The main point I was driving at with this patch was to fix
"Microsoft Window's FAT filesystems" (i.e., FAT filesystems which
belong to Microsoft Windows, which is decidedly wrong).
FAT32 first shipped with MS-DOS 7.1, as part of Windows 95 OSR2,
but it's a (relatively) simple logical extension of the previous
FATx filesystems (16 and 12 as we know and love them today, I
don't think the PC ever saw 8), hence the "VFAT" driver name ‒
calling FAT-anything a Windows filesystem would be a flat-out lie,
calling it a Microsoft filesystem would be, uh, facetious.
NTFS (as part of Windows NT), on the other hand, is wholly
different WRT the scope and feature-set (it does borrow some
layouting from FAT, but reading NTFS as FAT doesn't get you very
far, or much).
The replacing bit is also questionable, especially in a.d. 2020:
while it is true that you cannot install NT on FAT (after a
certain point? my memory ain't what it used to be), and must
therefore replace your existing FAT partitions with NTFS during
upgrades; Windows NT 4.0, the last product to be NT-branded came
out in 1996, i.e. you could not install Windows on FAT (and,
therefore, upgrade it to NTFS, replacing it) during my entire
lifetime.
Indeed, in $(date +%Y) we live in a post-NTFS world ‒ putting NTFS
in the same class as FAT beyond "is a filesystem" is a joke.
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Relevant Linux commits:
* moved to staging in 1bb8155080c652c4853e6228f8f0d262b3049699
(describe: v4.15-rc1-129-g1bb8155080c6) in Nov 2017,
described as "broken" and "obsolete"
* purged in bd32895c750bcd2b511bf93917bf7ae723e3d0b6
(describe: v4.17-rc3-1010-gbd32895c750b) in Jun 2018,
"since no one has complained or even noticed it was gone"
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Found using:
$ grep -rn '\\f., [^ ]*\\f. and' man?
I also updated the markup in that paragraph: \f -> .
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
[.B XX_*] is the most extended form in the pages.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the section for /proc/[pid]/smaps, the description of field
ProtectionKey occurs twice: both before and after the description of
VmFlags.
Changes made by this patch:
1) Only the first occurrence is kept because its order matches the
output of /proc/[pid]/smaps.
2) The kernel version that CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS was
introduced is only mentioned in the second occurrence. Now it's moved
to the first one.
Signed-off-by: Jing Peng <pj.hades@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This is implied by POSIX because it requires that these strings in
the locale definition file contain one symbol. Currently,
locale.5 does not document the concept of symbols, this change
glosses over that and just uses the term "single-character
string".
Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Use \(aq to get an unslanted single quote inside monospace code
blocks. Using a simple ' results in a slanted quote inside PDFs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
For consistency.
The types are written both with and without the redundant 'int' keyword
all over the man-pages. However, the most used form, by far, is the one
without 'int'.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
'nread' is of type 'ssize_t'
'tot' adds up different values contained in 'nread',
so it should also be 'ssize_t', and not 'int' (which possibly overflows).
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Rather than:
sometype x;
for (x = ....; ...)
use
for (sometype x = ...; ...)
This brings the declaration and use closer together (thus aiding
readability) and also clearly indicates the scope of the loop
counter variable.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This header is used inconsistently -- man pages are UTF-8 encoded
but not setting this marker. It's only respected by the man-db
package, and seems a bit anachronistic at this point when UTF-8
is the standard default nowadays.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
A naked tilde ("~") renders poorly in PDF. Instead use "\(ti",
which renders better in a PDF, and produces the same glyph
when rendering on a terminal.
Reported-by: Geoff Clare <gwc@opengroup.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
"/bin/pwd" happens to work with the GNU coreutils implementation,
which has -P as the default, contrary to POSIX requirements.
Use "pwd -P" instead, which is shorter, easier to type, and should
work everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Change '-' to '\-' for the prefix of names to indicate an option.
Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Output is from: test-groff -b -mandoc -T utf8 -rF0 -t -w w -z
[ "test-groff" is a developmental version of "groff" ]
Input file is ./proc.5
troff: <proc.5>:4410: warning: trailing space
troff: <proc.5>:5206: warning: trailing space
troff: <proc.5>:5488: warning: trailing space
###
There is no change in the output from "nroff" and "groff".
Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>