32 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk f42373f64e Removed BSD prototype from synopsis. 
Various rewordings.
 2007-02-02 05:38:10 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk dac02dc671 Reword sentence for _REENTRANT 2007-02-01 06:11:02 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0a90178cbb Add feature_test_macros(7) to SEE ALSO 2007-01-28 20:00:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d3bbf18d91 Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE, _REENTRANT, and _THREAD_SAFE. 2007-01-28 19:30:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk d6a7a7820e Added some text warning that the "__" macros the <features.h> 
defines internally should never be directly defined by programs.
 2007-01-28 17:44:00 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0cce6cb992 The cpusetsize argument was only absent in glibc 2.3.3. 2007-01-12 18:07:50 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 0393ebd024 Update date in .TH line 2007-01-08 04:46:26 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ae1d7b91e Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per Debian bug 400975. 2007-01-08 04:45:22 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 182d662267 Substantial rewrites to make clearer. 2007-01-07 21:26:24 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 9f5773f75b On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a 
32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
 2007-01-06 23:31:16 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4ca6357577 tfix 2007-01-04 18:54:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 18d31cc0be Removed CONFIGURATION section, which doesn't applly on Linux. 2007-01-03 22:59:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 19ab037640 Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode. 
Clarify text for PARODD.
 2006-12-28 09:16:52 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 87d1fd8703 Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small 
amount of reordering.
 2006-12-28 05:17:28 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4a837837ba minor changes 2006-12-28 05:04:17 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk ad715af952 Update CMSPAR description. 2006-12-28 04:36:23 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk adab6032d7 Document CMSPAR 2006-12-28 04:33:54 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 2949f48301 Drief discussion of System V termio, with pointers to pages the 
reader probably wants.
 2006-12-28 04:22:44 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 6395a22348 tfix 2006-12-27 05:35:25 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7dc708646c Small rewording to mention calloc(). 2006-12-27 05:28:31 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk c1cf42a5cd Complete rewrite. The existing page was hard to read, 
and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
 2006-12-27 05:20:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 7e91e5d883 Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to "open(2) and NFS". 2006-12-27 04:59:04 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 61554ce239 s/Linux Programmer's Manual/Linux User's Manual/ 2006-12-27 04:40:51 +00:00