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Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:07:12 +0000 (13:07 +0000)]
Prepare for man-pages-2.08 release
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:00:20 +0000 (13:00 +0000)]
Prepare for man-pages-2.08 release
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:58:04 +0000 (12:58 +0000)]
Prepare for man-pages-2.08 release
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:40:22 +0000 (12:40 +0000)]
Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing
the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root.
(However, the page still needs to be rewritten
to actually describe the pivot_root method...)
As per Debian bug 323621.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:02:23 +0000 (12:02 +0000)]
Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
pointing out that applications should preferentially
inspect HOME
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:23:38 +0000 (11:23 +0000)]
Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
As per debian bug 328629
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:45:03 +0000 (10:45 +0000)]
Further fix of "one has..." test
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:28:33 +0000 (06:28 +0000)]
fix version in .TH
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:28:16 +0000 (06:28 +0000)]
fix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:45:12 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Further reorking of RLIMIT_NICE text.
Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:43:58 +0000 (17:43 +0000)]
Further reworking of discussion or RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:42:39 +0000 (17:42 +0000)]
Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on RLIMIT_NICE.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:52:34 +0000 (14:52 +0000)]
Further reworking of text on privileges and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:52:49 +0000 (06:52 +0000)]
Noted 2.6.12 off-by-one error for RLIMIT_NICE.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:57:58 +0000 (14:57 +0000)]
Uncommented text that I wrote earlier that added mention of RLIMIT_NICE
and a cross reference to getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES
error.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:57:05 +0000 (14:57 +0000)]
Uncommented description of RLIMIT_NICE that I wrote earlier
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:20:48 +0000 (14:20 +0000)]
Added (minimal) /proc/zoneinfo description + some FIXMEs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:08:50 +0000 (14:08 +0000)]
Change:
One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
to:
One has carg(z) = atan(cimag(z) / creal(z))
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:18:57 +0000 (12:18 +0000)]
Formatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:18:24 +0000 (12:18 +0000)]
Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:39:32 +0000 (11:39 +0000)]
We don't have an rpc_secure.3 page in the set at the moment
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:36:33 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
Wording improvements to suid_dumapble text
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:36:12 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
Wording improvements to new dumpable text
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:36:08 +0000 (14:36 +0000)]
fix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:05:39 +0000 (14:05 +0000)]
Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:06:22 +0000 (13:06 +0000)]
Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13)
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:35:01 +0000 (11:35 +0000)]
Further updates on biarch text (follow-on from previous change)
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:14:45 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
Mention "little endian" and "big endian".
Added note about octal and hex interpretation of numbers-and-dots notation.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:13:50 +0000 (17:13 +0000)]
added fixme
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:49:25 +0000 (13:49 +0000)]
To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human", not "HUMAN".
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:36:44 +0000 (13:36 +0000)]
Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:56:56 +0000 (12:56 +0000)]
s/standard output/standard error/
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:40:42 +0000 (12:40 +0000)]
Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:29:07 +0000 (12:29 +0000)]
fix typo in version number
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:06:26 +0000 (12:06 +0000)]
formatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:50:30 +0000 (11:50 +0000)]
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added NOTES on usage.
Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:48:46 +0000 (11:48 +0000)]
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
and SIGSEGV.
Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:48:01 +0000 (11:48 +0000)]
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Changed CONFORMING TO.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:47:39 +0000 (11:47 +0000)]
Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
into separate new pages.
Other minor changes
NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in
all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
112360948603171 &w=2
and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
112362164911432 &w=2
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong
From: Bodo Stroesser
Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:46:02 +0000 (11:46 +0000)]
Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
Some formatting fixes.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:20:05 +0000 (09:20 +0000)]
Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:51:30 +0000 (13:51 +0000)]
Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:16:03 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
Minor change to FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:15:27 +0000 (08:15 +0000)]
Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:27:22 +0000 (10:27 +0000)]
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
Added entries to SEE ALSO.
Some formatting fixes.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:17:16 +0000 (17:17 +0000)]
Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:14:36 +0000 (15:14 +0000)]
Formatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:13:39 +0000 (15:13 +0000)]
Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:32:03 +0000 (12:32 +0000)]
Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:09:15 +0000 (12:09 +0000)]
Added kerebl version number of UDP_CORK
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:08:07 +0000 (12:08 +0000)]
Added description of UDP_CORK
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:53 +0000 (11:50 +0000)]
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:47:35 +0000 (11:47 +0000)]
s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/
s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:46:16 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t; as per Debian bug 322934
Some wording and formatting improvements.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:16:01 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
Typo fix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:41:25 +0000 (11:41 +0000)]
glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:32:16 +0000 (17:32 +0000)]
Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when vector size
exceeds IOV_MAX.
Formatting clean-ups.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:40:12 +0000 (11:40 +0000)]
Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED, and AI_NUMERICSERV.
Some wording and formatting fixes.
1,$s/PF_/AF_/g
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:10:29 +0000 (10:10 +0000)]
Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname
field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current
behavior is all that SUSv3 requires).
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:01:47 +0000 (14:01 +0000)]
Add missing word
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:12:52 +0000 (12:12 +0000)]
fix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:09:50 +0000 (12:09 +0000)]
Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:09:40 +0000 (12:09 +0000)]
Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:09:28 +0000 (12:09 +0000)]
Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:58:02 +0000 (14:58 +0000)]
Small formatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:44:53 +0000 (11:44 +0000)]
Commented out RLIMIT_NICE text, pending the fix to align
the 2.6.12 mismatch between [gs]etpriority() and RLIMIT_NICE.
See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
112256338703880 &w=2
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:38:36 +0000 (14:38 +0000)]
Added RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:37:51 +0000 (14:37 +0000)]
Modified discussion of privileges; added mention of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:36:53 +0000 (14:36 +0000)]
Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privilegs and resource limits.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:29:14 +0000 (14:29 +0000)]
spelling fix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:21:39 +0000 (13:21 +0000)]
Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
representations of the nice value.
Added mention of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to getrlimit.2
under the description of the EACCES error.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:33:20 +0000 (12:33 +0000)]
Added sentence noting that range of nice value is described in getpriority.2
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:35:56 +0000 (16:35 +0000)]
Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:45:25 +0000 (11:45 +0000)]
Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
As per Debian bug 263756
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:33:22 +0000 (11:33 +0000)]
Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
As per Debian bug 314435
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:22:58 +0000 (11:22 +0000)]
Add EINTR error
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:55:44 +0000 (09:55 +0000)]
Fix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:53:07 +0000 (07:53 +0000)]
s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:50:45 +0000 (07:50 +0000)]
RFC references are now always writen as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or
"RFCnnn").
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:43:05 +0000 (07:43 +0000)]
Clarify that port number is 16 bit; reformat long lines
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:23:19 +0000 (16:23 +0000)]
Formatting fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:38:39 +0000 (15:38 +0000)]
Formatting fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:36:19 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
Formatting fixes.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:38 +0000 (14:20 +0000)]
Improve st_blocks description.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:25:25 +0000 (08:25 +0000)]
Ready for 2.08
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:24:44 +0000 (08:24 +0000)]
Ready for 2.08
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:13:18 +0000 (08:13 +0000)]
ready for 2.07
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:29:22 +0000 (07:29 +0000)]
ready for 2.07
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:15:17 +0000 (07:15 +0000)]
Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with explanatory text,
instead if atime/ctime/mtime.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:32:54 +0000 (06:32 +0000)]
s/pid/PID/
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:20:42 +0000 (06:20 +0000)]
s/id/ID/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:13:06 +0000 (17:13 +0000)]
s/super user/superuser/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:10:25 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
s/file pointer/file offset/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:10:04 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
pseudotteudo-tty" terminology clean-up
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:55:22 +0000 (16:55 +0000)]
Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID".
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:17:52 +0000 (16:17 +0000)]
euid-> effective UID
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:13:49 +0000 (16:13 +0000)]
s/\\-ID/ ID/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:09:29 +0000 (16:09 +0000)]
set-(group|user)-ID fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:02:32 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
id --> ID
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:54:49 +0000 (15:54 +0000)]
gid --> GID