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2024-05-02man/, share/mk/: Move man*/ to man/Alejandro Colomar1-1227/+0
2023-10-31man*/: srcfix (Use .P instead of .PP or .LP)Alejandro Colomar1-55/+55
2023-03-30man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sectionsAlejandro Colomar1-26/+30
2023-03-17man2/, man3/, man-pages.7: Move VERSIONS next to STANDARDSAlejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2023-03-15arc4random.3, man-pages.7: ffixAlejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2023-03-08man*/: srcfix (IP)Alejandro Colomar1-2/+1
2023-02-05Many pages: Use \[bu] instead of \(buAlejandro Colomar1-23/+23
2023-02-05Many pages: Use \[ha] instead of \(haAlejandro Colomar1-3/+3
2023-02-05Many pages: Use \[ti] instead of \(tiAlejandro Colomar1-2/+2
2023-02-05Many pages: Use \[em] instead of \(emAlejandro Colomar1-4/+4
2023-02-05man-pages.7: Recommend using \[..] instead of \(.. escapesAlejandro Colomar1-5/+5
2023-02-05Many pages: Use \[dq] instead of \(dqAlejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2023-02-05Many pages: Use \[aq] instead of \(aqAlejandro Colomar1-2/+2
2023-02-05Many pages: Use lowercase for 'glibc'Alejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2023-01-02man-pages.7: Add preferred term "symbolic link".G. Branden Robinson1-0/+1
2022-12-15Many pages: Add '\" t' comment where necessaryAlejandro Colomar1-0/+1
2022-12-15man-pages.7: tfixEric Biggers1-4/+4
2022-12-04Many pages: wfixAlejandro Colomar1-2/+2
2022-10-30Various pages: Use correct letter case in page titles (TH)Alejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2022-10-29man-pages.7: Document how to write listsAlejandro Colomar1-0/+58
2022-10-29Many pages: Use a consistent style for listsAlejandro Colomar1-28/+28
2022-10-23man-pages.7: ffixAlejandro Colomar1-15/+17
2022-10-22man-pages.7: Use . consistently in bulleted listMike Frysinger1-1/+1
2022-10-22man-pages.7: Add missing . before macroMike Frysinger1-1/+1
2022-10-09dist.mk, All pages: .TH: Generate date at 'make dist'Alejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2022-10-09getent.1, iconv.1, intro.1, ldd.1, locale.1, localedef.1, memusage.1, memusag...Alejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2022-09-09Revert "src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/"Alejandro Colomar1-0/+1162
2022-09-05src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/Alejandro Colomar1-1162/+0
2022-08-21man-pages.7: Document recent changes to .THAlejandro Colomar1-29/+6
2022-08-21All pages: Remove the 5th argument to .THAlejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2022-08-21All pages: Replace the 4th argument to .TH by "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"Alejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2022-08-02man-pages.7: ffixAlejandro Colomar1-39/+55
2022-07-29Many pages: Use STANDARDS instead of CONFORMING TOAlejandro Colomar1-2/+2
2022-07-26man-pages.7: Document CAVEATS sectionAlejandro Colomar1-0/+5
2022-07-22man-pages.7: The linker flag is not always necessaryAlejandro Colomar1-2/+2
2022-07-22man-pages.7: Document LIBRARY sectionAlejandro Colomar1-0/+9
2022-03-20Many pages: Fix style issues reported by `make lint-mandoc`Alejandro Colomar1-1/+3
2022-03-20Many pages: Fix style issues reported by `make lint-groff`Alejandro Colomar1-16/+40
2022-02-27man-pages.7: Document LIBRARY section for man2 and man3Alejandro Colomar1-0/+1
2022-02-25Various pages: [Linux-man-pages-copyleft] Use SPDX-License-IdentifierAlejandro Colomar1-21/+1
2022-01-26man-pages.7: wfixAlejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2021-11-13man-pages.7: Add phrasal semantic newlines adviseAlejandro Colomar1-3/+5
2021-11-13man-pages.7: Update nonbreaking space adviceG. Branden Robinson1-1/+1
2021-08-10man-pages.7: wfix: s/null character/null byte/Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2021-08-09localedef.1, access.2, ioctl_console.2, ioctl_fslabel.2, openat2.2, write.2, ...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+4
2021-08-09man-pages.7: wfixG. Branden Robinson1-1/+1
2021-03-22getent.1, ldd.1, locale.1, localedef.1, memusage.1, memusagestat.1, mtrace.1,...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2021-01-28man-pages.7: tfixAlejandro Colomar1-1/+1
2021-01-28man-pages.7: tfixJakub Wilk1-1/+1
2021-01-25man-pages.7: tfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2021-01-25man-pages.7: Add a FORMATTING AND WORDING CONVENTIONS sectionMichael Kerrisk1-0/+95
2021-01-21man-pages.7: Note some rationale for the use of real minus signsMichael Kerrisk1-0/+10
2021-01-19man-pages.7: Document "acknowledgement" as the preferred spellingMichael Kerrisk1-0/+5
2021-01-09Various pages: tfix (Oxford comma)Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2021-01-06man-pages.7: ffix: don't fill text in tablesMichael Kerrisk1-1/+5
2021-01-06man-pages.7: tfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-12-27man-pages.7: Add some notes on comments in example codeMichael Kerrisk1-1/+9
2020-11-16man-pages.7: ffix: use a table rather .nf/.fiMichael Kerrisk1-14/+15
2020-09-15man-pages.7: Add some more requests re code examplesMichael Kerrisk1-0/+2
2020-09-15man-pages.7: Soften the statement that ideal programs should be shortMichael Kerrisk1-2/+4
2020-08-13intro.1, clock_getres.2, execve.2, fcntl.2, iopl.2, lseek.2, mknod.2, mmap.2,...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-08-09man-pages.7: wfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-08-09man-pages.7: ffixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-08-09man-pages.7: ffixMichael Kerrisk1-3/+2
2020-08-09man-pages.7: srcfixMichael Kerrisk1-4/+0
2020-08-09man-pages.7: Add some notes on generating optimal glyphsMichael Kerrisk1-4/+16
2020-08-09pldd.1, bpf.2, execve.2, futex.2, ioctl_fat.2, ioctl_tty.2, keyctl.2, signalf...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-06-19man-pages.7: wfixJakub Wilk1-1/+1
2020-05-31man-pages.7: Rename EXAMPLE to EXAMPLESMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2020-05-31Various pages: retitle EXAMPLE section heading to EXAMPLESMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-05-31man-pages.7: Add REPORTING BUGS sectionMichael Kerrisk1-0/+10
2020-05-31man-pages.7: ffixMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2020-05-31man-pages.7: Describe COPYRIGHT sectionMichael Kerrisk1-0/+9
2020-05-31man-pages.7: Mention AUTHORS in summary section listMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-04-20man-pages.7: wfixMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2020-04-11getent.1, localedef.1, accept.2, arch_prctl.2, clock_getres.2, clock_nanoslee...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2020-02-23getent.1, localedef.1, clock_nanosleep.2, fcntl.2, getitimer.2, getsockopt.2,...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2019-10-11localedef.1, close.2, copy_file_range.2, execve.2, get_robust_list.2, getdoma...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2019-09-13man-pages.7: Relocate and enhance the text on semantic newlinesMichael Kerrisk1-4/+10
2019-09-13man-pages.7: Paragraphs should not be separated by blank linesMichael Kerrisk1-0/+9
2019-03-20man-pages.7: tfixJakub Wilk1-1/+1
2019-03-20man-pages.7: spfixJakub Wilk1-1/+1
2019-03-06getent.1, iconv.1, ldd.1, locale.1, localedef.1, memusage.1, memusagestat.1, ...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2019-02-27locale.1, memusage.1, pldd.1, _syscall.2, add_key.2, bind.2, bpf.2, chown.2, ...Michael Kerrisk1-6/+6
2018-02-02iconv.1, bpf.2, copy_file_range.2, fcntl.2, memfd_create.2, mlock.2, mount.2,...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2017-12-05iconv.1, pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3, man-pages.7, socket.7, iconvconfig....G. Branden Robinson1-0/+1
2017-10-27Replace Latin abbreviation "cf.".G. Branden Robinson1-3/+4
2017-10-23man-pages.7: Add a use case for real minus characterG. Branden Robinson1-0/+2
2017-10-18man-pages.7: Note that "x86-64" is generally preferred over "x86_64"Michael Kerrisk1-0/+3
2017-09-15iconv.1, ldd.1, locale.1, localedef.1, memusage.1, memusagestat.1, mtrace.1, ...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2017-08-19random.4, gai.conf.5, slabinfo.5, cgroup_namespaces.7, feature_test_macros.7,...Michael Kerrisk1-11/+13
2017-08-19ioctl_console.2, ioctl_getfsmap.2, ioctl_iflags.2, ioctl_list.2, ioctl_ns.2, ...Michael Kerrisk1-6/+6
2017-08-18dir_colors.5, feature_test_macros.7, glob.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, man-pages.7, man.7...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2017-08-16man-pages.7: Expand the guidance on formatting code snippetsMichael Kerrisk1-1/+26
2017-08-16environ.7, epoll.7, feature_test_macros.7, futex.7, ip.7, ipv6.7, locale.7, m...Michael Kerrisk1-58/+58
2017-08-15getauxval.3, cciss.4, cpuid.4, msr.4, proc.5, tmpfs.5, man-pages.7, pid_names...Michael Kerrisk1-5/+6
2017-05-03_exit.2, alarm.2, chmod.2, clone.2, epoll_ctl.2, fcntl.2, fork.2, fsync.2, ge...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2017-04-21man-pages.7: Note preferred approach for 'duplicate' errorsMichael Kerrisk1-0/+8
2017-03-24man-pages.7: wfixAlexander Miller1-2/+2
2017-01-30man-pages.7: tfixJakub Wilk1-1/+1
2016-07-17ldd.1, localedef.1, add_key.2, chroot.2, clone.2, fork.2, futex.2, get_mempol...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2016-07-07man-pages.7: Add a few more details on formatting conventionsMichael Kerrisk1-19/+37
2016-07-07man-pages.7: Clarify which sections man-pages provides man pages forMichael Kerrisk1-2/+3
2016-02-03membarrier.2, crypt.3, dladdr.3, duplocale.3, fmemopen.3, gethostbyname.3, ma...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2015-12-07man-pages.7: tfixJakub Wilk1-1/+1
2015-09-05man-pages.7: ffixVille Skyttä1-1/+1
2015-07-23intro.1, locale.1, _exit.2, access.2, bpf.2, brk.2, capget.2, chmod.2, chroot...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2015-05-08_exit.2, access.2, brk.2, chmod.2, clone.2, epoll_wait.2, eventfd.2, fork.2, ...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2015-03-09man-pages.7: Tweak preferred indent(1) commandMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2015-03-09man-pages.7: Add indent(1) command that produces desired formatting for examp...Michael Kerrisk1-0/+4
2015-03-03man-pages.7: Minor rewording of description of Section 5Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2015-03-02man-pages.7: Improve description of sections in accordance with intro pagesStéphane Aulery1-11/+13
2015-03-02mmap.2, a64l.3, abort.3, abs.3, acos.3, acosh.3, addseverity.3, adjtime.3, ai...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2015-02-27man-pages.7: Refer reader to attributes(7) for details of ATTRIBUTES sectionMichael Kerrisk1-21/+4
2015-02-27man-pages.7: SEE ALSO: add attributes(7)Michael Kerrisk1-0/+1
2014-12-31localedef.1, adjtimex.2, clock_nanosleep.2, epoll_ctl.2, ioctl.2, madvise.2, ...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-12-29man-pages.7: Clarify that SEE ALSO entries may refer to pages from other proj...Michael Kerrisk1-0/+5
2014-12-29man-pages.7: wfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-08-19Removed trailing white space at end of linesMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-08-19access.2, bdflush.2, bind.2, brk.2, chmod.2, chown.2, clone.2, epoll_wait.2, ...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-08-18man-pages.7: Add description of "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsectionMichael Kerrisk1-0/+6
2014-08-18man-pages.7: Rework text describing sections (stylistic improvements)Michael Kerrisk1-16/+30
2014-06-13localedef.1, execve.2, fcntl.2, flock.2, lseek.2, open.2, open_by_handle_at.2...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-05-28man-pages.7: Note that .TH 'date' field is nowadays automatically updated by ...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+6
2014-05-12delete_module.2, perf_event_open.2, sched_setscheduler.2, shmctl.2, gai.conf....Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-05-11man-pages.7: spfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-03-20man-pages.7: ffix: remove unneeded .ad tagsMichael Kerrisk1-4/+0
2014-03-18man-pages.7: Add preferred terms "uppercase" and "lowercase"Michael Kerrisk1-0/+2
2014-03-18duplocale.3, isalpha.3, strftime.3, strtol.3, strtoul.3, koi8-u.7, man-pages....Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2014-03-16man-pages.7: Add preferred term "superblock"Michael Kerrisk1-1/+5
2014-02-10man-pages.7: ATTRIBUTES sections come after VERSIONSMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-01-30man-pages.7: tfixDavid Prévot1-2/+2
2014-01-29man-pages.7: tfixDavid Prévot1-5/+6
2014-01-24epoll_wait.2, fallocate.2, gets.3, core.5, man-pages.7, netdevice.7: tstampMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-01-21man-pages.7: tfixSimon Paillard1-1/+1
2014-01-18madvise.2, perf_event_open.2, query_module.2, stat.2, sem_init.3, hpsa.4, rtc...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-01-15man-pages.7: Prefer "usable" over "useable"Michael Kerrisk1-0/+1
2014-01-08man-pages.7: s/Real hyphen/Real minus/Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2014-01-06man-pages.7: Various improvements to style guideMichael Kerrisk1-16/+29
2014-01-04man-pages.7: Minor fixesMichael Kerrisk1-6/+5
2014-01-03man-pages.7: Add STYLE GUIDE sectionMichael Kerrisk1-12/+261
2014-01-03man-pages.7: Add some further style notes for code examplesMichael Kerrisk1-18/+27
2014-01-03man-pages.7: Add historical note on reason for use of Americal spellingMichael Kerrisk1-1/+2
2014-01-03man-pages.7: wfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2014-01-02uselib.2, getfsent.3, regex.3, nsswitch.conf.5, inotify.7, man-pages.7, symli...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2013-07-24man-pages.7: DESCRIPTION should note versions for new interface features or b...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+18
2013-06-21io_setup.2, perf_event_open.2, readdir.2, syscall.2, a64l.3, abs.3, asprintf....Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2013-06-19man-pages.7: Add description of "ATTRIBUTES"Peng Haitao1-1/+24
2013-06-12ldd.1, bootparam.7, feature_test_macros.7, inotify.7, man-pages.7, man.7, sta...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+5
2013-04-01intro.1, _syscall.2, access.2, arch_prctl.2, cacheflush.2, chown.2, clock_get...Michael Kerrisk1-5/+5
2013-03-10intro.1, _exit.2, access.2, alarm.2, alloc_hugepages.2, arch_prctl.2, bind.2,...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2013-03-10intro.1, _exit.2, access.2, alarm.2, alloc_hugepages.2, arch_prctl.2, bind.2,...Michael Kerrisk1-0/+2
2013-03-05Removed trailing white space at end of linesMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2013-02-24man-pages.7: Describe rules for capitalization in .SS headingsMichael Kerrisk1-1/+6
2013-02-24intro.1, time.1, _syscall.2, accept.2, brk.2, capget.2, faccessat.2, futimesa...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2013-02-18man-pages.7: Minor rewording in DESCRIPTIONMichael Kerrisk1-2/+6
2013-01-17man-pages.7: Update description of Section 7Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2012-10-24man-pages.7: tfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2012-10-24man-pages.7: Note rules for capitalization in NAME sectionMichael Kerrisk1-1/+5
2012-10-15Removed trailing white space at end of linesMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2012-10-15timer_settime.2, man-pages.7: tstampMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2012-09-26time.1, atexit.3, bsearch.3, dlopen.3, envz_add.3, errno.3, fmtmsg.3, getgren...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2012-09-25man-pages.7: Add some advice about disabling hyphenation in SEE ALSOMichael Kerrisk1-0/+11
2012-09-24time.1, atexit.3, bsearch.3, dlopen.3, envz_add.3, errno.3, fmtmsg.3, getgren...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2012-05-07man-pages.7: wfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2011-10-03intro.1, fork.2, futex.2, open.2, rename.2, select_tut.2, semop.2, spu_create...Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2010-01-16accept.2, access.2, acct.2, clock_nanosleep.2, mbind.2, mincore.2, remap_file...Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2009-02-20man-pages.7: spfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2009-02-20man-pages.7: ffixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2008-10-29man-pages.7: spfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2008-10-29man-pages.7: Example shell sessions should have user input boldfacedMichael Kerrisk1-2/+6
2008-07-15A list of standards in the CONFORMING TO list should be terminated by a period.Michael Kerrisk1-1/+7
2008-07-09wfixMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2008-06-26ffixesMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2008-06-26Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions.Michael Kerrisk1-0/+24
2008-06-16Updated text referring to syscalls(2).Michael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2008-06-11Expand description of VERSIONS section.Michael Kerrisk1-1/+18
2008-05-26ffixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+0
2008-01-01Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.Michael Kerrisk1-5/+5
2008-01-01tfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-12-29update timestampMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-12-29Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>).Michael Kerrisk1-0/+6
2007-12-25grfixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-12-23Move CONFIGURATION description after SYNOPSIS description.Michael Kerrisk1-4/+4
2007-12-19Updated date in .TH lineMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-12-19Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell sessionMichael Kerrisk1-0/+6
2007-12-19ffixMichael Kerrisk1-2/+0
2007-12-10Improve discussion of formatting of file names.Michael Kerrisk1-2/+5
2007-12-09Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").Michael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-12-05ffixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-11-24Update date in .TH lineMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-11-24ffixMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-11-23Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names.Michael Kerrisk1-0/+5
2007-09-20Fix redundant formatting macrosMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2007-09-20Change mtk's email addressMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-08-27Nowadays tmac.XXX are called XXX.tmacMichael Kerrisk1-1/+1
2007-07-16tfixMichael Kerrisk1-2/+2
2007-07-08Minor changesMichael Kerrisk1-1/+3
2007-07-03Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a descriptionMichael Kerrisk1-1/+5
2007-07-03Added some FIXMEsMichael Kerrisk1-0/+2
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