Re: waitpid return value when there are no children

, returns the process ID of the child whose state has changed; if WNOHANG was specified and one or more child(ren) specified by pid exist, but have not yet changed state, then 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk

Re: [PATCH] open.2: improve description of O_DIRECT

context to Linus's quote, so I relocated that quote from BUGS into NOTES. I also added your name to the list of copyright holders for the page, since you have added a substantial piece to the page. The changes will be in man-pages-2.78. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux

Re: [PATCH 0/3] syslog.2 updates

that, and for the nicely split patch set -- makes processing so much easier! Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html

Re: [PATCH 3/3] syslog: document all type options

routine -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-man in the body

Re: [PATCH] syslog: document new return values

, +and \fIerrno\fP is set to indicate the error. -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Duplicated text in getaddrinfo(3)

given two paragraphs earlier. Yep -- I've consolidated the duplicated text into a single sentence, and also removed a bit of duplications elsewhere. I also rewrote the discussion of hints==NULL a bit, to provide some more detail. Chnages will be in 2.79. thanks! Michael -- Michael Kerrisk