changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
-
+
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
-
+
clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files and shared
memory regions, including SHM_HUGE regions.
-
+
defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
-
+
mention what happens if local/target node contains no
free memory.
-
+
clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
this happens.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
-
+
added mmap(2), shmget(2), shmat(2) to See Also list.
mmap.2
mprotect.2
François Diakhate
Add text noting that PROT_WRITE may (and on x86 does)
- imply PROT_READ.
+ imply PROT_READ.
See Debian bug 441387.
nfsservctl.2
getaddrinfo.3
mtk / Geoff Clare
Fixes/improvements for example program.
-
+
gethostbyaddr.3
Mats Wichmann
Add documentation for gethostbyaddr_r().
In mount(8) we can see:
If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is
- specified, mount will try to guess the desired type.
- If mount was compiled with the blkid library, the
- guessing is done by this library. Otherwise, mount
- guesses itself by probing the superblock; if that
- does not turn up anything that looks familiar,
+ specified, mount will try to guess the desired type.
+ If mount was compiled with the blkid library, the
+ guessing is done by this library. Otherwise, mount
+ guesses itself by probing the superblock; if that
+ does not turn up anything that looks familiar,
mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems,
or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems.
- All of the filesystem types listed there will be
- tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"
- (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems
- ends in a line with a single * only, mount will
+ All of the filesystem types listed there will be
+ tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"
+ (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems
+ ends in a line with a single * only, mount will
read /proc/filesystems afterwards.
Samuel Thibault
Since linux 2.6.11, /proc/stat has an eighth value for cpu
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#
MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT
- s/X-Windows/X-Window/ (3 occurrences)
- - section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
+ - section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
man-pages.7
man.7