Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
namely uuidgen(1), uuidgen(2) and uuid(3), the following division
has been choosen:
uuidgen(1) A description of the command line utility,
and other user oriented UUID information.
uuidgen(2) A mostly technical description of UUIDs.
uuid(3) A description of the functions and other
programmer oriented UUID information.
According to the division: add more technical contents.
Contributed by: Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
Edited and enhanced: marcel
the page myself. The new language is more accurate than what was there
before, but the most accurate way of describing the funcionality eludes
me.
PR: kern/33904
MFC after: 1 month
the data value returned by kevent()'s EVFILT_READ filter on non-TCP
sockets accurately reflects the amount of data that can be read from the
sockets by applications.
PR: 30634
Reviewed by: -net, -arch
Sponsored by: NTT Multimedia Communications Labs
MFC after: 2 weeks
linking.
* Fix disorder in the SEE ALSO sections of aio_*(2).
* Remove unnecessary cross-references from the SEE ALSO sections of
aio_*(2); config(8), kldload(8) and kldunload(8) are cross-referenced
from aio(4).
* Remove the KERNEL OPTIONS sections from aio_*(2), now that these
pages cross-reference aio(4), which contains suitable kernel linking
reference material.
`sigprocmask', `sigaltstack', and `sigwait' as well as to the
prototypes of the apparantly unimplemented functions `sigtimedwait'
and `sigwaitinfo'. This complies with IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.
ceased to be useful when the number of "special processes" went from 3
to one per device. I considered replacing it with a "kernel threads"
section, but this seemed like the wrong place for that.
PR: 40969
doesn't do this, and it wouldn't be very useful if it did, since the
caller supplies us with that number.
PR: 41329
Submitted by: Michael Galassi <nerd@xyz.com>
support creation times such as UFS2) to the value of the
modification time if the value of the modification time is older
than the current creation time. See utimes(2) for further details.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
