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14 years agoaccept.2, execve.2, futimesat.2, getresuid.2, getrlimit.2, madvise.2, mq_getsetattr...
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:37:52 +0000 (17:37 +0100)] 
accept.2, execve.2, futimesat.2, getresuid.2, getrlimit.2, madvise.2, mq_getsetattr.2, msgctl.2, nice.2, open.2, poll.2, setresuid.2, shmctl.2, sigaction.2, times.2, utimensat.2, __setfpucw.3, atoi.3, endian.3, err.3, euidaccess.3, fenv.3, fopencookie.3, fpurge.3, getgrouplist.3, getutmp.3, j0.3, lgamma.3, netlink.3, pthread_attr_init.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3, pthread_setaffinity_np.3, pthread_tryjoin_np.3, pthread_yield.3, random_r.3, readdir.3, rtnetlink.3, scanf.3, setenv.3, significand.3, sigsetops.3, strerror.3, strstr.3, sysv_signal.3, termios.3, timegm.3, unlocked_stdio.3, y0.3, locale.5, bootparam.7, feature_test_macros.7, ip.7, locale.7, pthreads.7, rtld-audit.7, nscd.8: Global fix: s/non-standard/nonstandard/

The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is towards removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agortnetlink.3: Various fixes in example code
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:27:35 +0000 (17:27 +0100)] 
rtnetlink.3: Various fixes in example code

Edward reported a problem in the example code, where a variable
seems to be misnamed. Upon inspection, there seem to be a few
such instances, and this patch is my best guess at how things
should look.

Reported-by: Edward Welbourne <eddy@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoopen.2: srcfix: Added FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:49:46 +0000 (17:49 +0100)] 
open.2: srcfix: Added FIXME

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agomadvise.2: srcfix: Added FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:20:52 +0000 (17:20 +0100)] 
madvise.2: srcfix: Added FIXME

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoexecve.2: Fix description of treatment of caught signals
Colin Watson [Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:07:22 +0000 (15:07 +0100)] 
execve.2: Fix description of treatment of caught signals

Caught signals reset to their default on an execve() (not
to being ignored).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoproc.5: tfix
Fang Wenqi [Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:23:37 +0000 (18:23 +0100)] 
proc.5: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agodlopen.3: tfix
Tobias Stoeckmann [Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:16:00 +0000 (18:16 +0100)] 
dlopen.3: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agofaccessat.2, fchmodat.2, fchownat.2, fstatat.2, futimesat.2, linkat.2, mkdirat.2...
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:54:45 +0000 (22:54 +0100)] 
faccessat.2, fchmodat.2, fchownat.2, fstatat.2, futimesat.2, linkat.2, mkdirat.2, mknodat.2, openat.2, readlinkat.2, renameat.2, symlinkat.2, unlinkat.2, utimensat.2, mkfifoat.3: Update feature test macro requirements

Starting in glibc 2.10, defining _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700,
or _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809 exposes the declarations of
these functions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agofeature_test_macros.7: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:29:25 +0000 (17:29 +0100)] 
feature_test_macros.7: _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE

Since glibc 2.10, _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agosched_getcpu.3: Place correct header file in SYNOPSIS
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:29:14 +0000 (02:29 +0100)] 
sched_getcpu.3: Place correct header file in SYNOPSIS

Reported-by: Samy Al Bahra <sbahra@repnop.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agonextafter.3: Fix notable error in DESCRIPTION.
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:08:00 +0000 (15:08 +0100)] 
nextafter.3: Fix notable error in DESCRIPTION.

"less than y" should be "less than x".

Reported-by: Jann Poppinga <jann.poppinga@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogetline.3: Update to reflect that these functions were standardized in POSIX.1-2008
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:58:09 +0000 (14:58 +0100)] 
getline.3: Update to reflect that these functions were standardized in POSIX.1-2008

Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agodaemon.3: Fix description of 'nochdir' argument.
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:39:32 +0000 (14:39 +0100)] 
daemon.3: Fix description of 'nochdir' argument.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554819

Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agostring.3: Add stpcpy() to this list of string functions
Mark Hills [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:40:42 +0000 (07:40 +0100)] 
string.3: Add stpcpy() to this list of string functions

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agopath_resolution.7: Fix NAME line
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:26:44 +0000 (07:26 +0100)] 
path_resolution.7: Fix NAME line

The poorly constructed part receding "\-" causes apropos
not to be able to find the subject.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558300

Reported-by: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agopts.4: wfix in NAME section
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:12:52 +0000 (07:12 +0100)] 
pts.4: wfix in NAME section

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoconsole_ioctl.4: tfix in NAME section
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:12:24 +0000 (07:12 +0100)] 
console_ioctl.4: tfix in NAME section

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agotty_ioctl.4: tfix in NAME line
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:11:32 +0000 (07:11 +0100)] 
tty_ioctl.4: tfix in NAME line

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agopath_resolution.7: Add readlink(2) to SEE ALSO
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 06:01:02 +0000 (07:01 +0100)] 
path_resolution.7: Add readlink(2) to SEE ALSO

Reported-by: <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agostrptime.3: Initialize tm structure in example program
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:49:17 +0000 (06:49 +0100)] 
strptime.3: Initialize tm structure in example program

Reported-by: Doug Manley <doug.manley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agofopencookie.3: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:11:59 +0000 (06:11 +0100)] 
fopencookie.3: tfix

Reported-by: Stuart Kemp <skemp@alertlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agostrcpy.3: tfix
Mark Hills [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:03:25 +0000 (06:03 +0100)] 
strcpy.3: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agomemchr.3: Add feature text macro requirements for memrchr()
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 5 Dec 2009 03:55:33 +0000 (04:55 +0100)] 
memchr.3: Add feature text macro requirements for memrchr()

Reported-by: Markus Peuhkuri <puhuri@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agopthread_join.3: wfix: s/pthread_create/pthread_join/
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:44:01 +0000 (15:44 +0100)] 
pthread_join.3: wfix: s/pthread_create/pthread_join/

Reported-by: Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogetaddrinfo.3: ffix
Yuri Kozlov [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:36:19 +0000 (15:36 +0100)] 
getaddrinfo.3: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogetpwnam.3: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:17:53 +0000 (15:17 +0100)] 
getpwnam.3: tfix

Reported-by: <sunjiangangok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogetnameinfo.3: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:57:42 +0000 (13:57 +0100)] 
getnameinfo.3: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogethostbyname.3: Document feature test macro requirements for herror() and hstrerror()
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:24:13 +0000 (13:24 +0100)] 
gethostbyname.3: Document feature test macro requirements for herror() and hstrerror()

Since glibc 2.8, one of _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE,
or _GNU_SOURCE is required.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogetnameinfo.3: Document feature test macros requirements for NI_MAXHOST and NI_MAXSERV
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:23:22 +0000 (12:23 +0100)] 
getnameinfo.3: Document feature test macros requirements for NI_MAXHOST and NI_MAXSERV

Since glibc 2.8, one of _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE, or _GNU_SOURCE
must be defined to obtain these definitions.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agomadvise.2: scrfix: Added FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:17:35 +0000 (08:17 +0100)] 
madvise.2: scrfix: Added FIXME

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agosetreuid.2: Add more detail on POSIX.1 specification for these syscalls
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:35:40 +0000 (07:35 +0200)] 
setreuid.2: Add more detail on POSIX.1 specification for these syscalls

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoseteuid.2: Note unstandardized behavior for effective ID
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:06:46 +0000 (07:06 +0200)] 
seteuid.2: Note unstandardized behavior for effective ID

PSOIX.1 doesn't require that the effective ID can be changed
to the same value it currently has (a no-op). The man page
should note this, since some other implementations
don't permit it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogroup.5: s/passwd/password/
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:47:27 +0000 (06:47 +0200)] 
group.5: s/passwd/password/

The page inconsistently used "passwd" and "password"
to refer to the same field.

Reported-by: Jason Goldfine-Middleton <jasonwoodfine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoclone.2: ffix
Andries E. Brouwer [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:39:02 +0000 (06:39 +0200)] 
clone.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agosetgid.2: Fix EPERM error description
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:36:12 +0000 (06:36 +0200)] 
setgid.2: Fix EPERM error description

s/effective group ID/real group ID/
This bug lived in man pages for 15 years before Jason
spotted it! I checked back in Linux 1.0, and the behavior
was as the fixed man page describes.

Reported-by: Jason Noakes <jjnoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agofcntl.2: s/F_OWNER_GID/F_OWNER_PGRP/
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:00:04 +0000 (06:00 +0200)] 
fcntl.2: s/F_OWNER_GID/F_OWNER_PGRP/

Peter Zijlstra took the name change I suggested.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agofcntl.2: Document F_[SG]ETOWN_EX; update details on F_SETOWN
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:23:31 +0000 (17:23 +0200)] 
fcntl.2: Document F_[SG]ETOWN_EX; update details on F_SETOWN

Linux 2.6.32 adds F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX.
Linux 2.6.12 changed (broke) the former behavior of
F_SETOWN with respect to threads.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoChanges.old: spfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 3 Oct 2009 05:41:35 +0000 (07:41 +0200)] 
Changes.old: spfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoStart of man-pages-3.24: updating Changes and Changes.old
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:21:56 +0000 (05:21 +0200)] 
Start of man-pages-3.24: updating Changes and Changes.old

14 years agoStart of man-pages-3.24: updating .Announce and .lsm files
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:21:55 +0000 (05:21 +0200)] 
Start of man-pages-3.24: updating .Announce and .lsm files

14 years agoStart of man-pages-3.24: renaming .Announce and .lsm files
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:21:55 +0000 (05:21 +0200)] 
Start of man-pages-3.24: renaming .Announce and .lsm files

14 years agoReady for 3.23 man-pages-3.23
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:36:19 +0000 (03:36 +0200)] 
Ready for 3.23

14 years agoRemoved trailing white space at end of lines
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:34:51 +0000 (03:34 +0200)] 
Removed trailing white space at end of lines

14 years agostat.2, posix_fallocate.3, proc.5, tcp.7, udp.7: tstamp
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:28:34 +0000 (03:28 +0200)] 
stat.2, posix_fallocate.3, proc.5, tcp.7, udp.7: tstamp

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoChanges: Update for 3.23 release
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:25:50 +0000 (03:25 +0200)] 
Changes: Update for 3.23 release

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agocapabilities.7: Reword a bad sentence in description of capability bounding set.
Nicolas François [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:44:05 +0000 (12:44 +0200)] 
capabilities.7: Reword a bad sentence in description of capability bounding set.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agocpuset.7: Minor wording fixes
Nicolas François [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:08:54 +0000 (12:08 +0200)] 
cpuset.7: Minor wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agostrftime.3: Fix error in description: s/Monday/Thursday/
Nicolas François [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:11:11 +0000 (11:11 +0200)] 
strftime.3: Fix error in description: s/Monday/Thursday/

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agotcp.7: wfix: be more consistent in usage of infinitive or indicative
Nicolas François [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:04:07 +0000 (11:04 +0200)] 
tcp.7: wfix: be more consistent in usage of infinitive or indicative

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agotcp.7, udp.7: Replace references to syctl interfaces with /proc
Nicolas François [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:42:15 +0000 (10:42 +0200)] 
tcp.7, udp.7: Replace references to syctl interfaces with /proc

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoclone.2: Minor wording fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:31:09 +0000 (10:31 +0200)] 
clone.2: Minor wording fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoproc.5: Fix page cross reference
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:52:49 +0000 (09:52 +0200)] 
proc.5: Fix page cross reference

max_user_watches is better explained in epoll(7) than inotify(7).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoposix_fallocate.3: Fix reference to POSIX.1-2008
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:50:38 +0000 (09:50 +0200)] 
posix_fallocate.3: Fix reference to POSIX.1-2008

The sentence mentions twice POSIX.1-2001.
I guess the second one should be POSIX.1-2008.
This should be checked in the standard.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agotimer_getoverrun.2: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:48:10 +0000 (09:48 +0200)] 
timer_getoverrun.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agostat.2: Fix small bug in example program
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:47:13 +0000 (09:47 +0200)] 
stat.2: Fix small bug in example program

Since it is a failure, EXIT_FAILURE looks more appropriate
than EXIT_SUCCESS.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agosemctl.2: Remove some redundant words
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:44:38 +0000 (09:44 +0200)] 
semctl.2: Remove some redundant words

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agomove_pages.2: tfix
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:40:45 +0000 (09:40 +0200)] 
move_pages.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoepoll_ctl.2: wfix
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:40:07 +0000 (09:40 +0200)] 
epoll_ctl.2: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agotcp.7: Minor fix
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:39:05 +0000 (09:39 +0200)] 
tcp.7: Minor fix
It seems to me that "algorithm" is missing here.
Or maybe "choices" could be replaced by "algorithms".

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agosigaction.2: Minor fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:33:23 +0000 (09:33 +0200)] 
sigaction.2: Minor fixes

Minor grammar fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agogetdomainname.2: Minor change
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:31:48 +0000 (09:31 +0200)] 
getdomainname.2: Minor change

s/current processors/host system/, which is a little clearer.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agokoi8-u.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:43 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
koi8-u.7: Minor fixes
Unneeded double spaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoiso_8859-4.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:42 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
iso_8859-4.7: Minor fixes
The decimal did not match with octal and hexa values.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoiso_8859-10.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:42 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
iso_8859-10.7: Minor fixes
Spelling fix.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoip.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:41 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
ip.7: Minor fixes
Consistently use the infinitive.
Other typos.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agofeature_test_macros.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:41 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
feature_test_macros.7: Minor fixes
Fix important typos in constant values.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoudp.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:40 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
udp.7: Minor fixes
Grammar and formatting fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agotcp.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:40 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
tcp.7: Minor fixes
tcp_congestion_control is not a boolean. The default is explained in the
text. It cannot be enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agortld-audit.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:39 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
rtld-audit.7: Minor fixes

Wording and formatting fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agopthreads.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:38 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
pthreads.7: Minor fixes
Grammar fix.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agonuma.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:38 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
numa.7: Minor fixes
Spelling and formatting fixes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoresolv.conf.5: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:38 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
resolv.conf.5: Minor fixes
The value itself is capped, not the maximum for this value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agoproc.5: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:37 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
proc.5: Minor fixes
Formatting fix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
14 years agocpuid.4: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:36 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
cpuid.4: Minor fixes
Use the same formatting conventions as other manpages.

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14 years agoupdwtmp.3: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:36 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
updwtmp.3: Minor fixes
Spelling fix (s/utmp/wtmp/)

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14 years agoreaddir.3: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:35 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
readdir.3: Minor fixes
Spelling fix

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14 years agopthread_getattr_np.3: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:35 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
pthread_getattr_np.3: Minor fixes
Spelling fix

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14 years agotimer_settime.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:33 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
timer_settime.2: Minor fixes
Fix typos:
 * duplicate the
 * curr_value is a pointer
 * misplaced 'a'.

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14 years agotimer_create.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:33 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
timer_create.2: Minor fixes
Add missing parenthesis
Explicitly indicate that conditions are ORed.

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14 years agostat.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:32 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
stat.2: Minor fixes
Fix to formatting issues:
 * remove ending tabulation
 * add missing parenthesis

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14 years agoset_thread_area.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:32 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
set_thread_area.2: Minor fixes
set_thread_area is a system call, not a library function.

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14 years agoselect_tut.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:31 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
select_tut.2: Minor fixes
Wording and spelling fix

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14 years agosched_setaffinity.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:31 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
sched_setaffinity.2: Minor fixes
Consistency for references to manpages

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14 years agorecv.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:30 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
recv.2: Minor fixes
Fix some formatting typos
 * the period should be in Roman font
 * .RP does not exist, it should be .RB

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14 years agomount.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:29 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
mount.2: Minor fixes
There was too many verbs in the last part of the sentence.

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14 years agombind.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:28 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
mbind.2: Minor fixes
there should be no commas here.

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14 years agoget_thread_area.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:28 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
get_thread_area.2: Minor fixes
get_thread_area.2 is a system call.
Other manpages seems to differentiate functions (i.e. (g)lib(c) functions)
and system calls. This make it more consistent.

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14 years agoget_mempolicy.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:27 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
get_mempolicy.2: Minor fixes
There should be no comma here.

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14 years agogetdents.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:27 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
getdents.2: Minor fixes
2 typos:
 * Wrong end of comments
 * etx3 should be ext3

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14 years agofcntl.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:26 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
fcntl.2: Minor fixes
Just a formatting typo.

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14 years agoclone.2: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:26 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
clone.2: Minor fixes
"PID namespace" is what is new.

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14 years agopthread_attr_setstack.3: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:25 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
pthread_attr_setstack.3: Minor fixes
* pthread_attr_setstacksize was cut&pasted.
* The stacksize argument can be compared to PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, not the
  stackaddr address.

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14 years agopthread_getcpuclockid.3: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:25 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
pthread_getcpuclockid.3: Minor fixes

Looking at the man page, this is not a family of functions.
So "returns" is right, "functions" should be "function".

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14 years agoicmp.7: Minor fixes
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:26:24 +0000 (09:26 +0200)] 
icmp.7: Minor fixes
A .IR is more consistent with others items in the list.

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14 years agoman3/opendir.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, man3/pthread_setaffinity_np.3: Minor...
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:58:35 +0000 (08:58 +0200)] 
man3/opendir.3, pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3, man3/pthread_setaffinity_np.3: Minor fixes
The word "function" is missing (or "The" should be removed?).

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14 years agoepoll_ctl.2: tfix: This patch fixes a formatting typo.
Nicolas François [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:55:59 +0000 (08:55 +0200)] 
epoll_ctl.2: tfix: This patch fixes a formatting typo.

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14 years agomq_overview.7: Change documented ranges for msg_max and msgsize_max
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:20:28 +0000 (08:20 +0200)] 
mq_overview.7: Change documented ranges for msg_max and msgsize_max

Linux 2.6.28 changed the permissible ranges for
these /proc files.

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14 years agommap.2: Add brief documentation of MAP_HUGETLB
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:39:36 +0000 (06:39 +0200)] 
mmap.2: Add brief documentation of MAP_HUGETLB

This flag is new in 2.6.32, and serves a similar
purpose to the shmget() SHM_HUGETLB flag.

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14 years agoopen.2: add some comments on O_SYNC and friends
Christoph Hellwig [Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:41:16 +0000 (07:41 +0200)] 
open.2: add some comments on O_SYNC and friends

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14 years agoexit.3: Add a pointer to explanation of orphaned process groups in setpgid(2)
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:42:00 +0000 (05:42 +0200)] 
exit.3: Add a pointer to explanation of orphaned process groups in setpgid(2)

Reported-by: Georg Sauthoff <gsauthof@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
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