Poul-Henning Kamp
5767b83cd3
Add the utrace syscall.
1996-09-20 13:55:25 +00:00
Peter Wemm
863a1dba3a
Resync statfs struct with sys/mount.h.
1996-09-07 21:50:31 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
98d7138100
Describe POSIX saved IDs behaviour better
1996-09-03 11:32:01 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
64839956f6
Describe current behaviour (_POSIX_SAVED_IDS are ON),
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traditional BSD4.4 behavior (_POSIX_SAVED_IDS are OFF) was described
before.
Add some hooks to easily change this text when
POSIX_SAVED_IDS model will be changed.
1996-09-01 22:42:13 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
28eac3d225
function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX
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Obtained from: ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/cs/v7man/man2
1996-08-29 21:24:19 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
7bdf80e571
Correctly use .Fn instead of .Nm to reference function names
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in a bunch of man pages.
Use the correct .Bx (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.
1996-08-22 23:31:07 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
bf5a138ec4
Update a bunch of man pages to use .Fn instead
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of .Nm when referencing funciton names.
1996-08-22 22:05:59 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
d9cd459bc6
List all of the include files required for getpeername and getsockname.
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Closes PR# 1170.
Submitted by: James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com>
1996-08-22 20:49:57 +00:00
Julian Elischer
e0d898b48e
Some cleanups to the callout lists recently added.
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note that at_shutdown has a new parameter to indicate When
during a shutdown the callout should be made. also
add a RB_POWEROFF flag to reboot "howto" parameter..
tells the reboot code in our at_shutdown module to turn off the UPS
and kill the power. bound to be useful eventually on laptops
1996-08-22 03:50:33 +00:00
Sujal Patel
1bbb22c82e
Reflect the removal of the kernel's FD_SETSIZE limit.
1996-08-20 07:26:20 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
eddc44c480
A pipe function call appeared in Version *3* AT&T UNIX, not
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Version 6. Close PR #1490
Obtained from: Peter H. Saulus in `A Quarter Century of UNIX', page 50
1996-08-18 11:28:16 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
05bdf2ff0b
NCARGS is defined as 65536 in the released system, not 20480.
1996-08-15 21:04:29 +00:00
Bruce Evans
66ff54bd17
Document that the relevant clock ticks are for the statistics clock
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and that the statistics clock has a frequency of sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK).
1996-07-30 17:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Evans
e96009446d
Document that clock ticks are for the profiling clock and that the
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clock frequency is stored in the gmon header.
1996-07-30 17:26:34 +00:00
Bruce Evans
7d334687be
Fixed comment about ru_maxrss. This field isn't an integral.
1996-07-30 17:06:44 +00:00
John Dyson
343999a1b9
Document madvise(2) as it is in FreeBSD.
1996-07-20 04:37:26 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
e02dc2ce2b
add references lstat(2), readlink(2), symlink(7) in section SEE ALSO
1996-07-07 12:52:51 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
e9c032def8
Describe the "file pointer" in lseeks' man page a bit better
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so that it is less likely someone will confuse it with a
"FILE *" type pointer.
Submitted by: Based on James Raynard's patch
1996-07-03 02:55:10 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
8ae7d6b0cb
Document the "sig" function parameter.
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Submitted by: James Raynard
1996-07-03 02:44:04 +00:00
James Raynard
d748173277
Submitted by: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Document the fact that the tracefile argument must lead to a regular file.
Also took the opportunity to remove the spurious "Errors" entry
relating to filenames with the high-order bit set and add $Id$.
(More of the same to follow if there are no objections).
1996-06-22 18:05:15 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
17f47987b3
update sticky bit documentation
1996-06-09 20:53:00 +00:00
Alexander Langer
1f16ebd9a2
Rephrase some things as suggested by Bruce.
1996-06-08 15:59:43 +00:00
Alexander Langer
79020cf23f
Document that truncate can also be used to extend the size of a file,
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but doing so is not truly portable.
1996-06-07 01:34:47 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
8e3fab403b
Use ld -O insted of ld -o + mv.
1996-05-28 16:24:53 +00:00
Peter Wemm
b8953cdb9f
Document that the superuser cannot override link() and unlink() on
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directories, and mention that it was historical practice.
1996-05-24 16:32:11 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
712dc76e87
Fixed various problems: typos, grammer, missing include files
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wrong function type declarations, and wrong argument type
declarations.
1996-05-23 01:05:25 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
31d4757546
Make rules reentrant.
1996-05-09 11:30:51 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
9fb933075e
`mv'' ->
`mv -f''
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``rm'' -> ``rm -f''
so mv/rm may not ask for confirmation if you are not root
1996-05-07 23:19:49 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
eea782bac2
Remove a redundant description of the EMFILE error, and fix a typo.
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Submitted by: James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com>
1996-05-01 22:20:40 +00:00
Bruce Evans
50e9e20943
Fixed incomplete or wrong lists of prerequisite #includes related to
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<sys/types.h>.
1996-05-01 01:45:23 +00:00
Bruce Evans
3a880d5ded
Fixed a wrong prerequisite #include and a missing function-arg type.
1996-05-01 01:18:43 +00:00
Bruce Evans
6c0be88a57
Fixed misformatted #include (.Ft -> .Fd).
1996-05-01 01:04:44 +00:00
Sujal Patel
ea8c29e94b
Fix the man page to reflect the recent addition of RFNOWAIT and the removal of
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Plan9 specific flags.
1996-04-18 23:36:41 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
aed8797028
Document the possible EPERM return.
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Submitted by: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
1996-04-17 20:49:29 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
906c1e27fc
Correct some man page cross references and file location references.
1996-04-07 00:06:21 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
29d221cde6
Mention other possible errors that could be caused by the F_[GS]ETOWN
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commands.
1996-04-06 09:55:07 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
9cb8a1050f
Xref clocks(7).
1996-04-05 08:53:38 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7184fada11
Remove outdated (and never quite correct anyway) reference to the
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"fact" that pipes were implemented as calls to socketpair().
1996-04-03 04:57:27 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
064f007493
Added missing section numbers to a bunch of .Xr macros, or
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converted them into .Fn macros where appropriate. Also fixed
up some minor formatting problems.
1996-03-27 20:49:07 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c55acb6213
Update the current sigaction(2) man page to current reality..
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* sigstack(2) -> sigaltstack(2).
* Document the SA_NODEFER flag
* Document the SA_RESETHAND flag
1996-03-03 14:52:54 +00:00
Peter Wemm
6f0989b711
Update the docs after the rename of SA_DISABLE and SA_ONSTACK when used for
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ss_flags to SS_DISABLE and SS_ONSTACK. SA_ONSTACK is still used in
struct sigaction. Nowhere in our entire source tree could I find a
single place these were used.
1996-03-02 20:24:12 +00:00
Peter Wemm
39d11944d4
Document the int -> size_t change to the m* syscalls
1996-03-02 17:34:28 +00:00
Peter Wemm
9c8e90ad85
Add minherit.2 to Makefile.. (oops, forgot it before)
1996-02-24 15:32:12 +00:00
Peter Wemm
781006180d
rfork/minherit glue in libc
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man pages adapted from OpenBSD's versions.
1996-02-23 19:56:55 +00:00
Peter Wemm
574317c8f1
Add a dire warning about misusing the setlogin() system call. Be very
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explicit that it is global to the entire "session", and that setsid() or
daemon() are need to have been called at some point.
The most notable offender of setlogin() misuse is XFree86's xdm.
1996-02-23 10:28:01 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
e1f4e80c88
Fixed a bunch of man page cross references that were
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in the main text of various man pages.
Thanks to Warner Losh for adding an option to manck to allow
it to scan the entire man page looking for bogus xrefs, instead
of just checking the SEE ALSO section.
1996-02-15 20:07:05 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
3656c5f4df
Added a update(4) man page to describe the kernel initiated update
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process and changed all of the old references to update(8) to update(4).
1996-02-12 00:45:47 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
78b0b234eb
Correct a bunch of man page cross references and generally
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try and silence "manck".
ncurses, rpc, and some of the gnu stuff are still a big mess, however.
1996-02-11 22:38:05 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
c4c23c4df8
Another round of various man page cleanups.
1996-02-09 17:25:57 +00:00
Paul Traina
cfbf02b6ad
Clean up documentation on setuid/setgid bit handling.
1996-02-08 19:06:06 +00:00