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19 years agoPrepare for man-pages-2.08 release man-pages-2.08
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:07:12 +0000 (13:07 +0000)] 
Prepare for man-pages-2.08 release

19 years agoPrepare 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

19 years agoPrepare 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

19 years agoAdded text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing
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the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root.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.

19 years agoAdd NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
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

19 years agoRemove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
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

19 years agoFurther fix of "one has..." test
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:45:03 +0000 (10:45 +0000)] 
Further fix of "one has..." test

19 years agofix version in .TH
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:28:33 +0000 (06:28 +0000)] 
fix version in .TH

19 years agofix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:28:16 +0000 (06:28 +0000)] 
fix typo

19 years agoFurther reorking of RLIMIT_NICE text.
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().

19 years agoFurther reworking of discussion or RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:43:58 +0000 (17:43 +0000)] 
Further reworking of discussion or RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO

19 years agoAdded cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on RLIMIT_NICE.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:42:39 +0000 (17:42 +0000)] 
Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on RLIMIT_NICE.

19 years agoFurther reworking of text on privileges and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:52:34 +0000 (14:52 +0000)] 
Further reworking of text on privileges and RLIMIT_RTPRIO

19 years agoNoted 2.6.12 off-by-one error for RLIMIT_NICE.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:52:49 +0000 (06:52 +0000)] 
Noted 2.6.12 off-by-one error for RLIMIT_NICE.

19 years agoUncommented text that I wrote earlier that added mention of 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.

19 years agoUncommented description of RLIMIT_NICE that I wrote earlier
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:57:05 +0000 (14:57 +0000)] 
Uncommented description of RLIMIT_NICE that I wrote earlier

19 years agoAdded (minimal) /proc/zoneinfo description + some FIXMEs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:20:48 +0000 (14:20 +0000)] 
Added (minimal) /proc/zoneinfo description + some FIXMEs

19 years agoChange:
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))

19 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:18:57 +0000 (12:18 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

19 years agoFix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:18:24 +0000 (12:18 +0000)] 
Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL

19 years agoWe don't have an rpc_secure.3 page in the set at the moment
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

19 years agoWording improvements to suid_dumapble text
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:36:33 +0000 (15:36 +0000)] 
Wording improvements to suid_dumapble text

19 years agoWording improvements to new dumpable text
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:36:12 +0000 (15:36 +0000)] 
Wording improvements to new dumpable text

19 years agofix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:36:08 +0000 (14:36 +0000)] 
fix typo

19 years agoSince kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2.
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.

19 years agoDescribe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13)
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:06:22 +0000 (13:06 +0000)] 
Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13)

19 years agoFurther updates on biarch text (follow-on from previous change)
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:35:01 +0000 (11:35 +0000)] 
Further updates on biarch text (follow-on from previous change)

19 years agoMention "little endian" and "big endian".
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.

19 years agoadded fixme
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:13:50 +0000 (17:13 +0000)] 
added fixme

19 years agoTo get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human", not "HUMAN".
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".

19 years agoAdded text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:36:44 +0000 (13:36 +0000)] 
Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv

19 years agos/standard output/standard error/
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:56:56 +0000 (12:56 +0000)] 
s/standard output/standard error/

19 years agoAdded "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:40:42 +0000 (12:40 +0000)] 
Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype

19 years agofix typo in version number
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:29:07 +0000 (12:29 +0000)] 
fix typo in version number

19 years agoformatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:06:26 +0000 (12:06 +0000)] 
formatting fix

19 years agoNew page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
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.

19 years agoNew page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
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.

19 years agoNew page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
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.

19 years agoSplit sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
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

19 years agoAdded SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:46:02 +0000 (11:46 +0000)] 
Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
Some formatting fixes.

19 years agoUpdated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
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

19 years agoAdded text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards.
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.

19 years agoMinor change to FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:16:03 +0000 (08:16 +0000)] 
Minor change to FIXME

19 years agoNoted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:15:27 +0000 (08:15 +0000)] 
Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.

19 years agoAdded _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
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.

19 years agoClarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:17:16 +0000 (17:17 +0000)] 
Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.

19 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:14:36 +0000 (15:14 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

19 years agoFix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:13:39 +0000 (15:13 +0000)] 
Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID

19 years agoAdded CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:32:03 +0000 (12:32 +0000)] 
Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE

19 years agoAdded kerebl version number of UDP_CORK
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:09:15 +0000 (12:09 +0000)] 
Added kerebl version number of UDP_CORK

19 years agoAdded description of UDP_CORK
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:08:07 +0000 (12:08 +0000)] 
Added description of UDP_CORK

19 years agos/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:50:53 +0000 (11:50 +0000)] 
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/

19 years agos/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/
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/

19 years agonfds should be prototyped as nfds_t; as per Debian bug 322934
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.

19 years agoTypo fix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:16:01 +0000 (08:16 +0000)] 
Typo fix

19 years agoglibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:41:25 +0000 (11:41 +0000)] 
glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug

19 years agoAdded LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when vector size
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.

19 years agoAdded descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED, and AI_NUMERICSERV.
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

19 years agoNowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname
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).

19 years agoAdd missing word
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:01:47 +0000 (14:01 +0000)] 
Add missing word

19 years agofix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:12:52 +0000 (12:12 +0000)] 
fix typo

19 years agoAdded IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:09:50 +0000 (12:09 +0000)] 
Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.

19 years agoAdded IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:09:40 +0000 (12:09 +0000)] 
Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.

19 years agoAdded IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:09:28 +0000 (12:09 +0000)] 
Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.

19 years agoSmall formatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:58:02 +0000 (14:58 +0000)] 
Small formatting fix

19 years agoCommented out RLIMIT_NICE text, pending the fix to align
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

19 years agoAdded RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:38:36 +0000 (14:38 +0000)] 
Added RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_NICE

19 years agoModified discussion of privileges; added mention of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:37:51 +0000 (14:37 +0000)] 
Modified discussion of privileges; added mention of RLIMIT_RTPRIO

19 years agoModified discussion of privileges; added pointer to sched_setscheduler.2 for a discus...
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.

19 years agospelling fix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:29:14 +0000 (14:29 +0000)] 
spelling fix

19 years agoExpanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
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.

19 years agoAdded sentence noting that range of nice value is described in getpriority.2
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

19 years agoImprove text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:35:56 +0000 (16:35 +0000)] 
Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files

19 years agoClarified the order of value and port arguments;
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

19 years agoAdd to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
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

19 years agoAdd EINTR error
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

19 years agoFix typo
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:55:44 +0000 (09:55 +0000)] 
Fix typo

19 years agos/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:53:07 +0000 (07:53 +0000)] 
s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/

19 years agoRFC references are now always writen as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or
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").

19 years agoClarify that port number is 16 bit; reformat long lines
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:43:05 +0000 (07:43 +0000)] 
Clarify that port number is 16 bit; reformat long lines

19 years agoFormatting fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:23:19 +0000 (16:23 +0000)] 
Formatting fixes

19 years agoFormatting fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:38:39 +0000 (15:38 +0000)] 
Formatting fixes

19 years agoFormatting fixes.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:36:19 +0000 (15:36 +0000)] 
Formatting fixes.

19 years agoImprove st_blocks description.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:20:38 +0000 (14:20 +0000)] 
Improve st_blocks description.

19 years agoReady for 2.08
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:25:25 +0000 (08:25 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.08

19 years agoReady for 2.08
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:24:44 +0000 (08:24 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.08

19 years agoready for 2.07 man-pages-2.07
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 08:13:18 +0000 (08:13 +0000)] 
ready for 2.07

19 years agoready for 2.07
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:29:22 +0000 (07:29 +0000)] 
ready for 2.07

19 years agoConsistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with explanatory text,
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.

19 years agos/pid/PID/
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:32:54 +0000 (06:32 +0000)] 
s/pid/PID/

19 years agos/id/ID/
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:20:42 +0000 (06:20 +0000)] 
s/id/ID/

19 years agos/super user/superuser/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:13:06 +0000 (17:13 +0000)] 
s/super user/superuser/

19 years agos/file pointer/file offset/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:10:25 +0000 (17:10 +0000)] 
s/file pointer/file offset/

19 years agopseudotteudo-tty" terminology clean-up
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 17:10:04 +0000 (17:10 +0000)] 
pseudotteudo-tty" terminology clean-up

19 years agoConsistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID".
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".

19 years agoeuid-> effective UID
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:17:52 +0000 (16:17 +0000)] 
euid-> effective UID

19 years agos/\\-ID/ ID/
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:13:49 +0000 (16:13 +0000)] 
s/\\-ID/ ID/

19 years agoset-(group|user)-ID fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:09:29 +0000 (16:09 +0000)] 
set-(group|user)-ID fixes

19 years agoid --> ID
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:02:32 +0000 (16:02 +0000)] 
id --> ID

19 years agogid --> GID
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:54:49 +0000 (15:54 +0000)] 
gid --> GID