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18 years agoReady for 2.21 man-pages-2.21
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:11:15 +0000 (23:11 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.21

18 years agoClarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3)
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:47:36 +0000 (20:47 +0000)] 
Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3)
A few other small rewordings.

18 years agonew link to mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:40:32 +0000 (20:40 +0000)] 
new link to mmap.2

18 years agoAdded BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:39:23 +0000 (04:39 +0000)] 
Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.

18 years agoSome rewordings of recently added text
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:08:56 +0000 (01:08 +0000)] 
Some rewordings of recently added text

18 years agoClarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:25:27 +0000 (18:25 +0000)] 
Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
function by providing an example.

18 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:14:10 +0000 (17:14 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

18 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:09:59 +0000 (17:09 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

18 years agoFormat fix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:05:44 +0000 (17:05 +0000)] 
Format fix

18 years agoNoted use of atexit() to register a function that is
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:37:06 +0000 (05:37 +0000)] 
Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
automatically called when a library is unloaded.

18 years agoAdded description of RTLD_DEEPBIND.
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:14:39 +0000 (05:14 +0000)] 
Added description of RTLD_DEEPBIND.

18 years agoRewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:29:47 +0000 (04:29 +0000)] 
Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
added description of RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_DELETE.

18 years agoNoted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 14 Jan 2006 03:25:01 +0000 (03:25 +0000)] 
Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().

18 years agoAdd pointer to random(4) for description of files under
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:04:01 +0000 (10:04 +0000)] 
Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
/proc/sys/kernel/random.

18 years agoAdd RETURN VALUE section.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:58:42 +0000 (09:58 +0000)] 
Add RETURN VALUE section.

18 years agoReplace "SYSV" by "System V"
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:44:53 +0000 (09:44 +0000)] 
Replace "SYSV" by "System V"

18 years agoReplace "SysV" by "System V"
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:39:55 +0000 (09:39 +0000)] 
Replace "SysV" by "System V"

18 years agoGrammar/formatting fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:34:01 +0000 (09:34 +0000)] 
Grammar/formatting fixes

18 years agoSmall rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT (add cross-ref to socket(7)).
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:28:22 +0000 (08:28 +0000)] 
Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT (add cross-ref to socket(7)).

18 years agotypo fix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:17:15 +0000 (08:17 +0000)] 
typo fix

18 years agoRelocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:56:23 +0000 (07:56 +0000)] 
Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.

18 years agoGlobal change to many pages...
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:09:44 +0000 (02:09 +0000)] 
Global change to many pages...
Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
To rectify this the following changes were made in these pages:

Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.

18 years agoRewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:22:47 +0000 (00:22 +0000)] 
Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.

18 years agoAdded GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:53:50 +0000 (21:53 +0000)] 
Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
gethostname() wrapper function.

18 years agoNoted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:46:24 +0000 (19:46 +0000)] 
Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().

18 years agoDocumented /proc/PID/task.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:42 +0000 (05:08 +0000)] 
Documented /proc/PID/task.

Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task} are not
available if the main thread has terminated.

18 years agoNoted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:03:07 +0000 (11:03 +0000)] 
Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2

18 years agoUpdates
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:54:13 +0000 (10:54 +0000)] 
Updates

18 years agoNoted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:52:41 +0000 (10:52 +0000)] 
Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.

18 years agoUpdated FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:25:08 +0000 (10:25 +0000)] 
Updated FIXME

18 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:21:10 +0000 (09:21 +0000)] 
ffix

18 years agoTypo fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:16:00 +0000 (08:16 +0000)] 
Typo fixes

18 years agoStart of 2.21
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:09:00 +0000 (08:09 +0000)] 
Start of 2.21

18 years agoStart of 2.21
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:08:07 +0000 (08:08 +0000)] 
Start of 2.21

18 years agoStart of 2.21
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 4 Jan 2006 08:07:26 +0000 (08:07 +0000)] 
Start of 2.21

18 years ago2.20 man-pages-2.20
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:00:39 +0000 (13:00 +0000)] 
2.20

18 years agoPrepare for 2.20
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:58:30 +0000 (12:58 +0000)] 
Prepare for 2.20

18 years agoUpdates
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:54:21 +0000 (12:54 +0000)] 
Updates

18 years agoFormatting and source code line break changes (no changes to content!)
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 10:58:34 +0000 (10:58 +0000)] 
Formatting and source code line break changes (no changes to content!)

18 years agoAdded FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:30:34 +0000 (07:30 +0000)] 
Added FIXME

18 years agoNoted that capability bounding set appeared with kernel 2.2.11.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:33:24 +0000 (13:33 +0000)] 
Noted that capability bounding set appeared with kernel 2.2.11.

18 years agoNoted that this function is available since glibc 2.2.
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:09 +0000 (12:00 +0000)] 
Noted that this function is available since glibc 2.2.

18 years agos/nulls/null bytes/
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 1 Jan 2006 07:20:29 +0000 (07:20 +0000)] 
s/nulls/null bytes/

18 years agoAdded some text to explain the usual scenario in which
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 1 Jan 2006 07:02:49 +0000 (07:02 +0000)] 
Added some text to explain the usual scenario in which
sigaltstack() is employed.

18 years agoStart of 2.20
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:29:06 +0000 (14:29 +0000)] 
Start of 2.20

18 years agoStart of 2.20
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:27:28 +0000 (14:27 +0000)] 
Start of 2.20

18 years ago2.19 man-pages-2.19
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:17:50 +0000 (14:17 +0000)] 
2.19

18 years agoReady for 2.19
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:06:16 +0000 (14:06 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.19

18 years agoReady for 2.19
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:03:42 +0000 (14:03 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.19

18 years agoMinor changes
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:42:49 +0000 (09:42 +0000)] 
Minor changes

18 years agoMore wording changes for description of pipes.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:16:35 +0000 (15:16 +0000)] 
More wording changes for description of pipes.

18 years agoWording fix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:53:19 +0000 (12:53 +0000)] 
Wording fix

18 years agoSlight wording change to description of pipes.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:49:55 +0000 (12:49 +0000)] 
Slight wording change to description of pipes.

18 years agoRemove text under EINVAL error: "This may change in the future:
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:46:01 +0000 (10:46 +0000)] 
Remove text under EINVAL error: "This may change in the future:
see linux/unix/sock.c for details."  This behaviour has been
unchanged for a long time, and seems unlikely to change.

Add EADDRINUSE to errors.

18 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:33:47 +0000 (10:33 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

18 years agoAdd cmsg.3 to SEE ALSO.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:16:57 +0000 (09:16 +0000)] 
Add cmsg.3 to SEE ALSO.

18 years agoAdded description of 'x' mode character (exclusive open).
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:58:16 +0000 (15:58 +0000)] 
Added description of 'x' mode character (exclusive open).

18 years agoStart of 2.19
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:05 +0000 (13:15 +0000)] 
Start of 2.19

18 years agoStart of 2.19
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:12:41 +0000 (13:12 +0000)] 
Start of 2.19

18 years agoReady for 2.18 man-pages-2.18
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:05:51 +0000 (13:05 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.18

18 years agoUndo accidental deletion of many lines!
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:04:00 +0000 (13:04 +0000)] 
Undo accidental deletion of many lines!

18 years agoReady for 2.18.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:57:49 +0000 (12:57 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.18.

18 years agoNoted details of SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF support for Unix domain sockets.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:46:18 +0000 (12:46 +0000)] 
Noted details of SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF support for Unix domain sockets.

18 years agoNoted the Linux-specific feature whereby setsockopt() doubles
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:36:08 +0000 (12:36 +0000)] 
Noted the Linux-specific feature whereby setsockopt() doubles
the value given for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.

Noted kernel imposed minimum values for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.

18 years agoupdated FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:46:05 +0000 (16:46 +0000)] 
updated FIXME

18 years agoPut 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:44:39 +0000 (16:44 +0000)] 
Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.

18 years agoPut flags list in alphabetcal order
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:41:14 +0000 (16:41 +0000)] 
Put flags list in alphabetcal order

18 years agoAdded new (UN)SUPPORTED FEATURES section in which it is noted
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:36:17 +0000 (16:36 +0000)] 
Added new (UN)SUPPORTED FEATURES section in which it is noted
that Unix domain sockets do not support MSG_OOB or MSG_MORE.

18 years agoAdded cross-reference from discussion of MSG_MORE to UDP_CORK in udp(7).
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:30:49 +0000 (16:30 +0000)] 
Added cross-reference from discussion of MSG_MORE to UDP_CORK in udp(7).

18 years agoAdd + to unary operator list
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:50:57 +0000 (12:50 +0000)] 
Add + to unary operator list

18 years agoAdded err(3) to SEE ALSO
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:09:39 +0000 (12:09 +0000)] 
Added err(3) to SEE ALSO

18 years agoAdded CONFORMING TO section noting that these are non-standard BSDisms.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:08:59 +0000 (12:08 +0000)] 
Added CONFORMING TO section noting that these are non-standard BSDisms.

18 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:40:27 +0000 (11:40 +0000)] 
ffix

18 years agoAdded mention of AF_INET6 address family.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:37:28 +0000 (11:37 +0000)] 
Added mention of AF_INET6 address family.
Added discussion of sockaddr structure and an example in the Unix domain.

18 years agoSmall wording changes around discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:27:45 +0000 (10:27 +0000)] 
Small wording changes around discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Fixed a couple of wording errors elsewhere.
Reformatted some long lines.

18 years agoUpdated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:27:30 +0000 (10:27 +0000)] 
Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Reformatted some long lines.

18 years agoUpdated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:27:10 +0000 (10:27 +0000)] 
Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.

18 years agoA few refinments to recent changes
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:27:17 +0000 (09:27 +0000)] 
A few refinments to recent changes

18 years agodded resolver(5) to SEE ALSO
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:42:35 +0000 (18:42 +0000)] 
dded resolver(5) to SEE ALSO

18 years agoRewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavours of
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:42:16 +0000 (18:42 +0000)] 
Rewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavours of
strerror_r(), and added some additional information on strerror().

18 years agoRemove cross references to resolv+(8); add cross references to
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:23:07 +0000 (15:23 +0000)] 
Remove cross references to resolv+(8); add cross references to
resolv.conf(5).  (See also Debian Bug#214892)

18 years agoAdded references to nsswitch.conf(5); remove cross references
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:22:17 +0000 (15:22 +0000)] 
Added references to nsswitch.conf(5); remove cross references
to resolv+(8)

18 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:20:45 +0000 (14:20 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

18 years agoFix three typos in identifier names.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:36:17 +0000 (13:36 +0000)] 
Fix three typos in identifier names.

18 years agoStart of 2.18
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:31:44 +0000 (13:31 +0000)] 
Start of 2.18

18 years agoStart of 2.18
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:29:14 +0000 (13:29 +0000)] 
Start of 2.18

18 years agoReady for 2.17 man-pages-2.17
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:27:22 +0000 (11:27 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.17

18 years agoReady for 2.17
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:25:04 +0000 (11:25 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.17

18 years agoReady for 2.17
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:22:52 +0000 (11:22 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.17

18 years agoFurther refinement of SO_TIMESTAMP from Urs Thuermann.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:46:50 +0000 (10:46 +0000)] 
Further refinement of SO_TIMESTAMP from Urs Thuermann.

18 years agoTypo fix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:27:49 +0000 (09:27 +0000)] 
Typo fix

18 years agoAdded comment noting that fork.2 refers to the example program on this
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:19:46 +0000 (09:19 +0000)] 
Added comment noting that fork.2 refers to the example program on this
page.

18 years agoAdded xref to pipe.2 for another example of use of fork().
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:18:35 +0000 (09:18 +0000)] 
Added xref to pipe.2 for another example of use of fork().

18 years agominor chgs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:17:47 +0000 (09:17 +0000)] 
minor chgs

18 years agoAdded test on EXAMPLE PROGRAMS
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:16:33 +0000 (09:16 +0000)] 
Added test on EXAMPLE PROGRAMS

18 years agoFormatting fix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:37:46 +0000 (16:37 +0000)] 
Formatting fix

18 years agoAdded example program demonstrating use of fork() and waitpid().
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:37:05 +0000 (16:37 +0000)] 
Added example program demonstrating use of fork() and waitpid().

18 years agoAdded pointer to example of fork() in wait.2.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:36:12 +0000 (16:36 +0000)] 
Added pointer to example of fork() in wait.2.

18 years agoAdded example program.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:24:10 +0000 (14:24 +0000)] 
Added example program.

18 years agoImprovements after suggestions from Michael Haardt.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:23:53 +0000 (14:23 +0000)] 
Improvements after suggestions from Michael Haardt.