Hi Helge, On 1/22/23 20:31, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
Without further ado, the following was found: Issue: Kernels 1.1.67 → Linux 1.1.67 "Dump screen width and height, cursor position, and all the character-" "attribute pairs. (Kernels 1.1.67 through 1.1.91 only. With Linux 1.1.92 or" "later, read from I</dev/vcsa*> instead.)" "Restore screen width and height, cursor position, and all the character-" "attribute pairs. (Kernels 1.1.67 through 1.1.91 only. With Linux 1.1.92 or" "later, write to I</dev/vcsa*> instead.)"
Fixed. Thanks,
Alex
commit a303a5110735fc3dc60ea0843331be196ff5d6b0 (HEAD -> master, korg/master)
Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Jan 22 22:40:00 2023 +0100
Various pages: wfix
Fixes: b324e17d3208 ("Many pages: wfix")
Reported-by: Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mario Blaettermann <mario.blaettermann@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/man2/access.2 b/man2/access.2
index 1f5809b40..19c44ac54 100644
--- a/man2/access.2
+++ b/man2/access.2
@@ -418,8 +418,8 @@ .SH BUGS
.BR access ()
returns 0 for such files.
.\" This behavior appears to have been an implementation accident.
-Early 2.6 kernels (up to and including 2.6.3)
-also behaved in the same way as kernel 2.4.
+Early Linux 2.6 (up to and including Linux 2.6.3)
+also behaved in the same way as Linux 2.4.
.PP
Before Linux 2.6.20,
these calls ignored the effect of the
diff --git a/man2/adjtimex.2 b/man2/adjtimex.2
index 96bfa6846..df7d27cd4 100644
--- a/man2/adjtimex.2
+++ b/man2/adjtimex.2
@@ -468,14 +468,14 @@ .SH ERRORS
.I buf
does not point to writable memory.
.TP
-.BR EINVAL " (kernels before Linux 2.6.26)"
+.BR EINVAL " (before Linux 2.6.26)"
An attempt was made to set
.I buf.freq
to a value outside the range (\-33554432, +33554432).
.\" From a quick glance, it appears there was no clamping or range check
.\" for buf.freq before Linux 2.0
.TP
-.BR EINVAL " (kernels before Linux 2.6.26)"
+.BR EINVAL " (before Linux 2.6.26)"
An attempt was made to set
.I buf.offset
to a value outside the permitted range.
diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2
index 0f43624c1..861122a68 100644
--- a/man2/getdents.2
+++ b/man2/getdents.2
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ .SS getdents()
It occupies a space that was previously a zero-filled padding byte in the
.I linux_dirent
structure.
-Thus, on kernels up to and including 2.6.3,
+Thus, on kernels up to and including Linux 2.6.3,
attempting to access this field always provides the value 0
.RB ( DT_UNKNOWN ).
.PP
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_console.2 b/man2/ioctl_console.2
index 2d4feb88b..89f794c19 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_console.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_console.2
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
For each vt in use, the corresponding bit in the
.I v_state
member is set.
-(Kernels 1.0 through 1.1.92.)
+(Linux 1.0 through Linux 1.1.92.)
.TP
.B VT_RELDISP
Release a display.
@@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
.BR TIOCLINUX ", " subcode = 8
Dump screen width and height, cursor position, and all the
character-attribute pairs.
-(Kernels 1.1.67 through 1.1.91 only.
+(Linux 1.1.67 through Linux 1.1.91 only.
With Linux 1.1.92 or later, read from
.I /dev/vcsa*
instead.)
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
.BR TIOCLINUX ", " subcode = 9
Restore screen width and height, cursor position, and all the
character-attribute pairs.
-(Kernels 1.1.67 through 1.1.91 only.
+(Linux 1.1.67 through Linux 1.1.91 only.
With Linux 1.1.92 or later, write to
.I /dev/vcsa*
instead.)
diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2
index 368be7c1e..fb2a49e84 100644
--- a/man2/mlock.2
+++ b/man2/mlock.2
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ .SH BUGS
.\" commit 0cf2f6f6dc605e587d2c1120f295934c77e810e8
in Linux 4.9.
.PP
-In the 2.4 series Linux kernels up to and including 2.4.17,
+In Linux 2.4 series of kernels up to and including Linux 2.4.17,
a bug caused the
.BR mlockall ()
.B MCL_FUTURE
diff --git a/man2/mount.2 b/man2/mount.2
index ce743fcb2..ebd98b86c 100644
--- a/man2/mount.2
+++ b/man2/mount.2
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ .SS Additional mount flags
capability and a kernel configured with the
.B CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
option.
-Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in v5.15 kernels, so
+Mandatory locking has been fully deprecated in Linux 5.15, so
this flag should be considered deprecated.
.TP
.B MS_NOATIME
diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index 5f9ee77dd..fc796e255 100644
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -1536,7 +1536,7 @@ .SS Synchronized I/O
This ensures that applications compiled against
new headers get at least
.B O_DSYNC
-semantics on pre-2.6.33 kernels.
+semantics before Linux 2.6.33.
.\"
.SS C library/kernel differences
Since glibc 2.26,
diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
index dfb0466cd..cdb2d3bee 100644
--- a/man2/shmget.2
+++ b/man2/shmget.2
@@ -375,8 +375,8 @@ .SS Shared memory limits
.IP
On Linux, this limit can be read and modified via
.IR /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni .
-.\" Kernels between 2.4.x and 2.6.8 had an off-by-one error that meant
-.\" that we could create one more segment than SHMMNI -- MTK
+.\" Kernels between Linux 2.4.x and Linux 2.6.8 had an off-by-one error
+.\" that meant that we could create one more segment than SHMMNI -- MTK
.\" This /proc file is not available in Linux 2.2 and earlier -- MTK
.PP
The implementation has no specific limits for the per-process maximum
diff --git a/man2/timer_create.2 b/man2/timer_create.2
index ea87e0743..a7c4f93f9 100644
--- a/man2/timer_create.2
+++ b/man2/timer_create.2
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ .SS C library/kernel differences
and before glibc 2.17,
.\" glibc commit 93a78ac437ba44f493333d7e2a4b0249839ce460
the implementation falls back to this technique on systems
-running pre-2.6 Linux kernels.
+running kernels older than Linux 2.6.
.SH EXAMPLES
The program below takes two arguments: a sleep period in seconds,
and a timer frequency in nanoseconds.
diff --git a/man4/vcs.4 b/man4/vcs.4
index 12ad4b500..dd80628c2 100644
--- a/man4/vcs.4
+++ b/man4/vcs.4
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION
.BR ioctl (2)
.B VT_GETHIFONTMASK
operation
-(available in Linux kernels 2.6.18 and above)
+(available since Linux 2.6.18)
on
.IR /dev/tty[1\-63] ;
the value is returned in the
diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7
index 3cfaace9a..f69af1b32 100644
--- a/man7/ip.7
+++ b/man7/ip.7
@@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ .SH BUGS
.I msg_name
by
.BR recvmsg (2)
-does not work in some 2.2 kernels.
+does not work in some Linux 2.2 kernels.
.\" .SH AUTHORS
.\" This man page was written by Andi Kleen.
.SH SEE ALSO
diff --git a/man7/time.7 b/man7/time.7
index c10e0a087..b70b60218 100644
--- a/man7/time.7
+++ b/man7/time.7
@@ -63,16 +63,18 @@ .SS The software clock, HZ, and jiffies
.I HZ
varies across kernel versions and hardware platforms.
On i386 the situation is as follows:
-on kernels up to and including 2.4.x, HZ was 100,
+on kernels up to and including Linux 2.4.x,
+HZ was 100,
giving a jiffy value of 0.01 seconds;
-starting with 2.6.0, HZ was raised to 1000, giving a jiffy of
-0.001 seconds.
+starting with Linux 2.6.0,
+HZ was raised to 1000,
+giving a jiffy of 0.001 seconds.
Since Linux 2.6.13, the HZ value is a kernel
configuration parameter and can be 100, 250 (the default) or 1000,
yielding a jiffies value of, respectively, 0.01, 0.004, or 0.001 seconds.
Since Linux 2.6.20, a further frequency is available:
-300, a number that divides evenly for the common video
-frame rates (PAL, 25 Hz; NTSC, 30 Hz).
+300, a number that divides evenly for the common video frame rates
+(PAL, 25 Hz; NTSC, 30 Hz).
.PP
The
.BR times (2)
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