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16 years agoReady for 2.79 man-pages-2.79
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:25:37 +0000 (13:25 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.79

16 years agoRemoved trailing white space at end of lines
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:24:34 +0000 (13:24 +0000)] 
Removed trailing white space at end of lines

16 years agoRemoved tabs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:24:26 +0000 (13:24 +0000)] 
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16 years agoUpdate .TH timestamp
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:20:49 +0000 (13:20 +0000)] 
Update .TH timestamp

16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:43:13 +0000 (12:43 +0000)] 
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16 years agoAdd grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:24:38 +0000 (10:24 +0000)] 
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.

16 years agoFix type for ssi_ptr field.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:12:18 +0000 (10:12 +0000)] 
Fix type for ssi_ptr field.

16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:55:28 +0000 (09:55 +0000)] 
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16 years agoFurther reworking of Q5/A5.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:28:54 +0000 (16:28 +0000)] 
Further reworking of Q5/A5.

16 years agoFurther work on Q6/A6, plus added some .\" comments for Q1/A1.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:08:02 +0000 (16:08 +0000)] 
Further work on Q6/A6, plus added some .\" comments for Q1/A1.

16 years agotfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:10:54 +0000 (16:10 +0000)] 
tfix

16 years agoffixes
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:04:59 +0000 (16:04 +0000)] 
ffixes

16 years agoFuther refinement of Q9/A9.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:54:33 +0000 (15:54 +0000)] 
Futher refinement of Q9/A9.

16 years agoMove discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:47:54 +0000 (14:47 +0000)] 
Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.

16 years agospfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:40:15 +0000 (14:40 +0000)] 
spfix

16 years agoChgange A3, to note that when events are available,
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:25:56 +0000 (14:25 +0000)] 
Chgange A3, to note that when events are available,
the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.

16 years agoRefine Q9/A9.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:49:29 +0000 (13:49 +0000)] 
Refine Q9/A9.

16 years agoAdded Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:24:52 +0000 (13:24 +0000)] 
Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
set is [file descriptor, open file description]

16 years agowfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:10:36 +0000 (12:10 +0000)] 
wfix

16 years agos/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:57:05 +0000 (11:57 +0000)] 
s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.

16 years agowfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:35:53 +0000 (11:35 +0000)] 
wfix

16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:20:26 +0000 (14:20 +0000)] 
ffix

16 years agoClarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:19:31 +0000 (14:19 +0000)] 
Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.

16 years agoRemove COLOPHON text, which was added to the source by mistake.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:32:12 +0000 (13:32 +0000)] 
Remove COLOPHON text, which was added to the source by mistake.

16 years agotfix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:29:53 +0000 (13:29 +0000)] 
tfix

16 years agoRework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:29:34 +0000 (13:29 +0000)] 
Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.

16 years agominor rewordings.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:38 +0000 (12:44 +0000)] 
minor rewordings.

16 years agowfix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:35:07 +0000 (12:35 +0000)] 
wfix

16 years agoClarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:34:29 +0000 (12:34 +0000)] 
Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.

16 years agoClarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:33:27 +0000 (12:33 +0000)] 
Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain open.

16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:21:02 +0000 (10:21 +0000)] 
ffix

16 years agoRefinements to last change.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:26:25 +0000 (09:26 +0000)] 
Refinements to last change.

16 years agoclarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:27:51 +0000 (08:27 +0000)] 
clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.

16 years agotfix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:30:27 +0000 (07:30 +0000)] 
tfix

16 years agoAdd SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:45:49 +0000 (16:45 +0000)] 
Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).

16 years agoAdd SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:45:27 +0000 (16:45 +0000)] 
Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).

16 years agoAdded FIXME.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:38:58 +0000 (15:38 +0000)] 
Added FIXME.

16 years agoClarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:18:34 +0000 (15:18 +0000)] 
Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.

16 years agoAdd timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime() to list.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:57:17 +0000 (13:57 +0000)] 
Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime() to list.

16 years agoRemove FIXMES + some othe rsmall clean-ups.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:45:59 +0000 (13:45 +0000)] 
Remove FIXMES + some othe rsmall clean-ups.

16 years agoLinks to eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:34:50 +0000 (13:34 +0000)] 
Links to eventfd.2

16 years agominot wording fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:34:34 +0000 (13:34 +0000)] 
minot wording fixes

16 years agoClarify description of realloc() behavior for ((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:06:08 +0000 (10:06 +0000)] 
Clarify description of realloc() behavior for ((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).

16 years agoMinor rewordings.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:57:30 +0000 (07:57 +0000)] 
Minor rewordings.

16 years agoFor 2.79
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:41:39 +0000 (07:41 +0000)] 
For 2.79

16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:41:23 +0000 (07:41 +0000)] 
sync

16 years agoUpdate /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:41:04 +0000 (07:41 +0000)] 
Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
It used to be true that the command line arguments were
not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
they should not have that limitation.

16 years agoRemove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:40:09 +0000 (07:40 +0000)] 
Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.

16 years agoAdded FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:59:24 +0000 (06:59 +0000)] 
Added FIXME

16 years agoNote that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:19:05 +0000 (16:19 +0000)] 
Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/

16 years agotfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:06:12 +0000 (15:06 +0000)] 
tfix

16 years agoMinor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:04:20 +0000 (15:04 +0000)] 
Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.

16 years agoAdd info on command type 10.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:32:04 +0000 (10:32 +0000)] 
Add info on command type 10.
Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Minor grammar fix.
Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
Update RETURN VALUE section.
Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
Other minor edits.

16 years agoAdded SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:40:53 +0000 (14:40 +0000)] 
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.

16 years agoRemoved out-of-date FIXMES.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:40:24 +0000 (14:40 +0000)] 
Removed out-of-date FIXMES.

16 years agoLinks to new timerfd_create.2 page.
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:35:18 +0000 (14:35 +0000)] 
Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.

16 years agoDescribes timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime(),
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:32:46 +0000 (14:32 +0000)] 
Describes timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime(),
new in 2.6.2.25.

16 years agoStart of 2.79
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:13:27 +0000 (14:13 +0000)] 
Start of 2.79

16 years agoReady for 2.78 man-pages-2.78
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:53:20 +0000 (11:53 +0000)] 
Ready for 2.78

16 years agoRemoved tabs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:52:22 +0000 (11:52 +0000)] 
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16 years agoUpdate .TH timestamp
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:49:23 +0000 (11:49 +0000)] 
Update .TH timestamp

16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:42:10 +0000 (11:42 +0000)] 
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16 years agoAdd SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:41:18 +0000 (11:41 +0000)] 
Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.

16 years agoNew page describing eventfd(2) system call.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:40:03 +0000 (11:40 +0000)] 
New page describing eventfd(2) system call.

16 years agoNew page describing signalfd() system call.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:39:31 +0000 (11:39 +0000)] 
New page describing signalfd() system call.

16 years agoGreatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:38:24 +0000 (10:38 +0000)] 
Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.

16 years agoFix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not return.
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:05:05 +0000 (10:05 +0000)] 
Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not return.
Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
and also what is used in the kernel source.
Other minor wording changes.

16 years agoAdded FIXMEs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:02:41 +0000 (09:02 +0000)] 
Added FIXMEs

16 years agoImprove wording describing error returns.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:29:11 +0000 (13:29 +0000)] 
Improve wording describing error returns.

16 years agospfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:20:52 +0000 (13:20 +0000)] 
spfix

16 years agoStart of 2.78.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:15:33 +0000 (13:15 +0000)] 
Start of 2.78.

16 years agoStart of 2.78
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:13:53 +0000 (13:13 +0000)] 
Start of 2.78

16 years agoUpdate date in .TH man-pages-2.77
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:01:28 +0000 (11:01 +0000)] 
Update date in .TH

16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:00:23 +0000 (11:00 +0000)] 
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16 years agoFix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:49:03 +0000 (10:49 +0000)] 
Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.

16 years agoExplicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:41:08 +0000 (10:41 +0000)] 
Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.

16 years agoAdd ENOSYS error to errors.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:35:05 +0000 (10:35 +0000)] 
Add ENOSYS error to errors.

16 years agoClarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:30:12 +0000 (10:30 +0000)] 
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.

16 years agoAdded FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:46:05 +0000 (10:46 +0000)] 
Added FIXME

16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:44:12 +0000 (10:44 +0000)] 
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16 years agoRemoved tabs
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:20:08 +0000 (10:20 +0000)] 
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16 years agosync
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:16:52 +0000 (10:16 +0000)] 
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16 years agoFurther refinements of discussion of when to use/not use alloca().
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:16:44 +0000 (10:16 +0000)] 
Further refinements of discussion of when to use/not use alloca().

16 years agotfix
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:43:13 +0000 (09:43 +0000)] 
tfix

16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:41:13 +0000 (09:41 +0000)] 
ffix

16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:08:05 +0000 (12:08 +0000)] 
ffix

16 years agoChange description in NAME section.
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:27:15 +0000 (08:27 +0000)] 
Change description in NAME section.

16 years agoVarious rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:25:10 +0000 (08:25 +0000)] 
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.

16 years agoAdded FIXME
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:37:59 +0000 (13:37 +0000)] 
Added FIXME

16 years agoremove junk line
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:51:44 +0000 (07:51 +0000)] 
remove junk line

16 years agoAdded discussion of directory streams.
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:00:19 +0000 (17:00 +0000)] 
Added discussion of directory streams.
Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
Changed authorship notice.

16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:40:31 +0000 (09:40 +0000)] 
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16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:29:25 +0000 (09:29 +0000)] 
ffix

16 years agoffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:15:10 +0000 (09:15 +0000)] 
ffix

16 years agoMinor wording chnages.
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:57:48 +0000 (08:57 +0000)] 
Minor wording chnages.

16 years agoScript to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided as
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:32:15 +0000 (08:32 +0000)] 
Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided as
command-line arguments.  This is useful to remove the COLOPHON sections
from all of the man pages in two different release trees in order to do a
"diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences between the trees.

16 years agoRewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by tgkill().
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:38:58 +0000 (17:38 +0000)] 
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by tgkill().

16 years agospfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:30:12 +0000 (16:30 +0000)] 
spfix

16 years agoStart of 2.77
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:08:35 +0000 (14:08 +0000)] 
Start of 2.77

16 years agoStart of 2.77
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:06:57 +0000 (14:06 +0000)] 
Start of 2.77