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Notes from a conversation on linux-man@ with Christian Brauner: [[ > [*} By the way, going forward, can we call these things > "process FDs", rather than "PID FDs"? The API names are what > they are, an that's okay, but these just as we have socket > FDs that refer to sockets, directory FDs that refer to > directories, and timer FDs that refer to timers, and so on, > these are FDs that refer to *processes*, not "process IDs". > It's a little thing, but I think the naming better, and > it's what I propose to use in the manual pages. The naming was another debate and we ended with this compromise. I would just clarify that a pidfd is a process file descriptor. I wouldn't make too much of a deal of hiding the shortcut "pidfd". People are already using it out there in the wild and it's never proven a good idea to go against accepted practice. ]] Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
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README
This package contains Linux man pages for sections 1 through 8. Some more information is given in the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Installing and uninstalling =========================== "make install" will copy these man pages to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. To install to a path different from /usr, use "make install prefix=/install/path". "make remove" or "make uninstall" will remove any man page in this distribution from its destination. Use with caution, and remember to use "prefix" if desired, as with the "install" target. "make" or "make all" will perform "make uninstall" followed by "make install". Man page overlap and duplication ================================ Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages also distributed in other packages. This has been reported about: man page also found in ------------------------------------- resolver.3 bind-utils, bind9utils resolv.conf.5 " passwd.5 shadow, passwd mailaddr.7 ? Copyrights ========== See the 'man-pages-x.y.Announce' file. Homepage ======== For much more about the Linux man-pages project, see http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/index.html.