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Michael Kerrisk ba9830cfc9 fsync.2: Note that some systems require a writable file descriptor 
An edited version of Guillem Jover's comments:
[While the file descriptor does not need to be writable on Linux]
that's not a safe portable assumption to make on POSIX in general
as that behavior is not specified and as such is
implementation-specific. Some Unix systems do actually fail on
read-only file descriptors, for example [HP-UX and AIX].

Reported-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 		2012-02-27 13:50:55 +13:00
man1 intro.1, fork.2, futex.2, open.2, rename.2, select_tut.2, semop.2, spu_create.2, stat.2, netlink.3, random.3, scanf.3, shm_open.3, strftime.3, console.4, console_codes.4, sk98lin.4, st.4, bootparam.7, cpuset.7, credentials.7, man-pages.7, path_resolution.7, uri.7: Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash 2011-10-03 08:47:35 +02:00
man2 fsync.2: Note that some systems require a writable file descriptor 2012-02-27 13:50:55 +13:00
man3 sem_wait.3: EXAMPLE: Remove extraneous line of output from shell session 2012-02-12 06:11:51 +13:00
man4 intro.1, fork.2, futex.2, open.2, rename.2, select_tut.2, semop.2, spu_create.2, stat.2, netlink.3, random.3, scanf.3, shm_open.3, strftime.3, console.4, console_codes.4, sk98lin.4, st.4, bootparam.7, cpuset.7, credentials.7, man-pages.7, path_resolution.7, uri.7: Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash 2011-10-03 08:47:35 +02:00
man5 passwd.5: s/asterisk/asterisk (*)/ to improve clarity 2012-02-14 07:22:01 +13:00
man6 Wrapped long source lines 2008-07-06 15:10:32 +00:00
man7 feature_test_macros.7: Document _ISOC11_SOURCE 2012-01-18 14:21:03 +13:00
man8 add_key.2, keyctl.2, request_key.2, stime.2, time.2, ctime.3, difftime.3, ftime.3, getspnam.3, mq_receive.3, mq_send.3, rtime.3, sem_wait.3, string.3, timeradd.3, tzset.3, rtc.4, core.5, icmp.7, time.7, zic.8: Updated .TH timestamp 2010-02-25 10:43:57 +01:00
scripts find_repeated_words.sh: Fix bug 2010-08-29 14:41:52 +02:00
Changes Expanded tabs 2011-11-12 10:30:28 +01:00
Changes.old Changes.old: ffix 2011-10-05 06:42:57 +02:00
Makefile POSIX man pages are now in a separate package. 2008-06-05 09:52:50 +00:00
README README: Point directly at contributing.html 2010-08-29 07:40:29 +02:00
man-pages-3.36.Announce Start of man-pages-3.36: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2011-10-04 08:41:25 +02:00
man-pages-3.36.lsm Start of man-pages-3.36: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2011-10-04 08:41:25 +02:00

README 

This package contains Linux man pages for sections
2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Some more information is given in the
`Announce' file.

Install by copying to your favourite location.
"make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
"make" will move the pages from this package that are older than
the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed',
then remove old versions (compressed or not),
compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].


Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages.

Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages
also distributed in other packages. This has been reported
about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so),
about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils),
and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to
overwrite more up-to-date versions.
Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
 exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
 fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),
 lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).

Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
All pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.

If you have corrections and additions to suggest, see
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/contributing.html