Siddhesh Poyarekar
b741de23e2
Add note on free list pointers overwriting M_PERTURB bytes
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Fixes BZ #12140 .
2012-10-18 08:25:03 +05:30
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
8ad11b9a9c
Add __ppc_get_timebase_freq to ppc.h.
2012-09-25 16:53:14 -05:00
Joseph Myers
65cafb1c3f
Use www.gnu.org as example hostname in manual/examples/inetcli.c.
2012-09-07 14:39:11 +00:00
John Tobey
01f49f59ce
Fix description of carg branch cut (bug 13542)
2012-09-07 12:52:20 +10:00
Joseph Myers
1d3c857210
Use www.gnu.org as example hostname in manual (bug 10014).
2012-09-07 00:25:42 +00:00
Joseph Myers
4c23fed5d5
Fix pointers between nodes in manual (bug 10038).
2012-09-07 00:06:07 +00:00
Alexandre Oliva
20196a5e5e
* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Fix typo. Complete entry.
2012-09-05 16:20:45 -03:00
Roland McGrath
696da85994
Fix typos in manual wrt syslog.
2012-08-20 12:44:59 -07:00
Jeff Law
42443a4792
* manual/stdio.texi (snprintf): Clarify handling of the trailing
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null byte in the output string.
2012-08-13 13:12:18 -06:00
Florian Weimer
84b3fd8407
Rename __secure_getenv to secure_getenv
2012-07-25 19:46:22 +02:00
Joseph Myers
b5982523b1
Document va_copy in preference to __va_copy.
2012-07-20 23:49:24 +00:00
Thomas Schwinge
dc97c227c9
setcontext: Clarify termination when uc_link is the null pointer.
2012-07-17 10:05:55 +02:00
Roland McGrath
6c55cda37a
BZ#14336: Manual spelling fixes.
2012-07-09 04:41:13 -07:00
Thomas Schwinge
4648c3819e
manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Sort alphabetically by last name.
2012-06-28 10:50:08 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
aac78a43b1
Add Samuel Thibault to manual/contrib.texi
2012-06-27 19:52:22 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
06c5abbdf8
Update manual/contrib.texi
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Update entry of Liubov Dmitrieva and add entries for Will Schmidt and Tulio Magno
Quites Machado Filho.
2012-06-15 09:14:17 +02:00
Roland McGrath
834f9b8d3c
Make sure <build-dir>/manual directory gets created.
2012-06-14 09:44:27 -07:00
Roland McGrath
eb55f5c21f
BZ#14218: Reword argp_parse description slightly.
2012-06-11 16:21:44 -07:00
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
d9dc34cd56
Manual for platform-specific features and new __ppc_get_timebase inline.
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[BZ #13743 ]
A new class of installed headers has been documented for low-level
platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
function to provide time base register access (__ppc_get_timebase). This
is required for applications that measure time at high frequencies with
high precision that can't afford a syscall.
2012-06-04 13:46:37 -05:00
Joseph Myers
40e45bd5d6
Do not mention old Linux kernel versions in installation documentation.
2012-05-23 12:48:01 +00:00
Andreas Jaeger
d8e272abb3
Rewrite manual/contrib.texi
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* manual/contrib.texi: Completely rewritten. It contains now an
alphabetical list of contributors and their contributions.
2012-05-21 20:33:57 +02:00
Richard Henderson
c7683a6d02
Add <sys/auxv.h> and getauxval.
2012-05-20 10:40:35 -07:00
Andreas Jaeger
e6bdb741d1
Fix INSTALL description for modified files in source dir
2012-05-18 20:30:51 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
e39745ffa0
Avoid compiler warnings in qsort/bsearch examples
2012-05-17 11:05:52 +02:00
Joseph Myers
6a3951a036
Update Texinfo version requirement.
2012-05-16 18:50:39 +00:00
Andreas Jaeger
6a4888ffd6
Do not build manual in source dir
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[BZ #13750 ]
Do not build manual anymore in the source dir. Also clean up the
Makefile and remove rules that have been used previously
when we had a stand-alone Makefile which was obsoleted recently.
2012-05-14 22:01:08 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
1bfb72913b
Fix concat example
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2012-05-14 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* manual/string.texi (Copying and Concatenation): Add missing
variable in concat example.
Reported by David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>.
2012-05-14 15:30:30 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
110c96ff29
Revert "Do not build manual in the source directory"
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This reverts commit e3945c47bd
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reverting since it breaks building.
2012-05-04 17:09:56 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
1261f5d10c
Revert "Update install.texi for building manual in build dir"
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This reverts commit 0d80ac6813
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Reverting since e3945c47bd
gets reverted
as well.
2012-05-04 17:09:22 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
0d80ac6813
Update install.texi for building manual in build dir
2012-05-04 13:28:33 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
e3945c47bd
Do not build manual in the source directory
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[BZ #13750 ]
Build the manual in the build directory and
not anymore in the source directory.
2012-05-04 13:13:57 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
7ac30cc5f0
Move FAQ to wiki
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The FAQ is now at http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/FAQ and not
anymore part of the repository.
2012-05-03 09:46:57 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
4e681b5b7e
Remove standalone manual support
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[BZ #13739 ]
We don't need a separate manual distribution
tar ball anymore, remove support for it from manual/Makefile.
2012-04-23 20:44:49 +02:00
Petr Baudis
247c3ede39
Fix description of user provided write function
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[BZ #2074 ]
* stdio.texi (Hook Functions): The user provided writer function
is not allowed to return -1.
2012-04-12 21:00:49 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
4cfd80263a
Fix times return value, CLK_TCK description
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[BZ #2636 ]
* manual/time.texi (Processor Time): Return type of times is
elapsed real time since an arbitrary point in the past.
(CPU Time): Move CLK_TCK from here...
(Processor Time): ...to here. Correct description.
* manual/conf.texi (Constants for Sysconf): Correct description of
_SC_CLK_TCK.
2012-04-11 09:20:50 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
0387979329
Enhance d_namlen description
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[BZ #6894 ]
* manual/filesys.texi (Directory Entries): Mention that d_namlen
is an optional BSD extension.
2012-04-09 21:10:13 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
823fbbb41b
Document additional fopen options
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[BZ #10254 ]
The manual failed to explain the new (the first were introduced with
glibc 2.3 or so) parameters to fopen.
2012-04-09 21:07:51 +02:00
Carlos O'Donell
c0ed9d7d2b
Use sourceware.org for email and web references.
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We use sourceware.org consistently to reference the
server that RedHat provides for community services
to open-source projects.
[BZ # 13963]
* manual/install.texi: Use sourceware.org.
2012-04-09 11:57:15 -04:00
Andreas Jaeger
6ab0fbfc84
Document return values of putenv and setenv
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[BZ #10153 ]
* manual/startup.texi (Environment Access): Describe return
value for putenv and setenv.
2012-04-08 19:43:41 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
7216225a73
Add generated file version.texi
2012-04-08 17:23:06 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
61efba8cdf
Describe DT_LNK
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[BZ #6895 ]
* manual/filesys.texi (Directory Entries): Add description for
DT_LNK.
2012-04-08 17:04:47 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
95c3f29a06
Fix DT_UNKNOWN description
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[BZ #6890 ]
* manual/filesys.texi (Directory Entries): Clarify that it's
file system not operating system in the description of DT_UNKNOWN.
2012-04-08 15:17:55 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
54472e9c32
Fix closelog description
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[BZ #6578 ]
The manual mentioned a non-existing function initlog, replace it with
openlog.
2012-04-08 15:01:46 +02:00
Stephen Compall
624254b18a
Better describe open arguments
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[BZ #6649 ]
* manual/llio.texi (Opening and Closing Files): Add cross
reference to explain mode argument.
2012-04-08 14:53:13 +02:00
Robert Millan
4dad7bab2b
Fix typo in manual
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lseek refers to WHENCE when it really means OFFSET
2012-04-06 21:38:42 +02:00
Andreas Jaeger
67f60a26d4
Fix typo in manual
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[BZ # 13938]
* manual/setjmp.texi (System V contexts): Fix sentence.
2012-04-03 09:43:38 +02:00
Joseph Myers
4535cd55e2
Don't document varargs.h.
2012-03-21 17:52:19 +00:00
Joseph Myers
be22ce65d7
Remove NOTES.
2012-03-21 16:56:28 +00:00
Roland McGrath
bb4e6db2f5
BZ#13846: manual/llio.texi (Memory-mapped I/O): Fix wrong function name.
2012-03-14 10:53:13 -07:00
Joseph Myers
a7a93d5086
Clean up glibc manual references to "GNU system" (bug 6911).
2012-03-08 01:27:38 +00:00