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   1 ==================== Changes in man-pages-4.04 ====================
   2
   3 Released: 2015-12-29, Munich
   4
   5
   6 Contributors
   7 ------------
   8
   9 The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
  10 in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
  11 incorporated in changes in this release:
  12
  13 Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
  14 Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
  15 Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com>
  16 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
  17 Colin Rice <colin@daedrum.net>
  18 Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
  19 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
  20 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
  21 Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
  22 Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
  23 H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
  24 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
  25 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
  26 Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
  27 Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
  28 Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
  29 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
  30 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
  31 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
  32 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
  33 Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
  34 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
  35 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
  36 Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
  37 Richard Voigt <richardvoigt@gmail.com>
  38 Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
  39 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
  40 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
  41 Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
  42 Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
  43 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
  44 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
  45 Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
  46 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
  47
  48
  49 Apologies if I missed anyone!
  50
  51
  52 New and rewritten pages
  53 -----------------------
  54
  55 futex.2
  56     Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel  [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker]
  57         Rewrite and massively expand page
  58
  59 membarrier.2
  60     Mathieu Desnoyers  [Michael Kerrisk]
  61         New page documenting membarrier() system call
  62
  63
  64 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
  65 ---------------------------------------------
  66
  67 mlock.2
  68     Eric B Munson  [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk]
  69         Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT
  70
  71
  72 New and changed links
  73 ---------------------
  74
  75 mlock2.2
  76     Eric B Munson
  77         New link to mlock.2
  78
  79
  80 Global changes
  81 --------------
  82
  83 Various pages
  84     Michael Kerrisk
  85         ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error
  86
  87 Various pages
  88     Michael Kerrisk
  89         ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error
  90
  91 Various pages
  92     Michael Kerrisk
  93         ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error
  94
  95
  96 Changes to individual pages
  97 ---------------------------
  98
  99 clock_getres.2
 100     Michael Kerrisk
 101         SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
 102
 103 epoll_create.2
 104     Michael Kerrisk
 105         ERRORS: add another EMFILE error case
 106
 107 fanotify_init.2
 108     Michael Kerrisk
 109         ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case
 110
 111 fork.2
 112     Michael Kerrisk
 113         Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions
 114
 115 getcpu.2
 116     Michael Kerrisk
 117         SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
 118
 119 getrlimit.2
 120     Michael Kerrisk  [Lennart Poettering]
 121         The init of measurement for RLIMIT_RSS is bytes, not pages
 122
 123 get_robust_list.2
 124     Michael Kerrisk
 125         Reword EINVAL error text
 126
 127 gettimeofday.2
 128     Carlos O'Donell
 129         Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime
 130     Michael Kerrisk
 131         SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
 132
 133 inotify_init.2
 134     Michael Kerrisk
 135         ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case
 136
 137 personality.2
 138     Dmitry V. Levin
 139         Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this system call
 140
 141 poll.2
 142     Richard Voigt
 143         timeout_ts is a pointer, so use -> not . for member access
 144     Michael Kerrisk
 145         Shorten name of timeout argument for ppoll()
 146             The name is overly long, and does not hint at the fact
 147             that this argument is a pointer. Fix this by renaming:
 148             s/timeout_ts/tmo_p/
 149
 150 sendfile.2
 151     Laurent Georget
 152         Document more ERRORS
 153
 154 sigreturn.2
 155     Michael Kerrisk
 156         SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
 157
 158 socketcall.2
 159     Michael Kerrisk
 160         Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API
 161
 162 time.2
 163     Zack Weinberg
 164         Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno'
 165     Michael Kerrisk  [H.J. Lu]
 166         Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV
 167     Michael Kerrisk  [Paul Eggert]
 168         Describe EOVERFLOW details
 169     Michael Kerrisk
 170         SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
 171     Michael Kerrisk
 172         Rename 't' argument to 'tloc'
 173
 174 dlerror.3
 175     Michael Kerrisk  [Jonny Grant]
 176         Clarify that the string returned by dlerror() is null terminated
 177
 178 dlopen.3
 179     Michael Kerrisk
 180         Include a shell session showing build/run in EXAMPLE
 181     Michael Kerrisk
 182         Change arguments to main() to "void" in EXAMPLE
 183
 184 drand48.3
 185     Michael Kerrisk  [Vincent Lefevre]
 186         Correct descriptions of ranges returned by these functions
 187             See http://bugs.debian.org/803459
 188
 189 errno.3
 190     Michael Kerrisk
 191         Note probable cause of ENFILE error
 192
 193 fnmatch.3
 194     Pádraig Brady
 195         Describe the FNM_EXTMATCH flag and pattern syntax
 196
 197 iconv.3
 198     Andries E. Brouwer
 199         NOTES: describe correct usage for flushing partially buffered input
 200
 201 random_r.3
 202     Michael Kerrisk  [Archie Cobbs]
 203         Clarify need to use initstate_r()
 204
 205 tzset.3
 206     Carlos O'Donell
 207         Clarify "daylight" and remove erroneous note
 208
 209 random.4
 210     Michael Kerrisk  [Tom Gundersen]
 211         Rework example scripts to assume 'poolsize' unit is bits, not bytes
 212     Michael Kerrisk  [Walter Harms]
 213         Use modern command substitution syntax in shell session log
 214
 215 proc.5
 216     Michael Kerrisk
 217         Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error
 218
 219 futex.7
 220     Heinrich Schuchardt
 221         SEE ALSO updates
 222     Michael Kerrisk
 223         Note some other locking primitives that are built with futexes
 224     Heinrich Schuchardt
 225         NPTL, avoid abbreviation
 226     Michael Kerrisk
 227         Note that a futex is 4 bytes on all platforms
 228
 229 vdso.7
 230     Michael Kerrisk
 231         Add note on strace(1) and vDSO
 232
 233 ld.so.8
 234     H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk]
 235         Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
 236     Michael Kerrisk
 237         Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT
 238     Michael Kerrisk
 239         Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
 240     Michael Kerrisk
 241         Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
 242     Michael Kerrisk
 243         Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV