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
Wolfram Schneider
8ed714cd80
Submitted by: bruce, davidg, dyson
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add a BUG section for mmap with current limitation
section SYNOPSIS completed
1996-02-02 05:06:29 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
a5ed710ccd
Fix even more spelling errors in some more man pages.
1996-01-30 16:34:52 +00:00
Nate Williams
c524c9334d
Bring in the man page additions for PT_ATTACH/DETACH|GET/SET_REGS that
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were deleted out after the initial import now that Peter's code has
implemented them in -current.
1996-01-24 20:17:17 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
3f22919355
note in bugs section: madvise not yet implemented
1996-01-23 23:33:55 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
86cfd0dd41
Changed the description of SIGSYS to better reflect what
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it means when that signal is received. Closes PR# 686.
1996-01-22 12:31:15 +00:00
Julian Elischer
f70177e76e
Reviewed by: julian and (hsu?)
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Submitted by: John Birrel(L?)
changes for threadsafe operations
1996-01-22 00:02:33 +00:00
Nate Williams
ae5d6711ff
- FreeBSD'ized the ptrace manpage by removing non-FreeBSD specific portions.
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- install ptrace.2
1996-01-20 17:56:06 +00:00
Nate Williams
55b697783d
This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r13519,
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which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.
1996-01-20 17:35:25 +00:00
Nate Williams
6f2c1e42c7
ptrace(2) manpage
1996-01-20 17:35:25 +00:00
Peter Wemm
01cc6d5ae0
Document the change that I made to pipe(2)
1996-01-01 15:40:31 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
2f7778001d
Document recent changes in socket buffers and listen(2).
1995-11-03 18:34:38 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
b788806eb4
Remove the bugs section. sh(1) now has a ulimit builtin.
1995-10-19 18:45:44 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
5f5555b1ea
Add man pages for the SYSV shm* and sem* functions.
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This partially closes PR # docs/177.
This should probably also go into 2.1.
Submitted by: daveho@infocom.com (David Hovemeyer)
1995-10-03 19:17:21 +00:00
David Greenman
03a9df25d1
Indicate that backlog limit is 32.
1995-09-15 10:02:07 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
665994990b
There is no such file as /usr/include/ufs/quota.h. There is a file
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/usr/include/ufs/ufs/quota (#include <ufs/ufs/quota.h>) that seems to work
ok though.
Closes PR # docs/670: quotactl man page incorr...
Submitted by: evans@scnc.k12.mi.us (Jeffrey Evans)
1995-08-15 19:38:00 +00:00