2e2dd171b3
Correct man-page category of posix_spawn: is (3) not (2)
2017-01-11 07:32:36 +00:00
5ed9a833b2
Document SIGTRAP with si_code TRAP_CHLD in ptrace(2)
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Document the current behavior of TRAP_CHILD in NetBSD.
Add more notes on PTRACE_FORK events.
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2017-01-11 07:31:14 +00:00
fe8fae7920
Add missing word.
2017-01-10 06:28:46 +00:00
69c3a1c44c
Add more notes explaining how debuggers work on NetBSD
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Explain:
- execve(2) handling and behavior, SIGTRAP & TRAP_EXEC
- reference PaX MPROTECT restrictions for debuggers
- software breakpoints handling and behavior, SIGTRAP & TRAP_BKPT
- single step behavior, SIGTRAP & TRAP_TRACE
- list predefined MI symbols for help debuggers in port specific headers
- explain that PT_TRACE_ME does not send a SIGSTOP signal
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2017-01-07 05:51:14 +00:00
6a0def7293
Document PT_SET_SIGINFO and PT_GET_SIGINFO in ptrace(2)
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PT_SET_SIGINFO - fake signal information emitted to tracee
PT_GET_SIGINFO - read signal information routed to tracee
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2017-01-07 03:41:25 +00:00
6615db4a39
Fix swapped text between PT_GET_PROCESS_STATE and PT_GET_EVENT_MASK
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Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2017-01-07 01:32:35 +00:00
929c1cc1fe
ptrace(2): Document addr and data argument usage for PT_GET_PROCESS_STATE
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The PT_GET_PROCESS_STATE call in ptrace(2) has the following usage of addr
and data:
A pointer to this structure is passed in addr. The data
argument should be set to sizeof(struct ptrace_event).
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2017-01-07 01:29:18 +00:00
383dde7b6a
Reference siginfo(2) for a SIGCHLD signal
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siginfo(2) describes appropriate signal specific information for SIGCHLD.
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-12-29 22:17:51 +00:00
af4d0016d3
Use markup for errno
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Also remove a .Pp before .Bl while there
2016-12-19 07:48:35 +00:00
fc41d23c04
Be consistent in using process' (vs process's).
2016-12-19 07:17:45 +00:00
490a78e58c
Fix sentence.
2016-12-19 06:45:29 +00:00
1779f12820
ptrace(2): Document PT_GETVECREGS and PT_SETVECREGS (ppc ports specific)
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Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-12-15 15:03:17 +00:00
3c3d6699d5
ptrace(2): Document PT_GETXMMREGS and PT_SETXMMREGS (i386 port specific)
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Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-12-15 14:49:46 +00:00
091cebb2c4
ptrace(2): Remove dead text, some of it commented in this file for years
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For example PT_READ_U/PT_WRITE_U has been removed by <mycroft> in 19950126.
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-12-15 13:06:08 +00:00
4067ec816b
Remove outdated note in the PT_DUMPCORE call of the ptrace(2) man-page
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Currently the PT_DUMPCORE call requires process to be stopped, therefore it
no longer need to warn about stoped tracee to generate consistent data.
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-12-10 20:02:07 +00:00
eedb67d83d
Remove duplicated PT_DUMPCORE description in machine-specific calls section
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This function is part of the general ptrace(2) interface.
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-11-24 00:12:52 +00:00
14feb52a56
Whitespace.
2016-11-20 09:38:37 +00:00
b6a15c213c
Add crossreference to fork(2) per note in PR 9627.
2016-11-20 07:05:20 +00:00
f662fdae7e
Whitespace.
2016-11-14 10:40:59 +00:00
c231d3fa1b
Explain rmtp setting.
2016-11-11 16:07:05 +00:00
50d1e6ecfe
Document WNOZOMBIE
2016-11-10 17:08:31 +00:00
bf821edee1
Typo - "a requests" --> "a request"
2016-11-02 03:21:38 +00:00
f899b3dcea
Bump date for previous.
2016-11-01 15:30:47 +00:00
0144090d24
Document PT_SET_EVENT_MASK, PT_GET_EVENT_MASK and PT_GET_PROCESS_STATE
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These descriptions are imported from OpenBSD.
Approved by <christos>
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
2016-11-01 13:51:13 +00:00
d6414e373d
Remove duplicate Pp.
2016-09-27 11:11:43 +00:00
a49c1d21d7
move the description of CLOCK_REALTIME in the list.
2016-09-24 01:05:51 +00:00
0c9a844188
Merge ENOMEM descriptions.
2016-08-28 05:07:50 +00:00
880009a06c
fix broken xrefs
2016-08-28 00:15:01 +00:00
c959793a57
Rework pursuant to PR 7934: be more clear about the page granularity
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behavior and when new memory is zeroed.
Also, strengthen the warning about mixing with calls to malloc (which
is not a bug) and mention that the portable way to fetch the initial
break is to call sbrk(0). There are implementations in the wild where
using _end as the initial break doesn't work.
2016-08-27 23:06:01 +00:00
6333fb3d2f
Sort errors.
2016-07-30 11:31:00 +00:00
c38e2c9645
Remove obsolete BUGS section. getsockname(2) report sensible values
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for bound UNIX domain sockets.
2016-07-30 11:10:40 +00:00
8cc73798f2
Remove one of the two SEE ALSO sections.
2016-07-25 22:00:36 +00:00
7304bf1e95
Merge two EAGAIN sections.
2016-07-12 12:24:40 +00:00
20b32a3eee
Drop in a reference to the list of async-signal-safe functions.
2016-07-09 23:10:05 +00:00
b00b33da18
Dump the list of async-signal-safe functions here. It belongs in
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programmer-facing docs, not user-facing docs, so shouldn't be in
signal(7).
2016-07-09 23:08:32 +00:00
7cf7644fc7
GSoC 2016 Charles Cui: Implement thread priority protection based on work
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by Andy Doran. Also document the get/set pshared thread calls as not
implemented, and add a skeleton implementation that is disabled.
XXX: document _sched_protect(2).
2016-07-03 14:24:58 +00:00
c763387bbc
Bump date for header file change.
2016-06-30 18:43:43 +00:00
5fd6a784bb
Document WAIT_ANY and WAIT_MYPGRP constants
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(text referenced from OpenBSD wait(2) man page)
While there, remove duplicated information and add more refernces in SEE ALSO
Also, the NOTES section refers to intro(2), while siginterrupt(3) is a better
suited reference, so fix that too.
Ok by wiz
2016-06-30 17:00:55 +00:00
ae3b3bcc2b
PR 51287 Ralf Nolden: posix_fallocate belongs in <fcntl.h>
2016-06-30 15:29:20 +00:00
e3d1905862
Use generic types in the profil(2) function prototype (<unistd.h>)
2016-06-18 14:39:15 +00:00
71d366f3be
Bump date for previous
2016-06-16 12:48:09 +00:00
e9d3857230
Fix typo
2016-06-16 12:47:10 +00:00
3694604d12
move section around.
2016-04-29 13:17:09 +00:00
eb86c933a1
Sort a bit more.
2016-04-29 12:25:51 +00:00
8eca53f5f0
- merge the options descriptions, sort them.
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- fix wrusage name.
2016-04-28 16:07:26 +00:00
982b0c24c2
Fix typos, whitespace, formatting.
2016-04-24 08:59:30 +00:00
817b192df2
add clock_getcpuclockid{2,}
2016-04-23 23:11:31 +00:00
54920d4dc7
Drop trailing whitespace.
2016-04-06 08:18:35 +00:00
7ffce30f1b
revert part of previous; not needed.
2016-04-06 04:09:10 +00:00
a071bd3ff9
- clarify si_signo difference for waitid and wait6 as per POSIX.
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- implement it.
- document WIFCONTINUED
2016-04-06 03:50:03 +00:00
386cb828c3
Use more markup, fix a typo.
2016-04-04 13:13:09 +00:00
aad157eb21
add idtype.h to mklintstub and say who generates it.
2016-04-03 00:48:29 +00:00
406ebcd6ac
userland bits for wait6/waitid.
2016-04-03 00:19:42 +00:00
1b0989ebef
Sort errors. Improve markup.
2016-03-20 20:09:49 +00:00
71d3320a40
Sync documentation of struct ktr_header with reality:
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- there is a ktr_version field
- the ordering of ktr_type and ktr_version is byte-order dependent
- ktr_time is now a timespec, not a timeval
- there's now a ktr_lid field
- there is no such thing as a ktr_buf field and it's certainly not
a caddr_t.
XXX: I would appreciate it if someone who knows how this stuff works
XXX: could review this file in case it's still lying in some more
XXX: subtle way.
2016-03-19 17:15:13 +00:00
02cda16070
Update documented prerequisite includes. PR 50633 and PR 50634.
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Remove sys/uio.h, and swap sys/param.h for sys/types.h as sys/ktrace.h
depends on MAXCOMLEN.
Bump date; first time since 1993.
2016-03-19 17:05:36 +00:00
2a52e0ce6c
MAXNAMLEN, not MAXNAMELEN. From Giuseppe Gatta on netbsd-docs.
2016-01-23 08:17:18 +00:00
b02bef0817
Fix xrefs.
2015-12-30 16:51:31 +00:00
ea8091c08e
point to more information about clock_id
2015-12-30 16:47:24 +00:00
d7f847e7d4
Fix date.
2015-12-09 08:30:03 +00:00
a25476cdad
PR/50506: Tobias Nygren: kqueue(2) lacks EV_DISPATCH/EV_RECEIPT support
2015-12-08 14:52:06 +00:00
c423c59d2d
Update to match reality. For these functions, we still try the system
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call first, and only fall back to /dev/clockctl if the system call
fails.
2015-12-07 23:20:57 +00:00
374d132d42
Drop trailing whitespace.
2015-11-29 21:38:10 +00:00
121d6f085a
Initial documentation of the internal syscalls that implement the librt
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posix semaphores. As requested in PR kern/37427
XXX Feel free to expand this page!
2015-11-29 06:10:01 +00:00
82bcd0c81b
Document the ms_flags field which is now exported in struct modstat
2015-11-04 04:31:53 +00:00
c1ef8df3ab
Fix macro. Remove trailing whitespace.
2015-11-01 08:52:29 +00:00
94aa2c7cfc
mention what we are allowed to do.
2015-10-31 17:45:32 +00:00
a786eb43af
PR/50295: Fix clock_nanosleep return value documentation.
2015-10-02 19:52:49 +00:00
a42548a2aa
document PIOD_READ_AUXV.
2015-07-02 03:50:21 +00:00
9fc9038db1
Provide additional info on why ENOEXEC gets returned.
2015-05-09 08:10:01 +00:00
858361fa34
Remove trailing whitespace.
2015-04-22 13:59:54 +00:00
9cf433da08
Mention EWOULDBLOCK too since a lot of the source code and documentation still
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refers to it.
2015-04-21 21:22:07 +00:00
1ce6069203
Sort errors. Bump date for previous.
2015-04-05 20:41:05 +00:00
2ed41a38ec
Note that bind(2) can fail with EAFNOSUPPORT. The description of why is
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taken from the connect(2) manpage.
2015-04-05 20:33:45 +00:00
6998697823
say that we put the exit code in data.
2015-03-02 19:24:19 +00:00
f5804ec983
Document SIGBUS per ToG.
2015-02-27 16:18:00 +00:00
b482bd6fc9
It is 2015 already.
2015-02-08 14:10:28 +00:00
45cb14b62a
The length argument is of an unsigned type (size_t) and cannot be
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negative. Remove wrong statements in ERRORS section.
2015-02-08 11:27:43 +00:00
0bf39b3f13
PR/49617: Kirk Russell: Describe the posix_fallocate return values correctly.
2015-02-01 15:24:15 +00:00
5415342756
PR/49617: Kirk Russell: posix_fallocate() should be returning an error on
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failure, without setting errno, so make it PSEUDO_NOERROR, by adding a new
category GLUENOERR.
2015-01-31 23:10:56 +00:00
68179c3df2
Remove va_arg hack for Clang/PPC.
2015-01-29 20:44:38 +00:00
99c1481cc2
Remove superfluous comma.
2015-01-27 10:11:20 +00:00
a17684a24c
Add hooks for RUMPRUN build of libc
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If "yes", does the following (default "no"):
* prevents ASM syscalls from being built (librump provides syscalls)
* does not include compat (useless when application is linked with libc)
* does not build tags (no /var/db to install them to)
* does not include tls
==> libc for rumprun can now be built against unmodified NetBSD sources
2014-12-10 00:37:30 +00:00
9425d53a52
Do not hardcode values for ENAMETOOLONG, use symblic constants.
2014-11-11 08:10:02 +00:00
294822e1e1
Use more markups in AUTHORS section.
2014-11-02 11:28:03 +00:00
0ab951a98a
Note that rmdir(2) fails with EINVAL when the path last component is
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`.' (dot).
2014-10-11 12:06:58 +00:00
fd871e46ea
Use '.Rv -std' for RETURN VALUES, sort ERRORS.
2014-10-11 11:50:11 +00:00
957f6a3676
Fix synopsis, remove unneeded Pp macro before display block and add one
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before prototype. While here, use "Rv -std" for RETURN VALUES.
2014-09-27 12:11:13 +00:00
724e214f8d
Fix argument paddiing for posix_fallocate and fdiscard with gcc 1.x
2014-09-25 15:08:29 +00:00
2a65137f55
Sort sections. From Henning Petersen in PR 49222.
2014-09-19 16:02:58 +00:00
9074b7ff29
Use the lint path as workaround for Clang on 32bit PPC for now.
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Document this hack.
2014-08-13 14:43:48 +00:00
76ef534724
If LINT code path uses memcpy, it should also include string.h.
2014-08-10 17:55:08 +00:00
19aeab521f
Rework minherit(2) man page into a table.
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XXX Do we not guarantee page-granularity inheritance? Cursory glance
at uvm suggests we do -- can we nix the caveats about regions vs
pages?
2014-08-05 15:01:03 +00:00
be225fdda5
PR/49045: Tetsuya Isaki: remove remaining caddr_t in ptrace(2)
2014-07-28 08:10:23 +00:00
d882c3d502
Sort errors. Whitespace nits.
2014-07-25 08:47:42 +00:00
03f93851e3
Sort SEE ALSO.
2014-07-25 08:44:54 +00:00
d0352e761c
Add userlevel manifestations of posix_fallocate and fdiscard, in
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unistd.h and libc, and add a man page.
Allow wiggle room in the man page for implementations of fallocate
that either (a) don't fully unwind on failure, leaving new blocks
allocated without changing the file size, or (b) create only in-memory
transient reservations that disappear when crashing or rebooting.
Also, add crossreference to fdiscard from ftruncate(2), and remove the
old BUGS entry from there that called for a generalized version that
allows discarding ranges of a file: that's what fdiscard is.
2014-07-25 08:30:47 +00:00
156ed6c7d3
fix usage
2014-07-19 19:26:47 +00:00
885875e18f
Remove
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Users should not depend on the memory sharing semantics of vfork() as
other ways of speeding up the fork process may be developed in the
future.
as we are not planning to deprecate vfork. Besides NetBSD's
compatibility policy means we wouldn't change it anyway but introduce
something new.
Add
Portable applications should not depend on the memory sharing semantics
of vfork() as implementations exist that implement vfork() as plain
fork(2).
because this is or used to be a real hazard.
ok christos
2014-07-18 16:02:50 +00:00
b50dcf12b2
Clarify HISTORY and bump date.
2014-07-18 15:58:51 +00:00
kamil