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1 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.00 ====================
2
3 Released: 2004-12-16
4
5 Contributors
6 ------------
7
8 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9 been incorporated in changes in this release:
10
11 Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
12 Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
13 Andrey Kiselev <dron@ak4719.spb.edu>
14 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
15 Chris Green <cmg@dok.org>
16 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
17 Emmanuel Colbus <emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr>
18 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
19 Eric Estievenart <eric.estievenart@free.fr>
20 Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
21 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
22 Jan Kuznik <kuznik@gepro.cz>
23 Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
24 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
25 John V. Belmonte <jbelmonte@debian.org>
26 Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
27 Luis Javier Merino Morán <ljmerino@pandasoftware.es>
28 Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
29 Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@ginac.de>
30 Vasya Pupkin <ptushnik@gmail.com>
31
32 Apologies if I missed anyone!
33
34 Global changes
35 --------------
36
37 Various pages
38 Fabian Kreutz
39 Many math pages had their synopses compressed, as per suggestion
40 from Fabian Kreutz.
41
42 Various pages
43 Fabian Kreutz / aeb
44 Many minor content and formatting bug fixes were made to the math
45 pages, following suggestions from Fabian Kreutz (who recently
46 translated many of the 1.70 math pages into German) and
47 Andries Brouwer.
48
49 Various pages
50 mtk
51 For consistency, all instances of "super-user" were changed
52 to the more common "superuser".
53
54 Various pages
55 Vasya Pupkin / mtk
56 After a note from Vasya Pupkin, I added <errno.h> to the SYNOPSIS
57 of several Section 2 pages using the _syscallN() macros.
58
59 In addition:
60 -- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed
61 on various pages.
62
63 -- types such as "uint" in syscallN() declarations were changed
64 to "unsigned int", etc.
65
66 -- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed.
67
68 The affected pages are:
69
70 getdents.2
71 gettid.2
72 llseek.2
73 mmap2.2
74 modify_ldt.2
75 pivot_root.2
76 quotactl.2
77 readdir.2
78 sysctl.2
79 syslog.2
80 tkill.2
81
82 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
83 other places.
84
85 Changes to individual pages
86 ---------------------------
87
88 bind.2
89 Florian Weimer
90 Added 'const' to declaration of 'my_addr' in prototype.
91 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239762.
92
93 fcntl.2
94 Martin Pool
95 Added O_NOATIME to list of flags that can be changed via F_SETFL.
96 mtk/aeb
97 Noted F_GETOWN bug after suggestion from aeb.
98 See also:
99 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108380640603164&w=2
100
101 getrlimit.2
102 mtk
103 Material on getrusage.2 has been separated out into its own page.
104 Rewrote discussion on RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to incorporate kernel
105 2.6.9 changes.
106 Added note on RLIMIT_CPU error in older kernels.
107 Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING.
108 Also made a few other minor changes.
109
110 getrusage.2
111 mtk
112 This page is new(ish) -- it was created by splitting
113 getrlimit.2.
114
115 Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
116 POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
117
118 kill.2
119 Modified after suggestion from Emmanuel Colbus
120 Changed wording of sentence under NOTES describing
121 when signals can be sent to init(1).
122
123 mlock.2
124 munlock.2
125 mlockall.2
126 munlockall.2
127 These have been consolidated into a single mlock.2 page.
128 In the process, much duplication was eliminated
129 and new information was added about RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
130 and the changes in memory locking in kernel 2.6.9,
131
132 mmap.2
133 mtk
134 Added cross-ref to setrlimit(2) concerning memory locking limits.
135 Eric Estievenart
136 Note that MAP_FIXED replaces existing mappings
137
138 msgctl.2
139 mtk
140 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
141 Added msqid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
142
143 msgget.2
144 mtk
145 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
146 Added notes on /proc files.
147
148 msgop.2
149 mtk
150 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
151 Added notes on /proc files.
152
153 open.2
154 Martin Pool
155 Added O_NOATIME (new in Linux 2.6.8)
156 mtk
157 Reordered list of 'flags' description alphabetically
158
159 personality.2
160 2004-11-03 applied patch from Martin Schulze
161
162 semctl.2
163 mtk
164 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
165 Rewrote semun text.
166 Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
167
168 semget.2
169 mtk
170 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
171 Added notes on /proc files.
172 Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialize
173 semaphore values.
174
175 semop.2
176 mtk
177 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
178 Added notes on /proc files.
179
180 shmctl.2
181 mtk
182 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
183 Updated shmid_ds structure definitions.
184 Added information on SHM_DEST and SHM_LOCKED flags.
185 Noted that CAP_IPC_LOCK is not required for SHM_UNLOCK
186 since kernel 2.6.9.
187 Added notes on 2.6.9 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK changes.
188 Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING (new in Linux 2.6.8)
189
190 shmget.2
191 mtk
192 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
193 Added notes on /proc files.
194
195 shmop.2
196 mtk
197 Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
198 Changed wording and placement of sentence regarding attachment
199 of segments marked for destruction.
200
201 sigaction.2
202 mtk
203 Added mention of SIGCONT under SA_NOCLDSTOP.
204 Added SA_NOCLDWAIT.
205 Updated discussion for POSIX.1-2001 and SIGCHLD and sa_flags.
206 Noted that CLD_CONTINUED is supported since Linux 2.6.9.
207 Added SI_TKILL (new in Linux 2.4.19).
208 Other minor changes.
209
210 signal.2
211 mtk
212 Removed text on ignoring SIGCHLD; replaced with pointer
213 to sigaction.2.
214
215 sigwaitinfo.2
216 After bug report from Andrey Kiselev
217 Fixed prototype: "timeout" --> "*timeout"
218 as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222145
219
220 stat.2
221 Enrico Zini
222 Added text to clarify that S_IS*() macros should be applied to
223 st_mode field.
224 as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249698
225
226 swapon.2
227 After Debian bug report from Anand Kumria
228 Added "no swap space signature" to EINVAL error.
229 mtk
230 Added EINVAL error for swapoff() ("not currently a swap area").
231 Added EBUSY error for swapon().
232 A few formatting fixes.
233
234 times.2
235 mtk
236 In Linux 2.6, the return value of times changed; it is no
237 longer time since boot, but rather:
238
239 boot_time + 2^32 / HZ - 300
240
241 Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
242 POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
243 Some formatting fixes.
244
245 undocumented.2
246 After bug report from Johannes Berg
247 Changed
248 .TH UNIMPLEMENTED
249 to:
250 .TH UNDOCUMENTED
251 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220741
252
253 wait.2
254 mtk
255 Added waitid(2).
256 Added WCONTINUED and WIFCONTINUED (new in 2.6.10).
257 Added text on SA_NOCLDSTOP.
258 Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behavior.
259 Much other text rewritten.
260
261 wait4.2
262 mtk
263 Rewrote this page, removing much duplicated information,
264 and replacing with pointers to wait.2.
265 Luis Javier Merino Morán / mtk
266 CONFORMING TO said "SVr4, POSIX". Changed to "4.3BSD"
267
268 waitid.2
269 mtk
270 New link to wait.2
271
272 assert.3
273 After bug report from Branden Robinson
274 The assert() failure message goes to stderr not stdout.
275 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284814
276
277 ctime.3
278 mtk
279 Noted that 0 in tm_mday is interpreted to mean the last day
280 of the preceding month.
281
282 getnameinfo.3
283 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229618
284 getnameinfo() does not set errno, it returns a non-zero
285 value indicating the error.
286 mtk
287 added EAI_OVERFLOW error
288
289 killpg.3
290 mtk
291 Minor changes to SEE ALSO and CONFORMING TO.
292
293 lseek64.3
294 aeb
295 New page by Andries Brouwer
296
297 tzset.3
298 Richard Kreckel
299 Change "NULL" to "empty" when talking about the value of TZ.
300 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=601
301
302 printf.3
303 After bug report from Jan Kuznik
304 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205736
305 Fixed bad realloc() use in snprintf() example
306
307 realpath.3
308 mtk
309 Added discussion of resolved_path == NULL.
310
311 random.4
312 After bug report from John V. Belmonte
313 Updated init and quit scripts to reflect kernel 2.4/2.6 reality
314 (Scripts taken from drivers/char/random.c)
315 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247779
316
317 proc.5
318 mtk
319 Updated description of /proc/loadavg to include
320 nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid.
321
322 rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8
323
324 updated statm, and fixed error in order of list
325
326 boot.7
327 applied patch from Martin Schulze
328
329 capabilities.7
330 mtk
331 Added O_NOATIME for CAP_FOWNER
332
333 netdevice.7
334 Karel Kulhavy and AEB
335 Formatting fix after note from Karel Kulhavy and AEB, plus a
336 few wording fixes.
337
338 signal.7
339 mtk
340 /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-* were superseded by RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
341 in kernel 2.6.8.
342
343 tcp.7
344 mtk/aeb
345 Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY.
346
347 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ====================
348
349 Released: 2004-12-20
350
351 Contributors
352 ------------
353
354 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
355 been incorporated in changes in this release:
356
357 Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de>
358 Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
359 Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
360 Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org>
361 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
362 Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org>
363 Matthew Gregan <kinetik@orcon.net.nz>
364 Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br>
365 Tony Crawford <tony@klosterdorf.de>
366
367 Apologies if I missed anyone!
368
369 Global changes
370 --------------
371
372 accept.2
373 close.2
374 send.2
375 setsid.2
376 socket.2
377 closedir.3
378 initgroups.3
379 mkstemp.3
380 opendir.3
381 readdir.3
382 telldir.3
383 Matthew Dempsky, mtk
384 triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179
385 The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in these pages.
386
387 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
388 other places.
389
390 Changes to individual pages
391 ---------------------------
392
393 sendfile.2
394 mtk
395 Adjusted descriptions of argument file types to be closer to
396 2.6 reality.
397 Wording and formatting changes.
398
399 ctan.3
400 ctanh.3
401 Tony Crawford
402 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270817
403 Formulae on the pages should be T = S / C not T = C / S.
404
405 errno.3
406 Martin Schulze, mtk
407 Removed errno declaration from prototype, added notes
408 on historical need for this declaration.
409 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174175
410
411 aio_return.3
412 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953
413 Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)".
414
415 posix_openpt.3
416 mtk
417 New by mtk
418
419 ptsname.3
420 mtk
421 Added description of ptsname_r().
422 Added ERRORS.
423
424 ptsname_r.3
425 mtk
426 New link to ptsname.3.
427
428 shm_open.3
429 Matthew Gregan
430 add <fcntl.h> to synopsis
431 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271243
432
433 strcasecmp.3
434 Marek Habersack
435 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
436 -BSD 4.4
437 +BSD 4.4, SUSv3
438 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234443
439
440 strfry.3
441 Joshua Kwan
442 Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
443 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213538
444
445 strftime.3
446 Cartsen Hey
447 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276248
448
449 Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..60.
450
451 SUSv3 says 0..60. I think the manual page probably says
452 0..61, because that's what SUSv2 said.
453 (Some other implementations' man pages also say 0..61 --
454 e.g., Solaris 8 & 9, Tru64 5.1B; FreeBSD 5.1 says 0..60.)
455
456 The glibc manual currently says 0..60.
457
458 Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed the
459 manual page to also say this:
460
461 -The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61).
462 +The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60).
463 +(The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)
464
465 sysconf.3
466 Johannes Berg
467 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974
468 -.BR POSIX2_FORT_RUN " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
469 +.BR POSIX2_FORT_DEV " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
470
471 system.3
472 Pedro Zorzenon
473 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242638
474 Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros from <stdlib.h>
475 for wait(2).
476
477 mtk
478 Changed name of argument from 'string' to 'command' (like POSIX).
479
480 Noted that glibc does nowadays explicitly check for the existence
481 of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behavior
482 of assuming the shell exists and always returning 1 if
483 'command' is NULL.
484
485 Other wording and formatting clean-ups.
486
487 undocumented.3
488 Remove some functions names that *are* documented.
489
490
491 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.02 ====================
492
493 Released: 2005-04-14
494
495 Contributors
496 ------------
497
498 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
499 been incorporated in changes in this release:
500
501 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
502 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
503 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
504 David Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>
505 Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
506 Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
507 Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
508 Johan Walles
509 Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
510 Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
511 Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
512 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
513 Matthias Lang <matthias@corelatus.se>
514 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
515 Michael Mühlebach <michael@anduin.ch>
516 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
517 Sasa Stevanovic <mg94c18@alas.matf.bg.ac.yu>
518 Serguei Leontiev <leo@sai.msu.ru>
519
520 Apologies if I missed anyone!
521
522 Global changes
523 --------------
524
525 ctime.3
526 tzselect.8
527 zdump.8
528 zic.8
529 Martin (Joey) Schulze
530 Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent newctime(3).
531 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236884
532
533 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
534 other places.
535
536 Changes to individual pages
537 ---------------------------
538
539 clone.2
540 mtk
541 Noted the PID caching behavior of NPTL's getpid()
542 wrapper under BUGS.
543
544 Added futex(2), set_thread_area(2), set_tid_address(2),
545 tkill(2) under SEE ALSO.
546
547 epoll_ctl.2
548 epoll_create.2
549 Marko Kohtala / mtk
550 Improved various error descriptions.
551
552 epoll_wait.2
553 David Lloyd / Mike Frysinger, Marko Kohtala
554 Added EINTR to errors.
555
556 fcntl.2
557 Jamie Lokier / mtk
558 Improved discussion of F_SETOWN and F_SETSIG with respect to
559 multi-threaded programs.
560 Generally cleaned up the discussion of F_SETOWN.
561
562 Updated CONFORMING TO to note that F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN are
563 now in POSIX.
564
565 link.2
566 mtk
567 Noted discrepancy between Linux and POSIX.1 when oldpath
568 is a symbolic link.
569 See: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367
570 and: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08152.html
571
572 Michael Haardt / mtk
573 Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to link
574 across mount points, even if the mount points refer to the same
575 file system.
576
577 mincore.2
578 mtk, after note from Gordon Jin
579 Updated ERRORS.
580
581 pipe.2
582 As per message from Serguei Leontiev
583 Removed SVr2, AT&T, and BSD from CONFORMING TO, since
584 a pipe on those systems is actually bidirectional.
585 (Pipes are implemented as STREAMS on the former, and
586 sockets on the latter.)
587
588 posix_fadvise.2
589 mtk
590 Noted kernel version where posix_fadvise() appeared and
591 noted bug in handling of 'len' in kernels < 2.6.6.
592
593 rename.2
594 Michael Haardt
595 Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to rename
596 a file across mount points, even if the mount points refer to
597 the same file system.
598
599 semop.2
600 mtk
601 Noted kernel version numbers for semtimedop().
602
603 setitimer.2
604 Matthias Lang, mtk
605 Noted MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling.
606 Added note about treatment of out-of-range tv_usec values.
607
608 sigqueue.2
609 Johan Walles, Martin (Joey) Schulze
610 Added sigqueue.2 to SEE ALSO.
611
612 times.2
613 mtk
614 Added notes on non-standard behavior: Linux allows 'buf' to
615 be NULL, but POSIX.1 doesn't specify this and it's non-portable.
616
617 uselib.2
618 Andries Brouwer
619 Improved DESCRIPTION; clarified distinction between
620 EACCES and ENOEXEC.
621
622 bcopy.3
623 Heikki Orsila
624 bcopy() handles overlapping case, but memcpy() does not,
625 so for consistency memmove() should be also mentioned.
626
627 getmntent_r.3
628 Martin (Joey) Schulze
629 New link to man3/getmntent.3.
630
631 memcpy.3
632 Small wording change after suggestion from Sasa Stevanovic.
633
634 strcasestr.3
635 mtk
636 Created as link to strstr.3.
637
638 strftime.3
639 mtk
640 Noted that SUSv2 allowed a range of 00 to 61 for %S specifier.
641
642 strstr.3
643 mtk
644 Added description of strcasestr().
645
646 random.4
647 aeb
648 Improved description of read from /dev/urandom.
649
650 st.4
651 Kai Makisara
652 Substantial updates.
653
654 man.7
655 Martin Schulze
656 Branden Robinson
657 Colin Watson
658 Mention the .URL macro more verbosely.
659
660
661 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.03 ====================
662
663 Released: 2005-06-02
664
665 Contributors
666 ------------
667
668 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
669 been incorporated in changes in this release:
670
671 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
672 Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
673 Johannes Nicolai <johannes.nicolai@hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
674 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
675 Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
676 Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
677 Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
678 Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
679
680 Apologies if I missed anyone!
681
682 Global changes
683 --------------
684
685 console.4
686 console_ioctl.4
687 mouse.4
688 tty.4
689 vcs.4
690 Pavel Heimlich
691 Change `ttys(4)' to `ttyS(4)'.
692
693 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
694 places.
695
696 Changes to individual pages
697 ---------------------------
698
699 clone.2
700 mtk
701 Substantially enhanced discussion of CLONE_THREAD.
702
703 Added CLONE_SYSVSEM, CLONE_UNTRACED, CLONE_STOPPED.
704
705 Other minor fixes.
706
707 execve.2
708 aeb
709 Noted effect of ptracing when execing a set-UID program.
710
711 fcntl.2
712 Johannes Nicolai / mtk
713 Noted F_SETOWN bug for socket file descriptor in Linux 2.4
714 and earlier.
715
716 Added text on permissions required to send signal to owner.
717
718 flock.2
719 mtk
720 Noted that lock conversions are not atomic.
721
722 getrusage.2
723 mtk
724 ru_nswap has never contained useful information.
725 Kernel 2.6.6 clarified that with a patch
726 ("[PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap"). See also:
727 http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.1/0720.html
728
729 kill.2
730 mtk
731 Clarified wording of the 'pid == -1' case.
732
733 mount.2
734 mtk
735 Added MNT_EXPIRE, plus a few other tidy-ups.
736
737 sched_setaffinity.2
738 mtk
739 Added text to note that sched_setaffinity() will migrate the
740 affected process to one of the specified CPUs if necessary.
741
742 Added a NOTE to point out that the affinity mask is actually a
743 per-thread attribute that can be adjusted independently for
744 each thread in a thread group.
745
746 shmctl.2
747 mtk
748 Noted aberrant Linux behavior with respect to new attaches to a
749 segment that has already been marked for deletion.
750
751 Noted changes in permissions required for SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK.
752
753 wait.2
754 mtk
755 Noted that the __W* flags can't be used with waitid().
756
757 confstr.3
758 mtk
759 Added _CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION and _CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION.
760
761 hosts.5
762 Ross Boylan / Martin Schulze
763 various changes as per
764 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304242
765
766 proc.5
767 mtk
768 Minor changes to discussion of /proc/PID/stat signal fields.
769 Added 'rt_priority' and 'policy' to /proc/PID/stat.
770
771 capabilities.7
772 mtk
773 1,$s/inherited/inheritable/g
774
775 regex.7
776 Vincent Fourmond / Joey (Martin) Schulze
777 Removed discussion of `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' since they do
778 not seem to be in the glibc implementation.
779 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666
780
781 tzselect.8
782 Joey (Martin) Schulze / Klaus Ethgen
783 The default zoneinfo directory is now /usr/share/zoneinfo.
784 (was: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo)
785 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267471
786
787
788 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ====================
789
790 Released: 2005-06-21
791
792 Contributors
793 ------------
794
795 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
796 been incorporated in changes in this release:
797
798 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
799 Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr>
800 Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
801 Dieter Brueggemann <dieter.brueggemann@entitec.de>
802 Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
803 Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
804 kabloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>
805 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
806 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
807 Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
808 Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>
809 Olivier Guilyardi <ylf@xung.org>
810 Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>
811 Philipp Spitzer <philipp@toastfreeware.priv.at>
812 Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
813 Thierry Excoffier <exco@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
814 Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
815 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
816 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
817
818 Apologies if I missed anyone!
819
820 Global changes
821 --------------
822
823 Various pages
824 mtk
825 For consistency across pages:
826
827 1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g
828
829 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
830 places.
831
832
833 New pages
834 ---------
835
836 pthreads.7
837 mtk
838 An overview of the Linux implementations of POSIX threads.
839
840
841 Changes to individual pages
842 ---------------------------
843
844 _exit.2
845 mtk
846 Various minor changes.
847
848 epoll_ctl.2
849 Mike Furr
850 BUGS: In kernels < 2.6.9, EPOLL_CTL_DEL required a non-NULL
851 'event', even though this argument is ignored.
852 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517
853
854 flock.2
855 mtk / Kevin Ryde
856 Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks
857 and open file entries and file descriptors.
858 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121
859
860 getitimer.2
861 Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier
862 Noted the existence of the short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy).
863
864 getrlimit.2
865 mtk
866 RLIMIT_RSS only has affect "in 2.4.x", not "in 2.4 and later".
867
868 getrusage.2
869 Geoff Clare
870 Since Linux 2.6, the ru_nvcsw and ru_nivcsw fields are used.
871
872 nice.2
873 mtk / Guido Trotter
874 Rewrote description of return value.
875 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296183
876
877 open.2
878 Walter Harms
879 O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE.
880 mtk
881 O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6.
882 Various minor fixes.
883
884 atexit.3
885 mtk
886 Various minor changes.
887
888 exit.3
889 mtk
890 Various minor changes.
891
892 getopt.3
893 mtk / Philipp Spitzer
894 Fix description of return value.
895 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359
896
897 hsearch.3
898 mtk
899 Changed (char *) to (void *) in example.
900 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313607
901
902 log1p.3
903 Justin Pryzby
904 Make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3),
905 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578
906
907 makecontext.3
908 Tanaka Akira
909 Fix description of RETURN VALUE for makecontext(),
910 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800
911
912 on_exit.3
913 mtk
914 Various minor changes.
915
916 rand.3
917 kabloom
918 Small fix to a code example,
919 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842
920
921 realpath.3
922 mtk / Thomas Hood
923 When specifying resolved_path as NULL, realpath()
924 will (still) only allocate up to PATH_MAX bytes.
925 Plus other minor changes.
926 See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239424
927
928 rcmd.3
929 Dave Love
930 The required header file for these functions on Linux is <netdb.h>,
931 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680
932
933 scanf.3
934 Olivier Guilyardi
935 Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void,
936 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109
937
938 stdin.3
939 Vincent Lefevre
940 freopen() can change the descriptors associated with
941 stdin/stdout/stderr, as per
942 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859
943
944 strerror.3
945 Baurjan Ismagulov
946 strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600,
947 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880
948
949 sysconf.3
950 Peter Cordes / mtk
951 Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV".
952
953 proc.5
954 mtk
955 Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7.
956
957 ip.7
958 mtk
959 Various wording and formatting fixes.
960 Reordered /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* file descriptions alphabetically.
961
962 tcp.7
963 Dieter Brueggemann / mtk
964 Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg.
965 mtk
966 Various wording and formatting fixes.
967 Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions
968 from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
969
970
971 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
972
973 Released: 2005-06-27
974
975 Contributors
976 ------------
977
978 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
979 been incorporated in changes in this release:
980
981 A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
982 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
983 Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
984 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
985 Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
986 Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
987 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
988 Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
989
990 Apologies if I missed anyone!
991
992 Global changes
993 --------------
994
995 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
996 places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
997
998
999 Changes to individual pages
1000 ---------------------------
1001
1002 _exit.2
1003 mtk / aeb
1004 Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
1005 function".
1006
1007 close.2
1008 mtk
1009 Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
1010 Minor formatting changes.
1011
1012 dup.2
1013 mtk
1014 Consistent use of terms "open file description",
1015 "file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
1016 Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not accurate.
1017 Minor formatting fixes.
1018
1019 fcntl.2
1020 mtk
1021 Consistent use of terms "open file description",
1022 "file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
1023 Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
1024 Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
1025 with a cross ref to dup.2
1026 Minor wording and formatting fixes.
1027
1028 fpclassify.3
1029 mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
1030 The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
1031 to differentiate positive and negative infinity.
1032 See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
1033
1034 getgid.2
1035 getuid.2
1036 Delian Krustev
1037 Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
1038 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
1039
1040 getitimer.2
1041 mtk
1042 The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
1043 man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
1044
1045 getpriority.2
1046 mtk
1047 Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
1048 Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
1049
1050 open.2
1051 mtk / aeb
1052 Clarification of term "open file description" along with
1053 explanation of what information it maintains.
1054 Other wording improvements.
1055 Various minor wording changes.
1056
1057 atexit.3
1058 mtk / aeb
1059 Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
1060 function".
1061 mtk
1062 Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
1063 shared library unload.
1064 Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
1065 abnormal termination.
1066 Formatting fixes.
1067
1068 exit.3
1069 mtk / aeb
1070 Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
1071 function".
1072 mtk
1073 Minor rewording and formatting changes.
1074
1075 getloadavg.3
1076 mtk
1077 Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype.
1078
1079 log2.3
1080 Martin (Joey) Schulze
1081 Add ERANGE error.
1082
1083 readdir.3
1084 mtk
1085 Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
1086 Some formatting cleanups.
1087
1088 strtod.3
1089 Dora Anna Volgyesi / mtk
1090 strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
1091 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
1092
1093 tdestroy.3
1094 mtk
1095 New link to tsearch.3.
1096
1097 tsearch.3
1098 mtk
1099 Added tdestroy to .TH line.
1100
1101 mem.4
1102 mtk
1103 Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem".
1104
1105 null.4
1106 mtk
1107 Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
1108 "chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero".
1109
1110 vcs.4
1111 Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
1112 Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
1113 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
1114
1115 signal.7
1116 Ove Kaaven
1117 SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
1118 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
1119
1120 urn.7
1121 mtk
1122 New link to uri.7
1123
1124
1125 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.06 ====================
1126
1127 Released: 2005-07-15
1128
1129 Contributors
1130 ------------
1131
1132 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
1133 been incorporated in changes in this release:
1134
1135 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
1136 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
1137 Bhavesh P Davda <bhavesh@avaya.com>
1138 Clau Weber <claus@jambit.com>
1139 Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
1140 David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
1141 Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
1142 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
1143 Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
1144 Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
1145 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
1146 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
1147 Steven Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
1148 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
1149
1150 Apologies if I missed anyone!
1151
1152 Global changes
1153 --------------
1154
1155 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
1156 places.
1157
1158 Many uses of hyphens and dashes were corrected.
1159
1160
1161 New pages
1162 ---------
1163
1164 canonicalize_file_name.3
1165 Walter Harms / mtk
1166
1167 Removed Pages
1168 -------------
1169
1170 sstk.2
1171 mtk
1172 AFAIK, this system call has never actually done anything (other
1173 than be a stub) on any Unix.
1174
1175 Changes to individual pages
1176 ---------------------------
1177
1178 accept.2
1179 mtk
1180 Various wording and formatting fixes.
1181
1182 bind.2
1183 mtk
1184 Minor formatting changes
1185
1186 clone.2
1187 mtk
1188 Various minor wording improvements; some formatting fixes
1189
1190 connect.2
1191 mtk
1192 Various wording and formatting fixes.
1193
1194 epoll_create.2
1195 Bhavesh P Davda
1196 s/positive/non-negative/ [for file descriptor]
1197
1198 getrlimit.2
1199 mtk
1200 Documented RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE limit.
1201 RLIMIT_RSS ceased to have any effect in 2.4 in kernel 2.4.30.
1202 (It already didn't have any effect in 2.2.x and 2.6.x.)
1203 s/MADVISE_WILLNEED/MADV_WILLNEED/
1204
1205 listen.2
1206 mtk
1207 Removed historic comment on BSD backlog ceiling.
1208 Minor wording and formatting changes.
1209
1210 semop.2
1211 mtk
1212 Added BUG: in some circumstances, a process that is
1213 waiting for a semaphore to become zero is not not woken
1214 up when the value does actually reach zero.
1215 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110260821123863&w=2
1216 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110261701025794&w=2
1217
1218 socket.2
1219 mtk
1220 Various minor wording improvements
1221
1222 umask.2
1223 mtk
1224 Added mkdir(2) to discussion, made term "file mode creation
1225 mask" clearer.
1226 Various, mostly small, wording changes
1227
1228 errno.3
1229 Martin Pool
1230 Change description for ESTALE
1231 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237344
1232
1233 fgetgrent.3
1234 getgrent.3
1235 getgrent_r.3
1236 David Lloyd
1237 Added SEE ALSO putgrent(3)
1238 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211336
1239
1240 getgrent.3
1241 getgrnam.3
1242 getpwent.3
1243 getpwnam.3
1244 Lars Wirzenius / mtk
1245 Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by references to
1246 "passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
1247 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
1248 mtk
1249 Miscellaneous wording improvements
1250 Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
1251
1252 getnameinfo.3
1253 mtk
1254 Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
1255
1256 getnetent.3
1257 Petter Reinholdtsen
1258 s/endservent/endnetent/
1259 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316517
1260
1261 getspnam.3
1262 Lars Wirzenius / mtk
1263 Replace mention of /etc/shadow by references to
1264 "shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
1265 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
1266 mtk, Claus Weber
1267 Miscellaneous wording improvements
1268 Consistent DESCRIPTION wording vis-a-vis getpwnam.3 etc.
1269
1270 hsearch.3
1271 Frederik Deweerdt
1272 Fix hsearch_r() prototype
1273
1274 scanf.3
1275 Justin Pryzby / mtk
1276 Fix description of RETURN VALUE
1277 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317037
1278 mtk
1279 various parts substantially rewritten; added description of
1280 %n$ form; various text incorporated from the GNU C library
1281 documentation ((C) The Free Software Foundation).
1282
1283 shm_open.3
1284 mtk
1285 Modified details of how user and group ownership of a new
1286 object are set.
1287 Various minor wording and formatting cleanups.
1288
1289 elf.5
1290 Mike Frysinger
1291 tweaked the short description to include definition of 'ELF'
1292 add ELFOSABI_NONE to the ELFOSABI_ list
1293 tweak/add more machines to EM_ list for ehdr->e_machine
1294 fix indenting to be consistent
1295 tweak the display of the ELF_ST_* macros
1296 document the Elf_Dyn structure
1297
1298 proc.5
1299 mtk
1300 Updated discussion of /proc/stat.
1301 Added text on the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
1302
1303 ip.7
1304 Steven Murdoch
1305 Change protocol in UDP prototype.
1306 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182635
1307
1308 tcp.7
1309 Dov Murik
1310 The first sentence under NOTES about SO_KEEPALIVE and SIGPIPE
1311 makes no grammatical sense (and possibly also no technical sense).
1312 It has been removed.
1313
1314
1315 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.07 ====================
1316
1317 Released: 2005-07-19
1318
1319 Contributors
1320 ------------
1321
1322 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
1323 been incorporated in changes in this release:
1324
1325 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
1326 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
1327
1328 Apologies if I missed anyone!
1329
1330 Global changes
1331 --------------
1332
1333 Various pages
1334 mtk
1335 The terms "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" are now used
1336 consistently (no abbreviations) across all manual pages.
1337
1338 Various pages
1339 mtk
1340 Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID"
1341 (no more "saved user ID", "saved effective UID",
1342 saved group ID", etc.)
1343
1344 Various pages
1345 mtk
1346 Global fixes in textual descriptions:
1347
1348 uid --> UID
1349 gid --> GID
1350 pid --> PID
1351 id --> ID
1352
1353 Various pages
1354 mtk
1355 Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with
1356 explanatory text, instead of atime/ctime/mtime.
1357
1358 Various pages
1359 mtk
1360 Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
1361 there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
1362
1363 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
1364 places.
1365
1366
1367 Changes to individual pages
1368 ---------------------------
1369
1370 setresuid.2
1371 mtk
1372 Some rewording.
1373
1374 stat.2
1375 Mike Frysinger
1376 Improve description of st_dev and st_rdev.
1377 mtk
1378 Various wording and formatting improvements.
1379
1380 truncate.2
1381 mtk
1382 Some formatting fixes
1383
1384
1385 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.08 ====================
1386
1387 Released: 2005-09-21
1388
1389 Contributors
1390 ------------
1391
1392 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
1393 been incorporated in changes in this release:
1394
1395 Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
1396 Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
1397 Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
1398 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
1399 Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
1400 Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
1401 Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
1402 David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com>
1403 Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
1404 Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
1405 Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
1406 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
1407 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
1408 Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
1409 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
1410 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
1411 Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu>
1412 Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
1413 Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>
1414 Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>
1415 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
1416
1417 Apologies if I missed anyone!
1418
1419 Global changes
1420 --------------
1421
1422 Various pages
1423 mtk
1424 RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn"
1425 (not "RFC nnn" or "RFCnnn").
1426
1427 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
1428 places.
1429
1430
1431 Changes to individual pages
1432 ---------------------------
1433
1434 du.1
1435 Mike Frysinger
1436 To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human",
1437 not "HUMAN".
1438
1439 time.1
1440 Mike Frysinger
1441 s/standard output/standard error/
1442
1443 clone.2
1444 Paul Brook / mtk
1445 Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
1446
1447 connect.2
1448 Heikki Orsila
1449 Add EINTR error
1450 See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
1451
1452 getpriority.2
1453 mtk
1454 Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
1455 representations of the nice value.
1456
1457 Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to
1458 getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
1459
1460 Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
1461
1462 getrlimit.2
1463 mtk
1464 Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
1465
1466 Added description of RLIMIT_NICE
1467
1468 mmap.2
1469 mtk
1470 Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
1471
1472 mremap.2
1473 mtk
1474 Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
1475 Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
1476 Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
1477 Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
1478 Added entries to SEE ALSO.
1479 Some formatting fixes.
1480
1481 msgctl.2
1482 mtk
1483 Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
1484
1485 nanosleep.2
1486 Baurzhan Ismagulov
1487 Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
1488 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314435
1489
1490 nice.2
1491 mtk
1492 Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described
1493 in getpriority.2.
1494 Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on
1495 RLIMIT_NICE.
1496
1497 outb.2
1498 David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk
1499 Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
1500 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263756
1501
1502 pause.2
1503 mtk
1504 Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
1505 Some formatting fixes.
1506
1507 poll.2
1508 Tommy Pettersson
1509 nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t
1510 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322934
1511
1512 mtk
1513 Some wording and formatting improvements.
1514
1515 prctl.2
1516 mtk
1517 Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2.
1518
1519 rand.3
1520 Hrvoje Niksic / mtk
1521 Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
1522 As per debian bug 328629
1523
1524 readv.2
1525 mtk / Walter harms
1526 Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when
1527 vector size exceeds IOV_MAX.
1528
1529 Formatting clean-ups.
1530
1531 remap_file_pages.2
1532 mtk
1533 Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards.
1534
1535 sched_setparam.2
1536 mtk
1537 Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
1538 sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and
1539 resource limits.
1540
1541 sched_setscheduler.2
1542 mtk
1543 Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
1544
1545 semctl.2
1546 mtk
1547 Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
1548
1549 shmctl.2
1550 mtk
1551 Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
1552
1553 sigaction.2
1554 mtk
1555 Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
1556 into separate new pages.
1557
1558 Other minor changes
1559
1560 mtk
1561 NOTES: described SA_NODEFER / sa_mask bug which was present in
1562 all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
1563 See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
1564 and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2
1565 List: linux-kernel
1566 Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong
1567 From: Bodo Stroesser
1568 Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06
1569
1570 signal.2
1571 mtk
1572 Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
1573 sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
1574
1575 sigpending.2
1576 mtk
1577 New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
1578 Changed CONFORMING TO.
1579
1580 sigprocmask.2
1581 mtk
1582 New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
1583 Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
1584 Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
1585 and SIGSEGV.
1586 Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
1587 Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
1588 Changed CONFORMING TO.
1589
1590 sigsuspend.2
1591 mtk
1592 New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
1593 Added NOTES on usage.
1594 Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
1595 Changed CONFORMING TO.
1596
1597 stat.2
1598 Mike Frysinger
1599 Improve st_blocks description.
1600
1601 carg.3
1602 Ramiro Aceves / aeb
1603 Change:
1604 One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
1605 to:
1606 One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z)
1607
1608 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326720
1609
1610 cmsg.3
1611 mtk
1612 s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name)
1613
1614 dlopen.3
1615 Alain Portal
1616 s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/
1617
1618 getaddrinfo.3
1619 mtk
1620 Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname
1621 field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current behavior
1622 is all that SUSv3 requires).
1623
1624 1,$s/PF_/AF_/g
1625
1626 Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED,
1627 and AI_NUMERICSERV.
1628
1629 Some wording and formatting fixes.
1630
1631 getpwnam.3
1632 Bernhard R. Link / mtk
1633 Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
1634 pointing out that applications should preferentially inspect HOME.
1635
1636 inet.3
1637 Mike Frysinger
1638 Mention "little endian" and "big endian".
1639 Added note about octal and hex interpretation of
1640 numbers-and-dots notation.
1641
1642 rpc.3
1643 mtk / Ludovic Courtes
1644 Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently
1645 have such a page in the man-pages set.
1646 In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325115
1647
1648 setenv.3
1649 mtk
1650 glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug.
1651
1652 strnlen.3
1653 Mike Frysinger
1654 Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype.
1655
1656 initrd.4
1657 Norbert Buchmuller / mtk
1658 Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing
1659 the root device is obsolete, in favor of pivot root.
1660 (However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually
1661 describe the pivot_root method...)
1662 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323621
1663
1664 proc.5
1665 mtk
1666 Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
1667
1668 Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13).
1669
1670 Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13).
1671 More needs to be said about this file.
1672
1673 Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted
1674 in part of the text of this page being duplicated.
1675
1676 utmp.5
1677 Mike Frysinger
1678 Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv.
1679
1680 capabilities.7
1681 mtk
1682 Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE.
1683
1684 ip.7
1685 mtk / Andrew Pimlott
1686 Add a couple of words to make it clear that port is a 16-bit number.
1687 Reformat long source lines (no text changed).
1688
1689 s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
1690
1691 Hasso Tepper
1692 Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL.
1693
1694 signal.7
1695 mtk
1696 Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
1697 sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2.
1698
1699 socket.7
1700 mtk
1701 Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.
1702
1703 tcp.7
1704 mtk
1705 s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name)
1706 s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
1707
1708 udp.7
1709 mtk
1710 Added description of UDP_CORK socket option.
1711
1712 s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/ (POSIX standard name)
1713 s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
1714
1715
1716 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.09 ====================
1717
1718 Released: 2005-10-13
1719
1720 Contributors
1721 ------------
1722
1723 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
1724 been incorporated in changes in this release:
1725
1726 Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
1727 Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
1728 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
1729 Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
1730 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
1731
1732 Apologies if I missed anyone!
1733
1734 Global changes
1735 --------------
1736
1737 ptsname.3
1738 getpt.3
1739 unlockpt.3
1740 openpty.3
1741 posix_openpt.3
1742 grantpt.3
1743 pts.4
1744 tty_ioctl.4
1745 mtk
1746 Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page.
1747
1748 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
1749 places.
1750
1751
1752 New pages
1753 ---------
1754
1755 pty.7
1756 mtk
1757 Overview of Unix 98 and BSD pseudo-terminals.
1758
1759
1760 Changes to individual pages
1761 ---------------------------
1762
1763 ldd.1
1764 mtk
1765 Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1766
1767 fcntl.2
1768 Peter Chubb / Trond Myklebust / mtk
1769 Since kernel 2.6.10, a read lease can only be placed on a
1770 file descriptor that is opened read-only.
1771 See the following LKML thread of Aug 2005
1772 ("fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??"):
1773 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112371777712197&w=2
1774 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112374818213000&w=2
1775 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112376335305284&w=2
1776 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112377294030092&w=2
1777
1778 mprotect.2
1779 mtk
1780 Add new text to ENOMEM error.
1781
1782 mremap.2
1783 mtk
1784 Added description of MREMAP_FIXED and 'new_address' argument
1785 under NOTES.
1786 Revised text of EINVAL error.
1787
1788 read.2
1789 Samuel Thibault / mtk
1790 read() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
1791 mtk
1792 Added open(2) to SEE ALSO.
1793
1794 shmget.2
1795 mtk
1796 s/int/size_t/ for type of 'size' argument (fix from
1797 Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1798
1799 write.2
1800 Samuel Thibault / mtk
1801 write() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
1802
1803 atanh.3
1804 mtk
1805 Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1806
1807 fopen.3
1808 mtk
1809 Improved "a+" description (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1810
1811 getrpcent.3
1812 mtk
1813 s/getrpcent/setrpcent/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1814
1815 stdio.3
1816 mtk / Justin Pryzby
1817 Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are
1818 BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
1819 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
1820
1821 strftime.3
1822 mtk
1823 Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from
1824 Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1825
1826 nsswitch.conf.5
1827 mtk
1828 s/network/networks/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1829
1830 proc.5
1831 mtk
1832 Added description of /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout.
1833
1834 socket.7
1835 mtk
1836 Update description of SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT.
1837 (fix derived from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
1838
1839
1840 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.10 ====================
1841
1842 Released: 2005-10-19
1843
1844 Global changes
1845 --------------
1846
1847 The changes in this release consist *solely* of formatting fixes, with
1848 the aim bringing greater consistency to the manual pages according to
1849 the following rules:
1850
1851 -- Function name references should *always* be followed by
1852 parentheses, "()" (possibly containing a manual page section
1853 number).
1854
1855 -- The parentheses following a function name should *not* be
1856 formatted. Thus, for example, instead of:
1857
1858 .B name()
1859
1860 one should write:
1861
1862 .BR name ()
1863
1864 Much of the change was automated using two scripts:
1865 add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh and unformat_parens.sh.
1866 For the (possible) benefit of downstream manual page maintainers and
1867 translators, I have placed these scripts in a new subdirectory 'scripts'.
1868
1869 NOTE THE FOLLOWING POINTS WELL:
1870
1871 -- These scripts provide a computer-assisted solution to the above
1872 two goals. However, they are not perfect, and their output should
1873 be scanned by a human. (To see what changes the two scripts
1874 *would* make, without making them, use the "-n" command line option.)
1875
1876 -- The scripts do not fix all instances that violate the above rules:
1877 some manual fixes are required. Two further scripts are provided
1878 to help find remaining instances of function names without
1879 following "()": find_dots_no_parens.sh and find_slashes_no_parens.sh.
1880
1881 The following changes were made:
1882
1883 -- add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh was applied to the pages in Sections
1884 2 and 3.
1885
1886 -- unformat_parens.sh was applied to pages in Sections 2, 3, 4, and 7
1887 (the only sections where such changes were required).
1888
1889 -- further changes (not so very many) were performed by hand.
1890 (found places to fix with the assistance of find_dots_no_parens.sh
1891 and find_slashes_no_parens.sh).
1892
1893
1894 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.11 ====================
1895
1896 Released: 2005-10-24
1897
1898 Contributors
1899 ------------
1900
1901 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
1902 been incorporated in changes in this release:
1903
1904 Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
1905
1906 Apologies if I missed anyone!
1907
1908 Global changes
1909 --------------
1910
1911 Various pages
1912 mtk
1913 Most instances of the constant "NULL" are not formatted (bolded) in
1914 man pages, but a few are. For consistency, formatting on "NULL" has
1915 been removed where it occurred.
1916
1917 Many minor formatting fixes were made.
1918
1919 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
1920 places.
1921
1922
1923 Changes to individual pages
1924 ---------------------------
1925
1926 getrlimit.2
1927 mtk
1928 Added EINVAL error for rlim_cur > rlim_max when calling setrlimit().
1929
1930 path_resolution.2
1931 mtk
1932 Repaired discussion of capabilities and file system UID, which
1933 mistakenly had involved exec() in the discussion.
1934
1935 prctl.2
1936 mtk
1937 Removed text saying there is no library interface. There
1938 is nowadays.
1939
1940 mkfifo.3
1941 mtk
1942 Minor change to RETURN VALUE text.
1943
1944 sk98lin.4
1945 Alain Portal
1946 Formatting fixes.
1947
1948 capabilities.7
1949 mtk
1950 Minor changes.
1951
1952
1953 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.12 ====================
1954
1955 Released: 2005-10-31
1956
1957 Contributors
1958 ------------
1959
1960 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
1961 been incorporated in changes in this release:
1962
1963 Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
1964 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
1965 Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
1966 herbert <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
1967 Martin Landers <martin.landers@treibgut.net>
1968 Michael Benedict <benedict@starbak.net>
1969
1970 Apologies if I missed anyone!
1971
1972 Global changes
1973 --------------
1974
1975 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
1976 places.
1977
1978
1979 Changes to individual pages
1980 ---------------------------
1981
1982 mlock.2
1983 mtk
1984 Reworded text around PAGESIZE, noting also that
1985 sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) can be used.
1986
1987 path_resolution.2
1988 mtk / aeb
1989 Removed words "as well" (added in 2.11) from the phrase
1990 "and it gets these last five capabilities if its fsuid is 0 as well"
1991 since there are (unusual) situations in which fsuid can be 0 while
1992 the effective UID is not.
1993
1994 Reworked (cut down) discussion of capabilities, moving part of
1995 it into capabilities.7
1996
1997 setresuid.2
1998 mtk
1999 Add text to note that setresuid() always modifies the file
2000 system UID, and setresgid() likewise always modifies the file
2001 system GID.
2002
2003 shmget.2
2004 mtk
2005 Added (brief) description of SHM_HUGETLB.
2006
2007 sigaltstack.2
2008 mtk / Martin Landers
2009 Noted that ss_sp is automatically aligned by the kernel.
2010
2011 byteorder.3
2012 Brian M. Carlson / herbert
2013 Change <netinet/in.h> to <arpa/inet.h> in prototype; add text
2014 explaining that some systems need the former header.
2015 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265244
2016
2017 capabilities.7
2018 mtk
2019 Reworked part of the discussion of exec() and capabilities.
2020 Added sub-section "Effect of User ID Changes on Capabilities".
2021 Reworked discussion of CAP_SYS_ADMIN and file-max.
2022
2023
2024 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.13 ====================
2025
2026 Released: 2005-11-03
2027
2028 This release consists entirely of formatting and typographical fixes.
2029
2030 Global changes
2031 --------------
2032
2033 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2034 places.
2035
2036 Various pages
2037 mtk
2038 Function and page cross references that were italicized were
2039 made bold (which is how the majority of function and page
2040 cross references were already done).
2041
2042 Various pages
2043 mtk
2044 Instances of things like "NULL-terminated string" were changed to
2045 "null-terminated string".
2046
2047 Various pages
2048 mtk
2049 Pathnames, structures, arguments, and <header-files> that were
2050 bold were changed to italics.
2051
2052 Various pages
2053 mtk
2054 Instances of the constant "NULL" that were bold-faced were made
2055 unformatted (which is how most instances of "NULL" were already
2056 formatted.)
2057
2058
2059 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.14 ====================
2060
2061 Released: 2005-11-17
2062
2063 Contributors
2064 ------------
2065
2066 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2067 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2068
2069 Angelo <ang3l0@katamail.com>
2070 Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@nit.ca>
2071 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
2072 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
2073 Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
2074 Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
2075
2076 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2077
2078 Global changes
2079 --------------
2080
2081 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2082 places.
2083
2084 New pages
2085 ---------
2086
2087 rexec.3
2088 mtk / Justin Pryzby
2089 This page is taken as is from the FreeBSD 5.4 distribution.
2090 (Not checked against Linux reality, but likely things are
2091 the same.)
2092 See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336875
2093
2094 Changes to individual pages
2095 ---------------------------
2096
2097 arch_prctl.2
2098 mtk
2099 Updated discussion about lack of prototype in glibc.
2100
2101 execve.2
2102 mtk
2103 Improved description of E2BIG error: it relates to the sum
2104 of the bytes in both environment and argument list.
2105
2106 fcntl.2
2107 mtk
2108 Clarified parts of the discussion of file leases,
2109 noting effect of open(O_NONBLOCK), interruption
2110 by signal handler, or termination by signal in
2111 lease breaker. In response to
2112 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
2113
2114 stat.2
2115 mtk / Stefan Brüns
2116 Added LINUX NOTES describing nanosecond timestamps.
2117
2118 frexp.3
2119 Volker Reichelt / mtk
2120 Fixed to point out that that frexp() returns a number whose
2121 *absolute* value is >= 0.5 and < 1. Amended the example
2122 program to demonstrate this.
2123
2124 open.2
2125 mtk / Avery Pennarun
2126 Add EWOULDBLOCK error for file leases.
2127 In response to
2128 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
2129
2130 putenv.3
2131 mtk
2132 Although the glibc implementation returns -1 on error (and some
2133 other man pages (e.g., the BSDs) also document that value for
2134 error returns), SUSv3 merely says "non-zero" (and this is
2135 what manual pages on many implementations also say).
2136
2137 posix_memalign.3
2138 mtk
2139 Formerly, the page said that all systems declare memalign() in
2140 <malloc.h>. In fact, many declare it in <stdlib.h>.
2141
2142 strtok.3
2143 mtk
2144 Almost a complete rewrite after Angelo pointed out
2145 that the existing page was deficient.
2146
2147 sd.4
2148 Martin Schulze
2149 Remove SEE ALSO for nonexistent scsi.4.
2150
2151 proc.5
2152 mtk
2153 Updated discussion of /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max.
2154
2155 signal.7
2156 mtk
2157 Added pthreads.7 to SEE ALSO.
2158
2159 ld.so.8
2160 mtk
2161 Fix typo: s/LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT/LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT/
2162
2163
2164 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.15 ====================
2165
2166 Released: 2005-11-30
2167
2168 Contributors
2169 ------------
2170
2171 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2172 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2173
2174 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
2175 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
2176 Malcolm Scott <mas90@io.malc.org.uk>
2177 Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
2178
2179 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2180
2181 Global changes
2182 --------------
2183
2184 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2185 places.
2186
2187 New pages
2188 ---------
2189
2190 sigvec.3 -- for details, see below.
2191
2192 sigset.3 -- for details, see below.
2193
2194 Changes to individual pages
2195 ---------------------------
2196
2197 kill.2
2198 mtk
2199 Added text describing the 2.6.[0-7] EPERM bug that occurred
2200 when sending signals to a process group.
2201
2202 sigaction.2
2203 mtk
2204 Noted that si_signo is unused on Linux.
2205
2206 sigpending.2
2207 mtk
2208 Added BUGS noting wrapper function problem that existed
2209 in glibc versions <= 2.2.1.
2210
2211 sigpause.2
2212 mtk
2213 Moved to section 3; see also sigpause.3 below.
2214
2215 sigsetops.3
2216 mtk
2217 Added a GLIBC NOTES section describing sigisemptyset(),
2218 sigandset(), and sigorset().
2219
2220 sigvec.2
2221 sigblock.2
2222 mtk
2223 These pages have been deleted, and replaced by a new sigvec.3
2224 man page that more fully describes the BSD signal API.
2225
2226 siggetmask.2
2227 sigmask.2
2228 sigsetmask.2
2229 mtk
2230 These links to the now-deleted sigblock.2 have been also been
2231 deleted. They are replaced by corresponding links in Section 3:
2232 sigmask.3, sigsetmask.3, siggetmask.3.
2233
2234 sigvec.3
2235 mtk
2236 This new page is provides a fuller description of the
2237 BSD signal API than was provided in the now-deleted sigvec.2
2238 and sigblock.2.
2239
2240 sigblock.3
2241 siggetmask.3
2242 sigmask.3
2243 sigsetmask.3
2244 mtk
2245 Created as links to sigvec.3.
2246
2247 sigpause.3
2248 mtk
2249 Moved here from Section 2.
2250
2251 Some minor wording fixes; clarified System V origins of
2252 X/Open flavor of this function.
2253
2254 sigset.3
2255 mtk
2256 New page describing the System V signal API: sigset(), sighold(),
2257 sigrelse(), sigignore().
2258
2259 strftime.3
2260 James Vega
2261 Add further text clarifying that %+ specifier is not supported in
2262 glibc2.
2263 mtk
2264 Added GLIBC NOTES section describing optional 'flag' and 'width'
2265 components of conversion specifiers.
2266 Some wording changes to bring terminology closer to SUSv3.
2267 Added an example program.
2268
2269 vm86old.2
2270 mtk / aeb
2271 Add as new link to vm86.2.
2272
2273 intro.7
2274 mtk
2275 Added a few words to reflect the fact that several of the section
2276 7 pages provide overviews of various topics.
2277
2278 signal.7
2279 mtk
2280 Added some SEE ALSO entries.
2281
2282 socket.7
2283 Senthil Kumar / mtk
2284 Added text noting that select()/poll() do not respect SO_RCVLOWAT.
2285
2286 udp.7
2287 Malcolm Scott
2288 s/tcp_socket/udp_socket/ in example
2289 Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340927
2290
2291
2292 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.16 ====================
2293
2294 Released: 2005-12-02
2295
2296 Contributors
2297 ------------
2298
2299 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2300 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2301
2302 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
2303 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
2304 Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
2305
2306 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2307
2308 Global changes
2309 --------------
2310
2311 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2312 places.
2313
2314
2315 Changes to individual pages
2316 ---------------------------
2317
2318 HOWTOHELP
2319 Urs Thuermann
2320 Added instructions for finding maintainer in Debian package.
2321
2322 poll.2
2323 mtk
2324 Added NOTES about INFTIM constant provided on some other
2325 implementations.
2326
2327 shmop.2
2328 Alan Stern
2329 The -1 error return of shmat() should be cast "(void *)".
2330
2331 strftime.3
2332 aeb
2333 Remove junk text (actually intended as source code comment
2334 in page).
2335
2336 ip.7
2337 Urs Thuermann
2338 Fix a typo: s/SOCK_RAW/SOCK_PACKET/
2339
2340 packet.7
2341 Urs Thuermann
2342 Clarification: s%SOCK_PACKET%PF_INET/SOCK_PACKET%
2343
2344
2345 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.17 ====================
2346
2347 Released: 2005-12-13
2348
2349 Contributors
2350 ------------
2351
2352 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2353 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2354
2355 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
2356 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
2357 Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
2358 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
2359
2360 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2361
2362
2363 Global changes
2364 --------------
2365
2366 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2367 places.
2368
2369
2370 New pages
2371 ---------
2372
2373 fmemopen.3
2374 Walter Harms / mtk
2375 New documentation for the glibc-specific fmemopen() and
2376 open_memstream(). Based on glibc info page.
2377
2378 pipe.7
2379 mtk (with prompting and suggestions for improvements by
2380 Michael Haardt)
2381 New page providing overview of pipes and FIFOs.
2382
2383
2384 Changes to individual pages
2385 ---------------------------
2386
2387 HOWTOHELP
2388 mtk
2389 Added notes on how to write example programs for manual pages.
2390
2391 fork.2
2392 mtk
2393 Added pointers to examples of fork() in wait.2 and pipe.2.
2394
2395 pipe.2
2396 mtk
2397 Added an example program.
2398 Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
2399
2400 wait.2
2401 mtk
2402 Added example program demonstrating use of fork() and waitpid().
2403
2404 carg.3
2405 Justin Pryzby
2406 Delete line that should have been deleted when applying
2407 2.08 fix for this page.
2408
2409 getaddrinfo.3
2410 mtk
2411 Rearranged EAI_* list alphabetically.
2412
2413 inet.3
2414 mtk
2415 Added GLIBC NOTES describing feature test macros required
2416 to expose declaration of inet_aton().
2417
2418 open_memstream.3
2419 mtk
2420 New link to new fmemopen.3.
2421
2422 fifo.4
2423 mtk
2424 Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
2425
2426 environ.5
2427 mtk
2428 Removed BROWSER, since it seems not in fact to be common.
2429
2430 socket.7
2431 Urs Thuermann
2432 Added documentation of SO_TIMESTAMP.
2433
2434 tcp.7
2435 mtk
2436 Noted 200 millisecond ceiling imposed on TCP_CORK.
2437
2438 udp.7
2439 mtk
2440 Rearranged options into something approximating alphabetical order.
2441
2442
2443 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.18 ====================
2444
2445 Released: 2005-12-15
2446
2447 Contributors
2448 ------------
2449
2450 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2451 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2452
2453 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
2454 Karsten Sperling <karsten.sperling@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
2455 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
2456 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2457 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
2458
2459 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2460
2461
2462 Global changes
2463 --------------
2464
2465 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2466 places.
2467
2468
2469 Changes to individual pages
2470 ---------------------------
2471
2472 bind.2
2473 mtk
2474 Added mention of AF_INET6 address family.
2475 Added discussion of sockaddr structure and an example in the
2476 Unix domain.
2477
2478 recv.2
2479 mtk
2480 Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
2481
2482 send.2
2483 mtk
2484 Added cross-reference from discussion of MSG_MORE to UDP_CORK
2485 in udp(7).
2486
2487 Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
2488
2489 err.3
2490 mtk
2491 Added CONFORMING TO section noting that these are
2492 non-standard BSDisms.
2493
2494 errno.3
2495 Justin Pryzby
2496 Added SEE ALSO for err.3.
2497 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
2498
2499 gethostbyname.3
2500 Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
2501 Added references to nsswitch.conf(5); remove cross references
2502 to resolv+(8).
2503 See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308397
2504
2505 perror.3
2506 Justin Pryzby
2507 Added SEE ALSO for err.3 .
2508 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
2509
2510 resolver.3
2511 mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze
2512 Remove cross references to resolv+(8); add cross references to
2513 resolv.conf(5).
2514 See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214892
2515
2516 Added SEE ALSO entry for resolver(5);
2517 see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251122
2518
2519 strerror.3
2520 mtk / Stefan Puiu
2521 Rewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavors of
2522 strerror_r(), and added some additional information on
2523 strerror().
2524 Justin Pryzby
2525 Added SEE ALSO for err.3, as per
2526 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
2527
2528
2529 elf.5
2530 Mike Frysinger
2531 Fix three typos in identifier names.
2532
2533 operator.7
2534 Karsten Sperling
2535 The + operator should be in the list of unary operators.
2536
2537 raw.7
2538 mtk
2539 Small wording changes around discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
2540 Fixed a couple of wording errors elsewhere.
2541 Reformatted some long lines.
2542
2543 socket.7
2544 mtk, after a note by Stefan Puiu
2545 Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
2546
2547 Reformatted some long lines.
2548
2549 Noted the Linux-specific feature whereby setsockopt() doubles
2550 the value given for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
2551
2552 Noted kernel-imposed minimum values for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
2553
2554 udp.7
2555 mtk, after a note by Stefan Puiu
2556 Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
2557
2558 unix.7
2559 mtk
2560 Added new (UN)SUPPORTED FEATURES section in which it is noted
2561 that Unix domain sockets do not support MSG_OOB or MSG_MORE.
2562
2563 Noted details of SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF support for
2564 Unix domain sockets.
2565
2566
2567 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.19 ====================
2568
2569 Released: 2005-12-23
2570
2571 Contributors
2572 ------------
2573
2574 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2575 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2576
2577 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
2578 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
2579 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
2580
2581 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2582
2583
2584 Global changes
2585 --------------
2586
2587 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2588 places.
2589
2590
2591 Changes to individual pages
2592 ---------------------------
2593
2594 HOWTOHELP
2595 mtk
2596 Minor changes.
2597
2598 bind.2
2599 Stefan Puiu / mtk
2600 Remove text under EINVAL error: "This may change in the future:
2601 see linux/unix/sock.c for details." This behavior has been
2602 unchanged for a long time, and seems unlikely to change.
2603
2604 Add EADDRINUSE to errors.
2605
2606 send.2
2607 aeb
2608 Add cmsg(3) to SEE ALSO.
2609
2610 fopen.3
2611 Walter Harms / mtk
2612 Added description of 'x' mode character (exclusive open).
2613
2614 pipe.7
2615 mtk / aeb
2616 Some wording changes to description of pipes.
2617
2618
2619 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.20 ====================
2620
2621 Released: 2006-01-03
2622
2623 Global changes
2624 --------------
2625
2626 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2627 places.
2628
2629
2630 Changes to individual pages
2631 ---------------------------
2632
2633 sigaltstack.2
2634 mtk
2635 Added some text to explain the usual scenario in which
2636 sigaltstack() is employed.
2637
2638 getloadavg.3
2639 mtk
2640 Noted that this function is available since glibc 2.2.
2641
2642 strcpy.3
2643 mtk
2644 s/nulls/null bytes/
2645
2646 capabilities.7
2647 mtk
2648 Noted that capability bounding set appeared with kernel 2.2.11.
2649
2650 arp.7
2651 icmp.7
2652 ip.7
2653 ipv6.7
2654 netdevice.7
2655 packet.7
2656 raw.7
2657 rtnetlink.7
2658 socket.7
2659 tcp.7
2660 unix.7
2661 udp.7
2662 mtk
2663 The only changes to these pages have been for formatting:
2664 -- Structure definitions were changed to K&R style
2665 -- Some long source lines were broken to fit into ~70
2666 character lines.
2667 No changes were made to the content of these pages (yet...).
2668
2669
2670 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ====================
2671
2672 Released: 2006-01-16
2673
2674 Contributors
2675 ------------
2676
2677 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2678 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2679
2680 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
2681 Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
2682 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2683 Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
2684 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
2685
2686 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2687
2688
2689 Global changes
2690 --------------
2691
2692 dd.1 cp.1
2693 truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2
2694 sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2
2695 argz_add.3 asprintf.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 dlopen.3 fwide.3
2696 gethostbyname.3 getline.3 getlogin.3 getnameinfo.3 getpass.3 hsearch.3
2697 perror.3 printf.3 readdir.3 scanf.3 stpcpy.3 strdup.3 strfmon.3
2698 strftime.3 string.3 strptime.3 sysconf.3 termios.3 ttyname.3
2699 dsp56k.4 tty_ioctl.4
2700 elf.5 proc.5 termcap.5
2701 charsets.7 unix.7
2702 mtk
2703 Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
2704 is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
2705
2706 To rectify this the following changes were made in the above
2707 pages:
2708
2709 Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
2710 Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
2711 Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
2712 Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
2713 Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
2714 Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
2715 Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
2716 Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
2717
2718 Various pages
2719 mtk
2720 Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V".
2721
2722 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2723 places.
2724
2725
2726 Changes to individual pages
2727 ---------------------------
2728
2729 capget.2
2730 mtk
2731 Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
2732 capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().
2733
2734 epoll_ctl.2
2735 mtk
2736 Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2.
2737
2738 gethostname.2
2739 mtk
2740 Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
2741 gethostname() wrapper function.
2742
2743 mmap.2
2744 mtk / Mike Frysinger
2745 Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3).
2746 mtk
2747 A few other small rewordings.
2748
2749 mmap64.3
2750 Mike Frysinger
2751 New link to mmap.2.
2752
2753 open.2
2754 mtk
2755 Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
2756 open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.
2757
2758 recv.2
2759 Stefan Puiu
2760 Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
2761
2762 dlopen.3
2763 mtk
2764 Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
2765 added descriptions of RTLD_NOLOAD, RTLD_DELETE,
2766 and RTLD_DEEPBIND.
2767
2768 Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
2769 automatically called when a library is unloaded.
2770
2771 fmemopen.3
2772 mtk
2773 Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.
2774
2775 fseeko.3
2776 Mike Frysinger
2777 Add RETURN VALUE section.
2778
2779 getopt.3
2780 mtk
2781 Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().
2782
2783 qsort.3
2784 mtk / Falk Hueffner
2785 Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
2786 function by providing an example.
2787 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348072
2788
2789 proc.5
2790 mtk
2791 Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.
2792
2793 Documented /proc/PID/task.
2794
2795 Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task}
2796 are not available if the main thread has terminated.
2797
2798 Senthil Kumar
2799 Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
2800 /proc/sys/kernel/random.
2801
2802 udp.7
2803 Stefan Puiu / mtk
2804 Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT
2805 (add cross-ref to socket(7)).
2806
2807
2808 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.22 ====================
2809
2810 Released: 2006-02-02
2811
2812 Contributors
2813 ------------
2814
2815 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2816 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2817
2818 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
2819 Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2820 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
2821 Colin Tuckley <colin@tuckley.org>
2822 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
2823 Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
2824 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
2825 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
2826
2827
2828 Global changes
2829 --------------
2830
2831 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2832 places.
2833
2834 Changes to individual pages
2835 ---------------------------
2836
2837 mmap.2
2838 aeb / mtk
2839 Noted that portable applications should specify fd as -1
2840 when using MAP_ANONYMOUS.
2841 Some rewriting of description of MAP_ANONYMOUS.
2842
2843 rt_sigreturn.2
2844 Thorsten Kukuk
2845 New link to sigreturn.2.
2846
2847 rt_sigsuspend.2
2848 mtk
2849 New link to sigsuspend.2.
2850
2851 waitid.2
2852 mtk
2853 Noted that waitid() does not set infop->si_uid field on
2854 most other implementations.
2855
2856 getopt.3
2857 Walter harms / mtk
2858 Make clear that when calling getopt_long() and there are no
2859 short options, then 'optstring' should be "", not NULL.
2860
2861 openpty.3
2862 Thomas Hood / mtk
2863 In glibc 2.0.92, openpty() was modified to preferably open
2864 Unix 98 ptys instead of BSD ptys.
2865
2866 qsort.3
2867 mtk
2868 Small rewording under EXAMPLES.
2869
2870 strtol.3
2871 strtoul.3
2872 Stefan Puiu
2873 s/string must begin/string may begin/
2874
2875 proc.5
2876 mtk
2877 Documented inotify files under /proc/sys/fs/inotify:
2878 max_queued_events, max_user_instances, and max_user_watches.
2879
2880
2881 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.23 ====================
2882
2883 Released: 2006-02-10
2884
2885 Contributors
2886 ------------
2887
2888 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
2889 been incorporated in changes in this release:
2890
2891 Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
2892 Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
2893 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
2894 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
2895 Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
2896 Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
2897 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
2898 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
2899 Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
2900 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
2901 Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
2902
2903 Apologies if I missed anyone!
2904
2905 Global changes
2906 --------------
2907
2908 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
2909 places.
2910
2911
2912 New pages
2913 ---------
2914
2915 inotify_init.2
2916 inotify_add_watch.2
2917 inotify_rm_watch.2
2918 Robert Love, with some additions by mtk.
2919 New pages describing the inotify API.
2920
2921 mbind.2
2922 get_mempolicy.2
2923 set_mempolicy.2
2924 Andi Kleen, with additional work by mtk
2925 New pages describing the NUMA memory allocation policy API.
2926 Drawn from the set at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa.
2927
2928 rtc.4
2929 Urs Thuermann, with additional work by mtk
2930 New page describing the real-time clock driver.
2931
2932 inotify.7
2933 mtk
2934 Overview of the inotify API.
2935
2936 Changes to individual pages
2937 ---------------------------
2938
2939 clone.2
2940 Andi Kleen
2941 On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall,
2942 but directly through "int $0x80".
2943
2944 fcntl.2
2945 mtk
2946 Small wording changes.
2947
2948 Added cross-ref to inotify.7 under the description of dnotify.
2949
2950 kill.2
2951 mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
2952 Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
2953 what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
2954 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350236
2955
2956 mlock.2
2957 mtk / Matthias Andree
2958 Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and
2959 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
2960 See the following LKML thread:
2961 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
2962 "Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
2963
2964 msgop.2
2965 mtk / Samuel Thibault
2966 Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
2967 to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350884
2968 Various other wording fixes.
2969
2970 open.2
2971 mtk
2972 Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
2973 "file status flags".
2974
2975 read.2
2976 Justin Pryzby
2977 Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
2978 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351873
2979
2980 sched_setaffinity.2
2981 mtk
2982 Major rewrite.
2983
2984 select.2
2985 mtk
2986 Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(),
2987 FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
2988 Other minor wording changes.
2989
2990 read.2
2991 mtk
2992 Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2).
2993 (Analogous with read.2 change above.)
2994
2995 errno.3
2996 Kurt Wall / mtk
2997 Add Linux specific errors to this page.
2998
2999 localeconv.3
3000 mtk
3001 Added cross-ref to locale.7 for 'struct lconv' defn.
3002 Other minor wording changes.
3003 Martin (Joey) Schulze
3004 Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
3005 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
3006
3007 scanf.3
3008 mtk / Justin Pryzby
3009 Minor formatting & wording fixes.
3010
3011 setlocale.3
3012 Martin (Joey) Schulze
3013 Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
3014 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
3015
3016 proc.5
3017 mtk
3018 Migrated description of inotify files to the new inotify.7 page.
3019
3020 ascii.7
3021 Dan Jacobson / mtk
3022 Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
3023 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342173
3024
3025 locale.7
3026 mtk
3027 Minor wording and formatting changes.
3028
3029
3030 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.24 ====================
3031
3032 Released: 2006-02-17
3033
3034 Contributors
3035 ------------
3036
3037 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3038 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3039
3040 Joerg Habenicht <habenich@planetserver.com>
3041 Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
3042 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
3043 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
3044
3045 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3046
3047
3048 New pages
3049 ---------
3050
3051 get_kernel_syms.2
3052 create_module.2
3053 delete_module.2
3054 init_module.2
3055 query_module.2
3056 FSF / mtk (with assistance of Luc Van Oostenryck)
3057 man-pages finally gets pages for these system calls, several
3058 of which are obsolete in Linux 2.6.
3059 Took the old GPLed pages dated 1996 and made a number of
3060 clean-ups and minor additions.
3061
3062
3063 Global changes
3064 --------------
3065
3066 various pages
3067 mtk
3068 Change "file name" to "filename"
3069 Change "path name" to "pathname"
3070
3071 stpncpy.3
3072 strstr.3
3073 strcmp.3
3074 toupper.3
3075 strlen.3
3076 stpcpy.3
3077 puts.3
3078 strdup.3
3079 strtok.3
3080 isalpha.3
3081 strspn.3
3082 gets.3
3083 strpbrk.3
3084 mtk after a suggestion from Samuel Thibault
3085 Added SEE ALSO pointers to wide character equivalent functions
3086 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351996
3087
3088 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
3089 places.
3090
3091
3092 Changes to individual pages
3093 ---------------------------
3094
3095 clone.2
3096 mtk
3097 Remove duplicate CLONE_STOPPED text.
3098 Commented out crufty text describing EINVAL error
3099 for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
3100 Under CLONE_SIGHAND, noted that 'flags' must also include
3101 CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
3102
3103 fcntl.2
3104 mtk
3105 Under ERRORS: Separate out EAGAIN error for locking mmaped files.
3106
3107 inotify_add_watch.2
3108 mtk
3109 Minor wording fix.
3110
3111 msgop.2
3112 mtk
3113 Documented the EAGAIN error for msgrcv().
3114
3115 fnmatch.3
3116 Mike Frysinger / mtk
3117 Expand explanation of FNM_PATHNAME.
3118
3119 lockf.3
3120 Joerg Habenicht / mtk
3121 Fix up discussion of EAGAIN/EACCESS errors.
3122
3123
3124 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.25 ====================
3125
3126 Released: 2006-03-02
3127
3128 Contributors
3129 ------------
3130
3131 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3132 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3133
3134 James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
3135 Krzysztof Benedyczak <golbi@mat.uni.torun.pl>
3136 Marten von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
3137 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
3138 Michael Wronksi <michal.wronski@gmail.com>
3139
3140 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3141
3142
3143 New pages
3144 ---------
3145
3146 mq_close.3
3147 mq_getattr.3
3148 mq_notify.3
3149 mq_open.3
3150 mq_receive.3
3151 mq_send.3
3152 mq_unlink.3
3153 mtk
3154 New pages describing POSIX message queue API.
3155
3156 posix_fallocate.3
3157 mtk, after a suggestion by James Peach
3158 New page describing posix_fallocate().
3159
3160 mq_overview.7
3161 mtk
3162 New page giving overview of the POSIX message queue API.
3163
3164
3165 Changes to individual pages
3166 ---------------------------
3167
3168 lseek.2
3169 Michael Haardt
3170 Add a case to the EINVAL error text.
3171 mtk
3172 Various minor wording fixes
3173 Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3.
3174
3175 posix_fadvise.2
3176 mtk
3177 Added "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600" to prototype.
3178 Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3.
3179
3180 proc.5
3181 mtk
3182 Migrated information on POSIX message queues to new mqueue.7 page.
3183
3184 inotify.7
3185 Marten von Gagern
3186 Fix thinko: s/assuming a non-blocking/assuming a blocking/
3187
3188
3189 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.26 ====================
3190
3191 Released: 2006-03-21
3192
3193 Contributors
3194 ------------
3195
3196 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3197 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3198
3199 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
3200 Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
3201 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
3202 Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
3203 Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
3204 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
3205 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
3206 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
3207 Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
3208 Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
3209 Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
3210 Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
3211
3212 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3213
3214 Global changes
3215 --------------
3216
3217 clone.2
3218 getdents.2
3219 gettid.2
3220 llseek.2
3221 mmap2.2
3222 modify_ldt.2
3223 pivot_root.2
3224 quotactl.2
3225 readdir.2
3226 sysctl.2
3227 syslog.2
3228 tkill.2
3229 mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
3230 Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be
3231 preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
3232
3233 Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
3234 pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
3235
3236 New pages
3237 ---------
3238
3239 openat.2
3240 mtk
3241 New page describing openat(2), added in kernel 2.6.16,
3242 and some notes on rationale for the at*(2) system calls.
3243
3244 mbind.2
3245 Andi Kleen, Christoph Lameter, mtk
3246 Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
3247 from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
3248 Plus a few other smaller fixes.
3249
3250 fexecve.3
3251 mtk
3252 New page describing fexecve(3).
3253
3254 futimes.3
3255 mtk
3256 New page describing futimes(3).
3257
3258 Changes to individual pages
3259 ---------------------------
3260
3261 execve.2
3262 mtk
3263 Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
3264
3265 intro.2
3266 mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
3267 Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
3268
3269 msgctl.2
3270 msgget.2
3271 msgop.2
3272 mtk
3273 Added SEE ALSO pointing to mq_overview.7.
3274
3275 open.2
3276 mtk
3277 Added SEE ALSO pointing to new openat.2.
3278
3279 Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate
3280 NOTES section.
3281
3282 Modified wording referring to raw(8) to
3283 indicate that this interface is deprecated.
3284
3285 poll.2
3286 mtk
3287 Added discussion of ppoll(2), which is new in 2.6.16.
3288
3289 ppoll.2
3290 mtk
3291 New link to poll.2.
3292
3293 recvmsg.2
3294 sendmsg.2
3295 mtk / Paul Brook
3296 Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen
3297 should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
3298 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356502
3299 and the associated glibc bug report.
3300 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448
3301 mtk
3302 Various formatting fixes.
3303
3304 select.2
3305 mtk
3306 Updated to reflect the fact that pselect() has been implemented
3307 in the kernel in 2.6.16; various other minor wording changes.
3308
3309 pselect() prototype needs "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600".
3310
3311 tempnam.3
3312 Justin Pryzby
3313 Clean up description of EEXIST error.
3314 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357893
3315
3316 unlink.2
3317 mtk
3318 Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM.
3319
3320 utime.2
3321 mtk
3322 Added new SEE ALSO entry pointing to new futimes.3 page.
3323
3324 exec.3
3325 mtk
3326 Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
3327
3328 shm_unlink.3
3329 mtk
3330 New link to shm_open.3 (should have been made when page
3331 was originally written).
3332
3333 swab.3
3334 Walter Harms
3335 Add needed "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE".
3336
3337 undocumented.3
3338 mtk
3339 Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
3340
3341 capabilities.7
3342 mtk
3343 Various changes to bring this page closer to
3344 current kernel versions.
3345
3346 inotify.7
3347 mtk
3348 Noted that glibc 2.4 is required to get glibc support
3349 for inotify.
3350
3351 mq_overview.7
3352 mtk
3353 Some rewording and added a few words about System V
3354 message queues.
3355
3356 netlink.7
3357 Hasso Tepper
3358 Substantial updates to various parts of this page.
3359 mtk, Alain Portal
3360 Minor fixes
3361
3362 pthreads.7
3363 mtk
3364 Updated to reflect that the NPTL limitation that only the main
3365 thread could call setsid() and setpgid() was removed in 2.6.16.
3366
3367 raw.7
3368 Hasso Tepper
3369 Removed text implying that only in kernel 2.2 does IP_HDRINCL
3370 prevent datagrams from being fragmented.
3371
3372 socket.7
3373 mtk
3374 Documented SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options,
3375 new in 2.6.14.
3376
3377 Placed socket options in alphabetical order.
3378
3379
3380 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
3381
3382 Released: 2006-03-24
3383
3384 Contributors
3385 ------------
3386
3387 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3388 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3389
3390 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
3391 Charles P. Wright <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>
3392 Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
3393 Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
3394 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
3395 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elet.hu>
3396 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
3397 Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
3398 Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
3399 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
3400
3401 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3402
3403
3404 Global changes
3405 --------------
3406
3407 man7/*
3408 mtk
3409 Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
3410 pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
3411
3412
3413 New pages
3414 ---------
3415
3416 unshare.2
3417 mtk, with reference to documentation by Janak Desai
3418 New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
3419
3420
3421 Changes to individual pages
3422 ---------------------------
3423
3424 clone.2
3425 fork.2
3426 vfork.2
3427 mtk
3428 Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
3429
3430 mbind.2
3431 Christoph Lameter
3432 MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL requires CAP_SYS_NICE not CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
3433
3434 mremap.2
3435 mtk
3436 Clarified the description of MREMAP_FIXED and restructured
3437 the text to reflect the fact that this flag is exposed
3438 by glibc since version 2.4.
3439
3440 ptrace.2
3441 Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz,
3442 Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
3443 after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
3444 Document the following ptrace requests:
3445 PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
3446 plus associated flags:
3447 PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
3448 PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
3449 PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
3450 PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
3451 PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
3452 PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
3453 PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
3454 PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
3455 PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
3456 PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
3457 PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
3458 PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
3459
3460 sched_get_priority_max.2
3461 sched_setscheduler.2
3462 sched_setparam.2
3463 mtk, Ingo Molnar
3464 Modified to document SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16.
3465
3466 Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
3467 and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
3468 mail message containing the patch that implemented this policy.
3469
3470 Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
3471
3472 proc.5
3473 mtk, using text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
3474 Document /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, new in kernel 2.6.16.
3475 mtk, using information from ChangeLog-2.6.14.
3476 Document /proc/PID/smaps, new in kernel 2.6.14.
3477
3478 capabilities.7
3479 mtk
3480 Noted affect of CAP_SYS_NICE for mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL).
3481
3482 pthreads.7
3483 mtk
3484 Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behavior with respect to
3485 the alternate signal stack.
3486
3487
3488 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.28 ====================
3489
3490 Released: 2006-03-31
3491
3492 Contributors
3493 ------------
3494
3495 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3496 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3497
3498 Aleksandr Blokhin <sass@altlinux.ru>
3499 Greg Johnson <gjohnson@lanl.gov>
3500
3501 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3502
3503
3504 New pages
3505 ---------
3506
3507 sem_post.3
3508 sem_getvalue.3
3509 sem_close.3
3510 sem_open.3
3511 sem_destroy.3
3512 sem_wait.3
3513 sem_unlink.3
3514 sem_init.3
3515 sem_overview.7
3516 mtk
3517 New pages describing the POSIX semaphores API.
3518
3519 These pages supersede and provide a superset of the information
3520 in the glibc (3thr) "semaphores(3)" manual page.
3521
3522
3523 Changes to individual pages
3524 ---------------------------
3525
3526 ppoll.2
3527 Aleksandr Blokhin
3528 Fix broken link.
3529
3530 ptrace.2
3531 mtk
3532 Wrapped long lines (no content changes).
3533
3534 semctl.2
3535 semget.2
3536 semop.2
3537 mtk
3538 Add SEE ALSO pointing to the new sem_overview.7 page.
3539
3540 elf.5
3541 Greg Johnson
3542 Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent core(5).
3543
3544
3545 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.29 ====================
3546
3547 Released: 2006-04-06
3548
3549 Contributors
3550 ------------
3551
3552 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3553 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3554
3555 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
3556 Roberto Jimenoca <robertojimenoca@terra.es>
3557 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
3558
3559 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3560
3561
3562 Global changes
3563 --------------
3564
3565 getrlimit.2
3566 prctl.2
3567 sigaction.2
3568 elf.5
3569 signal.7
3570 mtk
3571 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new core.5 page.
3572
3573
3574 New pages
3575 ---------
3576
3577 mkdirat.2
3578 mtk
3579 New page describing mkdirat(2), new in 2.6.16.
3580
3581 mknodat.2
3582 mtk
3583 New page describing mknodat(2), new in 2.6.16.
3584
3585 core.5
3586 mtk
3587 New page describing core dump files.
3588
3589 mkfifoat.3
3590 mtk
3591 New page describing mkfifoat(3).
3592
3593
3594 Changes to individual pages
3595 ---------------------------
3596
3597 accept.2
3598 getpeername.2
3599 getsockname.2
3600 Michael Haardt / mtk
3601 Document EINVAL error for 'len' argument < 0.
3602
3603 fcntl.2
3604 mtk
3605 Expanded discussion of mandatory locking.
3606
3607 getrlimit.2
3608 mtk
3609 Added BUGS text on 2.6.x handling of RLIMIT_CPU limit
3610 of zero seconds. See
3611 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
3612
3613 mkdir.2
3614 mtk
3615 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mkdirat.2.
3616
3617 mknod.2
3618 mtk
3619 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mknodat.2.
3620
3621 open.2
3622 mtk / Roberto Jimenoca
3623 Clarified discussion of file types affected by O_NONBLOCK.
3624 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360243
3625
3626 openat.2
3627 mtk
3628 Rewrote NOTES describing rationale for openat().
3629 Various other minor changes.
3630
3631 recv.2
3632 Stefan Puiu
3633 Removed a misleading cross-ref to socket.2.
3634
3635 shmop.2
3636 mtk
3637 Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further
3638 circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
3639
3640 unshare.2
3641 mtk
3642 Remove text saying that specifying invalid flags "is likely
3643 to cause compatibility problems" since the kernel now
3644 (2.6.17-rc1) contains an explicit check for invalid bits
3645 with a consequent EINVAL error.
3646
3647 mkfifo.3
3648 mtk
3649 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mkfifoat.3.
3650
3651 proc.5
3652 mtk
3653 Information on core_pattern and core_uses_pid has
3654 been migrated to the new core.5 page.
3655
3656 ip.7
3657 Stefan Puiu
3658 Removed paragraph referring to obsolete ipchains / ipfw(4).
3659
3660 sem_overview.7
3661 mtk
3662 Add SEE ALSO entry referring to pthreads.7.
3663
3664
3665 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.30 ====================
3666
3667 Released: 2006-04-17
3668
3669 Contributors
3670 ------------
3671
3672 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3673 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3674
3675 Andre Lehovich <andrel@yahoo.com>
3676 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
3677 Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
3678 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
3679
3680 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3681
3682
3683 New pages
3684 ---------
3685
3686 linkat.2
3687 mtk
3688 New page describing linkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
3689
3690 renameat.2
3691 mtk
3692 New page describing renameat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
3693
3694 symlinkat.2
3695 mtk
3696 New page describing symlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
3697
3698 unlinkat.2
3699 mtk
3700 New page describing unlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
3701
3702
3703 Changes to individual pages
3704 ---------------------------
3705
3706 link.2
3707 mtk
3708 Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new linkat.2 page.
3709
3710 openat.2
3711 mtk
3712 Added SEE ALSO entries pointing to new *at.2 pages.
3713
3714 rename.2
3715 mtk
3716 Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new renameat.2 page.
3717
3718 rmdir.2
3719 mtk
3720 Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new unlinkat.2 page.
3721
3722 symlink.2
3723 mtk
3724 Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new symlinkat.2 page.
3725
3726 unlink.2
3727 mtk
3728 Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new unlinkat.2 page.
3729
3730 termios.3
3731 mtk / Karel Kulhavy
3732 Document the feature test macros required to expose various flags.
3733 Karel Kulhavy
3734 Clarify 'speed' argument for cfsetispeed() text.
3735 Karel Kulhavy / mtk
3736 Note that LOBLK is not implemented on Linux.
3737 mtk
3738 Clarify arguments for cfsetspeed().
3739 Various formatting changes.
3740
3741 full.4
3742 Andre Lehovich
3743 Add a sentence describing the purpose of full(4).
3744
3745 core.5
3746 aeb / mtk
3747 Rework text describing circumstances in which
3748 core dump files are not produced.
3749 mtk / Stefan Puiu
3750 A core dump of a multithreaded process always includes the
3751 PID in the core filename.
3752 mtk / Stefan Puiu
3753 Eliminate some accidentally duplicated text.
3754
3755
3756 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.31 ====================
3757
3758 Released: 2006-05-02
3759
3760 Contributors
3761 ------------
3762
3763 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
3764 been incorporated in changes in this release:
3765
3766 Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
3767 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
3768 Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
3769 Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
3770 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
3771 Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
3772 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
3773 Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
3774 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
3775
3776 Apologies if I missed anyone!
3777
3778
3779 Page renamings
3780 --------------
3781
3782 The following pages have been relocated into section 7, since
3783 that is their more natural home. SEE ALSO references in various
3784 other pages have been adjusted.
3785
3786 epoll.4
3787 fifo.4
3788 futex.4
3789 complex.5
3790 environ.5
3791 (many pages outside man-pages actually *expect*
3792 'environ' to be in Section 7.)
3793
3794 ipc.5
3795 renamed to svipc.7
3796
3797 ".so" link files have been created to link the old file locations to the
3798 new file locations. These links are added just to ensure that cross
3799 references from any other (non-man-pages) pages will remain valid;
3800 eventually these links will be removed.
3801
3802
3803 New pages
3804 ---------
3805
3806 fstatat.2
3807 mtk
3808 New page for fstatat(2), new in 2.6.16.
3809
3810 adjtime.3
3811 mtk
3812 New page for adjtime(3).
3813
3814 error.3
3815 Justin Pryzby / mtk
3816 New page describing error() and error_at_line()
3817 Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186307
3818
3819 program_invocation_name.3
3820 mtk
3821 New page describing program_invocation_name and
3822 program_invocation_short_name variables.
3823
3824 sockatmark.3
3825 mtk
3826 New page for sockatmark(3).
3827
3828 ftm.7
3829 mtk
3830 New page describing feature test macros.
3831
3832 time.7
3833 mtk
3834 New page giving an overview of "time" on Linux systems.
3835
3836
3837 Global changes
3838 --------------
3839
3840 getgroups.2
3841 wait4.2
3842 chown.2
3843 chdir.2
3844 gettimeofday.2
3845 initgroups.3
3846 dirfd.3
3847 mtk
3848 Simplified wording around requirement for _BSD_SOURCE
3849 feature test macro.
3850
3851 times.2
3852 time.2
3853 gettimeofday.2
3854 getitimer.2
3855 nanosleep.2
3856 ctime.3
3857 rtc.4
3858 mtk
3859 Added SEE ALSO referring to new time.7.
3860
3861 err.3
3862 errno.3
3863 perror.3
3864 strerror.3
3865 Justin Pryzby / mtk
3866 Add SEE ALSO referring to new error.3.
3867
3868 getdate.3
3869 printf.3
3870 scanf.3
3871 mtk
3872 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to setlocale.3.
3873
3874
3875 Changes to individual pages
3876 ---------------------------
3877
3878 accept.2
3879 Mark Glines
3880 Remove mention of SOCK_RDM from this page, since this socket
3881 type does not support accept()ing connections.
3882
3883 adjtimex.2
3884 mtk
3885 Modified text referring to adjtime(); added SEE ALSO for new
3886 adjtime.3 page.
3887
3888 fsync.2
3889 mtk, after a note by Karel Kulhavy
3890 Rewrote most of the DESCRIPTION, as well as some other parts
3891 the page, to clarify use and operation of, and rationale for,
3892 fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
3893
3894 getitimer.2
3895 mtk
3896 Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact
3897 that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
3898
3899 Added text to note that current incorrect behavior of
3900 normalizing tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
3901 kernel; applications should be fixed now.
3902
3903 gettimeofday.2
3904 Karel Kulhavy
3905 Point out more explicitly that 'tz' argument should
3906 normally be NULL.
3907 mtk
3908 Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
3909
3910 mount.2
3911 mtk
3912 Since kernel 2.6.16, MS_NOATIME and MS_NODIRATIME are settable
3913 on a per-mount basis.
3914 Detail exactly which mount flags can be changed on MS_REMOUNT.
3915
3916 nanosleep.2
3917 mtk / Karel Kulhavy
3918 Clarify RETURN VALUE discussion.
3919
3920 openat.2
3921 mtk
3922 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fstatat.2.
3923
3924 program_invocation_short_name.3
3925 mtk
3926 New link to new program_invocation_name.3.
3927
3928 recv.2
3929 mtk
3930 Added SEE ALSO for new sockatmark.3.
3931
3932 rmdir.2
3933 Joshua Kwan / Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
3934 Correct wording of EBUSY case.
3935 mtk
3936 Add ".." case to ENOTEMPTY error
3937
3938 select.2
3939 Karel Kulhavy
3940 Note more clearly that fd_set arguments can be NULL.
3941 mtk / Karel Kulhavy
3942 Improve opening paragraph describing purpose of select().
3943 mtk
3944 Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
3945
3946 semget.2
3947 mtk / Nishanth Aravamudan
3948 Add text to noting that the initial values of semaphores
3949 in a new set are indeterminate.
3950
3951 shmget.2
3952 mtk
3953 Add text noting that contents of newly created segment are zero
3954 values.
3955
3956 sigwaitinfo.2
3957 mtk
3958 Noted that all threads should block signal being waited for.
3959
3960 stat.2
3961 Nishanth Aravamudan / mtk
3962 Added NOTE that st_size is always returned as zero for most
3963 /proc files.
3964 mtk
3965 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fstatat.2.
3966
3967 syscall.2
3968 Justin Pryzby / mtk
3969 Remove bogus BUGS text.
3970
3971 utime.2
3972 mtk
3973 Various minor changes.
3974
3975 confstr.3
3976 mtk
3977 Rewrote RETURN VALUE discussion.
3978 Updated CONFORMING TO.
3979 Removed BUGS.
3980
3981 ctanh.3
3982 Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
3983 Fix errors in DESCRIPTION.
3984
3985 ctime.3
3986 mtk
3987 The range of tm_sec is 0..60 (not 0..61).
3988
3989 error_at_line.3
3990 error_message_count.3
3991 error_on_per_line.3
3992 error_print_progname.3
3993 mtk
3994 New links to new error.3.
3995
3996 fmemopen.3
3997 mtk / Ryan S. Arnold
3998 Add text noting that explicitly controlling output buffering
3999 may be useful to catch errors on output operations on an
4000 fmemopen() stream.
4001
4002 getline.3
4003 Justin Pryzby
4004 Add SEE ALSO pointing to getline.3.
4005 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364772
4006
4007 strtod.3
4008 strtoul.3
4009 mtk
4010 Describe correct handling of errno in order to
4011 distinguish error from success after the call.
4012
4013 Added EXAMPLE section which points to strtol.3 which provides
4014 an example of the use of the analogous strtol(3).
4015
4016 strtol.3
4017 mtk / Justin Pryzby
4018 Add an example program.
4019 mtk
4020 Describe correct handling or errno in order to
4021 distinguish error from success after the call.
4022
4023 tmpfile.3
4024 Reuben Thomas
4025 DESCRIPTION does not need to say "temporary file name"
4026 just "temporary file", since the name is in any case
4027 unavailable to the user.
4028 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363518
4029 mtk
4030 In DESCRIPTION:
4031 Change /automatically deleted when the program terminates normally/
4032 to /automatically deleted when the program terminates/
4033 since deletion occurs on both normal and abnormal termination.
4034
4035 ip.7
4036 Karel Kulhavy / mtk
4037 Various wording improvements and clarifications.
4038
4039 signal.7
4040 mtk / Ulrich Drepper
4041 Add text noting that a signal's disposition is process-wide,
4042 shared by all threads.
4043 mtk
4044 Add text on changing signal dispositions.
4045 Add text on "signal mask and pending signals".
4046 Other minor edits.
4047
4048 time.7
4049 mtk
4050 Added SEE ALSO for new adjtime.3.
4051
4052 ld.so.8
4053 Justin Pryzby
4054 Remove bogus duplicate line.
4055
4056
4057 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.32 ====================
4058
4059 Released: 2006-05-13
4060
4061 Contributors
4062 ------------
4063
4064 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4065 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4066
4067 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
4068 Johannes Weiner <root@hnaz.ath.cx>
4069 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
4070 Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
4071 Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
4072 Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
4073
4074 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4075
4076
4077 New pages
4078 ---------
4079
4080 faccessat.2
4081 mtk
4082 New page for faccessat(2), new in 2.6.16.
4083
4084 fchmodat.2
4085 mtk
4086 New page for fchmodat(2), new in 2.6.16.
4087
4088 fchownat.2
4089 mtk
4090 New page for fchownat(2), new in 2.6.16.
4091
4092 futimesat.2
4093 mtk
4094 New page for futimesat(2), new in 2.6.16.
4095
4096
4097 Changes to individual pages
4098 ---------------------------
4099
4100 access.2
4101 mtk
4102 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new faccessat.2 page.
4103
4104 capget.2
4105 mtk
4106 Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
4107
4108 chmod.2
4109 mtk
4110 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fchmodat.2 page.
4111
4112 chown.2
4113 mtk
4114 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fchownat.2 page.
4115
4116 mmap.2
4117 mtk
4118 Updated discussion of MAP_NORESERVE since it is no longer
4119 restricted to MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
4120 Add reference to discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
4121 in proc.5.
4122
4123 openat.2
4124 mtk
4125 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new faccessat.2, fchmodat.2,
4126 fchownat.2, futimesat.2 pages.
4127
4128 shmget.2
4129 mtk
4130 Document SHM_NORESERVE flag, new in 2.6.15.
4131
4132 truncate.2
4133 Paul Brook / mtk
4134 Expand text noting that ftruncate()/truncate() may fail if
4135 asked to extend a file beyond its current length.
4136 Add EPERM error.
4137
4138 utime.2
4139 mtk
4140 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
4141
4142 fopen.3
4143 Justin Pryzby / mtk
4144 Document 'm' (mmap) flag.
4145 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365754
4146 mtk
4147 Document 'c' (notcancel) flag.
4148
4149 futimes.3
4150 mtk
4151 Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
4152
4153 qsort.3
4154 Johannes Weiner
4155 Add missing "const" qualifies to cast in EXAMPLE.
4156 mtk
4157 Slight rewording of comments in EXAMPLE.
4158
4159 termios.3
4160 Karel Kulhavy
4161 Clarify meaning of IXANY.
4162 Clarify relationship of MIN with VMIN and TIME with VTIME.
4163 mtk
4164 Noted that CIBAUD, OFDEL, and DELECHO are not implemented
4165 on Linux.
4166 Added explanatory paragraph for phrases "not in POSIX" and
4167 "XSI".
4168
4169 capabilities.7
4170 mtk
4171 Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
4172 Add ioprio_set() to list of operations permitted by
4173 CAP_SYS_NICE.
4174 Add ioprio_set() IOPRIO_CLASS_RT and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE
4175 scheduling classes to list of operations permitted by
4176 CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
4177 Note effects of CAP_SYS_NICE for migrate_pages().
4178
4179
4180 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.33 ====================
4181
4182 Released: 2006-05-23
4183
4184 Contributors
4185 ------------
4186
4187 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4188 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4189
4190 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
4191 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
4192 Martin Osvald" <martin.osvald@gmail.com>
4193 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
4194
4195 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4196
4197
4198 Page renamings
4199 --------------
4200
4201 ftm.7
4202 mtk / Stefan Puiu
4203 renamed to the more suggestive feature_test_macros.7
4204
4205
4206 New pages
4207 ---------
4208
4209 mq_getsetattr.2
4210 mtk
4211 New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2), the system
4212 call that underlies mq_setattr(3) and mq_getattr(3).
4213
4214 rpmatch.3
4215 Justin Pryzby / mtk
4216 New page for rpmatch(3).
4217
4218
4219 Changes to individual pages
4220 ---------------------------
4221
4222 chmod.2
4223 mtk
4224 Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
4225 POSIX does now document ELOOP.
4226
4227 open.2
4228 mtk
4229 Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
4230
4231 mmap.2
4232 Justin Pryzby
4233 Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO.
4234 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367401
4235
4236 msync.2
4237 Justin Pryzby
4238 Note that EINVAL can also be caused by
4239 flags == MS_SYNC | MS_ASYNC.
4240
4241 sched_setaffinity.2
4242 mtk
4243 Add CPU_ISSET, CPU_CLR, CPU_SET, CPU_ZERO to NAME section.
4244
4245 select.2
4246 mtk
4247 Various minor changes.
4248
4249 select_tut.2
4250 mtk
4251 Removed much material that is redundant with select.2.
4252 Various other changes.
4253
4254 umask.2
4255 mtk
4256 Substantial rewrite of description of 'mask'.
4257
4258 CPU_ISSET.3
4259 CPU_CLR.3
4260 CPU_SET.3
4261 CPU_ZERO.3
4262 mtk
4263 New links to sched_setaffinity.2
4264
4265 FD_CLR.3
4266 FD_ISSET.3
4267 FD_SET.3
4268 FD_ZERO.3
4269 mtk
4270 New links to select.2.
4271
4272 fts.3
4273 Justin Pryzby
4274 Add SEE also referring to ftw.3.
4275
4276 ftw.3
4277 Justin Pryzby
4278 Add SEE also referring to fts.3.
4279
4280 getline.3
4281 Justin Pryzby
4282 Various minor clarifications.
4283
4284 mkstemp.3
4285 mtk
4286 Clarify that O_EXCL is an open(2) flag.
4287
4288 mq_open.3
4289 Martin Osvald
4290 Fix prototype declaration for 'attr'.
4291
4292 mq_notify.3
4293 Martin Osvald
4294 s/sigev_signal/sigev_signo/
4295
4296 mq_setattr.3
4297 mtk
4298 New link to mq_getattr.3.
4299
4300 mq_timedreceive.3
4301 mtk
4302 New link to mq_receive.3.
4303
4304 mq_timedsend.3
4305 mtk
4306 New link to mq_send.3.
4307
4308 setlocale.3
4309 Justin Pryzby
4310 Added SEE ALSO referring to rpmatch.3.
4311
4312 sigandset.3
4313 sigisemptyset.3
4314 sigorset.3
4315 mtk
4316 New links to sigsetops.3.
4317
4318 stdio.3
4319 Justin Pryzby
4320 Added SEE ALSO referring to unlocked_stdio.3
4321 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
4322
4323 strchr.3
4324 Justin Pryzby
4325 Add description of strchrnul().
4326
4327 strchrnul.3
4328 mtk
4329 New link to strchr.3.
4330
4331 undocumented.3
4332 Justin Pryzby / mtk
4333 Updated to remove some functions that don't exist, and
4334 therefore don't need to be documented.
4335 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367671
4336
4337 unlocked_stdio.3
4338 Justin Pryzby
4339 Added SEE ALSO referring to stdio.3
4340 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
4341
4342 mq_overview.7
4343 mtk
4344 Added section describing relationship between library
4345 interfaces and system calls.
4346 Added SEE ALSO referring to new mq_getsetattr.2.
4347
4348 feature_test_macros.7
4349 Stefan Puiu
4350 Fix typo: s/_POSIX_C_SOURCE/_POSIX_SOURCE/
4351
4352
4353 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.34 ====================
4354
4355 Released: 2006-06-20
4356
4357 Contributors
4358 ------------
4359
4360 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4361 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4362
4363 Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
4364 bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
4365 Chris Curtis <chris.curtis@riptidesoftware.com>
4366 Eduardo Madeira Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
4367 Joerg Scheurich <rusmufti@helpdesk.bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
4368 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
4369 Kenichi Okuyama <okuyama.kenichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
4370 Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
4371 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
4372 Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
4373 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
4374 Peter Eiserloh <eiserlohpp@yahoo.com>
4375 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
4376 Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
4377 Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
4378
4379 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4380
4381
4382 Global changes
4383 --------------
4384
4385 tzselect.8
4386 zdump.8
4387 zic.8
4388 mtk, Joey
4389 Added header comment noting that these pages are in the public
4390 domain.
4391
4392 bindresvport.3
4393 getrpcent.3
4394 getrpcport.3
4395 rpc.3
4396 xdr.3
4397 rpc.5
4398 mtk, aeb, Joey
4399 Added following to top of these pages to clarify origin and
4400 license:
4401 .\" This page was taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM (BSD license)
4402
4403 New pages
4404 ---------
4405
4406 ioprio_set.2
4407 Eduardo Madeira Fleury, with edits by mtk, and review by Jens Axboe
4408 New page for ioprio_get(2) and ioprio_set(2), new in 2.6.13.
4409
4410 offsetof.3
4411 Justin Pryzby / mtk
4412 New page describing offsetof() macro.
4413
4414
4415 Changes to individual pages
4416 ---------------------------
4417
4418 _exit.2
4419 mtk
4420 Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2.
4421
4422 acct.2
4423 mtk
4424 Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5.
4425
4426 fcntl.2
4427 mtk
4428 Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY.
4429
4430 inotify_add_watch.2
4431 Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
4432 s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
4433 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
4434 mtk
4435 Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'.
4436 Reword introductory paragraph to clarify that
4437 inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
4438 mtk
4439 The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
4440 file descriptor.
4441 mtk
4442 Moved BUGS section from this page to inotify.7.
4443
4444 inotify_init.2
4445 Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
4446 s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
4447 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
4448
4449 inotify_rm_watch.2
4450 Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
4451 s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
4452 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
4453 mtk
4454 The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
4455 file descriptor.
4456
4457 ioprio_get.2
4458 mtk
4459 New link to new ioprio_set.2.
4460
4461 mmap.2
4462 mtk
4463 Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2.
4464
4465 mount.2
4466 Kenichi Okuyama
4467 s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error.
4468
4469 mremap.2
4470 Mike Frysinger
4471 s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS.
4472
4473 pipe.2
4474 mtk
4475 Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3.
4476
4477 posix_fadvise.2
4478 mtk
4479 Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2.
4480
4481 read.2
4482 mtk
4483 SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3.
4484
4485 readahead.2
4486 mtk
4487 Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2.
4488
4489 send.2
4490 Peter Eiserloh
4491 Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send()
4492 and sendto() calls.
4493
4494 setsid.2
4495 mtk
4496 Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3.
4497
4498 shmctl.2
4499 mtk
4500 Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION.
4501
4502 stat.2
4503 mtk
4504 Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2.
4505
4506 statfs.2
4507 mtk
4508 Relocated "Note" about f_fsid.
4509
4510 write.2
4511 mtk
4512 SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
4513
4514 __setfpucw.3
4515 mtk, Joey
4516 Added license statement (GPL) after consultation with
4517 Joerg Scheurich.
4518
4519 assert_perror.3
4520 Justin Pryzby
4521 Add #define _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
4522
4523 difftime.3
4524 Joey
4525 Added note about time_t representation on other systems.
4526 Added CONFORMING TO.
4527
4528 ftw.3
4529 Justin Pryzby / mtk
4530 A fairly major revision...
4531 Document FTW_ACTIONRETVAL; include .SH "RETURN VALUE";
4532 Reorganized and rewrote much of the page
4533 Added an example program.
4534
4535 inet.3
4536 Marc Lehmann
4537 Fixed typo in NOTES.
4538 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370277
4539
4540 isalpha.3
4541 Joey
4542 Updated CONFORMING TO.
4543
4544 mktemp.3
4545 mtk
4546 Updated CONFORMING TO.
4547
4548 printf.3
4549 Walter Harms
4550 Add documentation of %m.
4551
4552 readdir.3
4553 mtk
4554 Added SEE ALSO referring to ftw.3.
4555
4556 re_comp.3
4557 mtk
4558 Note that these functions are obsolete in favor of regcomp(3).
4559 Justin Pryzby
4560 Add SEE ALSO referring to regcomp.3
4561
4562 scandir.3
4563 Mats Wichmann
4564 Reworded CONFORMING TO statement on scandir() and alphasort().
4565
4566 strchr.3
4567 Stefan Puiu
4568 Fix prototype for strchrnul().
4569
4570 strtoul.3
4571 Stefan Puiu
4572 Add text clarifying treatment of strings starting with
4573 minus sign.
4574
4575 tmpnam.3
4576 mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
4577 Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
4578 mtk
4579 Clarify discussion of use of free(3).
4580 Various other minor changes to text and formatting.
4581
4582 tmpfile.3
4583 mtk
4584 Updated CONFORMING TO.
4585
4586 tmpnam.3
4587 mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
4588 Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
4589 Updated CONFORMING TO.
4590
4591 undocumented.3
4592 mtk
4593 Remove offsetof(), which is now documented.
4594
4595 null.4
4596 mtk
4597 Added SEE ALSO referring to full.4.
4598
4599 console_codes.4
4600 Thomas Dickey
4601 Various improvements and corrections.
4602
4603 epoll.7
4604 mtk
4605 Added CONFORMING TO section mentioning FreeBSD kqueue and
4606 Solaris /dev/poll.
4607
4608 feature_test_macros.7
4609 mtk
4610 Added pointer to location of LFS specification.
4611
4612 futex.7
4613 mtk, after suggestion by Joey.
4614 Added license statement to page, after discussion with
4615 original author, bert hubert.
4616 mtk
4617 Reformat long lines; no content changes.
4618
4619 inotify.7
4620 mtk
4621 'path' argument renamed to 'pathname'.
4622 A few minor rewordings.
4623 Added BUGS section describing a couple of bugs.
4624
4625 ip.7
4626 mtk
4627 Add SEE ALSO referring to byteorder.3.
4628
4629 man.7
4630 Justin Pryzby
4631 Add SEE ALSO referring to groff_man(7).
4632 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369253
4633
4634
4635 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.35 ====================
4636
4637 Released: 2006-07-06
4638
4639 Contributors
4640 ------------
4641
4642 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4643 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4644
4645 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
4646 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
4647 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
4648 Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
4649 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
4650 Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
4651 Horacio Rodriguez Montero <Horacio.Rodriguez.Montero@galinter.com.ar>
4652 Johan Lithander <johan.lithander@teligent.se>
4653 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
4654 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
4655 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
4656 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
4657
4658 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4659
4660
4661 Global changes
4662 --------------
4663
4664 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
4665 places.
4666
4667 New pages
4668 ---------
4669
4670 sync_file_range.2
4671 Andrew Morton / mtk
4672 New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17.
4673
4674 Changes to individual pages
4675 ---------------------------
4676
4677 adjtime.3
4678 mtk
4679 Noted BUG that occurs if 'delta' is specified as NULL.
4680 See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
4681
4682 bind.2
4683 Stefan Puiu
4684 Add EADDRNOTAVAIL error.
4685 Stefan Puiu / mtk
4686 Make example code more complete.
4687
4688 epoll_ctl.2
4689 mtk / Davide Libenzi
4690 Added EPOLLRDHUP description.
4691 mtk
4692 Added SEE ALSO referring to poll.2.
4693
4694 poll.2
4695 mtk / Davide Libenzi
4696 Added POLLRDHUP description.
4697 mtk
4698 The correct header file is <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h>.
4699 Rewrote and reformatted various other parts.
4700
4701 readlink.2
4702 mtk
4703 Nowadays, readlink() returns 'ssize_t', as required in
4704 POSIX.1-2001.
4705
4706 wavelan.4
4707 mtk
4708 Added license statement.
4709
4710 nscd.conf.5
4711 Thorsten Kukuk
4712 Add documentation for various new fields.
4713
4714 passwd.5
4715 Horacio Rodriguez Montero
4716 Add explanation of 'x' character in 'password' field.
4717 mtk
4718 The proper name of "*" is "asterisk" not "star".
4719
4720 tcp.7
4721 Johan Lithander
4722 Update RFC reference for ECN.
4723 Andi Kleen
4724 Add sentence on "low memory" limit for tcp_mem on 32-bit systems.
4725
4726
4727 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.36 ====================
4728
4729 Released: 2006-07-11
4730
4731 Contributors
4732 ------------
4733
4734 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4735 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4736
4737 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
4738 Jens Axboe <jans@suse.de>
4739 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
4740 Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
4741
4742 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4743
4744 Global changes
4745 --------------
4746
4747 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
4748 places.
4749
4750 New pages
4751 ---------
4752
4753 MAINTAINING
4754 mtk
4755 How to maintain man-pages.
4756
4757 TODO
4758 mtk
4759 Things that it would be nice to get done for man-pages one day.
4760
4761 scripts/FIXME_list.sh
4762 mtk
4763 This script, intended for use by manual page maintainers,
4764 displays the FIXMEs in the manual page source files.
4765
4766 Changes to individual pages
4767 ---------------------------
4768
4769 fdatasync.2
4770 fsync.2
4771 mtk
4772 Added SEE ALSO referring to sync_file_range.2.
4773
4774 sendfile.2
4775 mtk / Jens Axboe
4776 Fix description of 'offset' argument to explain the case
4777 where 'offset' is NULL.
4778
4779 ferror.3
4780 Justin Pryzby
4781 Add SEE ALSO referring to fdopen.3.
4782
4783 intro.3
4784 mtk
4785 Removed information about Section 3 subsections -- it doesn't
4786 reflect current reality, and probably never has.
4787
4788 Added SEE ALSO referring to intro.2.
4789
4790 tcp.7
4791 Kyle McMartin
4792 Correction: tcp_window_scaling is ENabled by default.
4793
4794
4795 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.37 ====================
4796
4797 Released: 2006-08-02
4798
4799 Contributors
4800 ------------
4801
4802 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4803 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4804
4805 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
4806 Dean Gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
4807 Frank van Viegen <F.C.vanViegen@UTwente.nl>
4808 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
4809 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
4810 Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
4811 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
4812
4813 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4814
4815 Global changes
4816 --------------
4817
4818 Thomas Huriaux / mtk
4819
4820 Various formatting problems found as a result of reviewing the
4821 following command were fixed.
4822
4823 for a in $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do
4824 echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null;
4825 done 2>&1 | less
4826
4827 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378544
4828
4829 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
4830 places.
4831
4832 New pages
4833 ---------
4834
4835 readlinkat.2
4836 mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
4837 New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
4838
4839 Changes to individual pages
4840 ---------------------------
4841
4842 ldd.1
4843 Ville Skyttä
4844 Document "-u" option.
4845
4846 chdir.2
4847 mtk
4848 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on current working directory.
4849
4850 chroot.2
4851 mtk
4852 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on root directory.
4853
4854 epoll_ctl.2
4855 Frank van Viegen / mtk
4856 Fix description of EBADF error.
4857
4858 exevce.2
4859 mtk
4860 Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
4861 saved set-IDs during execve().
4862 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379297
4863
4864 getitimer.2
4865 mtk
4866 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval timers.
4867
4868 getrlimit.2
4869 mtk
4870 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.
4871
4872 getpriority.2
4873 mtk
4874 Noted effect of fork() and execve().
4875
4876 inotify_add_watch.2
4877 mtk
4878 Some rewording; included text describing required file
4879 permissions.
4880
4881 intro.2
4882 mtk
4883 Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO.
4884
4885 makecontext.3
4886 Helmut Grohne / mtk
4887 Point out that args following 'argc' are int.
4888 mtk
4889 Added an example program.
4890 Various minor wording fixes.
4891
4892 mmap.2
4893 mtk
4894 Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
4895 mtk, after prompting by Dean Gaudet
4896 Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
4897 mtk
4898 Various minor formatting fixes.
4899
4900 openat.2
4901 mtk
4902 Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
4903
4904 nanosleep.2
4905 mtk
4906 Noted buggy behavior in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
4907 nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
4908
4909 nice.2
4910 mtk
4911 Very minor rewording.
4912
4913 readlink.2
4914 mtk
4915 Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
4916
4917 sched_setscheduler.2
4918 mtk
4919 Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
4920
4921 setpgid.2
4922 mtk
4923 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
4924
4925 setsid.2
4926 mtk
4927 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
4928
4929 umask.2
4930 mtk
4931 Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.
4932
4933 atexit.3
4934 mtk
4935 Noted inheritance of registrations across fork().
4936
4937 capabilities.7
4938 mtk
4939 Added material on privileges required for move_pages().
4940 CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
4941 keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require
4942 CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
4943
4944
4945 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.38 ====================
4946
4947 Released: 2006-08-03
4948
4949 Contributors
4950 ------------
4951
4952 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
4953 been incorporated in changes in this release:
4954
4955 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
4956
4957 Apologies if I missed anyone!
4958
4959 Global changes
4960 --------------
4961
4962 Most pages
4963 mtk
4964 There was a major reworking of the CONFORMING TO sections
4965 in most manual pages.
4966
4967 * generally try to rationalize the names used for standards.
4968 The preferred names are now documented as the head words
4969 of the list in standards(7). For the future: there is
4970 probably no need to talk about anything more than
4971 C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001 (or later), xBSD, and SVr4.
4972 (In particular, I've eliminated most references to XPG
4973 and SVID, replacing them with references to SUS or SVr4.)
4974
4975 * eliminate discussion of errors that can occur on other
4976 systems. This information exists only patchily in the
4977 manual pages, is probably of limited use, is hard to maintain,
4978 and was in some cases simply wrong (and probably always was).
4979
4980 * Tried to ensure that those interfaces specified in C99 or
4981 POSIX.1-2001 are marked as such in their manual pages.
4982
4983 intro.1
4984 intro.2
4985 intro.3
4986 intro.4
4987 intro.5
4988 intro.7
4989 feature_test_macros.7
4990 mtk
4991 Added SEE ALSO referring to new standards.7.
4992
4993 Various pages
4994 mtk
4995 Changed instances of "HP UX" to "HP-UX".
4996
4997 Various pages
4998 mtk
4999 Changed instances of "DG-UX to "DG/UX"
5000
5001 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5002 places.
5003
5004 New pages
5005 ---------
5006
5007 standards.7
5008 mtk
5009 Based on material taken from intro.2, but expanded to
5010 include discussion of many additional standards.
5011
5012 Changes to individual pages
5013 ---------------------------
5014
5015 bind.2
5016 mtk
5017 Minor wording change for ENOTSOCK error.
5018
5019 intro.2
5020 mtk
5021 Removed information on standards to new standards.7.
5022
5023
5024 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.39 ====================
5025
5026 Released: 2006-08-05
5027
5028 Contributors
5029 ------------
5030
5031 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5032 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5033
5034 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
5035
5036 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5037
5038 Global changes
5039 --------------
5040
5041 Various pages
5042 mtk
5043 Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references
5044 in various pages that were missed for 2.38.
5045
5046 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5047 places.
5048
5049 Changes to individual pages
5050 ---------------------------
5051
5052
5053 chdir.2
5054 mtk
5055 _XOPEN_SOURCE=500 also gets fchdir() prototype.
5056
5057 standards.7
5058 mtk
5059 Added a few more standards, and expand some explanations.
5060
5061
5062 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.40 ====================
5063
5064 Released: 2006-09-04
5065
5066 Contributors
5067 ------------
5068
5069 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5070 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5071
5072 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
5073 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
5074 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
5075 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
5076 Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
5077 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
5078 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
5079
5080 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5081
5082 Global changes
5083 --------------
5084
5085 faccessat.2
5086 fchmodat.2
5087 fchownat.2
5088 fstatat.2
5089 futimesat.2
5090 linkat.2
5091 mkdirat.2
5092 mknodat.2
5093 openat.2
5094 readlinkat.2
5095 renameat.2
5096 symlinkat.2
5097 mtk (after a note by Alain Portal)
5098 Make naming of 'pathname' argument consistent; various
5099 minor rewordings.
5100
5101 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5102 places.
5103
5104 Changes to individual pages
5105 ---------------------------
5106
5107 clone.2
5108 mtk
5109 Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words.
5110
5111 execve.2
5112 mtk
5113 Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec().
5114
5115 fork.2
5116 mtk, after a suggestion by Christoph Hellwig
5117 Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
5118 in parent and child.
5119
5120 linkat.2
5121 mtk
5122 Document AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW (new in 2.6.18).
5123
5124 set_mempolicy.2
5125 mtk / Andi Kleen
5126 Memory policy is preserved across execve().
5127
5128 write.2
5129 mtk / Alain Portal
5130 SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
5131 (i.e., really make the change that was logged in 2.34)
5132
5133 getcwd.3
5134 Samuel Thibault / mtk
5135 Fix SYNOPSIS and CONFORMING TO text for getwd() and
5136 get_current_dir().
5137 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381692
5138
5139 proc.5
5140 Chuck Ebbert
5141 Document /proc/PID/auxv.
5142
5143 capabilities.7
5144 Alain Portal
5145 Restore text accidentally deleted in 2.39.
5146
5147 regex.7
5148 mtk / Alain Portal
5149 Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2".
5150
5151
5152 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.41 ====================
5153
5154 Released: 2006-10-12
5155
5156 Contributors
5157 ------------
5158
5159 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5160 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5161
5162 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
5163 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
5164 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
5165 Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
5166 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
5167 Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
5168 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
5169 Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
5170 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
5171 Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
5172 Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
5173 Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
5174 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
5175 Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
5176 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
5177
5178 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5179
5180
5181 Global changes
5182 --------------
5183
5184 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5185 places.
5186
5187
5188 New pages
5189 ---------
5190
5191 splice.2
5192 tee.2
5193 vmsplice.2
5194 Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
5195 See also:
5196 http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
5197 http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
5198 http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
5199 http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
5200 http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/
5201
5202 Changes to individual pages
5203 ---------------------------
5204
5205 ldd.1
5206 Stefan Puiu
5207 Note glibc version where "ldd -u" appeared.
5208
5209 execve.2
5210 mtk
5211 The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().
5212
5213 fork.2
5214 mtk
5215 Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited
5216 by child.
5217
5218 getdtablesize.2
5219 mtk
5220 Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable
5221 applications.
5222
5223 getpagesize.2
5224 mtk
5225 Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable
5226 applications.
5227 _SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
5228
5229 madvise.2
5230 mtk
5231 Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
5232 Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.
5233
5234 mount.2
5235 mtk / Trond Myklebust
5236 MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
5237
5238 mmap.2
5239 mtk
5240 Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of
5241 length==0.
5242 Justin Pryzby / mtk
5243 Added some EINVAL errors.
5244
5245 mremap.2
5246 mtk
5247 Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
5248
5249 msync.2
5250 mtk
5251 Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to
5252 a locked region.
5253
5254 posix_fadvise.2
5255 Andrew Morton
5256 Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
5257
5258 prctl.2
5259 Marcel Holtmann / mtk
5260 Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
5261 possible.
5262 Guillem Jover
5263 Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
5264 Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
5265 PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
5266 PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
5267 Michael Kerrisk
5268 Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
5269
5270 remap_file_pages.2
5271 mtk
5272 Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
5273
5274 sync_file_range.2
5275 mtk
5276 Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
5277
5278 vfork.2
5279 mtk
5280 Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
5281
5282 wait4.2
5283 mtk
5284 Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
5285
5286 clog2.3
5287 mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
5288 Fix broken text in description.
5289 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
5290
5291 clog10.3
5292 Kevin Ryde
5293 Fix broken text in description.
5294 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
5295
5296 mq_receive.3
5297 Britton Leo Kerin
5298 Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
5299 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387551
5300
5301 qsort.2
5302 Hrvoje Niksic
5303 Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar'
5304 function.
5305 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391402
5306
5307 sendfile.2
5308 mtk
5309 Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
5310
5311 termios.3
5312 mtk
5313 Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
5314
5315 tzset.3
5316 mtk
5317 Added some TZ examples.
5318 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386087
5319
5320 proc.5
5321 mtk
5322 Added delayacct_blkio_ticks (new in 2.6.18) to /proc/PID/statm.
5323
5324 ip.7
5325 Stuart MacDonald / Andi Kleen
5326 Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP.
5327
5328 pthreads.7
5329 mtk
5330 Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.
5331
5332 socket.7
5333 Senthil Kumar
5334 Place socket options in alphabetical order.
5335
5336
5337 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.42 ====================
5338
5339 Released: 2006-11-24
5340
5341 Contributors
5342 ------------
5343
5344 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5345 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5346
5347 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
5348 Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
5349 Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
5350 Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
5351 Evan Teran <eteran@alum.rit.edu>
5352 Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
5353 Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
5354 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
5355 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
5356
5357 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5358
5359
5360 Global changes
5361 --------------
5362
5363 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5364 places.
5365
5366
5367 Changes to individual pages
5368 ---------------------------
5369
5370 brk.2
5371 Evan Teran / mtk
5372 Add text describing behavior of the Linux brk() system call
5373 and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
5374 behavior.
5375 mtk
5376 Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc
5377 that calls the brk() system call.
5378
5379 futex.2
5380 mtk
5381 FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.
5382
5383 getaddrinfo.3
5384 getnameinfo.3
5385 Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
5386 Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
5387 extensions.
5388
5389 open.2
5390 mtk / Eduard Bloch
5391 Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test
5392 macros.
5393
5394 ptrace.2
5395 Chuck Ebbert
5396 Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
5397 for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
5398
5399 syslog.3
5400 Doug Goldstein
5401 Fix header file required for vsyslog() in SYNOPSIS.
5402
5403 wcwidth.3
5404 Petr Baudis
5405 Fix CONFORMING TO.
5406
5407 core.5
5408 mtk
5409 Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
5410 Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
5411 be produced.
5412
5413
5414 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.43 ====================
5415
5416 Released: 2006-11-29
5417
5418 Contributors
5419 ------------
5420
5421 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5422 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5423
5424 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
5425 David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
5426 Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
5427 Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
5428 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
5429
5430 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5431
5432
5433 Global changes
5434 --------------
5435
5436 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5437 places.
5438
5439
5440 Changes to individual pages
5441 ---------------------------
5442
5443 ioperm.2
5444 mtk
5445 Clarify discussion of privilege requirements.
5446 Added ENOMEM to ERRORS.
5447
5448 open.2
5449 mtk / Eduard Bloch
5450 Clarify description of O_LARGEFILE.
5451
5452 crypt.3
5453 Egmont Koblinger
5454 Make description of MD5 output string less ambiguous.
5455
5456 strerror.3
5457 Reuben Thomas
5458 Add C99 to CONFORMING TO; see
5459 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400634
5460
5461 rtc.4
5462 David Brownell
5463
5464 Update the RTC man page to reflect the new RTC class framework:
5465
5466 - Generalize ... it's not just for PC/AT style RTCs, and there
5467 may be more than one RTC per system.
5468
5469 - Not all RTCs expose the same feature set as PC/AT ones; most
5470 of these ioctls will be rejected by some RTCs.
5471
5472 - Be explicit about when {A,P}IE_{ON,OFF} calls are needed.
5473
5474 - Describe the parameter to the get/set epoch request; correct
5475 the description of the get/set frequency parameter.
5476
5477 - Document RTC_WKALM_{RD,SET}, which don't need AIE_{ON,OFF} and
5478 which support longer alarm periods.
5479
5480 - Hey, not all system clock implementations count timer irqs any
5481 more now that the new RT-derived clock support is merging.
5482
5483 proc.5
5484 mtk
5485 s/fseek(3)/lseek(2)/ under /proc/PID/mem entry.
5486
5487 feature_test_macros.7
5488 mtk / Eduard Bloch
5489 The LFS spec is now at http://opengroup.org/platform/lfs.html
5490
5491 raw.7
5492 udp.7
5493 Andi Kleen
5494 Describe the correct default for UDP/RAW path MTU discovery.
5495
5496
5497 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.44 ====================
5498
5499 Released: 2007-04-04
5500
5501 Contributors
5502 ------------
5503
5504 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5505 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5506
5507 Andre Majorel <aym-naideb@teaser.fr>
5508 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
5509 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
5510 Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
5511 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
5512 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
5513 John Ward <jward@idealcorp.com>
5514 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com>
5515 Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org>
5516 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
5517 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
5518 Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
5519 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
5520 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
5521 Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
5522 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
5523 Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
5524 Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
5525 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
5526 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
5527 Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
5528 Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
5529 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
5530 Val Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
5531
5532 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5533
5534
5535 New pages
5536 ---------
5537
5538 termio.7
5539 mtk, after a bit of prodding by Reuben Thomas
5540 A brief discussion of the old System V termio interface,
5541 with pointers to pages that will contain the information
5542 that the reader probably wants.
5543
5544 scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
5545 mtk
5546 Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
5547 which may be grammar errors.
5548
5549 Global changes
5550 --------------
5551
5552 Various pages
5553 Justin Pryzby / mtk
5554 Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
5555 faccessat.2
5556 fchmodat.2
5557 fchownat.2
5558 fstatat.2
5559 futimesat.2
5560 linkat.2
5561 mkdirat.2
5562 mknodat.2
5563 openat.2
5564 readlinkat.2
5565 renameat.2
5566 symlinkat.2
5567 unlinkat.2
5568 mkfifoat.3
5569
5570 Various pages
5571 mtk
5572 Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
5573 that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems.
5574
5575 Various pages
5576 mtk, after a suggestion by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
5577 Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions
5578 are and are not part of C89. Also fixed/improved a few other
5579 CONFORMING TO entries.
5580
5581 Various pages
5582 mtk
5583 s/Unices/Unix systems/ on the 5 pages where it appears.
5584
5585 Various pages
5586 mtk
5587 Wrapped long source lines in the following files
5588 getsockopt.2
5589 mknodat.2
5590 io_setup.2
5591 select_tut.2
5592 select.2
5593 readlinkat.2
5594 io_cancel.2
5595 syslog.2
5596 wcsncat.3
5597 getipnodebyname.3
5598 cmsg.3
5599 wcpncpy.3
5600 wcsrtombs.3
5601 wcstok.3
5602 fgetwc.3
5603 wmemcmp.3
5604 wcsspn.3
5605 div.3
5606 modf.3
5607 stdio_ext.3
5608 ctermid.3
5609 des_crypt.3
5610 wcsncmp.3
5611 wmemchr.3
5612 wcsstr.3
5613 wmemcpy.3
5614 wprintf.3
5615 wcsnrtombs.3
5616 termios.3
5617 erf.3
5618 ceil.3
5619 lround.3
5620 nextafter.3
5621 wcsncpy.3
5622 wmemset.3
5623 getw.3
5624 console_ioctl.4
5625 sk98lin.4
5626 environ.7
5627 unix.7
5628 time.7
5629
5630 Various pages
5631 mtk
5632 Added a SEE ALSO reference for feature_test_macros(7) to all
5633 pages where a feature test macro appears in the SYNOPSIS.
5634
5635 Various pages
5636 mtk
5637 Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
5638 alarm.2
5639 nanosleep.2
5640 ualarm.3
5641 usleep.3
5642
5643 Various pages
5644 Justin Pryzby / mtk
5645 Fixed consecutive duplicate word typos on a number of pages.
5646
5647 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
5648 places. (Special thanks to Nicolas François!)
5649
5650
5651 Changes to individual pages
5652 ---------------------------
5653
5654 access.2
5655 mtk
5656 Since 2.6.20, access() honors the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
5657 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
5658 Improve ENOENT description.
5659
5660 clone.2
5661 mtk
5662 Added some detail to the prototype.
5663 Added some notes on IA-64's clone2().
5664
5665 epoll_ctl.2
5666 mtk
5667 Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
5668
5669 faccessat.2
5670 Justin Pryzby
5671 Various fixes as per
5672 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411177
5673 * s/effective/real/ in description text.
5674 * added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
5675 * various other changes.
5676
5677 getrlimit.2
5678 mtk / Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5679 Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
5680 threads.
5681
5682 io_cancel.2
5683 io_destroy.2
5684 io_getevents.2
5685 io_setup.2
5686 io_submit.2
5687 Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5688 s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS.
5689 Changed return type from "long" to "int".
5690
5691 mbind.2
5692 Samuel Thibault / mtk
5693 Fix EINVAL description.
5694 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411777
5695
5696 mincore.2
5697 Nick Piggin
5698 Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
5699 Nick Pollitt
5700 Remove words "of a file" -- mincore() is describing
5701 memory residence information, not properties of a file.
5702 mtk
5703 Rewrote various parts to make the page clearer.
5704
5705 mmap.2
5706 mtk
5707 Rewrote and reorganized various parts to be clearer.
5708 Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5709 Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's
5710 not true.
5711
5712 mount.2
5713 mtk / Val Henson
5714 Document MS_RELATIME, new in Linux 2.6.20.
5715
5716 open.2
5717 Andre Majorel / mtk
5718 On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a
5719 32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
5720
5721 posix_fadvise.2
5722 Pádraig Brady
5723 Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
5724
5725 rename.2
5726 mtk / Timo Sirainen
5727 Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
5728 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416012
5729
5730 semop.2
5731 mtk
5732 If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed
5733 in array order. All Unix systems that I know of do this,
5734 and some Linux applications depend on this behavior. SUSv3
5735 made no explicit statement here, but SUSv4 will explicitly
5736 require this behavior.
5737 Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
5738
5739 signal.2
5740 Nicolas François
5741 Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION.
5742 mtk
5743 Small wording improvement.
5744
5745 socket.2
5746 Nicolas François
5747 Add reference to ipv6.7 page.
5748
5749 socketcall.2
5750 Nicolas François
5751 Fix .TH line.
5752
5753 splice.2
5754 Benjamin Gilbert
5755 Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
5756
5757 statvfs.2
5758 mtk
5759 Small wording clarification.
5760
5761 symlink.2
5762 mtk / Nicolas François
5763 Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to
5764 "open(2) and NFS". There is no relevant text in open.2 as
5765 far as I (mtk) can see.
5766
5767 time.2
5768 mtk / Reuben Thomas
5769 Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD".
5770 This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
5771 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403888
5772
5773 write.2
5774 mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
5775 Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
5776
5777 ptrace.2
5778 Chuck Ebbert
5779 When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set,
5780 the child is not in the normal signal delivery path. This
5781 means the parent cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal
5782 or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL). kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be
5783 used instead to kill the child process after receiving one
5784 of these messages.
5785
5786 sched_setaffinity.2
5787 mtk
5788 Fix glibc version number in description of 'cpusetsize' argument.
5789
5790 vfork.2
5791 mtk
5792 Stripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section.
5793
5794 basename.3
5795 mtk / Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
5796 Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these
5797 functions may be into some part of 'path'.
5798
5799 dlopen.3
5800 Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5801 + Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
5802 Add "#include <stdlib.h>" to example program.
5803
5804 fclose.3
5805 mtk
5806 Complete rewrite. The existing page was hard to read,
5807 and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
5808
5809 getopt.3
5810 mtk
5811 Added getopt() example program.
5812 mtk
5813 Add a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific
5814 double-colon feature, which allows options to have optional
5815 arguments.
5816 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352139
5817
5818 glob.3
5819 Nicolas François
5820 Fix PROTOTYPE.
5821
5822 inet_network.3
5823 mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
5824 Clarified description of inet_network().
5825
5826 log.3
5827 Nicolas François
5828 Fix .TH line.
5829
5830 log10.3
5831 Nicolas François
5832 Fix .TH line.
5833
5834 malloc.3
5835 Nicolas François
5836 Small rewording to mention calloc().
5837
5838 posix_openpt.3
5839 Martín Ferrari
5840 Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; as per
5841 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400971
5842 Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per
5843 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400975
5844 Julien BLACHE
5845 s/ptsname/posix_openpt/ in RETURN VALUE
5846
5847 re_comp.3
5848 Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5849 Add "#define _REGEX_RE_COMP" to SYNOPSIS.
5850
5851 regex.3
5852 Nicolas François
5853 Fix .TH line.
5854
5855 termios.3
5856 mtk
5857 Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small
5858 amount of reordering.
5859 mtk
5860 Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode.
5861 mtk
5862 Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
5863 mtk
5864 Document CMSPAR.
5865 mtk
5866 Make description of PARODD a little clearer.
5867 Reuben Thomas
5868 Add SEE ALSO link to tty_ioctl.4
5869 mtk
5870 Add SEE ALSO link to console_ioctl.4
5871
5872 ualarm.3
5873 mtk
5874 Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
5875 Various rewordings.
5876
5877 usleep.3
5878 mtk
5879 Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
5880 Various rewordings.
5881
5882 termcap.5
5883 Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5884 s/curses/ncurses/ under SEE ALSO
5885
5886 bootparam.7
5887 Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
5888 Documented "mem=nopentium".
5889
5890 feature_test_macros.7
5891 mtk
5892 The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4.
5893 mtk, after a suggestion by Justin Pryzby
5894 Added some text warning that the "__" macros that
5895 <features.h> defines internally should never be
5896 directly defined by programs.
5897 mtk, based on notes by Jakub Jelinek
5898 Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE
5899 (See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html )
5900 mtk
5901 Document _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.
5902
5903 mdoc.7
5904 mtk / Nicolas François
5905 Remove CONFIGURATION section, since this does not seem to be
5906 true for Linux.
5907
5908 svipc.7
5909 Nicolas François
5910 Fix data types in associated data structures;
5911 remove nonexistent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
5912
5913 time.7
5914 mtk
5915 Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.
5916
5917
5918 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.45 ====================
5919
5920 Released: 2007-04-05
5921
5922 Global changes
5923 --------------
5924
5925 This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
5926 number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages.
5927 With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
5928 no changes were made to content.
5929
5930 Changes to individual pages
5931 ---------------------------
5932
5933 io_destroy.2
5934 io_getevents.2
5935 io_setup.2
5936 io_cancel.2
5937 io_submit.2
5938 mtk
5939 Clarified RETURN VALUE text
5940
5941 bindresvport.3
5942 mtk
5943 Rewrote prototype using modern C syntax.
5944
5945
5946 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.46 ====================
5947
5948 Released: 2007-04-06
5949
5950 Global changes
5951 --------------
5952
5953 This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
5954 number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages:
5955
5956 * Most instances of two or more consecutive blank lines in man
5957 page output were shrunk to a single line.
5958 * A number of example programs were reformatted
5959 to more closely match K&R style.
5960 * In various places (mainly code examples), the use of tabs was
5961 replaced by spaces
5962
5963 With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
5964 no changes were made to content.
5965
5966
5967 Changes to individual pages
5968 ---------------------------
5969
5970 bdflush.2
5971 mtk
5972 Add <sys/kdaemon.h> header file to SYNOPSIS.
5973
5974 sched_rr_get_interval.2
5975 mtk
5976 Moved timespec definition from SYNOPSIS into description.
5977
5978 select_tut.2
5979 mtk
5980 Make SYNOPSIS match select.2.
5981
5982
5983 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.47 ====================
5984
5985 Released: 2007-05-04
5986
5987 Contributors
5988 ------------
5989
5990 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
5991 been incorporated in changes in this release:
5992
5993 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
5994 John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
5995
5996 Apologies if I missed anyone!
5997
5998
5999 Global changes
6000 --------------
6001
6002 This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
6003 (wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
6004 sentences on new lines).
6005
6006 There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
6007 notes below).
6008
6009
6010 Changes to individual pages
6011 ---------------------------
6012
6013 sched_rr_get_interval.2
6014 mtk
6015 Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented.
6016 The nice interval can be used to control the size of
6017 the round-robin quantum.
6018 Corrected .TH line.
6019
6020 ip.7
6021 John Heffner / mtk
6022 Document IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, which will be in 2.6.22.
6023
6024
6025 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.48 ====================
6026
6027 Released: 2007-05-04
6028
6029 Contributors
6030 ------------
6031
6032 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
6033 been incorporated in changes in this release:
6034
6035 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
6036 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
6037
6038 Apologies if I missed anyone!
6039
6040
6041 Global changes
6042 --------------
6043
6044 This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
6045 (wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
6046 sentences on new lines).
6047
6048 There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
6049 notes below).
6050
6051 Various pages
6052 mtk
6053 In various places where it occurred,
6054 s/nonnegative/non-negative/
6055
6056 Various pages
6057 mtk
6058 s/wide character/wide-character/ when used attributively.
6059
6060
6061 Changes to individual pages
6062 ---------------------------
6063
6064 man.7
6065 Justin Pryzby / Colin Watson / mtk
6066 .SH doesn't require quotes.
6067 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411303
6068
6069
6070 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.49 ====================
6071
6072 Released: 2007-05-20
6073
6074 Contributors
6075 ------------
6076
6077 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
6078 been incorporated in changes in this release:
6079
6080 Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
6081 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
6082 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
6083
6084 Apologies if I missed anyone!
6085
6086
6087 New pages
6088 ---------
6089
6090 bsd_signal.3
6091 mtk
6092 Documentation of bsd_signal().
6093
6094 euidaccess.3
6095 mtk
6096 Manual page for euidaccess() and eaccess().
6097
6098 getsubopt.3
6099 mtk / Justin Pryzby
6100 Documentation of getsubopt().
6101
6102 sysv_signal.3
6103 mtk
6104 Documentation of sysv_signal().
6105
6106
6107 New links
6108 ---------
6109
6110 epoll_pwait.2
6111 mtk
6112 New link to epoll_wait.2.
6113
6114 eaccess.3
6115 mtk
6116 New link to new euidaccess.3,
6117
6118 sem_timedwait.3
6119 mtk
6120 New link to sem_wait.3.
6121
6122 sem_trywait.3
6123 mtk
6124 New link to sem_wait.3.
6125
6126
6127 Global changes
6128 --------------
6129
6130 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
6131 places.
6132
6133
6134 Changes to individual pages
6135 ---------------------------
6136
6137 access.3
6138 mtk
6139 Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
6140
6141 epoll_wait.2
6142 mtk
6143 Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
6144
6145 execve.2
6146 mtk
6147 Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
6148 NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
6149 and should be avoided in portable programs.
6150 Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
6151 to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
6152 is an ABI change.
6153 mtk
6154 Added an example program.
6155 mtk
6156 Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
6157 'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
6158 For further info, see
6159 http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html
6160 http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
6161 mtk
6162 Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be
6163 released.
6164 mtk
6165 Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID
6166 programs.
6167 mtk
6168 Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
6169 execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
6170 may be treated specially.
6171
6172 faccessat.3
6173 mtk
6174 Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
6175
6176 mmap.2
6177 mtk
6178 Place MAP_* flags list in alphabetical order.
6179
6180 readv.2
6181 mtk
6182 A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things
6183 fixes the problem reported by Kyle Sluder in
6184 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
6185 And added some example code.
6186
6187 sigaction.2
6188 mtk
6189 Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
6190 functions in signal(7).
6191 A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
6192
6193 signal.2
6194 mtk
6195 Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
6196 Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
6197 functions in signal(7).
6198 Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
6199 sysv_signal.3 pages.
6200
6201 copysign.3
6202 Bruno Haible
6203 Clarify discussion of negative zero.
6204
6205 getopt.3
6206 mtk
6207 Add SEE ALSO ref to new getsubopt.3.
6208
6209 iconv_open.3
6210 Bruno Haible
6211 Describe the glibc/libiconv //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE extensions
6212 for 'tocode'.
6213
6214 iswblank.3
6215 Bruno Haible
6216 Update CONFORMING TO; iswblank() is in POSIX.1-2001.
6217
6218 inotify.7
6219 mtk
6220 Definitions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR
6221 were added to glibc in version 2.5.
6222
6223 signal.7
6224 mtk
6225 Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on
6226 async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2).
6227 Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
6228 sysv_signal.3 pages.
6229
6230
6231 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.50 ====================
6232
6233 Released: 2007-05-21
6234
6235 Contributors
6236 ------------
6237
6238 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
6239 been incorporated in changes in this release:
6240
6241 Andreas Halter <halter@google.com>
6242 Laird Shaw <netocrat@dodo.com.au>
6243 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
6244
6245 Apologies if I missed anyone!
6246
6247 Removed pages (!)
6248 -----------------
6249
6250 Most Section 1 man pages are removed
6251 mtk (with help from Mike Frysinger, Laird Shaw, Andreas Halter)
6252 Once upon time Andries added a number of Section 1 manual pages
6253 to man-pages. However, since that time, those pages have not
6254 seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most
6255 distributions. Instead most distributions supply the
6256 coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently
6257 maintained. In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages,
6258 which document the portable subset of functionality of these
6259 commands. Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and
6260 out of date, I'm removing them. The following pages disappear:
6261
6262 chgrp.1
6263 chmod.1
6264 chown.1
6265 cp.1
6266 dd.1
6267 df.1
6268 diff.1
6269 dir.1
6270 dircolors.1
6271 du.1
6272 install.1
6273 ln.1
6274 ls.1
6275 mkdir.1
6276 mkfifo.1
6277 mknod.1
6278 mv.1
6279 rm.1
6280 rmdir.1
6281 touch.1
6282 vdir.1
6283
6284 The following Section 1 pages will be kept:
6285
6286 intro.1
6287 ldd.1
6288 time.1
6289
6290
6291 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.51 ====================
6292
6293 Released: 2007-05-28
6294
6295 Global changes
6296 --------------
6297
6298 Various pages
6299 mtk
6300 (Hopefully) all cross references outside a page now include a
6301 section number. This should permit better resulting output
6302 from a man2html-type conversion.
6303
6304 Various pages
6305 mtk
6306 Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to
6307 ".BR name ()".
6308
6309
6310 Changes to individual pages
6311 ---------------------------
6312
6313 futimesat.2
6314 mtk
6315 s/futimes/futimesat/ in .SH NAME line.
6316
6317 msgop.2
6318 mtk
6319 Put "msgrcv" and "msgsnd" in .SH NAME line.
6320
6321 mount.2
6322 mtk
6323 Add "umount2" to .SH NAME line.
6324
6325 wait.2
6326 mtk
6327 Add "waitid" to .SH NAME line.
6328
6329 getopt.3
6330 mtk
6331 Add "getopt_long" and "getopt_long_only" in .SH NAME line.
6332
6333 sem_wait.3
6334 mtk
6335 Add "sem_timedwait" and "sem_trywait" to .SH NAME line.
6336
6337 stdarg.3
6338 mtk
6339 Add "va_start", "va_arg", "va_end", "va_copy" to .SH NAME line.
6340
6341
6342 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.52 ====================
6343
6344 Released: 2007-05-29
6345
6346 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
6347 little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
6348
6349 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
6350
6351 "But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
6352
6353
6354 Global changes
6355 --------------
6356
6357 Most of the changes below are about bringing greater consistency
6358 to manual pages, including reducing the wide range of .SH
6359 Section headings.
6360
6361 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
6362 places.
6363
6364 Various pages
6365 mtk
6366 Make 'manual' component of .TH line into the string
6367 "Linux Programmer's Manual".
6368 Reason: consistency.
6369
6370 Various pages
6371 mtk
6372 Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM.
6373 Reason: consistency.
6374
6375 Various pages
6376 mtk
6377 Some .SH header lines were made into .SS lines. (One of the aims
6378 here is to reduce the number of non-standard .SH lines.)
6379
6380 Various pages
6381 mtk
6382 Change title .SH sections named "NOTE" to "NOTES", in some cases
6383 also changing the location of the section within the page.
6384 Reason: consistency.
6385
6386 Various pages
6387 mtk
6388 Commented out .SH AUTHOR sections; the right place for
6389 documentation authorship sections is usually comments at the
6390 top of the page source.
6391
6392 Various pages
6393 mtk
6394 Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS.
6395 Reason: in many cases, HISTORY was being used to describe
6396 Linux/glibc version information, as was already done for
6397 VERSIONS sections in other pages.
6398
6399 Various pages
6400 mtk
6401 Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs
6402 under another section e.g., NOTES.
6403 Reason: there are too many arbitrary section (.SH) names, and
6404 a HISTORY section never was consistently used across Linux
6405 manual pages.
6406
6407 Various pages
6408 mtk
6409 Moved SEE ALSO section to be last section on the page
6410 Reason: consistency -- and this is where SEE ALSO should be!
6411
6412 Various pages
6413 mtk
6414 Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES
6415 Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
6416
6417 Various pages
6418 mtk
6419 Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES
6420 Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
6421
6422 Various pages
6423 mtk
6424 Renamed some "AVAILABILITY" sections to "VERSIONS".
6425 Reason: consistency.
6426
6427 Various pages
6428 mtk
6429 Renamed some "DIAGNOSTICS" sections to "RETURN VALUE".
6430 Reason: consistency.
6431
6432 getopt.3
6433 tzselect.8
6434 mtk
6435 s/\.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES/.SH ENVIRONMENT/
6436 Reason: consistency.
6437
6438 intro.2
6439 select.2
6440 sysctl.2
6441 bsearch.3
6442 dlopen.3
6443 envz_add.3
6444 fmtmsg.3
6445 getgrent_r.3
6446 getgrouplist.3
6447 getpwent_r.3
6448 getutent.3
6449 hsearch.3
6450 rtime.3
6451 strptime.3
6452 tsearch.3
6453 vcs.4
6454 wordexp.3
6455 mtk
6456 s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() of function example
6457 program.
6458 Reason: consistency.
6459
6460 mprotect.2
6461 select_tut.2
6462 dlopen.3
6463 getgrent_r.3
6464 getopt.3
6465 getpwent_r.3
6466 hsearch.3
6467 select_tut.2
6468 tsearch.3
6469 mtk
6470 Use symbolic constants (EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE) in calls
6471 to exit().
6472 Reason: consistency.
6473
6474 access.2
6475 chown.2
6476 lseek.2
6477 open.2
6478 read.2
6479 utmp.5
6480 mtk
6481 Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a
6482 RESTRICTIONS section under existing NOTES section.
6483 Reason: consistency, and reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH)
6484 names.
6485
6486
6487 Changes to individual pages
6488 ---------------------------
6489
6490 capget.2
6491 mtk
6492 s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/
6493
6494 dup.2
6495 mtk
6496 s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
6497
6498 kill.2
6499 Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated
6500 within page.
6501
6502 select_tut.2
6503 mtk
6504 Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE".
6505
6506 sigaltstack.2
6507 mtk
6508 Move code example into its own EXAMPLE section.
6509
6510 sigreturn.2
6511 mtk
6512 s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
6513
6514 setuid.2
6515 mtk
6516 s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/
6517
6518 shmget.2
6519 mtk
6520 Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2
6521 contains the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
6522
6523 shmop.2
6524 mtk
6525 Minor rewording under DESCRIPTION.
6526
6527 daemon.3
6528 mtk
6529 Minor wording and formatting changes.
6530
6531 encrypt.3
6532 mtk
6533 Removed statement that glibc unconditionally exposes declarations
6534 of encrypt() and setkey(), since portable applications must
6535 use <unistd.h> and define _XOPEN_SOURCE to obtain the declarations
6536 of setkey() and encrypt(). Adjusted example program accordingly.
6537
6538 mkstemp.3
6539 mtk
6540 Slight rewording.
6541
6542 LDP.7
6543 mtk
6544 Minor wording and formatting changes.
6545
6546 man.7
6547 mtk
6548 Substantial rewrite, revising and extending the discussion
6549 about desired conventions for writing pages.
6550 There will be further updates to this page in the next few
6551 man-pages releases.
6552
6553
6554 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.53 ====================
6555
6556 Released: 2007-05-30
6557
6558 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
6559 little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
6560
6561 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
6562
6563 "But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
6564
6565
6566 Global changes
6567 --------------
6568
6569 Many many pages
6570 mtk
6571 Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
6572 sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
6573
6574 man7/*
6575 mtk
6576 In various pages in this section, .SH headings were
6577 converted to .SS.
6578
6579
6580 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.54 ====================
6581
6582 Released: 2007-06-07
6583
6584 Contributors
6585 ------------
6586
6587 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
6588 been incorporated in changes in this release:
6589
6590 Emmanuel Mogenet <emogenet@google.com>
6591 Michael Berg <michaeljberg@gmail.com>
6592
6593 Apologies if I missed anyone!
6594
6595
6596 Global changes
6597 --------------
6598
6599 Various pages
6600 mtk
6601 Where there is an instruction in the SYNOPSIS about linking
6602 or compiling with a certain option, the option is now
6603 marked up in italics (e.g., "\fI-lm\fP").
6604
6605 Various pages
6606 mtk
6607 Added page numbers to page cross references.
6608
6609 A few pages
6610 mtk
6611 s/manpage/man page/, for consistency.
6612
6613 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
6614 places.
6615
6616
6617 New pages
6618 ---------
6619
6620 man-pages.7
6621 mtk
6622 A description of the conventions that should be followed
6623 when writing pages for the man-pages package.
6624
6625 Removed pages
6626 -------------
6627
6628 man1/README
6629 mtk
6630 Already deleted most of the man1 pages previously, so
6631 this doesn't need to stay.
6632
6633 LDP.7
6634 mtk
6635 Removed this page since it is out of date, and the proper place
6636 to go for up-to-date information is http://www.tldp.org/
6637
6638 ksoftirq.9
6639 mtk
6640 Reason: this was the only Section 9 page, and it is old
6641 (Linux 2.4). The man9 section never took off as an idea, and
6642 I see little point in keeping a Section 9 with just a single
6643 old page.
6644
6645
6646 Changes to individual pages
6647 ---------------------------
6648
6649 HOWTOHELP
6650 mtk
6651 Moved some material out of here into new man-pages.7.
6652
6653 alloc_hugepages.2
6654 mtk
6655 Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing
6656 some outdated text.
6657
6658 epoll_pwait.2
6659 Michael Berg
6660 Fix broken link path;
6661 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425570
6662
6663 fcntl.2
6664 mtk
6665 Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
6666 open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
6667
6668 fdatasync.2
6669 mtk
6670 Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being
6671 equivalent to fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note
6672 about this historical behavior.
6673
6674 futex.2
6675 mtk
6676 Small rewording to fix "fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK"
6677 rather than "returns EWOULDBLOCK".
6678 See Red Hat bug 172828.
6679
6680 mprotect.2
6681 mtk, after an observation by Emmanuel Mogenet
6682 A much improved example program.
6683 mtk
6684 Significant rewrites and additions to description.
6685
6686 mremap.2
6687 mtk
6688 Remove text about the nonexistent BSD mremap() -- too
6689 much information, in my opinion.
6690
6691 sched_yield.2
6692 mtk
6693 Added ERRORS section.
6694
6695 set_mempolicy.2
6696 mtk
6697 Moved text for "Versions and Library Support".
6698
6699 set_tid_address.2
6700 mtk
6701 Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section.
6702
6703 sigaction.2
6704 mtk
6705 Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2.
6706
6707 sync_file_range.2
6708 mtk
6709 Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section.
6710
6711 atexit.3
6712 mtk
6713 Small rearrangement of text under NOTES.
6714
6715 bindresvport.3
6716 mtk
6717 Rewrite and substantial additional text.
6718
6719 exec.3
6720 mtk
6721 Minor clarifications for text on execlp() and execvp(). Removed
6722 FILES section, since it provides no useful additional info.
6723
6724 fenv.3
6725 mtk
6726 Moved link instructions from NOTES to SYNOPSIS.
6727 Added feenableexcept, fedisableexcept, fegetexcept
6728 to .SH NAME list.
6729
6730 fputwc.3
6731 mtk
6732 Added 'putwc' to .SH NAME list.
6733
6734 gethostbyname.3
6735 mtk
6736 s/int/socklen_t/ for type of gethostbyaddr() 'len' argument,
6737 and add a few more words in NOTES about the type used here.
6738
6739 login.3
6740 mtk
6741 Removed remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil; add
6742 text on that point to SYNOPSIS.
6743
6744 openpty.3
6745 mtk
6746 Removed redundant remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil
6747 since there is text on that point under SYNOPSIS.
6748
6749 sysconf.3
6750 mtk
6751 Added SEE ALSO referring to getconf(1).
6752
6753 unlocked_stdio.3
6754 mtk
6755 Revised .SH NAME section.
6756
6757 ascii.7
6758 mtk
6759 Minor rearrangement of order of text.
6760
6761 capabilities.7
6762 mtk
6763 s/exec()/execve(2)/ in various places.
6764
6765 complex.7
6766 mtk
6767 Changed "atan(1)" to "atan(1.0)" to prevent some versions of
6768 man2html(1) from mistaking that string as a page cross reference.
6769
6770 rtnetlink.7
6771 mtk
6772 Small restructuring to avoid 'cannot adjust line' from man(1).
6773
6774 ldconfig.8
6775 mtk
6776 Removed now very out-of-date sentence about need to link shared
6777 libraries with -lc.
6778
6779 man.7
6780 mtk
6781 Various text was moved out of this page into the new man-pages.7.
6782
6783 mdoc.7
6784 mtk
6785 Added SEE ALSO referring to new man-pages.7.
6786
6787 mdoc.samples.7
6788 mtk
6789 A few changes, hopefully done right, to eliminate some
6790 errors to stderr when rendering with man(1).
6791
6792 rtnetlink.7
6793 mtk
6794 Shorten a line in table so it fits in 80 columns.
6795 Minor rewording under BUGS.
6796
6797 tzselect.8
6798 mtk
6799 Moved EXIT STATUS section.
6800
6801
6802 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ====================
6803
6804 Released: 2007-06-10
6805
6806 Contributors
6807 ------------
6808
6809 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
6810 been incorporated in changes in this release:
6811
6812 Alexander Taboriskiy <alextab@math-solution.com>
6813 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
6814 John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
6815 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
6816 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
6817 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
6818 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
6819 Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
6820 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
6821 Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
6822
6823 Apologies if I missed anyone!
6824
6825
6826 Global changes
6827 --------------
6828
6829 clone.2
6830 getdents.2
6831 gettid.2
6832 ioprio_set.2
6833 llseek.2
6834 mmap2.2
6835 modify_ldt.2
6836 mq_getsetattr.2
6837 pivot_root.2
6838 quotactl.2
6839 readdir.2
6840 sysctl.2
6841 syslog.2
6842 tkill.2
6843 mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger
6844 Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros
6845 have gone away,
6846
6847 Several pages
6848 mtk
6849 Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolution.7.
6850
6851 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
6852 places.
6853
6854
6855 Moved pages
6856 -----------
6857
6858 path_resolution.2 has been moved to section 7, thus path_resolution.7
6859 mtk
6860 Reason: this is an overview page, not one describing as
6861 a specific system call.
6862
6863
6864 Changes to individual pages
6865 ---------------------------
6866
6867 MAINTAINING
6868 mtk, after a note from Xose Vazquez Perez
6869 Added pointer to Red Hat man-pages bugzilla.
6870 mtk
6871 Added a release philosophy note on separating out big
6872 formatting changes into their own release that contains minimal
6873 content changes.
6874
6875 accept.2
6876 mtk
6877 Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
6878
6879 arch_prctl.2
6880 mtk
6881 Added RETURN VALUE section.
6882
6883 bind.2
6884 mtk
6885 Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section.
6886 Added text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
6887
6888 cacheflush.2
6889 mtk
6890 Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING TO and note that
6891 this call is Linux-specific.
6892 Other minor rewordings.
6893
6894 connect.2
6895 mtk
6896 Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
6897
6898 create_module.2
6899 mtk
6900 Add ENOSYS error.
6901
6902 fcntl.2
6903 flock.2
6904 mtk
6905 Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Documentation/* in
6906 kernel source.
6907
6908 get_kernel_syms.2
6909 mtk
6910 Added ERRORS heading
6911 Add ENOSYS error.
6912
6913 getdtablesize.2
6914 mtk
6915 Added an ERRORS section.
6916
6917 getsid.2
6918 mtk
6919 Added a RETURN VALUE section.
6920
6921 getpid.2
6922 mtk
6923 Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are
6924 always successful).
6925
6926 ioctl_list.2
6927 mtk
6928 Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2.
6929
6930 listen.2
6931 mtk
6932 Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
6933
6934 query_module.2
6935 Martin (Joey) Schulze
6936 Add ENOSYS error.
6937
6938 recv.2
6939 mtk
6940 Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
6941
6942 sched_get_priority_max.2
6943 sched_rr_get_interval.2
6944 sched_setscheduler.2
6945 sched_yield.2
6946 mtk
6947 Modified .TH line
6948
6949 send.2
6950 mtk
6951 Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
6952
6953 set_tid_address.2
6954 mtk
6955 Added an ERRORS section (stating that the call is
6956 always successful).
6957
6958 signal.2
6959 mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy
6960 Strengthen warning against the use of signal().
6961 Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
6962 mtk
6963 Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section.
6964
6965 socket.2
6966 mtk
6967 Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
6968
6969 stat.2
6970 mtk
6971 Added EXAMPLE program.
6972
6973 syscall.2
6974 mtk
6975 Converted to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE.
6976
6977 sysctl.2
6978 mtk
6979 Improved the example program.
6980
6981 getnameinfo.3
6982 mtk
6983 Add text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
6984
6985 getaddrinfo.3
6986 mtk
6987 Add example programs.
6988 Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list.
6989
6990 memmove.3
6991 mtk / Serge van den Boom
6992 Clarify discussion of what happens if 'src' and 'dest' overlap.
6993
6994 regex.3
6995 Justin Pryzby
6996 Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO list.
6997
6998 sigpause.3
6999 mtk after a note from Ulrich Drepper
7000 Clarify discussion of feature test macros that are needed to
7001 expose System V and BSD versions of this function in glibc.
7002
7003 undocumented.3
7004 mtk
7005 Removed some functions that have been documented.
7006
7007 wprintf.2
7008 Martin (Joey) Schulze
7009 Remove wscanf.3 from SEE ALSO list, since that page does not exist.
7010
7011 utmp.5
7012 Joey Hess
7013 Removed outdated note on xdm.
7014 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418009
7015 Martin (Joey) Schulze
7016 Removed outdated note about Debian and libc5.
7017
7018 bootparam.7
7019 Martin (Joey) Schulze
7020 Fix order of commands listed under 'init='.
7021
7022 hier.7
7023 Joey Hess
7024 Add /media, remove /dos.
7025 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418234
7026
7027 inotify.7
7028 mtk
7029 Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to
7030 read(2) is too small to return information about the next event,
7031 and noting the behavior change in 2.6.21.
7032
7033 man-pages.7
7034 mtk
7035 Added text to note that ERRORS list should be in alphabetical order.
7036
7037 mdoc.7
7038 mdoc.samples.7
7039 mtk
7040 Added SEE ALSO reference to groff_mdoc(7).
7041
7042 unix.7
7043 mtk
7044 Added EXAMPLE section with pointer to bind.2 EXAMPLE.
7045
7046 ld.so.8
7047 mtk
7048 Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath.
7049 mtk, after a note by John Reiser
7050 Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath.
7051
7052
7053 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.56 ====================
7054
7055 Released: 2007-06-11
7056
7057 Global changes
7058 --------------
7059
7060 Many pages
7061 mtk
7062 Removed version numbers in .TH lines.
7063 Reason: these were only arbitrarily updated, and so impart no
7064 useful information. Version information goes into a
7065 VERSIONS section nowadays, and the date in the .TH line should
7066 be updated to reflect the date of the last (significant)
7067 change to the page.
7068
7069 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
7070 places.
7071
7072
7073 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.57 ====================
7074
7075 Released: 2007-06-17
7076
7077 Contributors
7078 ------------
7079
7080 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
7081 been incorporated in changes in this release:
7082
7083 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
7084
7085 Apologies if I missed anyone!
7086
7087
7088 Global changes
7089 --------------
7090
7091 Many pages
7092 mtk
7093 Fix section numbers in page cross references.
7094
7095
7096 Changes to individual pages
7097 ---------------------------
7098
7099 access.2
7100 mtk
7101 Minor wording fixes.
7102 Small clarification of description of 'mode'.
7103
7104 bind.2
7105 mtk
7106 Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
7107
7108 exit_group.2
7109 mtk
7110 Minor wording fixes.
7111
7112 exit.3
7113 mtk
7114 Added more detail on exit handlers.
7115 Minor wording fixes.
7116
7117 ioctl.2
7118 mtk
7119 Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent mt.4.
7120
7121 modify_ldt.2
7122 Samuel Thibault / mtk
7123 In Linux 2.6, the 'modify_ldt_ldt_s' structure was renamed
7124 'user_desc'.
7125 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378668
7126 mtk
7127 Include definition of 'user_desc' structure.
7128 Minor rewordings.
7129
7130 mprotect.2
7131 mtk
7132 Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
7133
7134 sigaction.2
7135 mtk
7136 Removed reference to nonexistent sigsend(2).
7137
7138 a64l.3
7139 mtk
7140 Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent itoa.3.
7141
7142 dysize.3
7143 mtk
7144 Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent time.3.
7145
7146 encrypt.3
7147 mtk
7148 Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fcrypt.3.
7149
7150 fmemopen.3
7151 mtk
7152 Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
7153
7154 fpurge.3
7155 mtk
7156 Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fclean.3.
7157
7158 getutent.3
7159 mtk
7160 s/ttyname(0)/ttyname(STDIN_FILENO)/ in program example.
7161
7162 vcs.4
7163 mtk
7164 s/exit(1)/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/
7165
7166 environ.7
7167 mtk
7168 Correct some section numbers in page cross references.
7169
7170 man-pages.7
7171 mtk
7172 Modify requirements for example programs a little.
7173
7174 uri.7
7175 mtk
7176 Wrapped long source lines.
7177
7178
7179 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.58 ====================
7180
7181 Released: 2007-06-24
7182
7183 Contributors
7184 ------------
7185
7186 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
7187 been incorporated in changes in this release:
7188
7189 Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
7190 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
7191
7192 Apologies if I missed anyone!
7193
7194
7195 Global changes
7196 --------------
7197
7198 Various pages, as detailed below
7199 mtk
7200 Added or updated VERSIONS sections.
7201
7202 killpg.2
7203 setuid.2
7204 faccessat.2
7205 fork.2
7206 setfsuid.2
7207 kill.2
7208 getsid.2
7209 wait.2
7210 execve.2
7211 getpid.2
7212 setgid.2
7213 seteuid.2
7214 setresuid.2
7215 setfsgid.2
7216 access.2
7217 initgroups.3
7218 euidaccess.3
7219 tcgetpgrp.3
7220 path_resolution.7
7221 capabilities.7
7222 unix.7
7223 mtk
7224 Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7.
7225
7226
7227 New pages
7228 ---------
7229
7230 credentials.7
7231 mtk
7232 An overview of Linux process identifiers (PIDs, PPIDs,
7233 PGIDS, SIDs, UIDs, GIDs).
7234
7235
7236 Changes to individual pages
7237 ---------------------------
7238
7239 bind.2
7240 mtk
7241 Added some comments to example program.
7242
7243 getxattr.2
7244 mtk
7245 VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
7246
7247 listen.2
7248 mtk
7249 Updated discussion of somaxconn limit.
7250
7251 listxattr.2
7252 mtk
7253 VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
7254
7255 posix_fadvise.2
7256 mtk
7257 VERSIONS: Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2.
7258
7259 readahead.2
7260 mtk
7261 Added VERSIONS section.
7262
7263 remap_file_pages.2
7264 mtk
7265 Updated VERSIONS section with text on glibc support.
7266
7267 removexattr.2
7268 mtk
7269 VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
7270
7271 semop.2
7272 mtk
7273 Added VERSIONS section with info on semtimedop().
7274
7275 setxattr.2
7276 mtk
7277 VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
7278
7279 dl_iterate_phdr.3
7280 mtk
7281 VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.4.
7282
7283 getloadavg.3
7284 mtk
7285 Added VERSIONS section.
7286
7287 posix_openpt.3
7288 mtk
7289 VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.1.
7290
7291 printf.3
7292 mtk after a suggestion by Mike Frysinger
7293 Add text to the introductory part of DESCRIPTION, about the
7294 'size' argument of snprintf() and vsnprintf().
7295
7296 shm_open.3
7297 mtk
7298 Added VERSIONS section; rewrote info about linking with -lrt.
7299
7300 strcat.3
7301 Marc Boyer
7302 Improve the discussion of strncat().
7303
7304 strcpy.3
7305 Marc Boyer
7306 Improve the discussion of strncpy().
7307
7308 proc.5
7309 mtk
7310 Added discussion of /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn.
7311
7312
7313 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.59 ====================
7314
7315 Released: 2007-06-25
7316
7317 Global changes
7318 --------------
7319
7320 Manual pages are now standardized on American spelling. See
7321 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
7322 for more information on the differences. Formerly, different pages (and
7323 sometimes even a single page!) employed American and British spelling
7324 conventions; best to standardize on one spelling, and American English
7325 is the standard in Computer Science.
7326
7327 Changes to individual pages
7328 ---------------------------
7329
7330 man-pages.7
7331 mtk
7332 Note that man-pages has now standardized on American spelling
7333 conventions.
7334
7335 execve.2
7336 getxattr.2
7337 listxattr.2
7338 removexattr.2
7339 setxattr.2
7340 signal.2
7341 syscall.2
7342 aio_cancel.3
7343 bindresvport.3
7344 stdarg.3
7345 charmap.5
7346 bootparam.7
7347 ipv6.7
7348 man.7
7349 path_resolution.7
7350 uri.7
7351 nscd.8
7352 mtk
7353 Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
7354 independent of fixes for American spelling).
7355
7356
7357 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.60 ====================
7358
7359 Released: 2007-06-25
7360
7361
7362 Global changes
7363 --------------
7364
7365 Various pages
7366 mtk
7367 Wrapped lines in some files.
7368
7369 Various pages
7370 mtk
7371 Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
7372
7373 Various pages
7374 mtk
7375 Change "i.e. " to i.e., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
7376
7377 Various pages
7378 mtk
7379 Removed AUTHORS section.
7380
7381 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
7382 places.
7383
7384
7385 Changes to individual pages
7386 ---------------------------
7387
7388 vfork.2
7389 mtk
7390 s/w.r.t/with respect to/
7391
7392 man-pages.7
7393 mtk
7394 Strengthened warning against use of AUTHORS section.
7395
7396
7397 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.61 ====================
7398
7399 Released: 2007-07-01
7400
7401
7402 Contributors
7403 ------------
7404
7405 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
7406 been incorporated in changes in this release:
7407
7408 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
7409 Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
7410 Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>
7411 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
7412 Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder@computer.org>
7413 Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
7414 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
7415 Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
7416 Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>
7417 Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
7418 Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
7419 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
7420
7421 Apologies if I missed anyone!
7422
7423
7424 Global changes
7425 --------------
7426
7427 Various pages
7428 mtk
7429 substitute `\\0' by '\\0'.
7430
7431 Various pages
7432 mtk
7433 s/`/'/ when the thing being quoted is a character.
7434
7435 accept.2
7436 bind.2
7437 connect.2
7438 getsockopt.2
7439 listen.2
7440 socket.2
7441 socketpair.2
7442 mtk after a note by Martin (Joey) Schulze
7443 Add NOTES paragraph noting that <sys/types.h> isn't required by
7444 POSIX.1-2001 or Linux, but was required on some implementations.
7445
7446 accept.2
7447 getsockname.2
7448 recv.2
7449 vm86.2
7450 send.2
7451 getgrouplist.3
7452 memmem.3
7453 nsswitch.conf.5
7454 putenv.3
7455 wprintf.3
7456 mtk
7457 Replace form `...' with \fI...\fP where the enclosed string
7458 is a pathname, type name, or argument name.
7459
7460 A few files
7461 mtk
7462 s/process' /process's/
7463
7464 gets.3
7465 qsort.3
7466 getaddrinfo.3
7467 rpc.3
7468 ungetwc.3
7469 wcsnrtombs.3
7470 capabilities.7
7471 mtk
7472 Add section number to page cross references.
7473
7474 time.1
7475 bind.2
7476 pivot_root.2
7477 sysctl.2
7478 mtk
7479 Reordered .SH sections.
7480
7481 full.4
7482 mouse.4
7483 random.4
7484 sd.4
7485 mtk
7486 Made CONFIG/CONFIGURING heading ==> CONFIGURATION
7487
7488 time.1
7489 console_codes.4
7490 random.4
7491 sk98lin.4
7492 charmap.5
7493 ftpusers.5
7494 bootparam.7
7495 charsets.7
7496 glob.7
7497 mq_overview.7
7498 unicode.7
7499 uri.7
7500 utf-8.7
7501 mtk
7502 Reformatted headings
7503
7504
7505 New pages
7506 ---------
7507
7508 backtrace.3
7509 mtk, with input from Justin Pryzby and Stefan Puiu
7510 Documents backtrace(), backtrace_symbols(), and
7511 backtrace_symbols_fd().
7512
7513
7514 New links
7515 ---------
7516
7517 backtrace_symbols.3
7518 backtrace_symbols_fd.3
7519 mtk
7520 Links to backtrace.3.
7521
7522 __clone.2
7523 Stepan Kasal
7524 Link to clone.2.
7525
7526
7527 Changes to individual pages
7528 ---------------------------
7529
7530 Makefile
7531 Serge van den Boom
7532 Fix setting of 'prefix' macro.
7533
7534 eval.1p
7535 Benno Schulenberg
7536 Fix bad text (concatenated line).
7537
7538 chdir.2
7539 mtk
7540 Fixed description of EACCES error.
7541 Added sentence defining "current working directory".
7542 Other minor wording changes.
7543
7544 cfree.3
7545 mtk
7546 Added SEE ALSO section.
7547
7548 clone.2
7549 mtk
7550 s/clone2/__clone2/.
7551
7552 fdatasync.2
7553 mtk
7554 Minor wording changes.
7555
7556 fork.2
7557 Alain Portal
7558 Fix small wording error.
7559
7560 gethostid.2
7561 Stefan Puiu / mtk
7562 Add NOTES on what happens if gethostid() can't open /etc/hostid.
7563
7564 idle.2
7565 mtk
7566 Made NOTES text into a VERSIONS section, since that's what it
7567 really describes.
7568
7569 ioperm.2
7570 mtk
7571 Minor wording changes.
7572
7573 intro.2
7574 mtk
7575 Rewrite to reflect the fact that the _syscallN
7576 macros are no longer available.
7577
7578 io_cancel.2
7579 mtk
7580 Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
7581
7582 io_destroy.2
7583 mtk
7584 Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
7585
7586 io_getevents.2
7587 mtk
7588 Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
7589
7590 io_setup.2
7591 mtk
7592 Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
7593
7594 io_submit.2
7595 Ivana Varekova
7596 Fix include in SYNOPSIS.
7597 mtk
7598 Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
7599
7600 ipc.2
7601 mtk
7602 Add semtimedop() to SEE ALSO.
7603 Note that some architectures don't have ipc(2); instead
7604 real system calls are provided for shmctl(), semctl(), etc.
7605
7606 killpg.2
7607 mtk
7608 Minor wording changes.
7609
7610 listen.2
7611 mtk
7612 Added <sys/types.h> to SYNOPSIS.
7613
7614 sched_setscheduler.2
7615 mtk
7616 Add NOTES para about permissions required to call
7617 sched_setscheduler() on other systems.
7618
7619 select.2
7620 mtk
7621 Noted that 'timeout' can also be changed if select() is
7622 interrupted by a signal.
7623
7624 setup.2
7625 mtk
7626 Remove reference to _syscall0() macro.
7627
7628 shmop.2
7629 mtk
7630 Changed text for EINVAL error.
7631
7632 socketcall.2
7633 mtk
7634 Add recvmsg() and sendmsg() to SEE ALSO.
7635 Note that some architectures don't have socketcall(2); instead
7636 real system calls are provided for socket(), bind(), etc.
7637
7638 swapon.2
7639 Ivana Varekova / mtk
7640 Update text for EPERM error describing the maximum number of
7641 swap files. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
7642
7643 write.2
7644 mtk
7645 Added details about seekable files and file offset.
7646 Noted that write() may write less than 'count' bytes, and
7647 gave some examples of why this might occur.
7648 Noted what happens if write() is interrupted by a signal.
7649 Minor wording changes.
7650
7651 __setfpucw.3
7652 mtk
7653 Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
7654
7655 confstr.3
7656 mtk
7657 Minor rewrites in code example.
7658
7659 ctime.3
7660 Justin Pryzby
7661 Make SEE ALSO refer to timegm.3
7662
7663 daemon.3
7664 mtk
7665 Small wording change.
7666
7667 dl_iterate_phdr.3
7668 Michael Gehring
7669 Comment was missing closing "*/".
7670
7671 dlopen.3
7672 mtk
7673 Formatting changes, and minor rewordings.
7674 mtk, after a note by Serge van den Boom
7675 Add a comment explaining the need for the rather
7676 strange cast of the return value of dlsym().
7677
7678 fpclassify.3
7679 mtk
7680 Add "isinf" to NAME section.
7681
7682 getgrouplist.3
7683 mtk
7684 Minor rewording.
7685
7686 getline.3
7687 mtk
7688 Minor rewording, and note that '*n* is ignored
7689 if '*lineptr' is NULL.
7690
7691 malloc.3
7692 Ivana Varekova / mtk
7693 Update description of MALLOC_CHECK_ to include description
7694 for value 3. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
7695
7696 netlink.3
7697 mtk
7698 Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
7699
7700 openpty.3
7701 mtk
7702 Minor changes to SYNOPSIS.
7703
7704 program_invocation_name.3
7705 mtk
7706 Shortened page title to INVOCATION_NAME.
7707
7708 rtnetlink.3
7709 mtk
7710 Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
7711
7712 scanf.3
7713 Florian Ernst
7714 Fix duplicated word "the".
7715 (Really fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412467 !)
7716
7717 select_tut.3
7718 mtk
7719 Small wording change.
7720
7721 setnetgrent.3
7722 mtk
7723 Added a CONFORMING TO section.
7724
7725 sigpause.3
7726 mtk
7727 Added a CONFORMING TO section.
7728
7729 strftime.3
7730 Just Pryzby
7731 Small wording fix.
7732 mtk
7733 Note use of "gcc -Wno-format-y2k" to avoid the "`%c' yields only
7734 last 2 digits of year in some locales" warning.
7735
7736 strstr.3
7737 mtk
7738 Add "strcasestr" to NAME section.
7739
7740 syslog.3
7741 mtk
7742 Small wording change.
7743
7744
7745 termios.3
7746 mtk
7747 Reformat SYNOPSIS.
7748 Added a CONFORMING TO section.
7749
7750 timegm.3
7751 mtk
7752 Small wording changes.
7753
7754 ulimit.3
7755 mtk
7756 Remove erroneous text saying that glibc does not provide
7757 <ulimit.h>; it does.
7758
7759 initrd.4
7760 mtk
7761 Various reformattings.
7762
7763 core.5
7764 mtk
7765 Added a sentence noting why core dumps named "core.PID" were useful
7766 with LinuxThreads.
7767
7768 bootparam.7
7769 mtk
7770 Fix capitalization in .SS headings.
7771
7772 epoll.7
7773 mtk
7774 Language clean ups.
7775
7776 feature_test_macros.7
7777 mtk
7778 Added SEE ALSO section.
7779
7780 mq_overview.7
7781 mtk
7782 Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
7783
7784 sem_overview.7
7785 mtk
7786 Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
7787
7788 socket.7
7789 Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
7790 Document argument type for SO_REUSEADDR.
7791 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255881
7792
7793 uri.7
7794 mtk
7795 Wrap long line in SYNOPSIS.
7796
7797 ldconfig.8
7798 mtk
7799 Added SEE ALSO section.
7800
7801
7802 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.62 ====================
7803
7804 Released: 2007-07-09
7805
7806 This release consists solely of formatting fixes. There are no changes
7807 to content.
7808
7809 Contributors
7810 ------------
7811
7812 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
7813 been incorporated in changes in this release:
7814
7815 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
7816
7817 Apologies if I missed anyone!
7818
7819
7820 Global changes
7821 --------------
7822
7823 Many many pages
7824 mtk
7825 Many many formatting fixes.
7826
7827 man[013]p/*
7828 Stepan Kasal
7829 Add section number to .TH line for POSIX pages in man[013]p.
7830
7831
7832 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ====================
7833
7834 Released: 2007-07-16
7835
7836
7837 Contributors
7838 ------------
7839
7840 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
7841 been incorporated in changes in this release:
7842
7843 Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
7844 Eduardo M. Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
7845 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
7846 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
7847 Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
7848 Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
7849 Martin Röhricht <martin@roehricht.info>
7850 Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
7851 Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
7852 Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
7853
7854 Apologies if I missed anyone!
7855
7856
7857 Global changes
7858 --------------
7859
7860 gettimeofday.2
7861 madvise.2
7862 msgctl.2
7863 select.2
7864 semctl.2
7865 shmctl.2
7866 syslog.2
7867 stat.2
7868 a64l.3
7869 printf.3
7870 termios.3
7871 xdr.3
7872 sd.4
7873 mtk
7874 Minor wording changes.
7875
7876 obsolete.2
7877 syscall.2
7878 unimplemented.2
7879 mtk
7880 Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
7881
7882
7883 New pages
7884 ---------
7885
7886 sgetmask.2
7887 mtk
7888 A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
7889 (This page replaces a previous link of the same name, which
7890 linked to signal.2.)
7891
7892 spu_create.2
7893 Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
7894 Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
7895 (Originally taken from the kernel source file
7896 Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
7897
7898 spu_run.2
7899 Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
7900 Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
7901 (Originally taken from the kernel source file
7902 Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
7903
7904 spufs.7
7905 Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
7906 Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
7907 (Originally taken from the kernel source file
7908 Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
7909
7910
7911 Removed Pages
7912 -------------
7913
7914 __clone.2
7915 mtk
7916 This file was created by accident in 2.61, as a copy of clone.2.
7917 (it should have been a link to clone.2.)
7918
7919 obsolete.2
7920 mtk
7921 Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
7922 respective syscall man pages (stat.2, uname.2).
7923
7924 undocumented.2
7925 mtk
7926 This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult
7927 to maintain. Information about undocumented system calls
7928 is maintained in the HOWTOHELP file, and probably in other
7929 places soon.
7930
7931 killpg.3
7932 mtk
7933 This rather incomplete page seems unnecessary since there
7934 is a killpg.2.
7935
7936
7937 New links
7938 ---------
7939
7940 chown32.2
7941 fchown32.2
7942 getegid32.2
7943 geteuid32.2
7944 getgid32.2
7945 getgroups32.2
7946 getresgid32.2
7947 getresuid32.2
7948 getuid32.2
7949 lchown32.2
7950 setfsgid32.2
7951 setfsuid32.2
7952 setgid32.2
7953 setgroups32.2
7954 setregid32.2
7955 setresgid32.2
7956 setresuid32.2
7957 setreuid32.2
7958 setuid32.2
7959 mtk
7960 Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
7961
7962 fcntl64.2
7963 fstat64.2
7964 fstatat64.2
7965 fstatfs64.2
7966 ftruncate64.2
7967 getdents64.2
7968 lstat64.2
7969 pread64.2
7970 pwrite64.2
7971 sendfile64.2
7972 stat64.2
7973 statfs64.2
7974 truncate64.2
7975 mtk
7976 Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
7977
7978 __clone2.2
7979 clone2.2
7980 mtk
7981 Links to clone.2.
7982
7983 ugetrlimit.2
7984 mtk
7985 Link to getrlimit.2.
7986
7987 mq_notify.2
7988 mq_open.2
7989 mq_timedreceive.2
7990 mq_timedsend.2
7991 mq_unlink.2
7992 mtk
7993 Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
7994
7995 fadvise64.2
7996 fadvise64_64.2
7997 mtk
7998 Links to posix_fadvise.2.
7999
8000 rt_sigaction.2
8001 rt_sigpending.2
8002 rt_sigprocmask.2
8003 rt_sigtimedwait.2
8004 mtk
8005 Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
8006
8007 rt_sigqueueinfo.2
8008 mtk
8009 Link to sigqueue.2.
8010
8011 madvise1.2
8012 tuxcall.2
8013 vserver.2
8014 mtk / Ivana Varekova
8015 Link to unimplemented.2.
8016
8017
8018 Changes to individual pages
8019 ---------------------------
8020
8021 access.2
8022 mtk
8023 Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
8024 and a few additions.
8025
8026 chmod.2
8027 mtk
8028 Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
8029 either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
8030
8031 chown.2
8032 mtk
8033 Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
8034 need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
8035 Added an example program.
8036
8037 killpg.2
8038 mtk
8039 Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
8040
8041 mmap.2
8042 mtk
8043 Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
8044
8045 mmap2.2
8046 Ivana Varekova / mtk
8047 On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
8048 the system page size.
8049 mtk
8050 Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
8051 invokes this system call.
8052 mtk
8053 Added an EXAMPLE program.
8054
8055 oldfstat.2
8056 oldlstat.2
8057 oldstat.2
8058 mtk
8059 Changed link to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
8060
8061 olduname.2
8062 oldolduname.2
8063 mtk
8064 Changed link to point to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
8065
8066 sched_setaffinity.2
8067 Martin Röhricht
8068 Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
8069
8070 semctl.2
8071 mtk
8072 Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
8073 other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
8074
8075 semop.2
8076 mtk
8077 Add an example code segment.
8078
8079 shmctl.2
8080 mtk
8081 Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
8082
8083 sigaction.2
8084 mtk
8085 Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and
8086 wording changes.
8087
8088 sigqueue.2
8089 mtk
8090 Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
8091
8092 sigwaitinfo.2
8093 mtk
8094 Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
8095 top of sigtimedwait().
8096
8097 ssetmask.2
8098 mtk
8099 Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 instead of signal.2.
8100
8101 stat.2
8102 mtk
8103 Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
8104 have appeared over time.
8105
8106 syscalls.2
8107 mtk
8108 A fairly substantial rewrite of this page,
8109 bringing it up to date with the current
8110 kernel version, and listing all system calls
8111 in tabular form.
8112
8113 uname.2
8114 mtk
8115 Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
8116 have appeared over time.
8117
8118 unimplemented.2
8119 mtk
8120 Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
8121 Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
8122 Ivana Varekova
8123 Add tuxcall to NAME line.
8124
8125 mktemp.3
8126 Patrick Mansfield
8127 Fix description of return value.
8128
8129 strcat.3
8130 Marc Boyer
8131 Minor fix to example program.
8132
8133 undocumented.3
8134 mtk
8135 Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
8136 since they are documented.
8137
8138 proc.5
8139 mtk
8140 Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
8141 mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments by Justin Pryzby
8142 Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
8143 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417933
8144
8145 inotify.7
8146 mtk
8147 IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
8148
8149 signal.7
8150 Stepan Kasal / mtk
8151 Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
8152 mtk
8153 Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
8154 Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
8155
8156 svipc.7
8157 mtk
8158 Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO.
8159
8160
8161 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.64 ====================
8162
8163 Released: 2007-07-27
8164
8165
8166 Contributors
8167 ------------
8168
8169 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
8170 been incorporated in changes in this release:
8171
8172 Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
8173 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
8174 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
8175
8176 Apologies if I missed anyone!
8177
8178
8179 Global changes
8180 --------------
8181
8182 INFINITY.3
8183 _exit.2
8184 a64l.3
8185 abs.3
8186 acct.2
8187 acosh.3
8188 addseverity.3
8189 adjtime.3
8190 asinh.3
8191 atanh.3
8192 atoi.3
8193 brk.2
8194 cbrt.3
8195 cfree.3
8196 chdir.2
8197 chmod.2
8198 chown.2
8199 clearenv.3
8200 clock_getres.3
8201 clone.2
8202 confstr.3
8203 copysign.3
8204 ctermid.3
8205 ctime.3
8206 daemon.3
8207 dirfd.3
8208 div.3
8209 drand48.3
8210 drand48_r.3
8211 dysize.3
8212 ecvt.3
8213 ecvt_r.3
8214 erf.3
8215 euidaccess.3
8216 exp2.3
8217 expm1.3
8218 fdatasync.2
8219 ferror.3
8220 fexecve.3
8221 fgetgrent.3
8222 fgetpwent.3
8223 finite.3
8224 flockfile.3
8225 fopen.3
8226 fpclassify.3
8227 fsync.2
8228 futimes.3
8229 fwide.3
8230 gamma.3
8231 gcvt.3
8232 getcwd.3
8233 getdate.3
8234 getdirentries.3
8235 getdomainname.2
8236 getdtablesize.2
8237 getgrent.3
8238 getgrent_r.3
8239 getgrouplist.3
8240 getgroups.2
8241 gethostbyname.3
8242 gethostid.2
8243 gethostname.2
8244 getlogin.3
8245 getmntent.3
8246 getpagesize.2
8247 getpw.3
8248 getpwent.3
8249 getpwent_r.3
8250 getpwnam.3
8251 getsid.2
8252 getspnam.3
8253 gettimeofday.2
8254 getumask.3
8255 getusershell.3
8256 gsignal.3
8257 hypot.3
8258 inet.3
8259 initgroups.3
8260 insque.3
8261 isalpha.3
8262 iswblank.3
8263 j0.3
8264 kill.2
8265 killpg.2
8266 lgamma.3
8267 lockf.3
8268 log1p.3
8269 log2.3
8270 logb.3
8271 longjmp.3
8272 lrint.3
8273 lround.3
8274 madvise.2
8275 mbsnrtowcs.3
8276 memfrob.3
8277 mincore.2
8278 mkdtemp.3
8279 mknod.2
8280 mkstemp.3
8281 mktemp.3
8282 nan.3
8283 nanosleep.2
8284 nextafter.3
8285 nice.2
8286 on_exit.3
8287 perror.3
8288 posix_memalign.3
8289 posix_openpt.3
8290 printf.3
8291 profil.3
8292 psignal.3
8293 putenv.3
8294 putpwent.3
8295 qecvt.3
8296 rand.3
8297 random.3
8298 rcmd.3
8299 readahead.2
8300 readlink.2
8301 realpath.3
8302 remainder.3
8303 remquo.3
8304 rexec.3
8305 rint.3
8306 round.3
8307 rpmatch.3
8308 scalb.3
8309 scandir.3
8310 scanf.3
8311 seekdir.3
8312 select.2
8313 sem_wait.3
8314 semop.2
8315 setbuf.3
8316 setenv.3
8317 seteuid.2
8318 setjmp.3
8319 setnetgrent.3
8320 setpgid.2
8321 setresuid.2
8322 setreuid.2
8323 sigaltstack.2
8324 siginterrupt.3
8325 significand.3
8326 sigqueue.2
8327 sigvec.3
8328 sigwaitinfo.2
8329 sockatmark.3
8330 stat.2
8331 stime.2
8332 strdup.3
8333 strerror.3
8334 strsep.3
8335 strtod.3
8336 strtok.3
8337 strtol.3
8338 strtoul.3
8339 symlink.2
8340 sync.2
8341 syscall.2
8342 syslog.3
8343 tcgetsid.3
8344 telldir.3
8345 tempnam.3
8346 termios.3
8347 tgamma.3
8348 timegm.3
8349 toascii.3
8350 trunc.3
8351 truncate.2
8352 ttyslot.3
8353 tzset.3
8354 ualarm.3
8355 unlocked_stdio.3
8356 unshare.2
8357 usleep.3
8358 vfork.2
8359 vhangup.2
8360 wait.2
8361 wait4.2
8362 wcscasecmp.3
8363 wcsncasecmp.3
8364 wcsnlen.3
8365 wcsnrtombs.3
8366 wcswidth.3
8367 wordexp.3
8368 wprintf.3
8369 mtk
8370 Added/updated feature test macro requirements for
8371 glibc; see feature_test_macros.7 for details.
8372
8373 Changes to individual pages
8374 ---------------------------
8375
8376 mq_notify.2
8377 mq_open.2
8378 mq_timedreceive.2
8379 mq_timedsend.2
8380 mq_unlink.2
8381 mtk
8382 Fix broken link
8383
8384 setpgid.2
8385 mtk
8386 Fairly substantial changes and corrections, including adding
8387 coverage of all of the interfaces that get/set PGIDs.
8388
8389 syscalls.2
8390 mtk / aeb
8391 Various rewordings; clear up some imprecisions.
8392
8393 lgamma.3
8394 mtk
8395 Added 'signgam' to SYNOPSIS and NAME line.
8396
8397 strerror.3
8398 mtk
8399 Note that the XPG version is provided since glibc 2.3.4.
8400 The page formerly said that the GNU-specific version
8401 is provided by default. That certainly isn't true
8402 nowadays, since _POSIX_C_SOURCE is set to 200112L by
8403 default, so that the XSI-compliant version is supplied
8404 by default.
8405
8406 man-pages.7
8407 mtk
8408 Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a description
8409 of how feature test macro requirements should be specified in
8410 manual pages. Various other minor fixes and changes.
8411
8412 feature_test_macros.7
8413 mtk
8414 Added note about how feature test macros are specified
8415 in manual pages.
8416 Many other corrections, improvements, additions, and
8417 details about differences across glibc versions.
8418
8419
8420 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.65 ====================
8421
8422 Released: 2007-09-17
8423
8424
8425 Contributors
8426 ------------
8427
8428 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
8429 been incorporated in changes in this release:
8430
8431 Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
8432 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
8433 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
8434 Ari Entlich <lmage11@twcny.rr.com>
8435 Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
8436 François Diakhate <diakhate@enseirb.fr>
8437 Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
8438 Jon Burgess <jburgess777@googlemail.com>
8439 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
8440 Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
8441 Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
8442 Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
8443 Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
8444 Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
8445 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
8446 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
8447 Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>
8448 Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
8449 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
8450 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
8451 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
8452 Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
8453 Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
8454 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
8455 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
8456
8457 Apologies if I missed anyone!
8458
8459
8460 Global changes
8461 --------------
8462
8463 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
8464 places.
8465
8466 Various pages
8467 mtk
8468 Use 'glibc' consistently to refer to GNU C library.
8469
8470 Various pages
8471 mtk
8472 Order errors under ERRORS alphabetically.
8473
8474 Various pages
8475 Nicolas François
8476 Spelling and formatting fixes, as per
8477 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439560
8478
8479 intro.2
8480 select.2
8481 fmtmsg.3
8482 getgrent_r.3
8483 envz_add.3
8484 rtime.3
8485 strptime.3
8486 wordexp.3
8487 Maxime Vaudequin
8488 Add "#include <stdlib.h>" (to declare exit(3)) to example program.
8489
8490
8491 New pages
8492 ---------
8493
8494 timeradd.3
8495 mtk
8496 Description of timeradd(), timersub(), timerclear(),
8497 timerisset(), timercmp() macros for operating on
8498 struct timeval.
8499
8500
8501 Removed pages
8502 -------------
8503
8504 fdatasync.2
8505 mtk
8506 Somehow, over time, material on fdatasync(2) crept into
8507 fsync.2, and fdatasync also got added to the NAME section
8508 of fsync.2. All of the material in fdatasync.2 that was
8509 not already in fsync.2 has now been moved there, and
8510 the former page has been removed.
8511 In place of the content there, is now a link to fsync.2.
8512
8513
8514 New links
8515 ---------
8516
8517 clock_getres.2
8518 clock_gettime.2
8519 clock_settime.2
8520 mtk
8521 Link to man3/clock_getres.3.
8522
8523 fdatasync.2
8524 mtk
8525 Link to fsync.2.
8526
8527 fdopendir.3
8528 mtk
8529 Link to opendir.3.
8530
8531 gethostbyaddr_r.3
8532 Mats Wichmann
8533 Link to gethostbyaddr.3.
8534
8535 timerclear.3
8536 timercmp.3
8537 timerisset.3
8538 timersub.3
8539 mtk
8540 Links to new timeradd.3.
8541
8542
8543 Changes to individual pages
8544 ---------------------------
8545
8546 Makefile
8547 Mike Frysinger
8548 Make the install target of man-pages respect the standard
8549 "DESTDIR" variable as well as check the exit status of the
8550 install command so errors aren't ignored.
8551
8552 get_mempolicy.2
8553 Lee Schermerhorn
8554 changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" through out the
8555 descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
8556 policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
8557
8558 added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
8559
8560 rewrite portions of description for clarification.
8561
8562 added all errors currently returned by sys call.
8563
8564 removed cautionary note that use of MPOL_F_NODE|MPOL_F_ADDR
8565 is not supported. This is no longer true.
8566
8567 added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
8568
8569 getitimer.2
8570 mtk
8571 Since kernel 2.6.22, Linux setitimer() now conforms to POSIX.1,
8572 giving an EINVAL error for a non-canonical tv_usec value.
8573
8574 gettimeofday.2
8575 mtk
8576 Replace discussion of timer* macros with a pointer
8577 to new page timeradd.3.
8578
8579 ioctl_list.2
8580 Nicolas George
8581 Fixed argument type for BLKGETSIZE.
8582
8583 mbind.2
8584 Lee Schermerhorn
8585
8586 changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
8587 descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
8588 policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
8589
8590 rewrite portions of description for clarification.
8591
8592 clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files and shared
8593 memory regions, including SHM_HUGE regions.
8594
8595 defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
8596 means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
8597
8598 mention what happens if local/target node contains no
8599 free memory.
8600
8601 clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
8602 Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
8603 this happens.
8604
8605 added all errors currently returned by sys call.
8606
8607 added mmap(2), shmget(2), shmat(2) to SEE ALSO list.
8608
8609 mmap.2
8610 mprotect.2
8611 François Diakhate
8612 Add text noting that PROT_WRITE may (and on x86 does)
8613 imply PROT_READ.
8614 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441387
8615
8616 nfsservctl.2
8617 Aleksandr Koltsoff
8618 Fix prototype.
8619
8620 oldfstat.2
8621 oldlstat.2
8622 oldstat.2
8623 mtk
8624 Fix broken link
8625
8626 prctl.2
8627 mtk
8628 Update arches/kernel versions for PR_SET_UNALAIGN / PR_GET_UNALIGN.
8629
8630 readahead.2
8631 mtk
8632 Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fadvise.2.
8633
8634 reboot.2
8635 mtk
8636 Place SYNOPSIS comments inside C comments (/* ... */).
8637
8638 sched_setaffinity.2
8639 Samuel Thibault
8640 Note what thread is affected if 'pid' is specified
8641 as 0, or as the value returned by getpid().
8642
8643 sched_setscheduler.2
8644 Carsten Emde
8645 Add text on real-time features of mainline Linux kernel.
8646
8647 select_tut.2
8648 mtk
8649 sync SYNOPSIS with select.2
8650
8651 set_mempolicy.2
8652 Lee Schermerhorn
8653
8654 changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
8655 descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
8656 policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
8657
8658 added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
8659
8660 rewrite portions of description for clarification.
8661
8662 clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files.
8663
8664 defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
8665 means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
8666
8667 mention what happens if local/target node contains no
8668 free memory.
8669
8670 clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
8671 Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
8672 this happens.
8673
8674 added all errors currently returned by sys call.
8675
8676 added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
8677
8678 sigaction.2
8679 mtk
8680 s/si_sign/si_errno/ in statement about which field is unused.
8681 Ari Entlich
8682 s/SIGILL/SIGCHLD/ for paragraph describing SIGCHLD.
8683
8684 stat.2
8685 mtk
8686 Improve text describing underlying system calls.
8687
8688 swapon.2
8689 Michael Prokop
8690 EINVAL also occurs if target path is on tmpfs or similar.
8691 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435885
8692
8693 sync.2
8694 mtk
8695 Incorporated material from now deleted fdatasync.2.
8696
8697 syscall.2
8698 mtk
8699 Small fix in example program.
8700
8701 uname.2
8702 mtk
8703 Improve text describing underlying system calls.
8704
8705 utime.2
8706 Vincent Lefevre / mtk
8707 Clarify utimes() behaviour when 'times' is NULL.
8708 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431480
8709 mtk
8710 Other minor clarifications of description of utimes().
8711
8712 copysign.3
8713 Vincent Lefevre
8714 s/sign/sign bit/ to remove ambiguity in description.
8715 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435415
8716
8717 euidaccess.3
8718 mtk
8719 Changed NOTES to VERSIONS.
8720
8721 ffsl.3
8722 mtk
8723 Add ffsl and ffsll to NAME line.
8724
8725 fts.3
8726 mtk
8727 Removed statement that fts functions are expected to appear
8728 soon in POSIX; it's years old and has not yet come to pass.
8729
8730 ftw.3
8731 mtk / Geoff Clare
8732 Fixes/improvements for example program.
8733
8734 getdate.3
8735 mtk
8736 Add getdate_r to NAME section.
8737
8738 getaddrinfo.3
8739 mtk / Geoff Clare
8740 Fixes/improvements for example program.
8741
8742 gethostbyaddr.3
8743 Mats Wichmann
8744 Add documentation for gethostbyaddr_r().
8745 Plus a few other small fixes.
8746
8747 gethostbyname.3
8748 mtk
8749 Add gethostbyname2, gethostbyname2_r, gethostbyname_r,
8750 gethostent_r to NAME line.
8751
8752 getmntent.3
8753 mtk
8754 Fix misnamed function references.
8755
8756 getopt.3
8757 Jon Burgess
8758 Fix small error in example program.
8759
8760 getrpcent.3
8761 mtk
8762 Add setrpcent and endrpcent to NAME line.
8763
8764 gsignal.3
8765 Aleksandr Koltsoff
8766 Fix gsignal() prototype.
8767
8768 hsearch.3
8769 mtk
8770 Add hcreate_r, hdestroy_r, hsearch_r to NAME line.
8771
8772 inet.3
8773 Maxime Bizon
8774 Correct definition of "struct in_addr".
8775
8776 isatty.3
8777 mtk
8778 Minor wording fix.
8779
8780 isgreater.3
8781 mtk
8782 Add islessequal to NAME line.
8783
8784 lgamma.3
8785 Vincent Lefevre
8786 Fix CONFORMING TO section.
8787 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417592
8788
8789 log1p.3
8790 mtk
8791 Add log1pf and log1pl to NAME line.
8792
8793 longjmp.3
8794 Paul Brook / mtk
8795 After a call to longjmp(), the values of modified, non-volatile
8796 variables in the function that called setjmp() are unspecified.
8797
8798 makecontext.3
8799 Aleksandr Koltsoff
8800 Fix makecontext() prototype.
8801
8802 malloc.3
8803 mtk / Tolga Dalman
8804 Explain what happens for malloc(0), or calloc() where one of the
8805 arguments is 0.
8806 mtk
8807 Added notes on malloc()'s use of sbrk() and mmap().
8808 mtk
8809 Add mmap(2), alloca(3) to SEE ALSO.
8810
8811 mq_close.3
8812 mq_getattr.3
8813 mq_notify.3
8814 mq_open.3
8815 mq_receive.3
8816 mq_send.3
8817 mq_unlink.3
8818 mtk
8819 Add "Link with -lrt." to SYNOPSIS.
8820
8821 opendir.3
8822 Ulrich Drepper; some edits and additional text by mtk
8823 Document fdopendir().
8824
8825 readdir.3
8826 mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
8827 Document DT_* constants for d_type.
8828 Ulrich Drepper / mtk
8829 Rework discussion of non-standard structure fields.
8830
8831 sem_wait.3
8832 mtk
8833 Minor improvements to example program.
8834
8835 syslog.3
8836 mtk
8837 Add vsyslog to NAME section.
8838
8839 termios.3
8840 Nicolas François
8841 Fix XCASE feature test macro description.
8842
8843 wcsspn.3
8844 Aleksandr Koltsoff
8845 Add return type to prototype.
8846
8847 proc.5
8848 mtk
8849 Improve description of num_threads field under /proc/PID/stat.
8850 Maxime Vaudequin
8851 Fix path error (s%proc/sys%proc/sys/kernel%) in mentions of
8852 /proc/sys/ostype, /proc/sys/osrelease and proc/sys/version.
8853 Maxime Vaudequin
8854 I noticed things to correct and to clarify in subsection
8855 "/proc/filesystems" of proc.5:
8856 - clarify filesystems listing: not only FS compiled
8857 into the kernel, also FS kernel modules currently loaded
8858 - add a reference to fs(5)
8859 - add an explanation for FS marked with "nodev"
8860 - s/mount(1)/mount(8)/, also corrected in section "SEE ALSO"
8861 - clarify usage by mount: the current wording may lead to
8862 think /proc/filesystems is always used by mount when no FS
8863 is specified. So, usage of "may" which IMHO is more
8864 appropriate + additional explanations
8865 In mount(8) we can see:
8866
8867 If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is
8868 specified, mount will try to guess the desired type.
8869 If mount was compiled with the blkid library, the
8870 guessing is done by this library. Otherwise, mount
8871 guesses itself by probing the superblock; if that
8872 does not turn up anything that looks familiar,
8873 mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems,
8874 or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems.
8875 All of the filesystem types listed there will be
8876 tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"
8877 (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems
8878 ends in a line with a single * only, mount will
8879 read /proc/filesystems afterwards.
8880 Samuel Thibault
8881 Since linux 2.6.11, /proc/stat has an eighth value for cpu
8882 lines: stolen time, which is the time spent in other operating
8883 systems when running in a virtualized environment.
8884
8885 arp.7
8886 Updated BUGS text referring to jiffies; refer to time.7 instead.
8887
8888 credentials.7
8889 mtk
8890 Add words to note that file system ID is Linux specific.
8891
8892 hier.7
8893 Maxime Vaudequin
8894 This is some corrections for hier.7:
8895 - missing period for /media and /mnt
8896 - /mnt description is not totally correct, it is true for some
8897 distributions but in others /mnt is used as a temporary FS
8898 mount point, as it is specified by FHS:
8899 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#
8900 MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT
8901 - s/X-Windows/X-Window/ (3 occurrences)
8902 - section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
8903
8904 man-pages.7
8905 man.7
8906 mdoc.7
8907 mdoc.samples.7
8908 mtk / Nicolas François
8909 Nowadays tmac.XXX are called XXX.tmac.
8910
8911 pthreads.7
8912 mtk
8913 Update text about modern threading implementations
8914 (NPTL vs LinuxThreads).
8915
8916 socket.7
8917 mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
8918 Clarify that SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO only have effect for
8919 socket I/O calls; not for multiplexing system calls like
8920 select() and poll().
8921
8922 time.7
8923 mtk
8924 Add SEE ALSO reference to new timeradd.3.
8925
8926
8927 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
8928
8929 Released: 2007-10-01
8930
8931
8932 Contributors
8933 ------------
8934
8935 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
8936 been incorporated in changes in this release:
8937
8938 Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
8939 David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
8940 Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
8941 Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
8942 Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
8943 Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
8944 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
8945
8946 Apologies if I missed anyone!
8947
8948
8949 Global changes
8950 --------------
8951
8952 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
8953 places.
8954
8955
8956 New pages
8957 ---------
8958
8959 fallocate.2
8960 David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
8961 Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
8962
8963
8964 Changes to individual pages
8965 ---------------------------
8966
8967 close.2
8968 Fredrik Noring
8969 Add text cautioning about use of close() in
8970 multithreaded programs.
8971
8972 execve.2
8973 Ollie Wild / mtk
8974 Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
8975 and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
8976 mtk
8977 Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
8978
8979 open.2
8980 mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
8981 Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
8982 minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
8983
8984 recv.2
8985 mtk
8986 Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
8987
8988 sysctl.2
8989 mtk
8990 Strengthened the warning against using this system call
8991 and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
8992
8993 rpc.3
8994 Mats Wichmann
8995 Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
8996 and pmap_getport().
8997
8998
8999 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.67 ====================
9000
9001 Released: 2007-10-08
9002
9003
9004 Contributors
9005 ------------
9006
9007 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9008 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9009
9010 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
9011 Andrew Josey <a.josey@opengroup.org>
9012 Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
9013
9014 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9015
9016
9017 Global changes
9018 --------------
9019
9020 *.1p
9021 *.3p
9022 mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen and consultation with Andrew Josey.
9023 Add a PROLOG section:
9024 This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
9025 The Linux implementation of this interface may differ
9026 (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details
9027 of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented
9028 on Linux.
9029
9030 *.0p
9031 *.1p
9032 *.3p
9033 mtk
9034 Some formatting fixes, mostly to get rid of unwanted
9035 spaces before "," in formatted output.
9036
9037 *
9038 */*
9039 mtk
9040 Change all occurrences of my email address in man-pages source
9041 to my new gmail address.
9042
9043 Many many pages
9044 Maxime Vaudequin
9045 I noticed useless use of macros with alternating formatting
9046 (".IR" instead ".I" which suffices, ".BR" instead ".B", etc.)
9047 because there is only one element. For example in ldconfig.8:
9048
9049 -.BR /sbin/ldconfig
9050 +.B /sbin/ldconfig
9051
9052 This is not very important, it only makes the sources more tidy.
9053 To find these I used:
9054
9055 egrep '^\.(B[RI]|R[IB]|I[RB]) ([^ ]+|\"[^\"]\+\")$'
9056
9057 And if you want to make these changes, you can use:
9058
9059 sed 's/^\(\.[BRI]\)[BRI]\( \([^ ]\+\|\"[^\"]\+\"\)\)$/\1\2/g'
9060
9061
9062 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.68 ====================
9063
9064 Released: 2007-11-19
9065
9066
9067 Contributors
9068 ------------
9069
9070 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9071 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9072
9073 A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
9074 Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk>
9075 Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
9076 Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
9077 Hyokyong Kim <hyokyong@ppj.kr>
9078 Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
9079 Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com>
9080 Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
9081 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
9082 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
9083 Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
9084 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
9085 Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
9086 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
9087
9088 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9089
9090
9091 Global changes
9092 --------------
9093
9094 faccessat.2
9095 fchmodat.2
9096 fchownat.2
9097 fstatat.2
9098 futimesat.2
9099 linkat.2
9100 mkdirat.2
9101 mknodat.2
9102 readlinkat.2
9103 renameat.2
9104 symlinkat.2
9105 mkfifoat.3
9106 mtk, after http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445436
9107 by Timo Juhani Lindfors
9108 Added <fcntl.h> to SYNOPSIS.
9109
9110 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9111
9112
9113 New pages
9114 ---------
9115
9116 _syscall.2
9117 mtk
9118 Created as a new page, by taking the content specific to
9119 the _syscall() macros from intro(2).
9120
9121
9122 Changes to individual pages
9123 ---------------------------
9124
9125 README
9126 mtk
9127 Brought up to date.
9128
9129 man-pages-*-Announce
9130 mtk
9131 Brought the info in here up to date.
9132
9133 intro.1
9134 mtk
9135 Added intro paragraph about section, plus a paragraph
9136 about exit status values.
9137 Move "user intro" text to NOTES.
9138
9139 get_mempolicy.2
9140 mtk
9141 Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
9142
9143 intro.2
9144 mtk
9145 Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
9146 Moved _syscallN() material to new _syscall(2) page.
9147
9148 mbind.2
9149 mtk
9150 Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
9151
9152 mmap.2
9153 Maxime Vaudequin
9154 Fix syntax error in example program.
9155
9156 prctl.2
9157 mtk
9158 Linux 2.6.22 added support on Alpha for PR_SET_UNALIGN.
9159
9160 ptrace.2
9161 Nicolas François / mtk
9162 s/PTRACE_POKEUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER/
9163 s/PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_PEEKUSER/
9164
9165 read.2
9166 mtk / Geoff Clare
9167 Add text describing timerfd EINVAL error for read(2).
9168
9169 set_mempolicy.2
9170 mtk
9171 Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
9172
9173 syscall.2
9174 mtk
9175 Added _syscall(2) and intro(2) to SEE ALSO section.
9176
9177 syscalls.2
9178 mtk
9179 Added fallocate(2); removed timerfd(2).
9180
9181 sysinfo.2
9182 mtk
9183 Removed reference to example in intro(2).
9184
9185 dlopen.3
9186 mtk
9187 Added "Link with -ldl." to SYNOPSIS.
9188
9189 getaddrinfo.3
9190 Ulrich Drepper / mtk
9191 Remove references to getipnodebyname.3 and getipnodebyaddr.3.
9192
9193 gethostbyname.3
9194 mtk / Ulrich Drepper
9195 Remove SEE ALSO references to getipnodebyname.3 and
9196 getipnodebyaddr.3.
9197
9198 Pádraig Brady / mtk / Ulrich Drepper
9199 Point out that the functions described on this page
9200 are made obsolete by getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3).
9201
9202 getipnodebyname.3
9203 mtk
9204 Clarify that glibc does not implement these functions.
9205
9206 glob.3
9207 Ulrich Drepper / mtk
9208 Fix description of GLOB_ONLYDIR.
9209 mtk
9210 Added description of GLOB_TILDE_NOMATCH.
9211 Expanded the description of various flags.
9212 Various wording fixes..
9213
9214 intro.3
9215 mtk
9216 Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
9217
9218 posix_fallocate.3
9219 mtk
9220 Add SEE ALSO referring to fallocate.2.
9221
9222 rpc.3
9223 Sam Varshavchik
9224 Add some arg declarations to prototypes; fix typos.
9225
9226 setbuf.3
9227 Mike Frysinger
9228 Fix text in BUGS section.
9229
9230 sigset.3
9231 mtk
9232 The sigset() bugs were fixed in glibc 2.5.
9233 See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1951
9234
9235 intro.4
9236 mtk
9237 Minor rewrites.
9238
9239 st.4
9240 Maxime Vaudequin
9241 Various small corrections, formattings and modifications.
9242
9243 elf.5
9244 Mike Frysinger
9245 Document:
9246 - new p_flag: PT_GNU_STACK
9247 - new sections: .gnu.version .gnu.version_d .gnu.version_r
9248 .note.GNU-stack
9249 - new structures: ElfN_Verdef ElfN_Verdaux ElfN_Verneed
9250 ElfN_Vernaux
9251
9252 intro.5
9253 mtk
9254 Minor rewrites.
9255
9256 proc.5
9257 Ivana Varekova / mtk
9258 Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
9259 only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
9260 Maxime Vaudequin
9261 Update description of /proc/pci.
9262 Maxime Vaudequin
9263 Give italic formatting to file names in proc.5.
9264 mtk
9265 The display type of the /proc/PID/stat fields changed
9266 %lu to %u in Linux 2.6.22:
9267 flags
9268 rt_priority
9269 policy
9270
9271 slabinfo.5
9272 Ivana Varekova / mtk
9273 Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
9274 only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
9275
9276 intro.6
9277 mtk
9278 Minor rewrites.
9279
9280 bootparam.7
9281 Maxime Vaudequin
9282 Update references to files in kernel "Documentation" directory.
9283
9284 intro.7
9285 mtk
9286 Minor rewrites.
9287
9288 ipv6.7
9289 Andrew McDonald
9290 Fix description of IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT option.
9291
9292 standards.7
9293 mtk
9294 Note online location of C99 standard.
9295
9296 intro.8
9297 mtk
9298 Some rewrites, plus new paragraph on exit status values.
9299
9300
9301 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================
9302
9303 Released: 2007-12-03
9304
9305
9306 Contributors
9307 ------------
9308
9309 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9310 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9311
9312 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
9313 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
9314 Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
9315 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
9316 David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
9317 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
9318 Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
9319 Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
9320 Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
9321 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
9322 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
9323 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
9324
9325 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9326
9327
9328 Global changes
9329 --------------
9330
9331 *.[013]p
9332 mtk
9333 Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.
9334
9335 mprotect.2
9336 bind.2
9337 mq_notify.3
9338 makecontext.3
9339 fmemopen.3
9340 David Härdeman / mtk
9341 Rename error handling function in example program
9342 (s/die/handle_error/).
9343
9344 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9345
9346
9347 Removed pages
9348 -------------
9349
9350 HOWTOHELP
9351 MAINTAINING
9352 mtk
9353 The content of these files is now available in HTML format.
9354
9355 New links
9356 ---------
9357
9358 cfsetspeed.3
9359 mtk
9360 Link to termios.3.
9361
9362
9363 Changes to individual pages
9364 ---------------------------
9365
9366 time.1
9367 Alain Portal
9368 Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.
9369
9370 _syscall.2
9371 aeb / mtk
9372 Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have
9373 more than 5 arguments.
9374
9375 fcntl.2
9376 J. Bruce Fields
9377 Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
9378 J. Bruce Fields
9379 Clarify details in description of file leases.
9380 J. Bruce Fields / mtk
9381 Minor wording edits.
9382 J. Bruce Fields
9383 Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.
9384
9385 mmap.2
9386 mtk
9387 Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
9388
9389 sched_setscheduler.2
9390 Mats Wichmann
9391 Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
9392 sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
9393
9394 spu_create.2
9395 Jeremy Kerr
9396 Various updates and improvements.
9397 Luke Browning
9398 Refinement of text describing a "gang".
9399 mtk
9400 Minor edits.
9401
9402 spu_run.2
9403 Jeremy Kerr
9404 Various updates and improvements.
9405 mtk
9406 Minor edits.
9407
9408 err.3
9409 mtk
9410 Remove HISTORY section.
9411
9412 fopen.3
9413 Mike Frysinger
9414 Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
9415
9416 getloadavg.3
9417 Alain Portal / mtk
9418 Remove HISTORY section.
9419
9420 printf.3
9421 Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
9422 Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
9423 vprintf() description.
9424
9425 sem_wait.3
9426 mtk
9427 Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
9428
9429 sigsetops.3
9430 Mats Wichmann
9431 Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized
9432 with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
9433 macros are employed.
9434
9435 termios.3
9436 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
9437 Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO
9438 noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific.
9439
9440 ttyslot.3
9441 Alain Portal
9442 Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
9443 that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
9444 systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
9445
9446 initrd.4
9447 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
9448 Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other
9449 section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section.
9450
9451 full.4
9452 mtk
9453 Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION.
9454
9455 sk98lin.4
9456 Maxime Vaudequin
9457 Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
9458
9459 elf.5
9460 mtk
9461 Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.
9462
9463 proc.5
9464 Maxime Vaudequin
9465 Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8).
9466 Maxime Vaudequin
9467 Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and
9468 /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.
9469
9470 utmp.5
9471 Alain Portal
9472 Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
9473 that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
9474 systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
9475
9476 iso_8859-2.7
9477 Adam Borowski
9478 Reverse the 2.68 change applied by mtk in response to
9479 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445085
9480 that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
9481 (Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)
9482
9483 man-pages.7
9484 mtk
9485 Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names.
9486
9487 spufs.7
9488 Jeremy Kerr
9489 Various updates and improvements.
9490 mtk
9491 Minor edits.
9492
9493 tcp.7
9494 Maxime Vaudequin
9495 Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
9496
9497
9498 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.70 ====================
9499
9500 Released: 2007-12-06
9501
9502
9503 Global changes
9504 --------------
9505
9506 Many pages
9507 mtk
9508 Remove section numbers for page references where the
9509 reference refers to the page itself. (This stops man2html
9510 producing links from a page back to itself.)
9511
9512 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9513
9514
9515 Changes to individual pages
9516 ---------------------------
9517
9518 get_mempolicy.2
9519 mtk
9520 Add CONFORMING TO section.
9521
9522 io_getevents.2
9523 mtk
9524 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
9525
9526 mbind.2
9527 mtk
9528 Add CONFORMING TO section.
9529
9530 msgop.2
9531 mtk
9532 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entries.
9533
9534 sigprocmask.2
9535 mtk
9536 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
9537
9538 splice.2
9539 mtk
9540 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
9541 Add SEE ALSO referring to vmsplice(2).
9542
9543 csin.3
9544 mtk
9545 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
9546 Add SEE ALSO referring to ccos(3).
9547
9548 gethostbyname.3
9549 mtk
9550 Add gethostbyaddr_r to NAME section.
9551
9552 rint.3
9553 mtk
9554 Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
9555
9556 sigsetops.3
9557 mtk
9558 Minor rewording.
9559
9560 epoll.7
9561 mtk
9562 Minor rewording.
9563
9564
9565 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================
9566
9567 Released: 2007-12-14
9568
9569
9570 Contributors
9571 ------------
9572
9573 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9574 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9575
9576 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
9577 John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>
9578 Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
9579 Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
9580 Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
9581 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
9582
9583 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9584
9585
9586 Global changes
9587 --------------
9588
9589 err.3
9590 fts.3
9591 getloadavg.3
9592 queue.3
9593 rcmd.3
9594 rexec.3
9595 stdin.3
9596 elf.5
9597 operator.7
9598 mtk
9599 Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pages with man
9600 macros. The only pages in man-pages that still use
9601 mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.
9602
9603 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9604
9605
9606 Deleted pages
9607 -------------
9608
9609 TODO
9610 mtk
9611 This information is now on the website.
9612
9613
9614 Changes to individual pages
9615 ---------------------------
9616
9617 Changes.old
9618 mtk
9619 Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format.
9620 Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
9621 Other minor tidy-ups.
9622
9623 fcntl.2
9624 mtk
9625 Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
9626 new in kernel 2.6.24.
9627
9628 listen.2
9629 Josh Triplett
9630 Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.
9631
9632 getpw.3
9633 Alain PORTAL
9634 Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.
9635
9636 sysconf.3
9637 Mats Wichmann
9638 Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.
9639
9640 tty.4
9641 John Sigler
9642 Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.
9643
9644 regex.7
9645 Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
9646 Separate text on back references from that describing basic regexps,
9647 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
9648 mtk
9649 Remove crufty text about word boundaries.
9650
9651
9652 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ====================
9653
9654 Released: 2007-12-14
9655
9656
9657 Contributors
9658 ------------
9659
9660 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9661 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9662
9663 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
9664 Alex Tuninga <atuninga@google.com>
9665 Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
9666 Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
9667 Rob Weryk <rjweryk@uwo.ca>
9668 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
9669
9670 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9671
9672
9673 Global changes
9674 --------------
9675
9676 Various pages
9677 Alain PORTAL / mtk
9678 Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").
9679
9680 Various pages
9681 Alain PORTAL / mtk
9682 Format pathname in italics (.I).
9683
9684 dbopen.3
9685 mpool.3
9686 recno.3
9687 Alain PORTAL
9688 Remove brackets ([]) around error names.
9689
9690 console.4
9691 tty.4
9692 ttyS.4
9693 issue.5
9694 ttytype.5
9695 utmp.5
9696 mtk / Maxime Vaudequin
9697 Some systems have mingetty(8), others have agetty(8), so both
9698 should be mentioned when we are talking about getty-style programs.
9699
9700
9701 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9702
9703
9704 Renamed pages
9705 -------------
9706
9707 filesystems.5
9708 mtk / Alain PORTAL
9709 Was previously fs.5
9710
9711
9712 New links
9713 ---------
9714
9715 argz.3
9716 Bert Wesarg / mtk
9717 Link to argz_add.3.
9718
9719 envz.3
9720 Bert Wesarg / mtk
9721 Link to envz_add.3.
9722
9723 fs.5
9724 mtk / Alain PORTAL
9725 Link to filesystems.5.
9726
9727
9728 Changes to individual pages
9729 ---------------------------
9730
9731 readahead.2
9732 Rob Weryk
9733 Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS.
9734
9735 seteuid.2
9736 mtk
9737 s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line.
9738
9739 __setfpucw.3
9740 mtk
9741 Fixed include files references / formatting.
9742
9743 abort.3
9744 mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga
9745 A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort().
9746
9747 argz_add.3
9748 Bert Wesarg / mtk
9749 s/envz/envz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
9750
9751 basename.3
9752 mtk
9753 s/DIRNAME/BASENAME/ in .TH line, and swap function names
9754 in NAME section.
9755
9756 envz_add.3
9757 Bert Wesarg / mtk
9758 s/argz/argz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
9759
9760 flockfile.3
9761 mtk
9762 s/LOCKFILE/FLOCKFILE/ in .TH line.
9763
9764 getgrent_r.3
9765 mtk
9766 s/GETGRENT/GETGRENT_R/ in .TH line.
9767
9768 stdio.3
9769 Sam Varshavchik
9770 Reformat function list at end of page as a proper table.
9771
9772 ttyslot.3
9773 Maxime Vaudequin
9774 Revert earlier s/getty/mingetty/. This page talks about
9775 historical behavior, and that means "getty(8)".
9776
9777 undocumented.3
9778 mtk
9779 Remove reference to "obstack stuff"; it's not clear what
9780 that is about.
9781
9782 console_ioctl.4
9783 mtk
9784 s/CONSOLE_IOCTLS/CONSOLE_IOCTL/ in .TH line.
9785
9786 proc.5
9787 mtk
9788 s/fs (5)/filesystems (5)/
9789
9790 man-pages.7
9791 mtk / Alain PORTAL
9792 Improve discussion of formatting of file names.
9793
9794
9795 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.73 ====================
9796
9797 Released: 2007-12-14
9798
9799
9800 Contributors
9801 ------------
9802
9803 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9804 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9805
9806 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
9807 Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
9808 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
9809
9810 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9811
9812
9813 Global changes
9814 --------------
9815
9816 Various pages
9817 Alain PORTAL
9818 Formatting fixes.
9819
9820 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9821
9822
9823 Changes to individual pages
9824 ---------------------------
9825
9826 mknod.2
9827 mtk, after a report by Reuben Thomas
9828 Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod().
9829 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
9830
9831 fgetgrent.3
9832 mtk
9833 Small rewording.
9834
9835 fgetpwent.3
9836 mtk
9837 Small rewording.
9838
9839 rcmd.3
9840 mtk
9841 Noted feature test macro requirements.
9842 BUGS: noted that iruserok() is not declared in glibc headers.
9843
9844 filesystems.5
9845 mtk
9846 Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS to list of file systems.
9847
9848
9849 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================
9850
9851 Released: 2007-12-20
9852
9853
9854 Contributors
9855 ------------
9856
9857 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9858 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9859
9860 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
9861 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
9862 David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
9863 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
9864 Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
9865 Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
9866 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
9867 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
9868
9869 Apologies if I missed anyone!
9870
9871
9872 Global changes
9873 --------------
9874
9875 Various pages
9876 Alain PORTAL
9877 Formatting fixes.
9878
9879 Various pages
9880 mtk / Alain Portal
9881 s/``...''/"..."/
9882
9883 Various pages
9884 mtk
9885 s/epoch/Epoch/
9886
9887 Various pages
9888 mtk
9889 Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
9890 logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
9891
9892 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
9893
9894
9895 Changes to individual pages
9896 ---------------------------
9897
9898 _syscall.2
9899 mtk
9900 Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.
9901
9902 chroot.2
9903 mtk
9904 Various minor formatting changes.
9905
9906 epoll_wait.2
9907 mtk
9908 Fix types in structs.
9909 Formatting fixes.
9910
9911 mount.2
9912 mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
9913 Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
9914 functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.
9915
9916 sched_setaffinity.2
9917 mtk
9918 Minor rearrangement of text.
9919
9920 select_tut.2
9921 mtk
9922 Fix (my) typos in argument names.
9923 Formatting fixes.
9924
9925 spu_create.2
9926 Jeremy Kerr
9927 We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
9928
9929 times.2
9930 mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
9931 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
9932 Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
9933 to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
9934 to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
9935 Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
9936 in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
9937 return -1 indicating an error.
9938 mtk
9939 Remove cruft HZ text.
9940 Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
9941
9942 getw.3
9943 Mats Wichmann
9944 CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
9945 in POSIX.1-2001.
9946
9947 hash.3
9948 mtk / Alain Portal
9949 Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.
9950
9951 st.4
9952 Alain Portal / mtk
9953 Many formatting fixes.
9954 mtk
9955 Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.
9956
9957 vcs.4
9958 Samuel Thibault
9959 Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
9960 attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
9961 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
9962 mtk
9963 Minor edits.
9964
9965 bootparam.7
9966 Alain PORTAL
9967 Formatting fixes.
9968
9969 inotify.7
9970 mtk
9971 Minor heading changes and reformattings.
9972
9973 man-pages.7
9974 mtk
9975 Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
9976 logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
9977
9978 spufs.7
9979 Jeremy Kerr
9980 Add a little information about the differences to mbox.
9981
9982
9983 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.75 ====================
9984
9985 Released: 2008-01-08
9986
9987
9988 Contributors
9989 ------------
9990
9991 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
9992 been incorporated in changes in this release:
9993
9994 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
9995 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
9996 Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
9997 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
9998 Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoinic.com>
9999 Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_4@chezphil.org>
10000 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
10001 Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
10002 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
10003 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
10004
10005 Apologies if I missed anyone!
10006
10007
10008 Global changes
10009 --------------
10010
10011 Various pages
10012 mtk
10013 (Grammatical) hyphenation was fixed in many places.
10014
10015 epoll_wait.2
10016 mbind.2
10017 spu_run.2
10018 ecvt.3
10019 fmtmsg.3
10020 getnameinfo.3
10021 rtc.4
10022 proc.5
10023 charsets.7
10024 ip.7
10025 ipv6.7
10026 raw.7
10027 uri.7
10028 Justin Pryzby / mtk
10029 Fix incorrect usage of "a" and "an" before following vowel /
10030 consonant, by reviewing the output of the following scripts:
10031
10032 for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
10033 echo $a
10034 MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
10035 egrep '(^| )an [^aeiou][a-z]'
10036 done | less
10037
10038 for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
10039 echo $a
10040 MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
10041 egrep '(^| )a [aeiou][a-z]'
10042 done| less
10043
10044 err.3
10045 fts.3
10046 queue.3
10047 rcmd.3
10048 rexec.3
10049 stdin.3
10050 elf.5
10051 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
10052 Improve macros used in 2.71 to convert from "mdoc" to "man".
10053
10054 _exit.2
10055 chroot.2
10056 getgid.2
10057 getpid.2
10058 getrusage.2
10059 getsid.2
10060 gettid.2
10061 getuid.2
10062 iopl.2
10063 kill.2
10064 personality.2
10065 pivot_root.2
10066 ptrace.2
10067 sched_setparam.2
10068 sched_setscheduler.2
10069 sched_yield.2
10070 seteuid.2
10071 setgid.2
10072 setpgid.2
10073 setresuid.2
10074 setreuid.2
10075 setuid.2
10076 unlink.2
10077 wait.2
10078 openpty.3
10079 raise.3
10080 setlogmask.3
10081 sleep.3
10082 ttyslot.3
10083 ulimit.3
10084 tty.4
10085 tty_ioctl.4
10086 path_resolution.7
10087 mtk
10088 s/current process/calling process/
10089
10090 cacheflush.2
10091 clone.2
10092 fcntl.2
10093 getitimer.2
10094 getrlimit.2
10095 mmap.2
10096 mprotect.2
10097 times.2
10098 adjtime.3
10099 byteorder.3
10100 inet.3
10101 offsetof.3
10102 rtc.4
10103 icmp.7
10104 pipe.7
10105 time.7
10106 mtk
10107 s/x86/i386/ since that is the name used in 'arch' directories
10108 in the kernel source, and previously both i386 and x86 were both
10109 used in man pages; also nowadays 'x86' is somewhat ambiguous,
10110 since it is the name of the 'arch' directory for i386 and x86-64.
10111
10112 conj.3
10113 cacos.3
10114 cacosh.3
10115 cabs.3
10116 carg.3
10117 casin.3
10118 casinh.3
10119 catan.3
10120 catanh.3
10121 ccos.3
10122 ccosh.3
10123 cexp.3
10124 cimag.3
10125 clog.3
10126 cosh.3
10127 creal.3
10128 csin.3
10129 csinh.3
10130 ctan.3
10131 ctanh.3
10132 sinh.3
10133 tanh.3
10134 mtk
10135 Various reformattings.
10136
10137 Various pages
10138 Alain Portal
10139 Formating fixes.
10140
10141 mlock.2
10142 mprotect.2
10143 mpool.3
10144 offsetof.3
10145 Alain Portal
10146 Format SYNOPSIS in a manner consistent with other pages.
10147
10148 Various pages
10149 mtk / Alain Portal
10150 Format casts so that there is a non-breaking space after the
10151 type, and remove unnecessary parentheses around the casted value.
10152 Thus, for example, the following:
10153
10154 .IR "(size_t) (\-1)" .
10155
10156 becomes:
10157
10158 .IR "(size_t)\ \-1" .
10159
10160 Various pages
10161 mtk / Alain Portal
10162 Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required.
10163
10164 Various pages
10165 mtk
10166 Make the formatting of instances of '*varname' consistent, changing
10167 instances such as:
10168
10169 .RI * varname
10170
10171 to:
10172
10173 .I *varname
10174
10175 pciconfig_read.2
10176 nfsservctl.2
10177 bstring.3
10178 cpow.3
10179 getipnodebyname.3
10180 getpwnam.3
10181 getrpcent.3
10182 lsearch.3
10183 malloc_hook.3
10184 mpool.3
10185 stdin.3
10186 strtol.3
10187 strtoul.3
10188 unlocked_stdio.3
10189 regex.3
10190 sd.4
10191 resolv.conf.5
10192 utmp.5
10193 futex.7
10194 mtk
10195 Format SYNOPSIS consistently.
10196
10197 drand48.3
10198 drand48_r.3
10199 flockfile.3
10200 erf.3
10201 sigvec.3
10202 timeradd.3
10203 wprintf.3
10204 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
10205 Standardize sentence used under "Feature Test Macro Requirements"
10206 when referring to all functions shown in the SYNOPSIS.
10207
10208 get_kernel_syms.2
10209 getdents.2
10210 getitimer.2
10211 nanosleep.2
10212 query_module.2
10213 statvfs.2
10214 clock_getres.3
10215 getaddrinfo.3
10216 getgrent.3
10217 getipnodebyname.3
10218 console_ioctl.4
10219 tty_ioctl.4
10220 rtnetlink.7
10221 mtk
10222 Indent structure definitions by +4n.
10223
10224 recv.2
10225 btree.3
10226 dbopen.3
10227 ether_aton.3
10228 fts.3
10229 hash.3
10230 mpool.3
10231 profil.3
10232 rcmd.3
10233 recno.3
10234 rpc.3
10235 xdr.3
10236 console_ioctl.4
10237 ddp.7
10238 ip.7
10239 ipv6.7
10240 svipc.7
10241 mtk
10242 Use C99 standard types in declarations.
10243 s/u_long/unsigned long/
10244 s/ulong/unsigned long/
10245 s/u_char/unsigned char/
10246 s/u_short/unsigned short/
10247 s/ushort/unsigned short/
10248 s/u_int8_t/uint8_t/
10249 s/u_int16_t/uint16_t/
10250 s/u_int32_t/uint32_t/
10251 s/u_int/unsigned int/
10252
10253 exit_group.2
10254 fallocate.2
10255 getdents.2
10256 ioctl_list.2
10257 nfsservctl.2
10258 sched_setaffinity.2
10259 set_tid_address.2
10260 ustat.2
10261 argz_add.3
10262 confstr.3
10263 envz_add.3
10264 getline.3
10265 getpwnam.3
10266 gets.3
10267 getw.3
10268 inet_ntop.3
10269 inet_pton.3
10270 offsetof.3
10271 console_ioctl.4
10272 termcap.5
10273 ascii.7
10274 feature_test_macros.7
10275 netlink.7
10276 operator.7
10277 svipc.7
10278 mtk
10279 Fix unbalanced .nf/.fi pairs.
10280
10281 chmod.2
10282 getxattr.2
10283 listxattr.2
10284 lseek.2
10285 removexattr.2
10286 setxattr.2
10287 stat.2
10288 feature_test_macros.7
10289 fpathconf.3
10290 fopen.3
10291
10292 mtk
10293 Rename argument: s/file*des/fd/ , since that is the name most
10294 commonly used on man pages for a file descriptor argument.
10295
10296 bindresvport.3
10297 des_crypt.3
10298 getopt.3
10299 getrpcent.3
10300 realpath.3
10301 rpc.3
10302 xdr.3
10303 mtk
10304 Removed .SM macros.
10305
10306 madvise.2
10307 getdirentries.3
10308 printf.3
10309 sigvec.3
10310 mtk
10311 Remove extraneous .br macro before/after .SH/.SS.
10312
10313 _syscall.2
10314 lookup_dcookie.2
10315 aio_cancel.3
10316 aio_error.3
10317 aio_fsync.3
10318 aio_read.3
10319 aio_return.3
10320 aio_write.3
10321 canonicalize_file_name.3
10322 envz_add.3
10323 getgrouplist.3
10324 getttyent.3
10325 key_setsecret.3
10326 mtrace.3
10327 tcgetpgrp.3
10328 tcgetsid.3
10329 ttyslot.3
10330 tty_ioctl.4
10331 mtk
10332 Remove extraneous .sp macros.
10333
10334 fcntl.2
10335 outb.2
10336 send.2
10337 syscalls.2
10338 getopt.3
10339 proc.5
10340 man-pages.7
10341 standards.7
10342 tcp.7
10343 mtk
10344 Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.
10345
10346 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
10347
10348
10349 Changes to individual pages
10350 ---------------------------
10351
10352 _syscall.2
10353 mtk
10354 Nowadays there are seven macros (see 2.74 change log also).
10355
10356 arch_prctl.2
10357 mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
10358 Clarify interpretation of 'addr'; plus a few other minor edits
10359 and updates.
10360
10361 bind.2
10362 mtk
10363 Minor rewrites.
10364
10365 close.2
10366 mtk
10367 Clarify relationship between file descriptor and open file
10368 description.
10369
10370 connect.2
10371 mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
10372 Since kernel 2.2, AF_UNSPEC for unconnecting a connected
10373 socket *is* supported.
10374
10375 execve.2
10376 Alain Portal
10377 Minor rewordings.
10378
10379 futimesat.2
10380 Alain Portal
10381 Remove duplicate "#include <fcntl.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
10382
10383 getgid.2
10384 mtk
10385 Add getresgid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
10386
10387 getpagesize.2
10388 mtk
10389 Small rewording.
10390
10391 getresuid.2
10392 mtk
10393 Rewrote various parts.
10394
10395 getuid.2
10396 mtk
10397 Add getresuid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
10398
10399 ioctl_list.2
10400 Alain Portal
10401 Use proper tables for layout, and various formatting fixes.
10402 mtk
10403 Various formatting fixes.
10404
10405 listen.2
10406 mtk
10407 Rewrote various parts.
10408
10409 mbind.2
10410 Andi Kleen / mtk / Alain Portal
10411 Modify explanation of EINVAL 'maxnode' error.
10412
10413 mmap.2
10414 mtk
10415 Add comma to clarify meaning of a sentence.
10416
10417 open.2
10418 mtk
10419 Clarify initial description of O_EXCL.
10420 Clarify description of behaviors of O_CREAT | O_EXCL
10421 for symbolic links.
10422 Clarify text describing use of lockfiles without O_EXCL.
10423 mtk, with input from Timo Sirainen and Trond Myklebust
10424 O_EXCL is supported on NFSv3 and later, with Linux 2.6 and later.
10425
10426 pipe.2
10427 mtk
10428 Rename 'filedes' argument 'pipefd'.
10429
10430 pivot_root.2
10431 mtk
10432 s/cwd/current working directory/
10433
10434 seteuid.2
10435 mtk
10436 Minor changes.
10437
10438 setpgid.2
10439 mtk
10440 Add credentials(7) to SEE ALSO, and updated copyright credits,
10441 to reflect my rewrite of a few months ago.
10442
10443 setsid.2
10444 mtk
10445 Add getsid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
10446
10447 spu_create.2
10448 Alain Portal / mtk; acked by Jeremy Kerr
10449 Minor formatting/wording changes.
10450 mtk
10451 Put EPERM in right alphabetical position in ERRORS list.
10452
10453 argz_add.3
10454 mtk
10455 Formatting fixes.
10456
10457 atexit.3
10458 mtk
10459 Minor changes to example program.
10460
10461 cerf.3
10462 mtk
10463 These functions are still not present as at glibc 2.7.
10464
10465 dbopen.3
10466 Alain Portal / mtk
10467 Various minor spelling and formatting fixes.
10468
10469 envz_add.3
10470 mtk
10471 Formatting fixes.
10472
10473 fexecve.3
10474 mtk
10475 Fix placement of feature test macro in SYNOPSIS.
10476
10477 fmax.3
10478 fmin.3
10479 mtk
10480 Small rewording.
10481
10482 getline.3
10483 mtk
10484 Minor changes to example program.
10485
10486 getrpcent.3
10487 getrpcport.3
10488 mtk
10489 Use modern C prototypes in SYNOPSIS.
10490
10491 getutent.3
10492 Alain Portal / mtk
10493 Formatting fixes.
10494
10495 mbsnrtowcs.3
10496 mbsrtowcs.3
10497 mbstowcs.3
10498 mtk
10499 Use .IP tags to create properly formatted lists.
10500
10501 rpc.3
10502 mtk
10503 Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
10504 Add text and start of page describing header files
10505 and types required by functions.
10506 Reformat discussion of request under clnt_control().
10507
10508 xdr.3
10509 mtk
10510 Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
10511 Remove crufty "int empty" from xdrrec_eof() description.
10512
10513 console_codes.4
10514 Phil Endecott
10515 Relocate misplaced line:
10516 "and if LF/NL (new line mode) is set also a carriage return;"
10517 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458338.
10518
10519 console_ioctl.4
10520 mtk
10521 Formatting fixes.
10522
10523 bootparam.7
10524 mtk, after a note by Alan Portal
10525 Fix reference to kernel documentation source file in the
10526 "The Sound Driver" subsection.
10527
10528 man-pages.7
10529 Alain Portal
10530 Move CONFIGURATION description after SYNOPSIS description.
10531 mtk / Alain Portal
10532 Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>).
10533
10534 posixoptions.7
10535 mtk
10536 Minor formatting and wording fixes.
10537
10538 rtnetlink.7
10539 Andreas Henriksson
10540 Fix description of RTM_F_EQUALIZE.
10541 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458325.
10542
10543 signal.7
10544 mtk
10545 Minor formatting and wording fixes.
10546
10547 socket.7
10548 mtk
10549 Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC.
10550
10551 spufs.7
10552 mtk / Jeremy Kerr / Alain Portal
10553 s/SPE/SPU/
10554
10555
10556 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================
10557
10558 Released: 2008-01-14
10559
10560
10561 Contributors
10562 ------------
10563
10564 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
10565 been incorporated in changes in this release:
10566
10567 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
10568 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
10569 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
10570 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
10571 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
10572
10573 Apologies if I missed anyone!
10574
10575
10576 Global changes
10577 --------------
10578
10579 longjmp.3
10580 printf.3
10581 scanf.3
10582 setbuf.3
10583 setjmp.3
10584 sk98lin.4
10585 environ.7
10586 mtk
10587 Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.
10588
10589 ioctl_list.2
10590 mlock.2
10591 mprotect.2
10592 mremap.2
10593 syslog.2
10594 cfree.3
10595 mpool.3
10596 offsetof.3
10597 rpc.3
10598 stdin.3
10599 mtk
10600 Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.
10601
10602 ftok.3
10603 mtk
10604 s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.
10605
10606 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
10607
10608
10609 Changes to individual pages
10610 ---------------------------
10611
10612 chown.2
10613 mtk
10614 Minor wording change.
10615
10616 dup.2
10617 mtk
10618 Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().
10619
10620 open.2
10621 Trond Myklebust / mtk
10622 Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.
10623
10624 gettid.2
10625 mtk
10626 Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
10627 thing as a POSIX thread ID.
10628
10629 pipe.2
10630 mtk
10631 Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.
10632
10633 umask.2
10634 mtk
10635 A few rewrites and additions.
10636
10637 strptime.3
10638 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
10639 Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.
10640
10641 initrd.4
10642 mtk
10643 Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.
10644
10645 random.4
10646 mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
10647 Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
10648 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.
10649
10650 pthreads.7
10651 mtk
10652 Minor changes.
10653
10654 spufs.7
10655 mtk / Jeremy Kerr
10656 Define abbreviation "MSS".
10657
10658
10659 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
10660
10661 Released: 2008-01-31
10662
10663
10664 Contributors
10665 ------------
10666
10667 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
10668 been incorporated in changes in this release:
10669
10670 Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
10671 Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
10672 Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
10673 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
10674 WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
10675
10676 Apologies if I missed anyone!
10677
10678
10679 Global changes
10680 --------------
10681
10682 stdarg.3
10683 bootparam.7
10684 Thomas Huriaux
10685 Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
10686 as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636
10687
10688 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
10689
10690 New pages
10691 ---------
10692
10693 remove_COLOPHON.sh
10694 mtk
10695 Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided
10696 as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
10697 sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
10698 in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences
10699 between the trees.
10700
10701
10702 Changes to individual pages
10703 ---------------------------
10704
10705 fcntl.2
10706 mtk
10707 Replace tables with .TP macros.
10708
10709 fork.2
10710 mtk
10711 Added discussion of directory streams.
10712 Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
10713 Changed authorship notice.
10714
10715 futex.2
10716 mtk
10717 Add ENOSYS error to errors.
10718 Phil Endecott
10719 Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
10720
10721 inotify_add_watch.2
10722 mtk
10723 Minor wording changes.
10724
10725 splice.2
10726 WANG Cong
10727 Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
10728
10729 wait.2
10730 Phil Endecott
10731 Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
10732
10733 tkill.2
10734 mtk
10735 Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
10736 tgkill().
10737
10738 alloca.3
10739 mtk
10740 Change description in NAME section.
10741 Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
10742 SIGSEGV).
10743 mtk / Vincent Lefevre
10744 Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
10745 point out some cases where it can be useful;
10746 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
10747
10748 bootparam.7
10749 Pavel Heimlich
10750 Remove junk line.
10751
10752 inotify.7
10753 mtk
10754 Replace tables with .TP macros.
10755 s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/
10756
10757
10758 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.78 ====================
10759
10760 Released: 2008-02-15
10761
10762
10763 Contributors
10764 ------------
10765
10766 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
10767 been incorporated in changes in this release:
10768
10769 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
10770 Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
10771 Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
10772 Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
10773
10774 Apologies if I missed anyone!
10775
10776
10777 Global changes
10778 --------------
10779
10780 sigaction.2
10781 signal.2
10782 sigwaitinfo.2
10783 signal.7
10784 mtk
10785 Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.
10786
10787 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
10788
10789
10790 New pages
10791 ---------
10792
10793 eventfd.2
10794 mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
10795 Documents the eventfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
10796
10797 signalfd.2
10798 mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
10799 Documents the signalfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
10800
10801 Changes to individual pages
10802 ---------------------------
10803
10804 futex.2
10805 mtk / Phil Endecott
10806 Improve wording describing error returns.
10807
10808 open.2
10809 Greg Banks
10810 Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
10811
10812 reboot.2
10813 mtk / Michael Tokarev
10814 Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not
10815 return.
10816 mtk
10817 Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
10818 and also what is used in the kernel source.
10819 Other minor wording changes.
10820
10821
10822 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ====================
10823
10824 Released: 2008-03-07
10825
10826
10827 Contributors
10828 ------------
10829
10830 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
10831 been incorporated in changes in this release:
10832
10833 Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
10834 Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
10835 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
10836 Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
10837 Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
10838 Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
10839 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
10840 Lasse Kärkkäinen <tronic@trn.iki.fi>
10841 Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
10842 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
10843 Ron Burk <ronburk@gmail.com>
10844 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
10845 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
10846 Walter Harms <WHarms@bfs.de>
10847
10848 Apologies if I missed anyone!
10849
10850
10851 Global changes
10852 --------------
10853
10854 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
10855
10856
10857 New pages
10858 ---------
10859
10860 timerfd_create.2
10861 mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
10862 Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and
10863 timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25.
10864
10865
10866 New links
10867 ---------
10868
10869 timerfd_gettime.2
10870 timerfd_settime.2
10871 mtk
10872 Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
10873
10874 eventfd_read.3
10875 eventfd_write.3
10876 mtk
10877 Links to eventfd.2.
10878
10879
10880 Changes to individual pages
10881 ---------------------------
10882
10883 Makefile
10884 aeb
10885 Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
10886
10887 execve.2
10888 mtk
10889 Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
10890
10891 getitimer.2
10892 mtk
10893 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
10894
10895 getrusage.2
10896 mtk
10897 Minor rewordings.
10898
10899 open.2
10900 Michael Haardt
10901 Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
10902
10903 signalfd.2
10904 mtk
10905 Fix type for 'ssi_ptr' field.
10906 See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-01/msg00002.html.
10907
10908 syscalls.2
10909 mtk
10910 Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime()
10911 to list.
10912
10913 syslog.2
10914 Jeremy Kerr
10915 Add info on command type 10.
10916 Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
10917 Minor grammar fix.
10918 mtk
10919 Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
10920 Update RETURN VALUE section.
10921 Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
10922 Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
10923 Other minor edits.
10924
10925 ctime.3
10926 Walter Harms
10927 Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
10928 was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
10929 See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
10930
10931 getaddrinfo.3
10932 mtk
10933 Clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
10934 mtk / Sam Varshavchik
10935 Remove some duplicated text.
10936
10937 malloc.3
10938 Lasse Kärkkäinen / Mike Frysinger / mtk
10939 Clarify description of realloc() behavior for
10940 ((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
10941
10942 posix_fallocate.3
10943 Samuel Thibault
10944 s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
10945
10946 proc.5
10947 Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
10948 Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
10949 It used to be true that the command line arguments were
10950 not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
10951 In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
10952 kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
10953 which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
10954 Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
10955 they should not have that limitation.
10956
10957 epoll.7
10958 Davide Libenzi / mtk
10959 Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
10960 descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
10961 referring to the same underlying open file description remain
10962 open.
10963 See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/.
10964 mtk
10965 Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
10966 mtk
10967 A few minor rewordings.
10968 mtk, after a note by Chris Heath
10969 Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
10970 file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
10971 file descriptors to the same epoll set.
10972 Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi
10973 Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
10974 mtk, after comments by Devide Libenzi and Chris Heath
10975 Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
10976 set is [file descriptor, open file description].
10977 mtk, after a note by Ron Burk
10978 Change A3, to note that when events are available,
10979 the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
10980 mtk
10981 Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file
10982 descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket.
10983
10984 posixoptions.7
10985 mtk
10986 Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
10987
10988 regex.7
10989 mtk
10990 Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
10991 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348552.
10992
10993 standards.7
10994 mtk
10995 Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
10996
10997 time.7
10998 mtk
10999 Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
11000
11001
11002 ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.80 ====================
11003
11004 Released: 2008-06-05
11005
11006
11007 Contributors
11008 ------------
11009
11010 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
11011 been incorporated in changes in this release:
11012
11013 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
11014 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
11015 Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
11016 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
11017 Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
11018 Anoop <acv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
11019 Aurelien Gerome <ag@roxor.cx>
11020 Daniel Burr <dburr@topcon.com>
11021 Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
11022 Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com>
11023 Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
11024 Hamaji Shinichiro <shinichiro.hamaji@gmail.com>
11025 Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi>
11026 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
11027 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
11028 Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@science-computing.de>
11029 Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
11030 Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
11031 Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@trialog.com>
11032 Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
11033 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
11034 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
11035 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
11036 Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
11037 Theodoros V. Kalamatianos <thkala@softlab.ece.ntua.gr>
11038 Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
11039 Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
11040 Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
11041 Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
11042
11043 Apologies if I missed anyone!
11044
11045
11046 Global changes
11047 --------------
11048
11049 bdflush.2
11050 inotify_add_watch.2
11051 mprotect.2
11052 sigprocmask.2
11053 ctime.3
11054 getusershell.3
11055 setbuf.3
11056 st.4
11057 ip.7
11058 packet.7
11059 mtk
11060 Replace "(il)legal" by "(not) permitted" or "(in)valid".
11061
11062 read.2
11063 utime.2
11064 filesystems.5
11065 packet.7
11066 mtk
11067 s/time stamp/timestamp/, for consistency with majority use
11068 in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
11069
11070 madvise.2
11071 mbind.2
11072 mincore.2
11073 mmap.2
11074 mmap2.2
11075 msync.2
11076 remap_file_pages.2
11077 mtk
11078 Change name of 'start' argument to 'addr' for consistency
11079 with:
11080 * other memory-related interfaces
11081 * POSIX specification (for those interfaces in POSIX)
11082 * Linux and glibc source code (in at least some cases)
11083
11084 Various pages
11085 mtk
11086 s/filesystem/file system/, for consistency with majority use
11087 in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
11088
11089 Various pages
11090 mtk
11091 s/zeroes/zeros/, for consistency with majority use
11092 in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
11093
11094 abs.3
11095 proc.5
11096 mtk
11097 s/builtin/built-in/, for consistency with majority use
11098 in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
11099
11100 mknod.2
11101 ftw.3
11102 mtk
11103 s/normal file/regular file/
11104
11105 Various pages
11106 mtk
11107 s/nonempty/non-empty/
11108
11109 Various pages
11110 mtk
11111 s/nonzero/non-zero/
11112
11113 Various pages
11114 mtk
11115 s/realtime/real-time/, for consistency with majority usage.
11116
11117 Various pages
11118 mtk
11119 s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively.
11120
11121 Various pages
11122 mtk
11123 Use "run time" when non-attributive, "run-time" when attributive.
11124
11125 Various pages
11126 mtk
11127 Various pages that I wrote carried a slightly modified version
11128 of the "verbatim" license. In the interests of minimizing
11129 license proliferation, I've reverted the modified form
11130 so that the license is exactly the same as on other pages
11131 carrying the verbatim license.
11132
11133 epoll_ctl.2
11134 getitimer.2
11135 getrlimit.2
11136 unix.7
11137 mtk
11138 s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux x.y.z/
11139
11140 wait.2
11141 inotify.7
11142 mtk
11143 Reformat kernel version information for flags.
11144
11145 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
11146 (Special thanks to Nicolas François.)
11147
11148
11149 New pages
11150 ---------
11151
11152 random_r.3
11153 mtk, after a suggestion by aeb
11154 Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(3), and
11155 setstate_r(3), which are the reentrant equivalents of
11156 random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3).
11157
11158
11159 New links
11160 ---------
11161
11162 lutimes.3
11163 mtk
11164 Link to futimes.3.
11165
11166 initstate_r.3
11167 setstate_r.3
11168 srandom_r.3
11169 mtk
11170 Links to random_r.3.
11171
11172 daylight.3
11173 timezone.3
11174 tzname.3
11175 mtk
11176 Links to tzset.3.
11177
11178 isnanf.3
11179 isnanl.3
11180 mtk
11181 Links to finite.3.
11182
11183 encrypt_r.3
11184 setkey_r.3
11185 mtk
11186 Links to encrypt.3.
11187
11188
11189 Changes to individual pages
11190 ---------------------------
11191
11192 clone.2
11193 mtk
11194 Added note that CLONE_STOPPED (which no-one uses anyway) is
11195 now deprecated.
11196
11197 epoll_create.2
11198 mtk
11199 Add NOTES section pointing out that 'size' argument is unused
11200 since kernel 2.6.8.
11201
11202 epoll_ctl.2
11203 mtk
11204 Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
11205
11206 epoll_wait.2
11207 mtk
11208 If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then epoll_pwait() is equivalent
11209 to epoll_wait().
11210
11211 fork.2
11212 mtk
11213 NOTES: since glibc 2.3.3, the glibc NPTL fork() wrapper
11214 bypasses the fork() system call to invoke clone() with
11215 flags providing equivalent functionality.
11216
11217 futex.2
11218 mtk, after a note from Adrian Bunk
11219 FUTEX_FD has been removed, as of kernel 2.6.26.
11220
11221 futimesat.2
11222 mtk
11223 Note that this system call is made obsolete by utimensat(2).
11224
11225 getgroups.2
11226 Petter Reinholdtsen
11227 SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3).
11228 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479284.
11229 mtk
11230 NGROUPS_MAX increased in kernel 2.6.4.
11231 SEE ALSO: Add credentials(7).
11232 mtk
11233 Reformat DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE sections to be more
11234 consistent with man-pages style.
11235 Add some more detail to descriptions of system calls.
11236 Clarified what happens if caller of getgroups() is a member of
11237 more than 'size' supplementary groups.
11238 ERRORS: Add ENOMEM.
11239
11240 getpriority.2
11241 mtk, after a note from Ingo Molnar
11242 Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
11243 kernel 2.6.23 and later.
11244 Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
11245
11246 gettid.2
11247 mtk
11248 Added VERSIONS section noting that this system call first
11249 appeared in 2.4.11.
11250
11251 kill.2
11252 Marty Leisner / mtk
11253 Add text explicitly noting that sig==0 can be used to check for
11254 the existence of a PID or PGID.
11255 mtk
11256 A few minor rewordings.
11257
11258 mbind.2
11259 mtk
11260 The location of the numactl package has changed.
11261
11262 mmap.2
11263 mtk
11264 Added some .SS headings to make structure of page a little
11265 more obvious.
11266 mtk, with input from Nick Piggin
11267 MAP_POPULATE supports both file and anonymous mappings.
11268 Since 2.6.23, MAP_POPULATE supports private mappings.
11269 Since 2.6.23, MAP_NONBLOCK causes MAP_POPULATE to be a no-op.
11270 mtk
11271 NOTES: Added details on mapping address that is selected by
11272 kernel when MAP_FIXED is / isn't specified.
11273
11274 mount.2
11275 mtk
11276 The MS_REMOUNT changes in 2.4 were at 2.4.10 (not 2.4).
11277 mtk
11278 Minor wording change.
11279
11280 msgctl.2
11281 mtk
11282 Clarify that "unused" fields in msginfo structure are
11283 "unused within the kernel".
11284 msginfo.msgpool is measured in kilobytes, not bytes.
11285 Minor rewordings in comments for msginfo structure.
11286
11287 msgop.2
11288 mtk
11289 Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.
11290 mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
11291 Remove "msgop" from NAME section.
11292
11293 mkdir.2
11294 mtk
11295 Clarify meaning of "BSD group semantics".
11296 SEE ALSO: add chown(2).
11297
11298 mknod.2
11299 mtk
11300 SEE ALSO: add chown(2) and chmod(2).
11301
11302 mmap.2
11303 mtk
11304 SEE ALSO: add mprotect(2) and shmat(2).
11305
11306 mprotect.2
11307 Hamaji Shinichiro
11308 SYNOPSIS: s/size_t \*len/size_t len/
11309
11310 open.2
11311 mtk
11312 Note that O_CLOEXEC should be in the next POSIX.1 revision.
11313 mtk
11314 More than just ext2 supports "mount -o bsdgroups" nowadays,
11315 so make the discussion about group ownership of new files a bit
11316 more generic.
11317 mtk
11318 SEE ALSO: add chown(2) and chmod(2).
11319
11320 poll.2
11321 mtk
11322 If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then ppoll() is equivalent to poll()
11323 with respect to signal mask manipulations.
11324
11325 posix_fadvise.2
11326 mtk
11327 s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/;
11328 (The referred-to page still doesn't exist yet, but hopefully
11329 will do sometime soon.)
11330
11331 ptrace.2
11332 Anoop, Acked by Roland McGrath.
11333 Re PTRACE_PEEKUSER: the offsets and data returned might not
11334 match with the definition of struct user.
11335 See also http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/375
11336
11337 recv.2
11338 Felix Kater / mtk
11339 Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
11340
11341 rmdir.2
11342 Martin Pitt
11343 POSIX.1 also allows EEXIST for the ENOTEMPTY error condition.
11344 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467552.
11345
11346 sched_setscheduler.2
11347 mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
11348 Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
11349 Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
11350 Minor rewordings.
11351
11352 select_tut.2
11353 Justin Pryzby
11354 Various wording clean-ups.
11355
11356 semctl.2
11357 mtk
11358 Clarify that "unused" fields in seminfo structure are
11359 "unused within the kernel".
11360 Minor rewordings in comments for seminfo structure.
11361
11362 semop.2
11363 Aurelien Gerome
11364 Small fix in example code.
11365
11366 setpgid.2
11367 mtk / Karsten Weiss
11368 Clarify description of setpgid() a little.
11369
11370 shmctl.2
11371 mtk
11372 Clarify that "unused" fields in shminfo structure are
11373 "unused within the kernel".
11374 Minor rewordings in comments for shminfo structure.
11375
11376 shmop.2
11377 mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
11378 Remove "shmop" from NAME section.
11379
11380 signalfd.2
11381 mtk
11382 Added BUGS text noting that before kernel 2.6.25, the ssi_int
11383 and ssi_ptr fields are not set.
11384 Added comments describing fields in signalfd_siginfo structure.
11385 Update field names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/).
11386 Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence.
11387 Minor edits to structure definition.
11388
11389 sigqueue.2
11390 mtk
11391 Added some comments to code in NOTES.
11392
11393 stat.2
11394 mtk
11395 Minor wording change.
11396
11397 symlink.2
11398 mtk
11399 SEE ALSO: add lchown(2).
11400
11401 sync_file_range.2
11402 mtk / Andrew Morton
11403 Remove statement that (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE |
11404 SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) is
11405 a traditional fdatasync(2) operation.
11406 See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482
11407 comments 129 to 131.
11408
11409 syscalls.2
11410 mtk
11411 This page is now up to date as at kernel 2.6.25.
11412
11413 syslog.2
11414 mtk
11415 Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities.
11416
11417 timerfd_create.2
11418 mtk
11419 Minor change to example program.
11420 Minor wording change.
11421
11422 utime.2
11423 Reuben Thomas
11424 Remove unnecessary subheading for utimes().
11425 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477402.
11426 mtk
11427 Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
11428 always change *both* timestamps).
11429 CONFORMING TO: utimes() is in POSIX.1-2001.
11430 mtk
11431 Rename 'buf' argument of utime() to 'times' (like utimes()).
11432 Clarify explanation of EACCES and EPERM errors.
11433 Remove BUGS section, since it doesn't seem to add useful
11434 information.
11435 Clarified discussion of capabilities, and noted that
11436 CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE also has a role.
11437 Other minor rewordings.
11438
11439 wait.2
11440 mtk, after a note by Justin Pryzby
11441 Add a sentence clarifying that even though the default disposition
11442 of SIGCHLD is "ignore", explicitly setting the disposition to
11443 SIG_IGN results in different treatment of zombies.
11444
11445 aio_cancel.3
11446 aio_error.3
11447 aio_fsync.3
11448 aio_read.3
11449 aio_return.3
11450 aio_suspend.3
11451 aio_write.3
11452 Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@csc.calpoly.edu>
11453 Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
11454
11455 backtrace.3
11456 Nicolas François
11457 s/backtrace_symbols/backtrace_symbols_fd/ in one sentence.
11458 mtk
11459 Fix bogus reference to variable 'strings': should be:
11460 "the array of pointers".
11461
11462 ctime.3
11463 mtk
11464 Add warning under NOTES that asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(), and
11465 localtime() may each overwrite the static object returned by any
11466 of the other calls.
11467 Other minor edits.
11468
11469 dlopen.3
11470 mtk
11471 Add more detail to the description of the fields in the
11472 structure returned by dladdr().
11473
11474 fexecve.3
11475 mtk
11476 Clean up SYNOPSIS after work by cut-and-paste-Pete:
11477 the necessary header file is <unistd.h> not <sys/time.h>!
11478
11479 futimes.3
11480 mtk
11481 Add documentation of lutimes(), which appeared in glibc 2.6.
11482 mtk
11483 Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
11484 always change *both* timestamps).
11485 CONFORMING TO: futimes() did not come from 4.2BSD. (It came from
11486 FreeBSD; see the FreeBSD man page.)
11487
11488 getenv.3
11489 mtk
11490 Noted that caller must not modify returned value string.
11491 Noted that getenv() is not reentrant: the buffer may be statically
11492 allocated and overwritten by later calls to getenv(), putenv(),
11493 setenv(), or unsetenv().
11494 Other minor rewrites.
11495
11496 getgrent.3
11497 Petter Reinholdtsen
11498 SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3).
11499 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479284.
11500
11501 gethostbyname.3
11502 mtk
11503 Add 'h_errno' to NAME list.
11504
11505 getopt.3
11506 mtk
11507 Add 'optarg', 'optind', 'opterr', and 'optopt' to NAME section.
11508 Add subheading for getopt_long() and getopt_long_only()
11509 description.
11510
11511 getpt.3
11512 mtk
11513 Point out that this function should be avoided in favor of
11514 posix_openpt().
11515 Add ERRORS section referring to open(2).
11516
11517 getsubopt.3
11518 Daniel Burr
11519 SYNOPSIS: Fix declaration of valuep.
11520 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476672.
11521
11522 malloc.3
11523 mtk
11524 RETURN VALUE: Note circumstances in which successful malloc() and
11525 calloc() can return NULL.
11526
11527 mq_open.3
11528 mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
11529 Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h>
11530 is needed for 'mode' constants.
11531
11532 opendir.3
11533 mtk
11534 Describe treatment of close-on-exec flag by opendir() and
11535 fdopendir().
11536
11537 openpty.3
11538 mtk
11539 SEE ALSO: add ttyname(3).
11540
11541 raise.3
11542 mtk / Timothy Baldwin
11543 Clarify semantics of raise() when called from a multithreaded
11544 program.
11545 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476484.
11546 mtk
11547 Rewrites and additions to various parts of the page.
11548
11549 rand.3
11550 Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
11551 Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
11552 random(3) instead.
11553 Folkert van Heusden
11554 Clarify wording describing range of values returned by rand().
11555
11556 random.3
11557 aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
11558 Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
11559 that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
11560
11561 Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
11562 "Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
11563
11564 Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
11565
11566 regex.3
11567 Heikki Orsila
11568 Clarify description of 'rm_eo' field.
11569
11570 sem_open.3
11571 mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
11572 Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
11573 needed for 'mode' constants.
11574
11575 sem_post.3
11576 mtk
11577 Added pointer to example in sem_wait(3).
11578
11579 sem_close.3
11580 sem_destroy.3
11581 sem_getvalue.3
11582 sem_init.3
11583 sem_open.3
11584 sem_post.3
11585 sem_unlink.3
11586 sem_wait.3
11587 mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
11588 Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
11589 "-pthread".
11590
11591 setenv.3
11592 mtk
11593 setenv() copies 'name' and 'value' (contrast with putenv()).
11594 unsetenv() of a nonexistent variable does nothing and is
11595 considered successful.
11596 Noted that setenv() and unsetenv() need not be reentrant.
11597
11598 shm_open.3
11599 mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
11600 Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
11601 needed for 'mode' constants.
11602
11603 undocumented.3
11604 mtk
11605 initstate_r(3), setkey_r(3), setstate_r(3) are now documented.
11606
11607 utmp.5
11608 Nicolas François
11609 Small rewording.
11610
11611 resolv.conf.5
11612 Nicolas François
11613 gethostname() is in Section 2, not section 3.
11614
11615 ascii.7
11616 Stuart Brady
11617 Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostrophe (') in tables
11618
11619 charsets.7
11620 Nicolas François
11621 s/unicode.com/unicode.org/
11622
11623 credentials.7
11624 mtk
11625 NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and
11626 GIDs. But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
11627 every thread. NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
11628 changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
11629 a process.
11630 mtk
11631 sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of
11632 supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
11633 Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001.
11634
11635 epoll.7
11636 mtk, after a note from Sam Varshavchik
11637 For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming
11638 may be required".
11639
11640 inotify.7
11641 mtk
11642 Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors.
11643 mtk
11644 Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
11645 file descriptor as readable.
11646 mtk
11647 Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail.
11648
11649 pthreads.7
11650 Justin Pryzby
11651 Grammar fix, plus fix typo in script.
11652 mtk
11653 Add list of thread-safe functions.
11654
11655 standards.7
11656 mtk
11657 Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision.
11658
11659 ld.so.8
11660 Justin Pryzby / mtk
11661 Various wording improvements.
11662
11663
11664 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.00 ====================
11665
11666 Released: 2008-06-12, Konolfingen
11667
11668
11669 Contributors
11670 ------------
11671
11672 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
11673 been incorporated in changes in this release:
11674
11675 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
11676 Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
11677
11678 Apologies if I missed anyone!
11679
11680
11681 Global changes
11682 --------------
11683
11684 The POSIX.1 man pages (sections 0p, 1p, 3p) have been moved out
11685 of this package into the separate man-pages-posix package.
11686 This made sense because those pages are seldom changed (only formatting
11687 fixes, etc.) so that it was unnecessary to redistribute them with each
11688 man-pages release.
11689
11690
11691 console_codes.4
11692 random.4
11693 dir_colors.5
11694 proc.5
11695 glob.7
11696 Stuart Brady
11697 s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for
11698 proper rendering in UTF-8.
11699
11700 Various pages
11701 mtk, after a note from Stuart Brady
11702 Using /'x'/ to denote a character (string) renders poorly in
11703 UTF-8, where the two ' characters render as closing single
11704 quotes. On the other hand, using /`x'/ renders nicely on UTF-8,
11705 where proper opening and closing single quotes are produced by
11706 groff(1), but looks ugly when rendered in ASCII. Using the
11707 sequence /\\aqx\\aq/ produces a reasonable rendering ('\\aq'
11708 is a vertical "apostrophe quote") in both UTF-8 and ASCII.
11709 So that change is made in a number of pages.
11710 See also http://www.cl.cal.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html.
11711
11712 Various pages
11713 mtk
11714 Replace form /`string'/ by /"string"/, since the former renders
11715 poorly in ASCII.
11716
11717 termios.3
11718 console_codes.4
11719 tty_ioctl.4
11720 termcap.5
11721 charsets.7
11722 mtk
11723 Control character names (^X) are written boldface, without
11724 quotes.
11725
11726 printf.3
11727 scanf.3
11728 proc.5
11729 glob.7
11730 regex.7
11731 mtk
11732 Various edits to try and bring some consistency to the use of
11733 quotes.
11734
11735
11736 Changes to individual pages
11737 ---------------------------
11738
11739 tty_ioctl.4
11740 mtk
11741 Small rewordings in description of packet mode.
11742
11743 locale.7
11744 mtk
11745 Minor formatting fixes.
11746
11747
11748 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.01 ====================
11749
11750 Released: 2008-06-25, Munich
11751
11752
11753 Contributors
11754 ------------
11755
11756 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
11757 been incorporated in changes in this release:
11758
11759 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
11760 Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.comm>
11761 Andrew P <ap@zip.com.au>
11762 Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
11763 Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
11764 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ib.com>
11765 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
11766 Daniele Giacomini <appunti2@gmail.com>
11767 Dorin Lazar <dorin.lazar@gmail.com>
11768 George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
11769 Jason Englander <jason@englanders.cc>
11770 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
11771 Laurent Vivier <laurent.vivier@bull.net>
11772 Masatake YAMOTO <yamoto@redhat.com>
11773 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
11774 Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
11775 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
11776 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
11777 Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
11778 Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
11779 Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
11780 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
11781 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
11782 Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
11783 Stuart Cunningham <stuartc@rd.bbc.co.uk>
11784 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
11785 Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
11786 Yao Zhao <dragonlinux@gmail.com>
11787 WANG Cong <wcong@critical-links.com>
11788
11789 Apologies if I missed anyone!
11790
11791
11792 New and rewritten pages
11793 -----------------------
11794
11795 acct.5
11796 mtk
11797 A complete rewrite of this page, now with much more detail.
11798
11799 hostname.7
11800 mtk
11801 A description of hostname resolution. Taken from FreeBSD 6.2,
11802 and lightly edited for man-pages style.
11803
11804 symlink.7
11805 mtk
11806 A description of symbolic links. Taken from FreeBSD 6.2, but
11807 heavily edited for Linux details, improved readability, and
11808 man-pages style.
11809
11810
11811 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
11812 ---------------------------------------------
11813
11814 getrlimit.2
11815 mtk / Peter Zijlstra
11816 Add description of RLIMIT_RTTIME limit, new in 2.6.25.
11817
11818 mkstemp.3
11819 mtk
11820 Add description of mkostemp(), new in glibc 2.7.
11821
11822 core.5
11823 mtk, after a note by Petr Gajdos; review by Neil Horman
11824 Document core_pattern pipe syntax, which appeared in
11825 kernel 2.6.19.
11826 Add an example program demonstrating use of core_pattern
11827 pipe syntax.
11828 mtk
11829 Document /proc/PID/coredump_filter, new in kernel 2.6.23.
11830 Documentation was based on the text in
11831 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, plus testing, and
11832 checking the kernel source.
11833
11834 proc.5
11835 mtk
11836 Document /proc/PID/oom_score, which was new in kernel 2.6.11.
11837 This file displays the "badness" score of the process, which
11838 provides the basis for OOM-killer decisions.
11839 mtk
11840 Document /proc/PID/oom_adj, which was new in kernel 2.6.11.
11841 This file influences the oom_score of a process.
11842 mtk
11843 Document /proc/PID/limits, which was new in 2.6.24.
11844 This file displays a process's resource limits.
11845 mtk
11846 Document /proc/PID/fdinfo/*, which was new in 2.6.22.
11847 These files display info about each descriptor opened by the
11848 process: the current file offset, and the file access mode +
11849 file status flags as set in open() or fcntl(F_SETFL).
11850 mtk
11851 Document /proc/PID/mountinfo, which was new in 2.6.26.
11852 This file displays information about mount points.
11853 Closely based on text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
11854 mtk
11855 Document /proc/PID/mountstats, which was new in 2.6.17.
11856 This file displays statistics about mount points.
11857 mtk
11858 Document /proc/PID/status.
11859 Samuel Thibault / mtk, review by Laurent Vivier,
11860 Christian Borntraeger, and Andrew P
11861 Document guest (virtual CPU) time field in /proc/stat.
11862 Document guest (virtual CPU) time fields in /proc/PID/stat.
11863
11864
11865 New links
11866 ---------
11867
11868 mkostemp.3
11869 mtk
11870 Link to mkstemp.3.
11871
11872 getcwd.2
11873 mtk
11874 Link to getcwd.3, which describes several interfaces, among
11875 them getcwd(), which is in fact a system call.
11876
11877 sched_setaffinity.2
11878 sched_setscheduler.2
11879 set_mempolicy.2
11880 mbind.2
11881 mtk
11882 SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7).
11883
11884
11885 Global changes
11886 --------------
11887
11888 chown.2
11889 faccessat.2
11890 fchmodat.2
11891 fchownat.2
11892 fstatat.2
11893 getxattr.2
11894 link.2
11895 linkat.2
11896 listxattr.2
11897 open.2
11898 readlink.2
11899 removexattr.2
11900 rename.2
11901 setxattr.2
11902 stat.2
11903 symlink.2
11904 symlinkat.2
11905 unlink.2
11906 futimes.3
11907 remove.3
11908 path_resolution.7
11909 mtk
11910 SEE ALSO: Add symlink(7).
11911
11912 intro.1
11913 time.1
11914 fcntl.2
11915 gethostbyname.3
11916 ioctl_list.2
11917 mtk
11918 Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line.
11919
11920 addseverity.3
11921 backtrace.3
11922 dlopen.3
11923 fmtmsg.3
11924 getnameinfo.3
11925 getpt.3
11926 grantpt.3
11927 makecontext.3
11928 ptsname.3
11929 tcgetsid.3
11930 unlockpt.3
11931 wordexp.3
11932 mtk
11933 Added VERSIONS section.
11934
11935 msgctl.2
11936 msgget.2
11937 semget.2
11938 semop.2
11939 pciconfig_read.2
11940 basename.3
11941 cmsg.3
11942 ftok.3
11943 console_ioctl.4
11944 tzfile.5
11945 mq_overview.7
11946 pty.7
11947 mtk
11948 For consistency, "fix" cases where argument of .B or .I was
11949 on the following source line.
11950
11951 adjtimex.2
11952 getrusage.2
11953 io_getevents.2
11954 poll.2
11955 select.2
11956 semop.2
11957 sigwaitinfo.2
11958 aio_suspend.3
11959 clock_getres.3
11960 mq_receive.3
11961 mq_send.3
11962 sem_wait.3
11963 proc.5
11964 mtk
11965 SEE ALSO: add time(7)
11966
11967 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
11968 (Special thanks to Nicolas François and Alain Portal.)
11969
11970
11971 Changes to individual pages
11972 ---------------------------
11973
11974 acct.2
11975 mtk
11976 Add a few more words to DESCRIPTION.
11977 NOTES: Add pointer to acct(5).
11978
11979 alarm.2
11980 Alain Portal
11981 s/process/calling process/ so as to say that the alarm signal is
11982 delivered to the calling process.
11983
11984 brk.2
11985 Yao Zhao / mtk
11986 Clarify discussion of return value of sbrk().
11987 mtk
11988 DESCRIPTION: Add some sentences giving an overview of these
11989 interfaces.
11990 Add note recommending use of malloc(3).
11991 Change name of brk() argument to the simpler 'addr'.
11992 Add "(void *)" cast to "-1" for error return of sbrk().
11993 Removed some incorrect text about "brk(0)".
11994 Note that SUSv2 specified the return value of sbrk().
11995 Added a detail on the glibc brk() wrapper.
11996 Remove discussions of old standards (C89 and POSIX.1-1990);
11997 CONFORMING TO already discusses the situation with respect
11998 to more recent standards.
11999
12000 chmod.2
12001 mtk
12002 Clarify description of chmod() and fchmod().
12003 Add further detail on S_ISUID, S_ISGID, and S_ISVTX permissions.
12004 Reformat list of permissions bits.
12005
12006 chown.2
12007 mtk
12008 Describe rules governing ownership of new files (bsdgroups
12009 versus sysvgroups, and the effect of the parent directory's
12010 set-group-ID permission bit).
12011
12012 chroot.2
12013 Alain Portal
12014 Clarify description a little.
12015 s/changes the root directory/
12016 changes the root directory of the calling process/
12017
12018 execve.2
12019 mtk
12020 Fix text that warns against use of NULL argv and envp.
12021 Using a NULL envp does in fact seem to be portable (works
12022 on Solaris and FreeBSD), but the Linux semantics for a NULL
12023 argv certainly aren't consistent with other implementations.
12024 See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408.
12025
12026 getdents.2
12027 mtk, after a note from George Spelvin
12028 Document d_type field, present since kernel 2.6.4.
12029 Other minor edits.
12030
12031 getitimer.2
12032 mtk
12033 Noted that POSIX.1 leaves interactions with alarm(), sleep(),
12034 and usleep() unspecified.
12035 Linux 2.6.16 removed the MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling on timer
12036 values.
12037 Other minor changes.
12038
12039 io_cancel.2
12040 io_destroy.2
12041 io_getevents.2
12042 io_setup.2
12043 io_submit.2
12044 mtk, after a note by Masatake YAMOTO and input from Jeff Moyer
12045 Describe the unconventional error return provided by the
12046 wrapper function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if
12047 the system call is invoked via syscall(2)).
12048 See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ltp/4445/
12049 Alain Portal / mtk
12050 Re-order ERRORS and SEE ALSO entries to be alphabetical.
12051
12052 io_getevents.2
12053 Alain Portal
12054 Small wording fix.
12055
12056 io_submit.2
12057 Jeff Moyer
12058 s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/
12059
12060 mknod.2
12061 mtk
12062 Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a
12063 (possibly dangling) symbolic link.
12064
12065 nanosleep.2
12066 mtk, after a report from Stephane Chazelas
12067 Remove crufty discussion of HZ, and replace with a pointer
12068 to time(7).
12069 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485636
12070 mtk, after some discussions with Bart Van Assche and Roman Zippel
12071 NOTES: describe CLOCK_REALTIME versus CLOCK_NANOSLEEP
12072 See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696854/
12073 "nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC, should be CLOCK_REALTIME?"
12074 mtk
12075 Replace mentions of "process' by "thread".
12076 NOTES: describe case where clock_nanosleep() can be preferable.
12077 Some minor rewrites.
12078
12079 open.2
12080 mtk, after a note from Christoph Hellwig
12081 NOTES: Note that access mode flags are not single bits,
12082 and document the Linuxism "access mode 3".
12083 See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/653123.
12084
12085 readdir.2
12086 mtk
12087 Minor wording fixes.
12088
12089 recv.2
12090 Alain Portal
12091 Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition.
12092
12093 sched_setscheduler.2
12094 mtk
12095 Add pointer to discussion of RLIMIT_RTTIME in getrlimit.2.
12096 mtk, after a note by Andrew Clayton
12097 Rewrote and restructured various parts of the page for greater
12098 clarity.
12099 mtk
12100 Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an
12101 unprivileged process with a non-zero RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit
12102 changes policy and priority.
12103 SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
12104
12105 sync_file_range.2
12106 Pavel Machek
12107 SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request
12108 queue size. For some background, see
12109 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
12110
12111 syscalls.2
12112 mtk
12113 Added system call history back to version 1.2.
12114 Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
12115
12116 syslog.2
12117 WANG Cong
12118 Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built without
12119 CONFIG_PRINTK.
12120
12121 utime.2
12122 Nicolas François
12123 Clarify description of 'times' array for utimes().
12124
12125 adjtime.3
12126 mtk
12127 The longstanding bug that if delta was NULL, olddelta
12128 didn't return the outstanding clock adjustment, is now fixed
12129 (since glibc 2.8 + kernel 2.6.26).
12130 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug?id=2449
12131 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
12132
12133 dprintf.3
12134 mtk
12135 Note that these functions are included in the next POSIX revision.
12136 Remove editorial discussion about what the functions should have
12137 been named.
12138
12139 ftime.3
12140 mtk
12141 Rewrote various pieces, and added some details.
12142
12143 getaddrinfo.3
12144 mtk
12145 Improve description or 'hints' and 'res' arguments.
12146 Add details on numeric strings that can be specified for 'node'.
12147 Other fairly major restructurings and rewrites to improve
12148 logical structure and clarity of the page.
12149 SEE ALSO: Add hostname(7).
12150
12151 gethostbyname.3
12152 mtk
12153 DESCRIPTION: Add reference to inet_addr(3) for dotted notation.
12154 SEE ALSO: add inet(3).
12155 mtk
12156 Added BUGS section noting that gethostbyname() does not
12157 recognize hexadecimal components in dotted address strings;
12158 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482973
12159
12160 getmntent.3
12161 mtk, after Stuart Cunningham pointed out the typo
12162 Remove statement that LSB deprecates the functions
12163 "endmntent(), setmntent() [sic] and setmntent()".
12164 This doesn't seem to be true (I can't find mention of it
12165 being deprecated in any of the LSB specs). Rather, LSB simply
12166 doesn't specify these functions. (LSB 1.3 had a spec of
12167 setmntent(), but not getmntent() or endmntent(), and noted
12168 that having a spec of setmntent() was of little use without
12169 also having a spec of getmntent().)
12170 See also https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/\
12171 lsb-discuss/2006-October/003078.html
12172
12173 getnameinfo.3
12174 Tolga Dalman
12175 Remove mention of sa_len field from example code.
12176 That field is a BSDism not present on Linux.
12177 mtk
12178 Various minor changes.
12179
12180 inet.3
12181 mtk / Stephane Chazelas
12182 inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1.
12183 Rewrote discussion of why inet_addr() is disfavored.
12184 SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
12185 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482979.
12186 mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
12187 Describe the various address forms supported by inet_aton().
12188 mtk
12189 Rewrite description of inet_network().
12190 Clarify discussion of inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr().
12191 Add discussion of Classful Addressing, noting that it is obsolete.
12192 Added an EXAMPLE program.
12193 mtk
12194 Relocate discussion of i386 byte order to NOTES.
12195 Note that inet_aton() returns an address in network byte order.
12196 SEE ALSO: Add byteorder(3) and getnameinfo(3).
12197
12198 inet_ntop.3
12199 mtk
12200 Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
12201 SEE ALSO: Add inet(3) and getnameinfo(3).
12202 Make NAME line more precise.
12203 Move errors to an ERRORS section.
12204 Add EXAMPLE section pointing to inet_pton(3).
12205
12206 inet_pton.3
12207 mtk / Stephane Chazelas
12208 Remove statement that inet_pton() extends inet_ntoa();
12209 that's not really true, since inet_pton() doesn't support
12210 all of the string forms that are supported by inet_ntoa().
12211 SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
12212 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482987.
12213 mtk
12214 Describe IPv6 address formats.
12215 Describe dotted decimal format in more detail.
12216 Add an example program.
12217 mtk
12218 Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
12219 Make NAME line more precise.
12220 Make description of return value more precise.
12221 SEE ALSO: Add inet(3).
12222
12223 mkfifo.3
12224 mtk
12225 Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a
12226 (possibly dangling) symbolic link.
12227
12228 mkstemp.3
12229 mtk
12230 Fix discussion of O_EXCL flag.
12231 These functions may also fail for any of the errors described
12232 in open(2).
12233 Various other rewordings.
12234
12235 readdir.3
12236 mtk
12237 Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field.
12238 Reorder DT_ entries alphabetically.
12239
12240 remainder.3
12241 mtk
12242 Recommend against drem(), in favor of remainder().
12243
12244 scanf.3
12245 mtk, after a note from Stephane Chazelas
12246 Add an ERRORS section documenting at least some of the errors
12247 that may occur for scanf().
12248 See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
12249 mtk, after a note from Stephane Chazelas; review by Stephane Chazelas
12250 Document the GNU 'a' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
12251 See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
12252 Document the GNU 'm' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
12253
12254 strcat.3
12255 Andreas Herrmann
12256 s/strcat/strncat/ (a typo that changed the semantics in
12257 DESCRIPTION).
12258
12259 strerror.3
12260 mtk, after a note from Daniele Giacomini
12261 Modify SYNOPSIS to show protoypes of both versions of strerror_r(),
12262 and make other small clarifications of the description regarding
12263 the two versions.
12264
12265 random.4
12266 George Spelvin (taking time out from his busy Broadway schedule),
12267 with some tweaks by Matt Mackall and mtk
12268 Add a Usage subsection that recommends most users to use
12269 /dev/urandom, and emphasizes parsimonious usage of
12270 /dev/random.
12271
12272 locale.5
12273 Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
12274 LC_TIME: Describe first_weekday and first_workday.
12275
12276 proc.5
12277 mtk
12278 The vaious CPU time fields in /proc/stat and /proc/PID/stat
12279 return time in clock ticks (USER_HZ, cputime_to_clock_t(),
12280 sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)).
12281 Updated, clarified and expanded the description several
12282 fields in /proc/[number]/stat.
12283 mtk
12284 Clarified and expanded the description of /proc/[number]/fd.
12285 mtk
12286 Updated and clarified the description of /proc/[number]/statm.
12287 mtk
12288 Updated and clarified the description of /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
12289 mtk
12290 Many formatting, wording, and grammar fixes.
12291
12292 man-pages.7
12293 mtk
12294 Enhanced description of VERSIONS section.
12295
12296 mq_overview.7
12297 mtk
12298 Note that Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX
12299 message queues.
12300
12301 sem_overview.7
12302 mtk
12303 Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores
12304 since 2.6.19.
12305
12306 time.7
12307 mtk, with some suggestions from Bart Van Assche and Thomas Gleixner
12308 Added some details about where jiffies come into play.
12309 Added section on high-resolution timers.
12310 Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various
12311 points in the page.
12312 See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/697378.
12313
12314 unix.7
12315 mtk, after a note by Samuel Thibault
12316 Provide a clear description of the three types of address that
12317 can appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed,
12318 and abstract.
12319
12320
12321 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.02 ====================
12322
12323 Released: 2008-07-02, Konolfingen
12324
12325
12326 Contributors
12327 ------------
12328
12329 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
12330 been incorporated in changes in this release:
12331
12332 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
12333 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
12334 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
12335 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
12336 Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
12337 WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
12338
12339 Apologies if I missed anyone!
12340
12341
12342 New and rewritten pages
12343 -----------------------
12344
12345 clock_nanosleep.2
12346 mtk
12347 A description of the clock_nanosleep() system call,
12348 which was added in kernel 2.6.
12349
12350 getgrouplist.3
12351 mtk
12352 A near complete rewrite, including additional information and
12353 a new example program.
12354
12355 getutmp.3
12356 mtk
12357 Documents getutmp(3) and getutmpx(3).
12358
12359 gnu_get_libc_version.3
12360 mtk
12361 Documents gnu_get_libc_version(3) and gnu_get_libc_release(3).
12362
12363 sigwait.3
12364 mtk
12365 Documents sigwait(3).
12366
12367 shm_overview.7
12368 mtk
12369 An overview of the POSIX shared memory API.
12370
12371
12372 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
12373 ---------------------------------------------
12374
12375 updwtmp.3
12376 mtk
12377 Document updwtmpx(3).
12378
12379
12380 New links
12381 ---------
12382
12383 getutmpx.3
12384 mtk
12385 Link to getutmp.3.
12386
12387 gnu_get_libc_release.3
12388 mtk
12389 Link to gnu_get_libc_version.3
12390
12391 updwtmpx.3
12392 mtk
12393 Link to updwtmp.3
12394
12395 utmpxname.3
12396 mtk
12397 Link to getutent.3.
12398
12399 utmpx.5
12400 mtk
12401 Link to utmp.5.
12402
12403
12404 Global changes
12405 --------------
12406
12407 Various pages
12408 mtk
12409 s/user name/username/
12410
12411 Various pages
12412 mtk
12413 s/host name/hostname/
12414
12415
12416 Changes to individual pages
12417 ---------------------------
12418
12419 fchmodat.2
12420 Alain Portal
12421 SEE ALSO: add symlink.7. (3.01 changelog wrongly said this
12422 had been done.)
12423
12424 io_setup.2
12425 Alain Portal
12426 Remove superfluous text from RETURN VALUE.
12427
12428 mmap.2
12429 mtk
12430 SEE ALSO: Add mmap(2), shm_overview(7).
12431
12432 shmget.2
12433 shmop.2
12434 mtk
12435 SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).
12436
12437 sigreturn.2
12438 mtk
12439 Added a bit more detail on what sigreturn() actually does.
12440
12441 signalfd.2
12442 sigsuspend.2
12443 mtk
12444 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
12445
12446 sigwaitinfo.2
12447 mtk
12448 Describe behavior when multiple threads are blocked in
12449 sigwaitinfo()/sigtimedwait().
12450 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
12451
12452 dirfd.3
12453 mtk
12454 RETURN VALUE: describe return value on success.
12455 Add an ERRORS section documenting POSIX.1-specified errors.
12456
12457 getaddrinfo.3
12458 mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
12459 getaddrinfo() supports specifying IPv6 scope-IDs.
12460
12461 getlogin.3
12462 mtk
12463 ERRORS: add ENOTTY.
12464 SEE ALSO: add utmp(5).
12465
12466 getutent.3
12467 WANG Cong
12468 utmpname() does return a value.
12469 mtk
12470 Add paragraph to start of DESCRIPTION recommending
12471 use of POSIX.1 "utmpx" functions.
12472 CONFORMING TO: mention utmpxname().
12473 Add an ERRORS section.
12474 There are no utmpx equivalents of the _r reentrant functions.
12475 Clarify discussion of return values.
12476 Add pointer to definition of utmp structure in utmp(5).
12477 Clarify discussion of utmpx file on other systems (versus
12478 Linux situation).
12479
12480 getutent.3
12481 mtk
12482 SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)
12483
12484 inet_pton.3
12485 Stephane Chazelas
12486 Fix error in description of IPv6 presentation format:
12487 s/x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x/x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x/.
12488
12489 setbuf.3
12490 Reuben Thomas / mtk
12491 Fix confused wording for return value of setvbuf().
12492 Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488104.
12493 mtk
12494 Other minor rewordings.
12495
12496 shm_open.3
12497 mtk
12498 SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).
12499
12500 random.4
12501 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
12502 Slight rewording to make life easier for non-native English
12503 speakers.
12504
12505 utmp.5
12506 mtk
12507 Add discussion of POSIX.1 utmpx specification.
12508 Provide a little more detail on fields of utmp structure.
12509 Added comments to macros for ut_type field.
12510 Correct the description of the ut_id field.
12511 mtk
12512 Consolidate duplicated information about ut_tv and ut_session
12513 on biarch platforms.
12514 mtk
12515 Move some text from CONFORMING TO to NOTES.
12516 Removed some crufty text.
12517 SEE ALSO: add login(3), logout(3), logwtmp(3).
12518 UT_LINESIZE is 32 (not 12).
12519 mtk
12520 SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)
12521
12522 man-pages.7
12523 mtk
12524 Enhanced the discussion of font conventions.
12525
12526 signal.7
12527 mtk
12528 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard
12529 signals is unspecified.
12530 SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
12531
12532
12533 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.03 ====================
12534
12535 Released: 2008-07-08, Konolfingen
12536
12537
12538 Contributors
12539 ------------
12540
12541 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
12542 been incorporated in changes in this release:
12543
12544 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
12545 Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
12546 Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
12547 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
12548 Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
12549 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
12550
12551 Apologies if I missed anyone!
12552
12553
12554 New and rewritten pages
12555 -----------------------
12556
12557 getcpu.2
12558 Andi Kleen, with some text and edits by mtk
12559 Documents the getcpu(2) system call, introduced in Linux 2.6.19.
12560
12561 sched_getcpu.3
12562 mtk
12563 Documents sched_getcpu(3), a wrapper for getcpu(2), provided
12564 since glibc 2.6.
12565
12566 cpuset.7
12567 Paul Jackson, with review and editing by mtk, and comments by
12568 Hidetoshi Seto and Li Zefan
12569 A description of the cpuset file system, the mechanism introduced
12570 kernel 2.6.12 for confining processes to designated processors
12571 and nodes. (Becomes the fourth largest page in man-pages!)
12572
12573
12574 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
12575 ---------------------------------------------
12576
12577 readdir.3
12578 mtk
12579 Add documentation of readdir_r().
12580
12581
12582 New links
12583 ---------
12584
12585 updwtmpx.3
12586 Alain Portal
12587 Link to updwtmp.3 (3.02 changelog wrongly said this had been done).
12588
12589 readdir_r.3
12590 mtk
12591 Link to readdir.3.
12592
12593
12594 Global changes
12595 --------------
12596
12597 get_mempolicy.2
12598 mbind.2
12599 sched_setaffinity.2
12600 set_mempolicy.2
12601 mtk
12602 SEE ALSO: Add getcpu(2).
12603
12604 accept.2
12605 close.2
12606 connect.2
12607 dup.2
12608 epoll_wait.2
12609 fcntl.2
12610 flock.2
12611 futex.2
12612 msgop.2
12613 poll.2
12614 read.2
12615 recv.2
12616 select.2
12617 semop.2
12618 send.2
12619 sigwaitinfo.2
12620 spu_run.2
12621 wait.2
12622 write.2
12623 aio_suspend.3
12624 mq_receive.3
12625 mq_send.3
12626 scanf.3
12627 sem_wait.3
12628 usleep.3
12629 inotify.7
12630 mtk
12631 ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in discussion of EINTR.
12632
12633 Various pages
12634 mtk
12635 Wrapped very long source lines.
12636
12637
12638 Changes to individual pages
12639 ---------------------------
12640
12641 accept.2
12642 mtk
12643 Small wording change.
12644
12645 io_getevents.2
12646 mtk
12647 ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
12648
12649 open.2
12650 mtk
12651 ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
12652
12653 sigaction.2
12654 mtk
12655 Note circumstances in which each SA_* flag is meaningful.
12656 mtk
12657 Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for
12658 SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD.
12659 mtk
12660 Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7)
12661 describing system call restarting.
12662 mtk
12663 Other minor edits.
12664
12665 truncate.2
12666 mtk
12667 ERRORS: Added EINTR error.
12668 A few minor rewordings.
12669
12670 wait.2
12671 mtk
12672 Remove statement that WUNTRACED and WCONTINUED only have effect
12673 if SA_NOCLDSTOP has not been set for SIGCHLD. That's not true.
12674
12675 errno.3
12676 mtk
12677 Add a pointer to signal(7) for further explanation of EINTR.
12678
12679 getgrouplist.3
12680 mtk
12681 SEE ALSO: Add passwd(5).
12682
12683 readdir.3
12684 mtk
12685 Remove <sys/types.h> from SYNOPSIS; POSIX.1-2001 does not
12686 require it.
12687 Some minor rewordings.
12688
12689 sleep.3
12690 mtk
12691 RETURN VALUE: explicitly mention interruption by signal handler.
12692 SEE ALSO: add signal(7).
12693
12694 usleep.3
12695 mtk
12696 POSIX.1-2001 also only documents EINVAL.
12697
12698 group.5
12699 mtk
12700 SEE ALSO: Add getgrent(3), getgrnam(3).
12701
12702 passwd.5
12703 mtk
12704 SEE ALSO: Add getpwent(3), getpwnam(3).
12705
12706 proc.5
12707 mtk
12708 Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7).
12709
12710 signal.7
12711 mtk
12712 Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting
12713 which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
12714 system calls are never restarted.
12715 mtk
12716 Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal
12717 plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
12718 signal handler has been established, and note the system
12719 calls that behave this way.
12720 mtk
12721 Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid.
12722 SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
12723 mtk
12724 Update async-signal-safe function list for POSIX.1-2004 (which
12725 adds sockatmark()).
12726
12727
12728 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================
12729
12730 Released: 2008-07-15, Konolfingen
12731
12732
12733 Contributors
12734 ------------
12735
12736 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
12737 been incorporated in changes in this release:
12738
12739 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
12740 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
12741 Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
12742 Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
12743 Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
12744 John Brooks <aspecialj@gmail.com>
12745 Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
12746 Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
12747 Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
12748 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
12749 Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
12750 Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
12751 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
12752
12753 Apologies if I missed anyone!
12754
12755
12756 Web site
12757 --------
12758
12759 licenses.html
12760 mtk
12761 A page describing the preferred licenses for new pages that
12762 are contributed to man-pages.
12763
12764
12765 New and rewritten pages
12766 -----------------------
12767
12768 utimensat.2
12769 mtk
12770 New page documenting the utimensat() system call, new in 2.6.22,
12771 and futimens() library function.
12772
12773 end.3
12774 mtk
12775 Documents etext, edata, and end symbols.
12776
12777
12778 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
12779 ---------------------------------------------
12780
12781 memchr.3
12782 mtk
12783 Add description of rawmemchr().
12784
12785 proc.5
12786 mtk
12787 Document /proc/config.gz (new in kernel 2.6).
12788 mtk, based on text from Documentation/vm/sysctl.txt
12789 Document /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task
12790 (new in Linux 2.6.24).
12791 Document /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks
12792 (new in Linux 2.6.25).
12793 Document /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom
12794 (new in Linux 2.6.18).
12795
12796
12797 New links
12798 ---------
12799
12800 edata.3
12801 etext.3
12802 mtk
12803 Links to end.3.
12804
12805 futimens.3
12806 mtk
12807 Link to new utimensat.2.
12808
12809 getdate_err.3
12810 mtk
12811 Link to getdate.3.
12812
12813 h_errno.3
12814 mtk
12815 Link to gethostbyname.3.
12816
12817 optarg.3
12818 opterr.3
12819 optind.3
12820 optopt.3
12821 mtk
12822 Links to getopt.3.
12823
12824 rawmemchr.3
12825 mtk
12826 Link to memchr.3.
12827
12828 sys_errlist.3
12829 sys_nerr.3
12830 mtk
12831 Links to perror.3.
12832
12833
12834 Global changes
12835 --------------
12836
12837 Various pages
12838 mtk
12839 s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given
12840 to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
12841
12842 Various pages
12843 mtk
12844 s/UNIX/Unix/, when not used as part of a trademark,
12845 for consistency with majority usage in pages.
12846
12847 Various pages
12848 mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
12849 Put SEE ALSO entries into alphabetical order.
12850
12851 Various pages
12852 mtk
12853 Remove period at end of SEE ALSO list.
12854
12855 Various pages
12856 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
12857 Even when the CONFORMING TO section is just a list of standards,
12858 they should be terminated by a period.
12859
12860 getpriority.2
12861 MB_LEN_MAX.3
12862 MB_CUR_MAX.3
12863 fwide.3
12864 mblen.3
12865 rtime.3
12866 st.4
12867 proc.5
12868 bootparam.7
12869 man-pages.7
12870 utf-8.7
12871 tcp.5
12872 mtk / Alain Portal
12873 Small wording fixes -- express <=, <, >=, > in words when in
12874 running text.
12875
12876 sched_setparam.2
12877 sched_setscheduler.2
12878 getgrent_r.3
12879 hash.3
12880 mtk
12881 Minor rewording w.r.t. use of the term "parameter".
12882
12883 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
12884 other places. (Many, many thanks to Alain Portal!)
12885
12886
12887 Changes to individual pages
12888 ---------------------------
12889
12890 capget.2
12891 Andrew Morgan
12892 Update in line with addition of file capabilities and
12893 64-bit capability sets in kernel 2.6.2[45].
12894
12895 clock_nanosleep.2
12896 mtk
12897 Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
12898
12899 getrusage.2
12900 Sripathi Kodi
12901 Document RUSAGE_THREAD, new in 2.6.26.
12902 mtk
12903 Improve description of RUSAGE_CHILDREN.
12904 Add pointer to /proc/PID/stat in proc(5).
12905 Other minor clean-ups.
12906
12907 ioprio_set.2
12908 Nikanth Karthikesan
12909 Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is longer required to set
12910 a low priority (IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE).
12911
12912 mount.2
12913 mtk
12914 Since Linux 2.6.26, MS_RDONLY honors bind mounts.
12915
12916 openat.2
12917 mtk
12918 SEE ALSO: add utimensat(3).
12919
12920 prctl.2
12921 Serge Hallyn, with some edits/input from mtk
12922 Document PR_CAPBSET_READ and PR_CAPBSET_DROP.
12923 Erik Bosman
12924 Document PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC.
12925 mtk, reviewed by Andrea Arcangeli
12926 Document PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP.
12927 mtk
12928 PR_SET_KEEPCAPS and PR_GET_KEEPCAPS operate on a per-thread
12929 setting, not a per-process setting.
12930 mtk
12931 Clarify fork(2) details for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG.
12932 mtk
12933 Add description of PR_SET_SECUREBITS and PR_GET_SECUREBITS,
12934 as well as pointer to further info in capabilities(7).
12935 mtk
12936 PR_GET_ENDIAN returns endianness info in location pointed to by
12937 arg2 (not as function result, as was implied by previous text).
12938 mtk
12939 Expand description of PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME.
12940 mtk
12941 RETURN VALUE: bring up to date for various options.
12942 mtk
12943 Various improvements in ERRORS.
12944 mtk
12945 Note that PR_SET_TIMING setting of PR_TIMING_TIMESTAMP is not
12946 currently implemented.
12947 mtk
12948 Minor changes:
12949 * Clarify wording for PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_FPEMU, and
12950 PR_GET_FPEXC.
12951 * Some reformatting of kernel version information.
12952 * Reorder PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN entries.
12953
12954 readlinkat.2
12955 John Brooks / mtk
12956 Fix and reword erroneous RETURN VALUE text.
12957
12958 recv.2
12959 mtk
12960 Noted which flags appeared in Linux 2.2.
12961
12962 sched_setaffinity.2
12963 mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
12964 Update type used for cpusetsize argument in SYNOPSIS.
12965
12966 select.2
12967 Andreas Mohr / mtk
12968 Clarify "zero timeout" case.
12969 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490868.
12970
12971 send.2
12972 mtk
12973 Noted which flags appeared in Linux 2.2.
12974
12975 sigaction.2
12976 mtk
12977 Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
12978 Add some text for si_trapno field.
12979 The si_errno field is *generally* unused.
12980 mtk
12981 Put descriptions of SA_* constants in alphabetical order.
12982
12983 signal.2
12984 mtk
12985 Rewrote and expanded portability discussion.
12986 NOTES: Show the raw prototype of signal() (without use of
12987 sighandler_t).
12988
12989 signalfd.2
12990 mtk
12991 Modify description of ssi_trapno field.
12992
12993 swapon.2
12994 mtk
12995 Fix two version number typos for MAX_SWAPFILES discussion:
12996 s/2.6.10/2.4.10/
12997
12998 utime.2
12999 mtk
13000 SEE ALSO: add utimensat(2), futimens(3).
13001
13002 dl_iterate_phdr.3
13003 Alain Portal
13004 SEE ALSO: Add elf(5).
13005
13006 crypt.3
13007 mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
13008 Describe additional encryption algorithms.
13009 See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428280.
13010
13011 errno.3
13012 mtk
13013 Small rewrites in DESCRIPTION.
13014
13015 exec.3
13016 mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
13017 Small rewording.
13018
13019 exp10.3
13020 Alain Portal
13021 SEE ALSO: Add log10(3).
13022
13023 exp2.3
13024 Alain Portal
13025 Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.
13026
13027 fgetgrent.3
13028 Alain Portal
13029 Add references to group(5).
13030 mtk
13031 Minor rewordings.
13032 SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
13033
13034 fgetpwent.3
13035 Alain Portal
13036 Add reference to passwd(5).
13037 mtk
13038 Minor rewordings.
13039 SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
13040
13041 frexp.3
13042 Alain Portal
13043 Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.
13044
13045 futimes.3
13046 mtk
13047 SEE ALSO: remove futimesat(2); add utimensat(2).
13048
13049 getopt.3
13050 mtk
13051 Add details on initial value of optind, and note that it can
13052 be reset (to 1) to restart scanning of an argument vector.
13053 Add a NOTES section describing the glibc-specific behavior
13054 when optind is reset to 0 (rather than 1).
13055 See http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/browse_thread/thread/be0d0b7a07a165fb
13056 mtk
13057 Note glibc extensions under CONFORMING TO.
13058
13059 getspnam.3
13060 mtk
13061 Improve comments on struct spwd.
13062
13063 getpw.3
13064 Alain Portal
13065 RETURN VALUE: note that errno is set on error.
13066 mtk
13067 Add EINVAL error.
13068
13069 insque.3
13070 mtk / Alain Portal
13071 Minor rewordings.
13072
13073 log.3
13074 Alain Portal
13075 Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
13076
13077 log10.3
13078 mtk
13079 SEE ALSO: Add exp10(3).
13080
13081 offsetof.3
13082 Alain Portal
13083 Small wording improvement.
13084
13085 pow.3
13086 Alain Portal
13087 Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
13088
13089 printf.3
13090 mtk / Alain Portal
13091 Many small formatting fixes.
13092
13093 proc.5
13094 mtk
13095 Remove redundant summary list of files in description of
13096 /proc/sys/kernel.
13097 Make kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops more precise.
13098 Make kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max more precise.
13099 Add Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt to SEE ALSO.
13100 Other minor edits.
13101
13102 profil.3
13103 mtk / Alain Portal
13104 Small wording improvement.
13105
13106 rtime.3
13107 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
13108 Clarify meaning of midnight on 1 Jan 1900/1970.
13109 mtk
13110 Remove netdate(1) and rdate(1) from SEE ALSO, since these pages
13111 don't seem to exist on Linux systems.
13112
13113 scanf.3
13114 Vincent Lefevre / mtk
13115 Clarify treatment of initial white space by %% conversion
13116 specification.
13117 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
13118 mtk
13119 Many small formatting fixes.
13120
13121 stdin.3
13122 Alain Portal
13123 Rename CONSIDERATIONS section to NOTES, and relocate
13124 to appropriate place on page.
13125
13126 tmpfile.3
13127 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
13128 Prepend "POSIX.1-2001 specifies that: " to the sentence stating
13129 that tmpfile() may write to stdout. (AFAICS, glibc's tmpfile()
13130 does not do this.)
13131
13132 ttyname.3
13133 Alain Portal
13134 Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
13135
13136 wcsdup.3
13137 Alain Portal
13138 Make wording more precise: the memory allocated by wcsdup(3)
13139 *should* be freed with free(3).
13140
13141 wordexp.3
13142 Alain Portal / mtk
13143 Move example into proper EXAMPLE section.
13144
13145 tty_ioctl.4
13146 mtk / Petr Gajdos
13147 The features in the "Get and Set Window Size" subsection
13148 require the inclusion of <sys/ioctl.h>.
13149
13150 capabilities.7
13151 Serge Hallyn, plus a bit of work by mtk
13152 Document file capabilities, per-process capability bounding set,
13153 changed semantics for CAP_SETPCAP, and other changes in 2.6.2[45].
13154 Add CAP_MAC_ADMIN, CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_SETFCAP.
13155 Various smaller fixes.
13156 mtk, plus review by Serge Hallyn and Andrew Morgan
13157 Add text detailing how CAP_SETPCAP (theoretically) permits -- on
13158 pre-2.6.25 kernels, and 2.6.25 and later kernels with file
13159 capabilities disabled -- a thread to change the capability sets
13160 of another thread.
13161 Add section describing rules for programmatically adjusting
13162 thread capability sets.
13163 Add some words describing purpose of inheritable set.
13164 Note existence of CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES config option.
13165 Describe rationale for capability bounding set.
13166 Document securebits flags (new in 2.6.26).
13167 Remove obsolete BUGS section.
13168 SEE ALSO: Add getcap(8), setcap(8), and various libcap pages.
13169 mtk
13170 Add text noting that if we set the effective flag for one
13171 file capability, then we must also set the effective flag for all
13172 other capabilities where the permitted or inheritable bit is set.
13173 mtk
13174 Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for
13175 ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.
13176 mtk
13177 Reword discussion of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE to be file-system neutral.
13178
13179 man-pages.7
13180 mtk
13181 A list of standards in the CONFORMING TO list should be
13182 terminated by a period.
13183 The list of pages in a SEE ALSO list should not be
13184 terminated by a period.
13185
13186 tcp.7
13187 mtk
13188 Correct a detail for sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale.
13189 Formatting fixes.
13190
13191
13192 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.05 ====================
13193
13194 Released: 2008-07-23, Konolfingen
13195
13196
13197 Contributors
13198 ------------
13199
13200 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
13201 been incorporated in changes in this release:
13202
13203 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
13204 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
13205 Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
13206 Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
13207 Franck Jousseaume <franck.jousseaume@gmail.com>
13208 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
13209 Uli Schlacter <psychon@znc.in>
13210
13211 Apologies if I missed anyone!
13212
13213
13214 New and rewritten pages
13215 -----------------------
13216
13217 matherr.3
13218 mtk, with review by Andries Brouwer
13219 A description of the SVID-specified mechanism for reporting
13220 math exceptions.
13221 See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/266.
13222
13223 math_error.7
13224 mtk, with review and suggested input from Andries Brouwer
13225 A description of how math functions report errors.
13226 See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/249.
13227
13228
13229 Global changes
13230 --------------
13231
13232 Various pages
13233 mtk
13234 s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
13235
13236 Various pages
13237 mtk
13238 For consistency with majority usage:
13239 s/plus infinity/positive infinity/
13240 s/minus infinity/negative infinity/
13241
13242 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
13243 other places.
13244
13245
13246 Changes to individual pages
13247 ---------------------------
13248
13249 brk.2
13250 mtk
13251 SEE ALSO: add end(3).
13252
13253 open.2
13254 Brian M. Carlson / mtk
13255 Remove ambiguity in description of support for O_EXCL on NFS.
13256 As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491791.
13257
13258 prctl.2
13259 mtk
13260 Place options in some semblance of alphabetical order.
13261 (No content or formatting changes were made.)
13262
13263 cerf.3
13264 mtk
13265 Bump version number: these functions are still missing in
13266 glibc 2.8.
13267
13268 fenv.3
13269 mtk
13270 SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
13271
13272 INFINITY.3
13273 mtk
13274 SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
13275
13276 nan.3
13277 mtk
13278 Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece in SYNOPSIS.
13279 SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
13280
13281 rpc.3
13282 mtk / Franck Jousseaume
13283 Fix errors introduced into a few prototypes when converting
13284 function declarations to use modern C prototypes in man-pages-2.75.
13285
13286 ipv6.7
13287 mtk, after a report from Uli Schlacter
13288 Document the IPV6_V6ONLY flag.
13289
13290
13291 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.06 ====================
13292
13293 Released: 2008-08-05, Konolfingen
13294
13295
13296 Contributors
13297 ------------
13298
13299 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
13300 been incorporated in changes in this release:
13301
13302 Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com>
13303 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
13304 Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
13305 Gernot Tenchio <g.tenchio@telco-tech.de>
13306 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
13307 Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
13308
13309 Apologies if I missed anyone!
13310
13311
13312 New and rewritten pages
13313 -----------------------
13314
13315 erfc.3
13316 mtk
13317 Created after removing the erfc() material from erf.3.
13318 Documents the complementary error function.
13319
13320 y0.3
13321 mtk
13322 Created after removing the y*() material from j0.3.
13323 Documents the Bessel functions of the second kind.
13324 Included ERRORS section; noted that an exception is not
13325 raised on underflow, see also
13326 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6806;
13327 and errno is not set on overflow, see also
13328 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6808;
13329 Included BUGS section noting that errno is incorrectly
13330 set for pole error; see also
13331 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6807.
13332
13333 scalbln.3
13334 mtk
13335 Created after removing the scalbln*() and scalbn*() material
13336 from scalb.3. Documents scalbln() and scalbn() functions.
13337 Included ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13338 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6803.
13339
13340
13341 New and changed links
13342 ---------------------
13343
13344 erfcf.3
13345 erfcl.3
13346 mtk
13347 Changed these links to point to new erfc.3 page.
13348
13349 scalblnf.3
13350 scalblnl.3
13351 scalbn.3
13352 scalbnf.3
13353 scalbnl.3
13354 mtk
13355 Changed these links to point to new scalbln.3 page.
13356
13357 y0f.3
13358 y0l.3
13359 y1.3
13360 y1f.3
13361 y1l.3
13362 yn.3
13363 ynf.3
13364 ynl.3
13365 mtk
13366 Changed these links to point to new y0.3 page.
13367
13368
13369 Global changes
13370 --------------
13371
13372 Various pages
13373 mtk
13374 s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
13375
13376 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
13377 other places.
13378
13379
13380 Changes to individual pages
13381 ---------------------------
13382
13383 crypt.3
13384 mtk
13385 Tweak discuss text describing support for Blowfish.
13386
13387 ctime.3
13388 mtk / Gernot Tenchio
13389 Added some words to make clear that the string returned by
13390 ctime() and asctime() is null-terminated.
13391
13392 math_error.7
13393 Sam Varshavchik
13394 Reverse order of SYNOPSIS and NAME sections.
13395 mtk
13396 NOTES: Summarize the state of glibc support for exceptions
13397 and errno for error reporting.
13398
13399
13400 Changes to individual pages (math functions)
13401 --------------------------------------------
13402
13403 Almost all of the changes in this release relate to math man pages.
13404 Very many changes were made to the math pages, including:
13405
13406 * Fixed feature test macros (FTMs). Often, the FTM requirements
13407 for the "float" and "long double" versions of a math function are
13408 different from the requirements for the "double" version. Each math
13409 page now shows the correct FTM requirements for all three versions
13410 of the function(s) it describes. This may have required either
13411 a change to the existing FTM text (if the requirements for the
13412 "double" function were already described), or the addition of an FTM
13413 description to a SYNOPSIS where one was not previously present
13414 (typically because the "double" version of the function does not
13415 require any FTMs to be defined).
13416 * CONFORMING TO: in many cases, POSIX.1-2001 was not mentioned.
13417 Where a function is specified in POSIX.1-2001, this is now noted.
13418 Also, statements about what other standards a function conforms to
13419 were generally clarified. (The wording about which functions conformed
13420 to C99 was previously often done as an add on sentence; now it is made
13421 part of the first sentence of the CONFORMING TO section, along with
13422 POSIX.1-2001.)
13423 * RETURN VALUE: in many cases, pages lacked descriptions of the return
13424 value when the function arguments are special values such as +0, -0,
13425 NaN (not-a-number), +infinity, -infinity, etc. This has been fixed.
13426 I carried out tests on glibc 2.8 to ensure that all of these
13427 functions match the RETURN VALUE descriptions (and the POSIX.1-2001
13428 requirements).
13429 * ERRORS: many pages lacked a clear (or indeed any) description of
13430 how errno is set on error and what exception is raised for each error.
13431 This has been fixed. The ERRORS sections are now generally headed up
13432 as per the POSIX.1 way of doing things, describing Pole / Range /
13433 Domain errors, as applicable.
13434 I carried out tests on glibc 2.8 to ensure that all of these
13435 functions match the ERRORS descriptions. Deviations from POSIX.1-2001
13436 requirements have been filed as glibc bug reports, and noted in the
13437 man pages. (The pages now describe the situation for ERRORS as at glibc
13438 2.8; I may eventually try and extend the text with descriptions of
13439 changes in older versions of glibc.)
13440 NOTE: one point that has not been covered in any page is the
13441 circumstances that generate inexact (FE_INEXACT) exceptions.
13442 (The details for these exceptions are not specified in POSIX.1-2001,
13443 and I haven't gone looking for the standards that describe the details.)
13444
13445 acos.3
13446 mtk
13447 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13448 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13449 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13450 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13451
13452 acosh.3
13453 mtk
13454 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13455 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13456 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13457 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13458
13459 asin.3
13460 mtk
13461 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13462 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13463 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13464 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13465
13466 asinh.3
13467 mtk
13468 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13469 DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
13470 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13471 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13472 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13473
13474 atan.3
13475 mtk
13476 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13477 DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
13478 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13479 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13480 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13481
13482 atan2.3
13483 mtk
13484 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13485 DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
13486 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13487 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13488 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13489
13490 atanh.3
13491 mtk
13492 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13493 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13494 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13495 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13496 Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
13497 when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
13498 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6759.
13499
13500 cbrt.3
13501 mtk
13502 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13503 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13504 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13505 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13506
13507 ceil.3
13508 mtk
13509 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13510 DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
13511 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13512 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13513 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13514 NOTES: Added some details.
13515
13516 copysign.3
13517 mtk
13518 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13519 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13520
13521 cos.3
13522 mtk
13523 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13524 Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
13525 Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
13526 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6780.
13527 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13528
13529 cosh.3
13530 mtk
13531 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13532 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13533 Added ERRORS section.
13534 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13535
13536 erf.3
13537 mtk
13538 Removed the erfc() material (there is now a new erfc page).
13539 Reason: the functions are logically separate; also their
13540 return values differ, and it would have been confusing
13541 to document them on the same page.
13542 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13543 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13544 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13545 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6785.
13546 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13547
13548 exp.3
13549 mtk
13550 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13551 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13552 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13553 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6786.
13554 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13555
13556 exp10.3
13557 mtk
13558 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13559 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13560 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for underflow;
13561 see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6787.
13562
13563 exp2.3
13564 mtk
13565 Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
13566 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13567
13568 expm1.3
13569 mtk
13570 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13571 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13572 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for overflow;
13573 see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6788.
13574 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13575 Added BUGS section, describing bogus underflow exception for -large,
13576 see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6778;
13577 and describing bogus invalid exception for certain +large,
13578 see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6814.
13579
13580 fabs.3
13581 mtk
13582 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13583 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13584 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13585
13586 fdim.3
13587 mtk
13588 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13589 DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
13590 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13591 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13592 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796.
13593 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13594
13595 fenv.3
13596 mtk
13597 Make style of writing exception names consistent with other
13598 pages and POSIX.1-2001.
13599 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13600
13601 finite.3
13602 mtk
13603 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13604
13605 floor.3
13606 mtk
13607 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13608 DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
13609 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13610 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13611 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13612
13613 fma.3
13614 mtk
13615 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13616 DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
13617 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13618 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13619 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
13620 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13621
13622 fmax.3
13623 fmin.3
13624 mtk
13625 NAME: Make description clearer
13626 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13627 SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
13628 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13629 Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
13630
13631 fmod.3
13632 mtk
13633 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13634 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13635 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
13636 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
13637 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13638
13639 fpclassify.3
13640 mtk
13641 Minor wording changes.
13642 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13643 SEE ALSO: Add signbit(3).
13644
13645 frexp.3
13646 mtk
13647 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13648 Added details to RETURN VALUE section.
13649 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13650 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13651
13652 gamma.3
13653 mtk
13654 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13655 Added (null) RETURN VALUE section referring to tgamma(3).
13656 Added (null) ERRORS section referring to tgamma(3).
13657 CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
13658
13659 hypot.3
13660 mtk
13661 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13662 DESCRIPTION: note that calculation is done without causing
13663 undue overflow or underflow.
13664 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13665 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
13666 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6795.
13667 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13668
13669 ilogb.3
13670 mtk
13671 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13672 Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
13673 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set, and in some
13674 cases an exception is not raised; see also
13675 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6794.
13676 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13677
13678 isgreater.3
13679 mtk
13680 NAME: Make description clearer
13681 Improve the description of isunordered().
13682 Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
13683 Formatting fixes.
13684 A few wording improvements.
13685
13686 j0.3
13687 mtk
13688 Removed material for the y*() functions to a separate y0.3 page.
13689 Reason: the return values and errors/exceptions differ, and it
13690 would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
13691 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13692 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13693 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805.
13694
13695 ldexp.3
13696 mtk
13697 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13698 Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
13699 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13700
13701 lgamma.3
13702 mtk
13703 Note that these functions are deprecated.
13704 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13705 Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections referring to lgamma(3).
13706 Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
13707 when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
13708 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6777.
13709
13710 log.3
13711 mtk
13712 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13713 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13714 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13715 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13716
13717 log10.3
13718 mtk
13719 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13720 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13721 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13722 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13723
13724 log1p.3
13725 mtk
13726 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13727 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13728 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13729 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6792.
13730 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13731
13732 log2.3
13733 mtk
13734 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13735 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13736 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13737
13738 logb.3
13739 mtk
13740 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13741 DESCRIPTION: added a little detail; some rewordings.
13742 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13743 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13744 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6793.
13745 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13746
13747 lrint.3
13748 mtk
13749 DESCRIPTION: some rewording.
13750 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13751 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13752 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6798.
13753 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13754
13755 lround.3
13756 mtk
13757 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13758 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13759 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6797.
13760 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13761
13762 modf.3
13763 mtk
13764 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13765 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13766 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13767 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13768
13769 nan.3
13770 mtk
13771 Small wording changes.
13772 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13773
13774 nextafter.3
13775 mtk
13776 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13777 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13778 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13779 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6799.
13780 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13781
13782 pow.3
13783 mtk
13784 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13785 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13786 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13787 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13788 Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
13789 when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
13790 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776.
13791
13792 remainder.3
13793 mtk
13794 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13795 DESCRIPTION: added some details.
13796 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13797 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
13798 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
13799 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13800 Added BUGS section noting that remainder(nan(""), 0)
13801 wrongly causes a domain error; see
13802 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6779
13803
13804 remquo.3
13805 mtk
13806 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13807 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13808 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
13809 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13810
13811 fmax.3
13812 fmin.3
13813 mtk
13814 NAME: Make description clearer
13815 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13816 SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
13817 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13818 Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
13819
13820 fmod.3
13821 mtk
13822 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13823 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13824 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
13825 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
13826 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13827
13828 fpclassify.3
13829 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13830
13831 rint.3
13832 mtk
13833 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13834 DESCRIPTION: added some details.
13835 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13836 ERRORS: no errors can occur (previous text was misleading).
13837 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13838 NOTES: point out that lrint() may be preferred in some cases.
13839
13840 round.3
13841 mtk
13842 DESCRIPTION: added some details.
13843 RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
13844 ERRORS: no errors can occur (previous text was misleading).
13845 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13846 NOTES: point out that lround() may be preferred in some cases.
13847
13848 scalb.3
13849 mtk
13850 Removed the scalbn() and scalbln() material to a separate
13851 scalbln.3 page. Reason: scalb() is obsolete; also the
13852 exception/error conditions differ somewhat, so that it
13853 would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
13854 SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
13855 DESCRIPTION: some rewrites and added details.
13856 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13857 Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
13858 also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6803
13859 and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6804.
13860 CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
13861
13862 signbit.3
13863 mtk
13864 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13865 SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
13866 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13867 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13868 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13869
13870 sin.3
13871 mtk
13872 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13873 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13874 Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
13875 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6781.
13876 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13877
13878 sincos.3
13879 mtk
13880 DESCRIPTION: Added details for special argument cases.
13881 Added (null) RETURN VALUE section.
13882 Added ERRORS section.
13883
13884 sinh.3
13885 mtk
13886 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13887 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13888 Added ERRORS section.
13889 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13890
13891 sqrt.3
13892 mtk
13893 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13894 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13895 Rewrote ERRORS section.
13896 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13897
13898 tan.3
13899 mtk
13900 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13901 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13902 Added ERRORS section.
13903 Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
13904 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6782.
13905 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13906
13907 tanh.3
13908 mtk
13909 SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
13910 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13911 Added (null) ERRORS section.
13912 Updated CONFORMING TO.
13913
13914 tgamma.3
13915 mtk
13916 Added RETURN VALUE section.
13917 Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set /
13918 incorrectly set in some cases; see also
13919 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6809
13920 and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6810.
13921 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13922 Added NOTES section to hold text explaining origin of tgamma().
13923
13924 trunc.3
13925 mtk
13926 RETURN VALUE: small rewording.
13927 CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
13928 Added NOTES section explaining that result may be too large
13929 to store in an integer type.
13930
13931
13932 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.07 ====================
13933
13934 Released: 2008-08-12, Konolfingen
13935
13936
13937 Contributors
13938 ------------
13939
13940 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
13941 been incorporated in changes in this release:
13942
13943 Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
13944 Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
13945 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
13946 Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
13947 Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
13948 Filippo Santovito <filippo.santovito@email.it>
13949 Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
13950 Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
13951 Khalil GHORBAL <khalil.ghorbal@cea.fr>
13952 Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
13953 Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
13954 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
13955 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
13956 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
13957 Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com>
13958 Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
13959 Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
13960 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
13961
13962 Apologies if I missed anyone!
13963
13964
13965 New and rewritten pages
13966 -----------------------
13967
13968 move_pages.2
13969 Christoph Lameter, various edits and improvements by mtk
13970 Documentation of the move_pages() system call.
13971 This page was formerly part of the numactl package, but really
13972 belongs in man-pages (since it describes a kernel interface).
13973
13974 clock_getcpuclockid.3
13975 mtk
13976 New page documenting the clock_getcpuclockid() library function,
13977 available since glibc 2.2.
13978
13979 udplite.7
13980 Gerrit Renker
13981 Document the Linux implementation of the UDP-Lite protocol,
13982 new in Linux 2.6.20.
13983
13984
13985 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
13986 ---------------------------------------------
13987
13988 proc.5
13989 Christoph Lameter, minor edits and improvements by mtk
13990 Documentation of the /proc/PID/numa_maps file.
13991 This material was formerly the numa_maps.5 page in the numactl
13992 package, but really belongs in man-pages (since it describes
13993 a kernel interface).
13994
13995
13996 Global changes
13997 --------------
13998
13999 nanosleep.2
14000 inet_ntop.3
14001 inet_pton.3
14002 scanf.3
14003 initrd.4
14004 mtk
14005 Fix mis-ordered (.SH) sections.
14006
14007 connect.2
14008 socket.2
14009 rtnetlink.3
14010 arp.7
14011 ddp.7
14012 ip.7
14013 ipv6.7
14014 netlink.7
14015 packet.7
14016 raw.7
14017 rtnetlink.7
14018 socket.7
14019 tcp.7
14020 udp.7
14021 unix.7
14022 x25.7
14023 mtk
14024 s/PF_/AF_/ for socket family constants. Reasons: the AF_ and
14025 PF_ constants have always had the same values; there never has
14026 been a protocol family that had more than one address family,
14027 and POSIX.1-2001 only specifies the AF_* constants.
14028
14029 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
14030 other places.
14031
14032
14033 Changes to individual pages
14034 ---------------------------
14035
14036 execve.2
14037 mtk
14038 The floating-point environment is reset to the default
14039 during an execve().
14040
14041 get_mempolicy.2
14042 Lee Schermerhorn
14043 Misc cleanup of get_mempolicy(2):
14044 + mention that any mode flags will be saved with mode.
14045 I don't bother to document mode flags here because we
14046 already have a pointer to set_mempolicy(2) for more info
14047 on memory policy. mode flags are discussed there.
14048 + remove some old, obsolete [IMO] NOTES and 'roff comments.
14049 Lee Schermerhorn
14050 Update the get_mempolicy(2) man page to add in the description of
14051 the MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED flag, added in 2.6.23.
14052 mtk
14053 Document additional EINVAL error that occurs is MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED
14054 is specified with either MPOL_F_ADDR or MPOL_F_NODE.
14055
14056 getitimer.2
14057 mtk
14058 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks getitimer() and setitimer()
14059 obsolete.
14060
14061 mbind.2
14062 Lee Schermerhorn
14063 Fix error conditions, now that the kernel silently ignores
14064 nodes outside the task's cpuset, as long as one valid node
14065 remains.
14066
14067 Now that cpuset man page exists, we can refer to it. Remove
14068 stale comment regarding lack thereof.
14069 Lee Schermerhorn
14070 Add brief discussion of mode flags.
14071 Lee Schermerhorn
14072 Attempt to clarify discussion of MPOL_DEFAULT.
14073 mtk
14074 Fix URI reference for libnuma.
14075
14076 mprotect.2
14077 mtk / Maxin John
14078 Remove EFAULT from errors. Under ENOMEM error, note that
14079 EFAULT was the error produced in some cases for kernels before
14080 2.4.19.
14081
14082 msgctl.2
14083 mtk, after a note from Filippo Santovito
14084 In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
14085 incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
14086
14087 set_mempolicy.2
14088 Lee Schermerhorn
14089 Fix up the error return for nodemask containing nodes disallowed by
14090 the process' current cpuset. Disallowed nodes are now silently ignored,
14091 as long as the nodemask contains at least one node that is on-line,
14092 allowed by the process' cpuset and has memory.
14093
14094 Now that we have a cpuset man page, we can refer to cpusets directly
14095 in the man page text.
14096
14097 Lee Schermerhorn
14098 Another attempt to rationalize description of MPOL_DEFAULT.
14099
14100 Since ~2.6.25, the system default memory policy is "local allocation".
14101 MPOL_DEFAULT itself is a request to remove any non-default policy and
14102 "fall back" to the surrounding context. Try to say that without delving
14103 into implementation details.
14104
14105 Lee Schermerhorn
14106 Add discussion of mempolicy mode flags to set_mempolicy(2).
14107 This adds another reason for EINVAL.
14108
14109 setpgid.2
14110 mtk
14111 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks setpgrp() obsolete.
14112
14113 semctl.2
14114 mtk, after a note from Filippo Santovito
14115 In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
14116 incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
14117
14118 shmctl.2
14119 Filippo Santovito / mtk
14120 In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
14121 incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
14122
14123 utime.2
14124 mtk
14125 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks utime() obsolete.
14126 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the POSIX.1-2001 LEGACY
14127 marking of utimes(), so mention of this point has been
14128 removed from the page.
14129
14130 vfork.2
14131 mtk
14132 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of vfork().
14133
14134 atan2.3
14135 Fabian Kreutz
14136 SEE ALSO Add carg(3).
14137
14138 bcmp.3
14139 mtk
14140 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcmp().
14141
14142 bsd_signal.3
14143 mtk
14144 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification ofcw
14145 bsd_signal().
14146
14147 bzero.3
14148 mtk
14149 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bzero().
14150
14151 cexp2.3
14152 mtk
14153 AVAILABILITY: These functions are still not in glibc
14154 as at version 2.8.
14155
14156 clock_getres.3
14157 mtk
14158 SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3).
14159
14160 clog2.3
14161 mtk
14162 AVAILABILITY: These functions are still not in glibc
14163 as at version 2.8.
14164
14165 ctime.3
14166 mtk
14167 POSIX.1-2008 marks asctime(), asctime_r(), ctime(), and ctime_r()
14168 as obsolete.
14169
14170 dprintf.3
14171 mtk
14172 CONFORMING TO: These functions are nowadays in POSIX.1-2008.
14173
14174 ecvt.3
14175 mtk
14176 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
14177 ecvt() and fcvt().
14178
14179 ftime.3
14180 mtk
14181 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ftime().
14182
14183 ftw.3
14184 mtk
14185 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() as obsolete.
14186
14187 gcvt.3
14188 mtk
14189 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gcvt().
14190
14191 getcwd.3
14192 Reuben Thomas / mtk
14193 Clarify description of getcwd() for buf==NULL case;
14194 CONFORMING TO: According to POSIX.1, the behavior of getcwd()
14195 is unspecified for the buf==NULL case.
14196 mtk
14197 Add an introductory paragraph giving an overview of what these
14198 functions do.
14199 Fix error in description of getwd(): it does not truncate the
14200 pathname; rather, it gives an error if the pathname exceeds
14201 PATH_MAX bytes.
14202 Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
14203 Add EINVAL ENAMETOOLONG errors for getwd().
14204 Various other clarifications and wording fixes.
14205 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2001 does not define any errors for
14206 getwd().
14207 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of getwd().
14208
14209 gethostbyname.3
14210 mtk
14211 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
14212 gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and h_errno.
14213
14214 gets.3
14215 mtk
14216 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gets().
14217
14218 iconv.3
14219 iconv_close.3
14220 iconv_open.3
14221 mtk
14222 VERSIONS: These functions are available in glibc since version 2.1.
14223
14224 index.3
14225 mtk
14226 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
14227 index() and rindex().
14228
14229 isalpha.3
14230 mtk
14231 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks isalpha() as obsolete.
14232
14233 makecontext.3
14234 mtk
14235 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
14236 makecontext() and swapcontext().
14237
14238 memchr.3
14239 mtk
14240 VERSIONS: memrchr() since glibc 2.2; rawmemchr() since glibc 2.1.
14241
14242 mempcpy.3
14243 mtk
14244 VERSIONS: mempcpy() since glibc 2.1.
14245
14246 mktemp.3
14247 mtk
14248 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of mktemp().
14249
14250 opendir.3
14251 mtk
14252 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 specifies fdopendir().
14253
14254 rand.3
14255 mtk
14256 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks rand_r() as obsolete.
14257
14258 siginterrupt.3
14259 mtk
14260 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks siginterrupt() as obsolete.
14261
14262 sigset.3
14263 mtk
14264 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks sighold(), sigignore(),
14265 sigpause(), sigrelse(), and sigset() as obsolete.
14266
14267 strchr.3
14268 mtk
14269 VERSIONS: strchrnul() since glibc 2.1.1.
14270
14271 tempnam.3
14272 mtk
14273 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks tempnam() as obsolete.
14274
14275 tmpnam.3
14276 mtk
14277 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks tmpnam() as obsolete.
14278
14279 toascii.3
14280 mtk
14281 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete.
14282
14283 ualarm.3
14284 mtk
14285 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ualarm().
14286
14287 ulimit.3
14288 mtk
14289 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks ulimit() as obsolete.
14290
14291 usleep.3
14292 mtk
14293 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of usleep().
14294
14295 standards.7
14296 mtk
14297 Updated details for POSIX.1-2008, and noted that if
14298 POSIX.1-2001 is listed in the CONFORMING TO section of a man
14299 page, then the reader can assume that the interface is also
14300 specified in POSIX.1-2008, unless otherwise noted.
14301
14302 time.7
14303 mtk
14304 SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3).
14305
14306 udp.7
14307 mtk
14308 SEE ALSO: add udplite(7).
14309
14310
14311 Changes to individual pages (math functions)
14312 --------------------------------------------
14313
14314 Various changes here following on from the big update to the
14315 math pages in the previous release. Test results going back
14316 glibc 2.3.2 (so far) allowed updates to various pages to note
14317 changes in historical behavior for error reporting by math
14318 functions. Thanks to the following people for providing me
14319 with test results on various distributions and glibc versions:
14320 Alain Portal, Andries Brouwer, Fabian Kreutz, Heikki Orsila,
14321 Khalil GHORBAL, Pavel Heimlich, Reuben Thomas, Samuel Thibault,
14322 Soh Kam Yung, and Stephane Chazelas
14323
14324 cabs.3
14325 cacos.3
14326 cacosh.3
14327 carg.3
14328 casin.3
14329 casinh.3
14330 catan.3
14331 catanh.3
14332 ccos.3
14333 ccosh.3
14334 cexp.3
14335 cimag.3
14336 clog.3
14337 clog10.3
14338 conj.3
14339 cpow.3
14340 cproj.3
14341 creal.3
14342 csin.3
14343 csinh.3
14344 csqrt.3
14345 ctan.3
14346 ctanh.3
14347 exp10.3
14348 exp2.3
14349 fdim.3
14350 fenv.3
14351 fma.3
14352 fmax.3
14353 fmin.3
14354 log2.3
14355 lrint.3
14356 lround.3
14357 nan.3
14358 pow10.3
14359 remquo.3
14360 round.3
14361 scalbln.3
14362 sincos.3
14363 tgamma.3
14364 trunc.3
14365 mtk
14366 Added VERSIONS section noting that these functions first
14367 appeared in glibc in version 2.1.
14368
14369 cosh.3
14370 mtk
14371 BUGS: In glibc 2.3.4 and earlier, an FE_OVERFLOW exception is not
14372 raised when an overflow occurs.
14373
14374 fenv.3
14375 mtk / Fabian Kreuz
14376 Provide more detail in the description of rounding modes.
14377 Add text describing FLT_ROUNDS (formerly in fma.3).
14378 Add BUGS section pointing out the FLT_ROUNDS does not reflect
14379 changes by fesetround().
14380
14381 fma.3
14382 mtk
14383 Remove text about FLT_ROUNDS, replacing with a cross-reference
14384 to fenv(3).
14385
14386 fpclassify.3
14387 mtk
14388 CONFORMING TO: Note that the standards provide a weaker guarantee
14389 for the return value of isinf().
14390
14391 log.3
14392 mtk
14393 BUGS: In glibc 2.5 and earlier, log(nan("")) produces a bogus
14394 FE_INVALID exception.
14395
14396 lround.3
14397 mtk
14398 Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
14399
14400 nextafter.3
14401 mtk
14402 BUGS: In glibc 2.5 and earlier these functions do not raise an
14403 FE_UNDERFLOW exception on underflow.
14404
14405 pow.3
14406 mtk
14407 BUGS: described buggy NaN return when x is negative and y is large.
14408 See also: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866.
14409 BUGS: Note the bogus FE_INVALID exception that occurred in glibc
14410 2.3.2 and earlier on overflow and underflow.
14411
14412 remainder.3
14413 mtk
14414 Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
14415
14416 round.3
14417 mtk
14418 Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
14419
14420 scalb.3
14421 mtk
14422 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of scalb().
14423
14424 tgamma.3
14425 mtk
14426 BUGS: In glibc 2.3.3, tgamma(+-0) produced a domain error
14427 instead of a pole error.
14428
14429 y0.3
14430 mtk
14431 In glibc 2.3.2 and earlier, these functions do not raise an
14432 FE_INVALID exception for a domain error.
14433
14434 math_error.7
14435 mtk
14436 Rewrite introductory paragraph.
14437 Point out that a NaN is commonly returned by functions that report
14438 a domain error.
14439
14440
14441 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.08 ====================
14442
14443 Released: 2008-08-27, Zurich
14444
14445
14446 Contributors
14447 ------------
14448
14449 The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
14450 been incorporated in changes in this release:
14451
14452 Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
14453 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
14454 Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@foveal.com>
14455 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
14456 Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu>
14457 Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar@bravegnu.org>
14458
14459 Apologies if I missed anyone!
14460
14461
14462 New and rewritten pages
14463 -----------------------
14464
14465 getnetent_r.3
14466 mtk
14467 Documents getnetent_r(), getnetbyname_r(),
14468 and getnetbyaddr_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
14469 getnetent(), getnetbyname(), and getnetbyaddr().
14470
14471 getprotoent_r.3
14472 mtk
14473 Documents getprotoent_r(), getprotobyname_r(), and
14474 getprotobynumber_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
14475 getprotoent(), getprotobyname(), and getprotobynumber().
14476
14477 getrpcent_r.3
14478 mtk
14479 Documents getrpcent_r(), getrpcbyname_r(), and
14480 getrpcbynumber_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
14481 getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber().
14482
14483 getservent_r.3
14484 mtk
14485 Documents getservent_r(), getservbyname_r(), and
14486 getservbyport_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
14487 getservent(), getservbyname(), and getservbyport().
14488
14489 numa.7
14490 mtk
14491 A new page giving overview details for the Linux NUMA interfaces.
14492 Incorporates some material from mbind.2, and the description
14493 of /proc/PID/numa_maps from proc.5.
14494
14495
14496 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
14497 ---------------------------------------------
14498
14499 crypt.3
14500 mtk
14501 Add description of crypt_r().
14502
14503
14504 New and changed links
14505 ---------------------
14506
14507 crypt.3
14508 mtk
14509 New link to crypt.3.
14510
14511 getnetbyname_r.3
14512 getnetbyaddr_r.3
14513 mtk
14514 New links to new getnetent_r.3.
14515
14516 getprotobyname_r.3
14517 getprotobynumber_r.3
14518 mtk
14519 New links to new getprotoent_r.3.
14520
14521 getrpcbyname_r.3
14522 getrpcbynumber_r.3
14523 mtk
14524 New links to new getrpcent_r.3.
14525
14526 getservbyname_r.3
14527 getservbyport_r.3
14528 mtk
14529 New links to new getservent_r.3.
14530
14531 numa_maps.5
14532 mtk
14533 Link to new numa(7) page, which incorporates the
14534 /proc/PID/numa_maps description.
14535 As part of the numactl() package, the /proc/PID/numa_maps
14536 documentation was in a numa_maps.5 page; this link
14537 ensures that "man 5 numa_maps" still works.
14538 (Eventually, we may want to remove this link.)
14539
14540
14541 Global changes
14542 --------------
14543
14544 get_mempolicy.2
14545 mbind.2
14546 move_pages.2
14547 set_mempolicy.2
14548 mtk
14549 Add reference to numa(7) for information on library support.
14550 Added a VERSIONS section.
14551 SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).
14552
14553 faccessat.2
14554 fchmodat.2
14555 fchownat.2
14556 fstatat.2
14557 mkdirat.2
14558 mknodat.2
14559 linkat.2
14560 openat.2
14561 readlinkat.2
14562 renameat.2
14563 symlinkat.2
14564 unlinkat.2
14565 mkfifoat.3
14566 psignal.3
14567 strsignal.3
14568 mtk
14569 These interfaces are specified in POSIX.1-2008.
14570
14571
14572 Changes to individual pages
14573 ---------------------------
14574
14575 eventfd.2
14576 Vijay Kumar
14577 When an eventfd overflows, select() indicates the file as both
14578 readable and writable (not as having an exceptional condition).
14579
14580 fcntl.2
14581 mtk
14582 F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
14583
14584 getrlimit.2
14585 mtk
14586 NOTES: Add text mentioning the shell 'ulimit' (or 'limit')
14587 built-in command for setting resource limits.
14588
14589 gettimeofday.2
14590 mtk
14591 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks gettimeofday() as obsolete.
14592
14593 link.2
14594 mtk
14595 Note kernel version where Linux stopped following symbolic
14596 links in 'oldpath'; see also http://lwn.net/Articles/294667.
14597 POSIX.1-2008 makes it implementation-dependent whether or not
14598 'oldpath' is dereferenced if it is a symbolic link.
14599 Add a reference to linkat(2) for an interface that allows
14600 precise control of the treatment of symbolic links.
14601
14602 mbind.2
14603 mtk
14604 Remove material on library support and numactl; that material
14605 is now in numactl.7.
14606
14607 mmap.2
14608 mtk
14609 Add kernel version numbers for MAP_32BIT.
14610 Add some details on MAP_32BIT (see http://lwn.net/Articles/294642).
14611
14612 move_pages.2
14613 mtk
14614 Added VERSIONS (from kernel 2.6.18) and CONFORMING TO sections.
14615
14616 open.2
14617 mtk
14618 O_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
14619
14620 socket.2
14621 mtk
14622 s/d/domain/ for name of argument.
14623 Add reference to socket(2) for further information on
14624 domain, type, and protocol arguments.
14625
14626 utimensat.2
14627 mtk
14628 CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 specifies utimensat() and futimens().
14629
14630 dirfd.3
14631 mtk
14632 CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; other minor changes.
14633
14634 exec.3
14635 mtk
14636 Small rewording: "s/returned/failed with/ [an error]".
14637
14638 fmemopen.3
14639 mtk
14640 Since glibc 2.7, it is possible to seek past the end of
14641 a stream created by open_memstream(). Add a BUGS section
14642 describing the bug in earlier glibc versions.
14643
14644 gethostbyname.3
14645 mtk
14646 Clarify exactly which functions are obsoleted by getnameinfo()
14647 and getaddrinfo().
14648
14649 getnetent.3
14650 mtk
14651 Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
14652 Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
14653 the database if necessary.
14654 The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
14655 'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
14656 s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
14657 mtk
14658 In glibc 2.2, the type of the 'net' argument for getnetbyaddr()
14659 changed from 'long' to 'uint32_t'.
14660 mtk
14661 Note that the gethostbyaddr() 'net' argument is in host byte order.
14662 mtk
14663 RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
14664 statically allocated structure.
14665 SEE ALSO: add getnetent_r.3.
14666
14667 getprotoent.3
14668 mtk
14669 Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
14670 Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
14671 the database if necessary.
14672 The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
14673 'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
14674 s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
14675 mtk
14676 RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
14677 statically allocated structure.
14678 SEE ALSO: add getprotoent_r.3.
14679
14680 getrpcent.3
14681 mtk
14682 s/rpc/RPC/.
14683 Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
14684 Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
14685 the database if necessary.
14686 s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
14687 mtk
14688 RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
14689 statically allocated structure.
14690 SEE ALSO: add getrpcent_r.3.
14691
14692 getservent.3
14693 mtk
14694 Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
14695 Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
14696 the database if necessary.
14697 The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
14698 'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
14699 s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
14700 mtk
14701 RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
14702 statically allocated structure.
14703 SEE ALSO: add getservent_r.3.
14704
14705 mkdtemp.3
14706 mtk
14707 CONFORMING TO: this function is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
14708
14709 mq_notify.3
14710 Venkatesh Srinivas
14711 s/sigev_notify_function/sigev_thread_function/
14712 as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494956.
14713
14714 realpath.3
14715 mtk
14716 Relocate text for resolved_path==NULL case to DESCRIPTION.
14717 POSIX.1-2001 leaves the resolved_path==NULL case as
14718 implementation-defined; POSIX.1-2008 specifies the behavior
14719 described in this man page.
14720
14721 sem_init.3
14722 mtk
14723 POSIX.1-2008 rectifies the POSIX.1-2001 omission, specifying
14724 that zero is returned by a successful sem_init() call.
14725
14726 core.5
14727 Mike Bianchi / mtk
14728 Make the page more helpful to non-programmers by referencing
14729 the documentation of the shell's 'ulimit' command in the
14730 discussion of RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE.
14731 SEE ALSO: Add bash(1).
14732 mtk
14733 Note that a core dump file can be used in a debugger.
14734
14735 proc.5
14736 mtk
14737 Remove /proc/PID/numa_maps material (it is now in numa(7)).
14738
14739 cpuset.7
14740 mtk
14741 SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).
14742
14743 inotify.7
14744 mtk / Li Zefan
14745 Explain bug that occurred in coalescing identical events in
14746 kernels before 2.6.25.
14747 (See commit 1c17d18e3775485bf1e0ce79575eb637a94494a2
14748 "A potential bug in inotify_user.c" in the 2.6.25 Changelog.)
14749
14750 pthreads.7
14751 mtk
14752 Update thread-safe functions list with changes in POSIX.1-2008.
14753 SEE ALSO: add proc(5).
14754
14755 signal.7
14756 mtk
14757 Update list of async-sygnal-safe functions for POSIX.1-2008.