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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 6b6e918550 select.2: Mention the 'fd_set' size limitation early and refer to poll(2)
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
man1 getent.1: ffix 2015-09-11 10:44:40 +02:00
man2 select.2: Mention the 'fd_set' size limitation early and refer to poll(2) 2016-02-01 15:21:54 +01:00
man3 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" 2016-01-26 10:13:47 +01:00
man4 accept.2, perf_event_open.2, unlink.2, lirc.4, proc.5, inotify.7: tfix 2016-01-28 10:44:01 +01:00
man5 elf.5: ffix 2016-01-28 10:44:42 +01:00
man6 getent.1, _syscall.2, acct.2, adjtimex.2, bdflush.2, brk.2, cacheflush.2, getsid.2, getxattr.2, inotify_add_watch.2, inotify_init.2, inotify_rm_watch.2, ioperm.2, ipc.2, listxattr.2, mlock.2, modify_ldt.2, mremap.2, nanosleep.2, outb.2, perf_event_open.2, ptrace.2, removexattr.2, s390_runtime_instr.2, sched_get_priority_max.2, sched_rr_get_interval.2, sched_setaffinity.2, sched_setparam.2, sched_setscheduler.2, sched_yield.2, setsid.2, setxattr.2, socketcall.2, unimplemented.2, aio_cancel.3, aio_error.3, aio_fsync.3, aio_read.3, aio_return.3, aio_suspend.3, aio_write.3, cfree.3, crypt.3, dlopen.3, encrypt.3, errno.3, fenv.3, ftime.3, ftw.3, getgrent_r.3, getpass.3, getpwent_r.3, getutent.3, hsearch.3, lio_listio.3, lockf.3, login.3, longjmp.3, perror.3, printf.3, scandirat.3, setjmp.3, strfmon.3, strtoimax.3, termios.3, ttyname.3, ualarm.3, updwtmp.3, wcstoimax.3, wordexp.3, console_ioctl.4, dsp56k.4, fd.4, hd.4, intro.4, lp.4, mem.4, null.4, ram.4, rtc.4, sk98lin.4, tty.4, ttyS.4, vcs.4, filesystems.5, group.5, host.conf.5, hosts.5, intro.5, issue.5, motd.5, networks.5, nologin.5, nsswitch.conf.5, passwd.5, proc.5, protocols.5, securetty.5, shells.5, termcap.5, ttytype.5, utmp.5, intro.6, armscii-8.7, ascii.7, bootparam.7, cp1251.7, environ.7, glob.7, intro.7, iso_8859-1.7, iso_8859-10.7, iso_8859-11.7, iso_8859-13.7, iso_8859-14.7, iso_8859-15.7, iso_8859-16.7, iso_8859-2.7, iso_8859-3.7, iso_8859-4.7, iso_8859-5.7, iso_8859-6.7, iso_8859-7.7, iso_8859-8.7, iso_8859-9.7, koi8-r.7, koi8-u.7, posixoptions.7, standards.7, unicode.7, utf-8.7, intro.8: s/GPLv2+_doc_full/GPLv2+_DOC_FULL/ 2013-03-10 10:57:11 +01:00
man7 aio.7: Improve example 2016-02-01 15:21:41 +01:00
man8 accept.2, acct.2, bind.2, clock_getres.2, connect.2, dup.2, epoll_create.2, eventfd.2, execve.2, fanotify_init.2, fcntl.2, fork.2, futex.2, get_robust_list.2, getcpu.2, getpeername.2, getrlimit.2, getsockname.2, getsockopt.2, gettimeofday.2, inotify_init.2, listen.2, membarrier.2, memfd_create.2, mlock.2, mmap.2, personality.2, pipe.2, poll.2, recv.2, send.2, sendfile.2, shmget.2, shutdown.2, sigreturn.2, socket.2, socketcall.2, socketpair.2, spu_create.2, swapon.2, time.2, timerfd_create.2, uselib.2, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, drand48.3, errno.3, fnmatch.3, getgrent.3, getgrnam.3, getlogin.3, getpwent.3, getpwnam.3, iconv.3, mq_open.3, opendir.3, random_r.3, sem_open.3, shm_open.3, tmpfile.3, tzset.3, random.4, fanotify.7, futex.7, vdso.7, ld.so.8: tstamp 2015-12-29 13:48:42 +01:00
scripts scripts/markup_check.sh: tfix 2015-12-07 08:13:20 +01:00
Changes Start of man-pages-4.05: updating Changes and Changes.old 2015-12-29 13:55:44 +01:00
Changes.old Changes.old: tfix 2016-01-25 14:32:58 +01:00
Makefile Makefile: tfix 2015-12-07 08:08:56 +01:00
README README: Explain usage of prefix when installing 2014-05-26 10:16:11 +02:00
man-pages-4.05.Announce Start of man-pages-4.05: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2015-12-29 13:55:44 +01:00
man-pages-4.05.lsm man-pages-4.05.lsm: tfix 2015-12-30 14:02:48 +01:00

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