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| author | Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> | 2015-08-25 23:13:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-09-11 13:32:26 +0200 |
| commit | 84ff8c1e2d76d9b76e731b7820da7b24a906b997 (patch) | |
| tree | 138ccb456031c74572e21177c80e87654cdd63e9 | |
| parent | 2e2b236434f0a0601876730b07214f066097511d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-84ff8c1e2d76d9b76e731b7820da7b24a906b997.tar.gz | |
proc.5: /proc/sys: Describe whitespace characters
Suggested patch
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/24/171
indicates missing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index 2e0c5cabcd..767ade8233 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -3303,6 +3303,16 @@ These variables can be read and sometimes modified using the \fI/proc\fP filesystem, and the (deprecated) .BR sysctl (2) system call. + +String values may be terminated by either of \'\\0\' or \'\\n\'. + +Integer and long values may be written either in decimal or in +hexadecimal notation (e.g. 0x3FFF). +When writing multiple integer or long values these may be separated +by either of the following whitespace characters: +\' \', \'\\t\', or \'\\n\'. +Using other separators leads to an error +.BR EINVAL . .TP .IR /proc/sys/abi " (since Linux 2.4.10)" This directory may contain files with application binary information. |