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2022-02-18Avoid gendered language in man pages when not referring to a specificJonathan Gray
person. Rewrite or use singular they. ok thfr@ sthen@ daniel@ ian@ job@ kmos@ jcs@ ratchov@ phessler@ and others I'm likely missing on an earlier version. feedback tj@, feedback and ok jmc@
2015-09-10use .In rather than .Fd #includeIngo Schwarze
2015-01-19Explicitly mention that PATH_MAX includes the NUL in the ENAMETOOLONGTodd C. Miller
description.
2014-12-10use .Rv; no change of meaning; from Kaspars at Bankovskis dot netIngo Schwarze
2014-02-13Don't use use .Tn with AND/OR/NOTPhilip Guenther
Phrase any "The _flags_ argument is the ..." line consistently, eliminating unnecessary use of 'inclusive' and saying "zero or more" or "one or more" as appropriate ok millert@ jmc@ schwarze@
2013-07-17more library historyIngo Schwarze
facts checked by sobrado@ style tweaks and ok jmc@
2013-04-01When there are multiple groups of functions with their own #includesPhilip Guenther
listed, the #includes in each group are independent, so that users don't need to guess at possible carry-over. general idea ok otto@ millert@ actual diff ok jmc@ schwarze@
2013-03-31Use consistent wording for the EINVAL, EBADF, ENOTDIR, and EACCES casesPhilip Guenther
of the various *at() functions.
2011-11-07Expand HISTORY; feedback and ok jmc@ sobrado@.Ingo Schwarze
This one is tricky, so i'm giving the sources: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/u2.s http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/nsys/ken/sys3.c http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/ken/sys4.c http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/sys4.c http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/sys/sys/sys4.c http://www.openbsd.org/plus21.html (lchown)
2011-10-24Update POSIX references for chdir(2) and chmod(2) from 1988 to 2008.Ingo Schwarze
Add POSIX references for fchdir(2), fchmod(2), fchmodat(2), fchown(2), lchown(2) and execve(2). State that fchmod(2) can return EPERM as required by POSIX 2008 (tested). Requested by sobrado@; ok guenther@ jmc@ sobrado@.
2011-07-19Change "constructed by bitwise-inclusive OR'ing of flags from ..." toMatthew Dempsky
"constructed by bitwise-inclusive ORing flags from ..." Requested by jmc@
2011-07-18Add (rough draft) documentation for fdopendir(3) and the 15 newMatthew Dempsky
XXXat(2) system calls from POSIX 2008. Editing will be done in tree. General style discussed with jmc@, schwarze@, and deraadt@ ok jmc@
2007-05-31convert to new .Dd format;Jason McIntyre
2005-08-12here too: sysctl is fs.posix.setuid, not fs.posix.suid;Jason McIntyre
2005-03-16chown(8): mention that this utility clears setuid/setgid bits by default;Jason McIntyre
from stuart henderson (pr #4149); chown(2)/chown(8): mention that sysctl variable fs.posix.setuid=0 overrides this behaviour; from millert and otto; ok deraadt@ otto@ millert@
2003-06-02Remove the advertising clause in the UCB license which BerkeleyTodd C. Miller
rescinded 22 July 1999. Proofed by myself and Theo.
2002-04-30Initial cleanup:Mike Pechkin
o) remove extra space in the end of line; o) remove extra blank lines in the end of file; o) remove .Pp before .Ss; o) CAVEAT -> CAVEATS; o) fix usage of .Fa; o) <blank-line> -> .Pp; o) wrap long lines; millert@ ok
2001-08-06o) We always close .Bl and .Bd tags;Mike Pechkin
o) .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS; o) We don't like .Pp before/after .Sh; o) We don't like .Pp before/after .Rs/.Re; o) NetBSD -> .Nx; o) OpenBSD -> .Ox; millert@ ok
2000-10-18Another round of man page cleanup, this time to remove more hard sentenceAaron Campbell
breaks and getting rid of short lines, making these files easier to work with.
2000-04-15- For consistency, `super-user' -> `superuser' in all cases.Aaron Campbell
- Some punctuation fixes. - Some `id' -> `ID'.
1999-06-29- change references to nil to null; tschroed@acm.orgAaron Campbell
- remove trailing spaces from end of lines - add some .Dv - change -1 to \-1, so `-' is taken as a negative sign - other misc formatting fixes
1999-06-05capitalize the acronym IDAaron Campbell
1999-05-16Cleanup xrefs under SEE ALSO. Specifically:Alex Feldman
- Sort xrefs by section, and then alphabetically. - Add missing commas between xref items. - Remove commas from the last xref entry. - Remove duplicate entries.
1999-02-27make function names the correct caseTheo de Raadt
1997-01-26Add lchown(), increment minor number.Jason Downs
1995-12-14from netbsd:Theo de Raadt
add & fix a bunch of system call pages
1995-10-18initial import of NetBSD treeTheo de Raadt