-The following are changes in previous 2.xx man page releases.
-
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.00 ====================
Released: 2004-12-16
Global changes
--------------
-Many math pages had their synopses compressed, as per suggestion
-from Fabian Kreutz.
+Various pages
+ Fabian Kreutz
+ Many math pages had their synopses compressed, as per suggestion
+ from Fabian Kreutz.
-Many minor content and formatting bug fixes were made to the math
-pages, following suggestions from Fabian Kreutz (who recently
-translated many of the 1.70 math pages into German) and
-Andries Brouwer.
+Various pages
+ Fabian Kreutz / aeb
+ Many minor content and formatting bug fixes were made to the math
+ pages, following suggestions from Fabian Kreutz (who recently
+ translated many of the 1.70 math pages into German) and
+ Andries Brouwer.
-For consistency, all instances "super-user" were changed to the more
-common "superuser".
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ For consistency, all instances of "super-user" were changed
+ to the more common "superuser".
-After a note from Vasya Pupkin, I added <errno.h> to the SYNOPSIS
-of several Section 2 pages using the _syscallN() macros.
+Various pages
+ Vasya Pupkin / mtk
+ After a note from Vasya Pupkin, I added <errno.h> to the SYNOPSIS
+ of several Section 2 pages using the _syscallN() macros.
- In addition:
- -- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed
- on various pages.
+ In addition:
+ -- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed
+ on various pages.
- -- types such as "uint" in syscallN() declarations were changed
- to "unsigned int", etc.
+ -- types such as "uint" in syscallN() declarations were changed
+ to "unsigned int", etc.
- -- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed.
+ -- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed.
- The affected pages are:
+ The affected pages are:
getdents.2
gettid.2
bind.2
Florian Weimer
Added 'const' to declaration of 'my_addr' in prototype.
- as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239762
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239762.
fcntl.2
Martin Pool
mtk
Material on getrusage.2 has been separated out into its own page.
Rewrote discussion on RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to incorporate kernel
- 2.6.9 changes.
+ 2.6.9 changes.
Added note on RLIMIT_CPU error in older kernels.
- Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
+ Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING.
Also made a few other minor changes.
getrusage.2
mtk
This page is new(ish) -- it was created by splitting
- getrlimit.2.
+ getrlimit.2.
- Repaired note on SIGCHLD behaviour to note that the
- POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
+ Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
+ POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
kill.2
Modified after suggestion from Emmanuel Colbus
Changed wording of sentence under NOTES describing
- when signals can be sent to init.
+ when signals can be sent to init(1).
-mlock.2, munlock.2, mlockall.2, munlockall.2
+mlock.2
+munlock.2
+mlockall.2
+munlockall.2
These have been consolidated into a single mlock.2 page.
In the process, much duplication was eliminated
- and new information was added about RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
- and the changes in memory locking in kernel 2.6.9,
+ and new information was added about RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
+ and the changes in memory locking in kernel 2.6.9,
mmap.2
mtk
Note that MAP_FIXED replaces existing mappings
msgctl.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added msqid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
msgget.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
msgop.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
2004-11-03 applied patch from Martin Schulze
semctl.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Rewrote semun text.
Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
semget.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
- Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialise
- semaphore values.
+ Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialize
+ semaphore values.
semop.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmctl.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Updated shmid_ds structure definitions.
Added information on SHM_DEST and SHM_LOCKED flags.
Noted that CAP_IPC_LOCK is not required for SHM_UNLOCK
- since kernel 2.6.9.
+ since kernel 2.6.9.
Added notes on 2.6.9 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK changes.
Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING (new in Linux 2.6.8)
shmget.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmop.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Changed wording and placement of sentence regarding attachment
- of segments marked for destruction.
+ of segments marked for destruction.
sigaction.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Added mention of SIGCONT under SA_NOCLDSTOP.
Added SA_NOCLDWAIT.
Updated discussion for POSIX.1-2001 and SIGCHLD and sa_flags.
signal.2
mtk
Removed text on ignoring SIGCHLD; replaced with pointer
- to sigaction.2.
+ to sigaction.2.
sigwaitinfo.2
After bug report from Andrey Kiselev
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249698
swapon.2
- After bug report from Anand Kumria
- Added "no swap space signature" to EINVAL error
- as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
+ After Debian bug report from Anand Kumria
+ Added "no swap space signature" to EINVAL error.
mtk
Added EINVAL error for swapoff() ("not currently a swap area").
Added EBUSY error for swapon().
times.2
mtk
In Linux 2.6, the return value of times changed; it is no
- longer time since boot, but rather:
+ longer time since boot, but rather:
- boot_time + 2^32 / HZ - 300
+ boot_time + 2^32 / HZ - 300
- Repaired note on SIGCHLD behaviour to note that the
- POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
+ Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
+ POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
Some formatting fixes.
undocumented.2
Added waitid(2).
Added WCONTINUED and WIFCONTINUED (new in 2.6.10).
Added text on SA_NOCLDSTOP.
- Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behaviour.
+ Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behavior.
Much other text rewritten.
wait4.2
mtk
Rewrote this page, removing much duplicated information,
- and replacing with pointers to wait.2.
+ and replacing with pointers to wait.2.
Luis Javier Merino Morán / mtk
CONFORMING TO said "SVr4, POSIX". Changed to "4.3BSD"
ctime.3
mtk
Noted that 0 in tm_mday is interpreted to mean the last day
- of the preceding month.
+ of the preceding month.
getnameinfo.3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229618
proc.5
mtk
Updated description of /proc/loadavg to include
- nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid.
+ nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid.
rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8
netdevice.7
Karel Kulhavy and AEB
formatting fix after note from Karel Kulhavy and AEB, plus a
- few wording fixes.
+ few wording fixes.
signal.7
mtk
/proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-* were superseded by RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
- in kernel 2.6.8.
+ in kernel 2.6.8.
tcp.7
- mtk/aeb
+ mtk/aeb
Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ====================
Global changes
--------------
-Matthew Dempsky, mtk
- triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179
- The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in the
- following pages:
-
- accept.2
- close.2
- send.2
- setsid.2
- socket.2
- closedir.3
- initgroups.3
- mkstemp.3
- opendir.3
- readdir.3
- telldir.3
+accept.2
+close.2
+send.2
+setsid.2
+socket.2
+closedir.3
+initgroups.3
+mkstemp.3
+opendir.3
+readdir.3
+telldir.3
+ Matthew Dempsky, mtk
+ triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179
+ The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in these pages.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
sendfile.2
mtk
Adjusted descriptions of argument file types to be closer to
- 2.6 reality.
- Wording and formatting changes
+ 2.6 reality.
+ Wording and formatting changes.
ctan.3
ctanh.3
errno.3
Martin Schulze, mtk
Removed errno declaration from prototype, added notes
- on historical need for this declaration.
+ on historical need for this declaration.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174175
aio_return.3
- as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953
- Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)"
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953
+ Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)".
posix_openpt.3
mtk
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271243
strcasecmp.3
- Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org>
+ Marek Habersack
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-BSD 4.4
+BSD 4.4, SUSv3
+(The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)
sysconf.3
- Johannes Berg / http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974
+ Johannes Berg
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974
-.BR POSIX2_FORT_RUN " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
+.BR POSIX2_FORT_DEV " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
system.3
Pedro Zorzenon
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242638
- Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros <sytdlib.h>
- as for wait(2).
+ Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros from <stdlib.h>
+ for wait(2).
mtk
Changed name of argument from 'string' to 'command' (like POSIX).
Noted that glibc does nowadays explicitly check for the existence
- of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behaviour
+ of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behavior
of assuming the shell exists and always returning 1 if
'command' is NULL.
Global changes
--------------
-Martin (Joey) Schulze
- Removed SEE ALSO reference to non-existent newctime(3) from:
-
- ctime.3
- tzselect.8
- zdump.8
- zic.8
-
+ctime.3
+tzselect.8
+zdump.8
+zic.8
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent newctime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236884
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
clone.2
mtk
- Noted the PID caching behaviour of NPTL's getpid()
+ Noted the PID caching behavior of NPTL's getpid()
wrapper under BUGS.
Added futex(2), set_thread_area(2), set_tid_address(2),
mincore.2
mtk, after note from Gordon Jin
- Updated ERRORS
+ Updated ERRORS.
pipe.2
As per message from Serguei Leontiev
sigqueue.2
Johan Walles, Martin (Joey) Schulze
- Added sigqueue.2 to SEE ALSO
+ Added sigqueue.2 to SEE ALSO.
times.2
mtk
- Added notes on non-standard behaviour: Linux allows 'buf' to
+ Added notes on non-standard behavior: Linux allows 'buf' to
be NULL, but POSIX.1 doesn't specify this and it's non-portable.
uselib.2
Substantial updates.
man.7
- Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+ Martin Schulze
+ Branden Robinson
+ Colin Watson
Mention the .URL macro more verbosely.
Global changes
--------------
-Pavel Heimlich
- Change `ttys(4)' to `ttyS(4)' in:
- tty.4 mouse.4 vcs.4 console_ioctl.4 console.4
+console.4
+console_ioctl.4
+mouse.4
+tty.4
+vcs.4
+ Pavel Heimlich
+ Change `ttys(4)' to `ttyS(4)'.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
shmctl.2
mtk
- Noted aberrant Linux behaviour with respect to new attaches to a
+ Noted aberrant Linux behavior with respect to new attaches to a
segment that has already been marked for deletion.
Noted changes in permissions required for SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK.
mtk
Noted that the __W* flags can't be used with waitid().
-getconf.3
+confstr.3
mtk
Added _CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION and _CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION.
Global changes
--------------
-For consistency across pages:
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ For consistency across pages:
- 1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g
+ 1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
_exit.2
mtk
- Various minor changes
+ Various minor changes.
epoll_ctl.2
- Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
+ Mike Furr
BUGS: In kernels < 2.6.9, EPOLL_CTL_DEL required a non-NULL
'event', even though this argument is ignored.
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517
flock.2
- mtk / Kevin Ryde
- Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks
- and open file entries and file descriptors.
- See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121
+ mtk / Kevin Ryde
+ Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks
+ and open file entries and file descriptors.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121
getitimer.2
Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier
Walter Harms
O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE.
mtk
- O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6
- Various minor fixes
+ O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6.
+ Various minor fixes.
atexit.3
mtk
- Various minor changes
+ Various minor changes.
exit.3
mtk
- Various minor changes
+ Various minor changes.
getopt.3
- mtk / Philipp Spitzer
- Fix description of return value.
- See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359
+ mtk / Philipp Spitzer
+ Fix description of return value.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359
hsearch.3
mtk
log1p.3
Justin Pryzby
- make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3)
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578
+ Make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3),
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578
makecontext.3
Tanaka Akira
- Fix description of RETURN VALUE for makecontext()
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800
+ Fix description of RETURN VALUE for makecontext(),
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800
on_exit.3
mtk
- Various minor changes
+ Various minor changes.
rand.3
- kabloom@ucdavis.edu
- Small fix to a code example
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842.
+ kabloom
+ Small fix to a code example,
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842
realpath.3
mtk / Thomas Hood
rcmd.3
Dave Love
- The required header file for these functions on Linux is <netdb.h>
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680
+ The required header file for these functions on Linux is <netdb.h>,
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680
scanf.3
Olivier Guilyardi
- Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void.
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109
+ Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void,
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109
stdin.3
Vincent Lefevre
freopen() can change the descriptors associated with
- stdin/stdout/stderr.
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859.
+ stdin/stdout/stderr, as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859
strerror.3
Baurjan Ismagulov
- strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880
+ strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600,
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880
sysconf.3
Peter Cordes / mtk
- Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV"
+ Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV".
proc.5
mtk
- Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7
+ Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7.
ip.7
mtk
tcp.7
Dieter Brueggemann / mtk
- Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg
+ Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg.
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions
_exit.2
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
- function".
+ function".
close.2
mtk
dup.2
mtk
Consistent use of terms "open file description",
- "file status flags", and "file descriptor flags"
- Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
- accurate.
- Minor formatting fixes
+ "file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
+ Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not accurate.
+ Minor formatting fixes.
fcntl.2
mtk
Consistent use of terms "open file description",
- "file status flags", and "file descriptor flags"
+ "file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
- with a cross ref to dup.2
- Minor wording and formatting fixes
+ with a cross ref to dup.2
+ Minor wording and formatting fixes.
fpclassify.3
mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
getitimer.2
mtk
- The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
- man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
+ The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
+ man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
getpriority.2
- mtk
- Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
- Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
+ mtk
+ Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
+ Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
open.2
mtk / aeb
Clarification of term "open file description" along with
- explanation of what information it maintains.
- Other wording improvements
- Various minor wording changes
+ explanation of what information it maintains.
+ Other wording improvements.
+ Various minor wording changes.
atexit.3
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
- function".
+ function".
mtk
Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
- shared library unload.
+ shared library unload.
Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
- abnormal termination.
+ abnormal termination.
Formatting fixes.
exit.3
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
- function".
+ function".
mtk
Minor rewording and formatting changes.
getloadavg.3
mtk
- Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype
+ Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype.
log2.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Some formatting cleanups.
strtod.3
- Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
+ Dora Anna Volgyesi / mtk
strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
tdestroy.3
mtk
- New link to tsearch.3
+ New link to tsearch.3.
tsearch.3
mtk
- Added tdestroy to .TH line
+ Added tdestroy to .TH line.
mem.4
mtk
- Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"
+ Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem".
null.4
mtk
Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
- "chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"
+ "chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero".
vcs.4
Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
sstk.2
mtk
AFAIK, this system call has never actually done anything (other
- than be a stub) on any Unix.
+ than be a stub) on any Unix.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mtk
Documented RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE limit.
RLIMIT_RSS ceased to have any effect in 2.4 in kernel 2.4.30.
- (It already didn't have any effect in 2.2.x and 2.6.x.)
+ (It already didn't have any effect in 2.2.x and 2.6.x.)
s/MADVISE_WILLNEED/MADV_WILLNEED/
listen.2
umask.2
mtk
Added mkdir(2) to discussion, made term "file mode creation
- mask" clearer.
+ mask" clearer.
Various, mostly small, wording changes
errno.3
getpwnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by references to
- "passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
+ "passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
mtk
Miscellaneous wording improvements
Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
getnameinfo.3
- mtk
- Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
+ mtk
+ Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
getnetent.3
Petter Reinholdtsen
s/endservent/endnetent/
- As per Debian Bug#316517
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316517
getspnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/shadow by references to
- "shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
+ "shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
mtk, Claus Weber
Miscellaneous wording improvements
scanf.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fix description of RETURN VALUE
- As per Debian Bug#317037
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317037
mtk
various parts substantially rewritten; added description of
%n$ form; various text incorporated from the GNU C library
shm_open.3
mtk
Modified details of how user and group ownership of a new
- object are set.
+ object are set.
Various minor wording and formatting cleanups.
elf.5
Global changes
--------------
-The terms "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" are now used consistently
-(no abbreviations) across all manual pages.
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ The terms "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" are now used
+ consistently (no abbreviations) across all manual pages.
-Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID"
-(no more "saved user ID", "saved effective UID", saved group ID", etc.)
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID"
+ (no more "saved user ID", "saved effective UID",
+ saved group ID", etc.)
-Global fixes in textual descriptions:
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Global fixes in textual descriptions:
- uid --> UID
- gid --> GID
- pid --> PID
- id --> ID
+ uid --> UID
+ gid --> GID
+ pid --> PID
+ id --> ID
-Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with explanatory text,
-instead of atime/ctime/mtime.
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with
+ explanatory text, instead of atime/ctime/mtime.
-Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
-there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
+ there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>
Global changes
--------------
-RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or
-"RFCnnn").
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn"
+ (not "RFC nnn" or "RFCnnn").
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
du.1
Mike Frysinger
To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human",
- not "HUMAN".
+ not "HUMAN".
time.1
Mike Frysinger
getpriority.2
mtk
Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
- representations of the nice value.
+ representations of the nice value.
Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to
- getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
+ getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
mremap.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
nanosleep.2
Baurzhan Ismagulov
Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
- As per Debian bug 314435
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314435
nice.2
mtk
Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described
- in getpriority.2.
+ in getpriority.2.
Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on
- RLIMIT_NICE.
+ RLIMIT_NICE.
outb.2
David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk
Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
- As per Debian bug 263756
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263756
pause.2
mtk
poll.2
Tommy Pettersson
nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t
- As per Debian bug 322934
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322934
mtk
Some wording and formatting improvements.
sched_setparam.2
mtk
- Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
- sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and
- resource limits.
+ Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
+ sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and
+ resource limits.
sched_setscheduler.2
- mtk
- Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
+ mtk
+ Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
semctl.2
mtk
to:
One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z)
- As per Debian bug 326720
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326720
cmsg.3
mtk
getpwnam.3
Bernhard R. Link / mtk
Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
- pointing out that applications should preferentially
- inspect HOME
+ pointing out that applications should preferentially inspect HOME.
inet.3
Mike Frysinger
rpc.3
mtk / Ludovic Courtes
Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently
- have such a page in the man-pages set.
- In response to Debian bug report 325115
+ have such a page in the man-pages set.
+ In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325115
setenv.3
mtk
- glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug
+ glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug.
strnlen.3
Mike Frysinger
initrd.4
Norbert Buchmuller / mtk
Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing
- the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root.
+ the root device is obsolete, in favor of pivot root.
(However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually
describe the pivot_root method...)
- As per Debian bug 323621.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323621
proc.5
mtk
- Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files
+ Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
- Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13)
+ Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13).
- Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13)
- More needs to be said about this file
+ Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13).
+ More needs to be said about this file.
Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted
- in part of the text of this page being duplicated.
+ in part of the text of this page being duplicated.
utmp.5
Mike Frysinger
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
Hasso Tepper
- Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL
+ Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL.
signal.7
mtk
Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
- sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
+ sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2.
socket.7
mtk
udp.7
mtk
- Added description of UDP_CORK socket option
+ Added description of UDP_CORK socket option.
s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/ (POSIX standard name)
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
pts.4
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
- Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page
+ Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
---------
pty.7
- mtk
+ mtk
Overview of Unix 98 and BSD pseudo-terminals.
---------------------------
ldd.1
- mtk
- Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
+ mtk
+ Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fcntl.2
Peter Chubb / Trond Myklebust / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.10, a read lease can only be placed on a
- file descriptor that is opened read-only.
+ file descriptor that is opened read-only.
See the following LKML thread of Aug 2005
("fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??"):
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112371777712197&w=2
mprotect.2
mtk
- Add new text to ENOMEM error
+ Add new text to ENOMEM error.
mremap.2
mtk
Added description of MREMAP_FIXED and 'new_address' argument
- under NOTES.
+ under NOTES.
Revised text of EINVAL error.
read.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
read() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
mtk
- Added open(2) to SEE ALSO
+ Added open(2) to SEE ALSO.
shmget.2
mtk
s/int/size_t/ for type of 'size' argument (fix from
- Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
+ Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
write.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
atanh.3
mtk
- Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7)
+ Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fopen.3
mtk
stdio.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are
- BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
- As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
+ BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
strftime.3
mtk
Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from
- Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
+ Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
nsswitch.conf.5
mtk
Global changes
--------------
-Most instances of the constant "NULL" are not formatted (bolded) in
-man pages, but a few are. For consistency, formatting on "NULL" has
-been removed where it occurred.
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Most instances of the constant "NULL" are not formatted (bolded) in
+ man pages, but a few are. For consistency, formatting on "NULL" has
+ been removed where it occurred.
-Many minor formatting fixes were made.
+ Many minor formatting fixes were made.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
sk98lin.4
Alain Portal
- Formatting fixes
+ Formatting fixes.
capabilities.7
mtk
- Minor changes
+ Minor changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.12 ====================
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
-herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
+herbert <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Martin Landers <martin.landers@treibgut.net>
Michael Benedict <benedict@starbak.net>
sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) can be used.
path_resolution.2
- mtk / aeb
- Removed words "as well" (added in 2.11) from the phrase
- "and it gets these last five capabilities if its fsuid is 0 as well"
- since there are (unusual) situations in which fsuid can be 0 while
- the effective UID is not.
+ mtk / aeb
+ Removed words "as well" (added in 2.11) from the phrase
+ "and it gets these last five capabilities if its fsuid is 0 as well"
+ since there are (unusual) situations in which fsuid can be 0 while
+ the effective UID is not.
- Reworked (cut down) discussion of capabilities, moving part of
- it into capabilities.7
+ Reworked (cut down) discussion of capabilities, moving part of
+ it into capabilities.7
setresuid.2
mtk
Noted that ss_sp is automatically aligned by the kernel.
byteorder.3
- Brian M. Carlson / herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
+ Brian M. Carlson / herbert
Change <netinet/in.h> to <arpa/inet.h> in prototype; add text
- explaining that some systems need the former header.
- As per Debian bug 265244
+ explaining that some systems need the former header.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265244
capabilities.7
mtk
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
-Function and page cross references that were italicised were made bold
-(which is how the majority of function and page cross references
-were already done).
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Function and page cross references that were italicized were
+ made bold (which is how the majority of function and page
+ cross references were already done).
-Instances of things like "NULL-terminated string" were changed to
-"null-terminated string".
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Instances of things like "NULL-terminated string" were changed to
+ "null-terminated string".
-Pathnames, structures, arguments, and <header-files> that were bold
-were changed to italics.
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Pathnames, structures, arguments, and <header-files> that were
+ bold were changed to italics.
-Instances of the constant "NULL" that were bold-faced were made
-unformatted (which is how most instances of "NULL" were already
-formatted.)
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Instances of the constant "NULL" that were bold-faced were made
+ unformatted (which is how most instances of "NULL" were already
+ formatted.)
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.14 ====================
This page is taken as is from the FreeBSD 5.4 distribution.
(Not checked against Linux reality, but likely things are
the same.)
- See also Debian bug 336875.
+ See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336875
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Clarified parts of the discussion of file leases,
noting effect of open(O_NONBLOCK), interruption
by signal handler, or termination by signal in
- lease breaker.
- In response to Debian bug 339037.
+ lease breaker. In response to
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
stat.2
mtk / Stefan Brüns
open.2
mtk / Avery Pennarun
Add EWOULDBLOCK error for file leases.
- In response to Debian bug 339037.
+ In response to
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
putenv.3
mtk
sd.4
Martin Schulze
- Remove SEE ALSO for non-existent scsi.4.
+ Remove SEE ALSO for nonexistent scsi.4.
proc.5
mtk
when sending signals to a process group.
sigaction.2
- mtk
+ mtk
Noted that si_signo is unused on Linux.
sigpending.2
Moved here from Section 2.
Some minor wording fixes; clarified System V origins of
- X/Open flavour of this function.
+ X/Open flavor of this function.
sigset.3
mtk
glibc2.
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES section describing optional 'flag' and 'width'
- components of conversion specifiers.
+ components of conversion specifiers.
Some wording changes to bring terminology closer to SUSv3.
Added an example program.
vm86old.2
- mtk / aeb
- Add as new linik to vm86.2.
+ mtk / aeb
+ Add as new link to vm86.2.
intro.7
mtk
udp.7
Malcolm Scott
- s/tcp_socket/udp_socket/ in example
- Fixes Debian bug 340927
+ s/tcp_socket/udp_socket/ in example
+ Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340927
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.16 ====================
Added instructions for finding maintainer in Debian package.
poll.2
- mtk
- Added NOTES about INFTIM constant provided on some other
- implementations.
+ mtk
+ Added NOTES about INFTIM constant provided on some other
+ implementations.
shmop.2
Alan Stern
The -1 error return of shmat() should be cast "(void *)".
-strftime.r
+strftime.3
aeb
Remove junk text (actually intended as source code comment
in page).
pipe.2
mtk
- Added an example program.
- Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
+ Added an example program.
+ Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
wait.2
mtk
open_memstream.3
mtk
- New link to new fmemopen.3
+ New link to new fmemopen.3.
fifo.4
- mtk
- Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
environ.5
mtk
errno.3
Justin Pryzby
- Added SEE ALSO for err.3 (Debian bug 306867)
+ Added SEE ALSO for err.3.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
gethostbyname.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Added references to nsswitch.conf(5); remove cross references
- to resolv+(8). (See also Debian Bug#308397.)
+ to resolv+(8).
+ See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308397
perror.3
Justin Pryzby
- Added SEE ALSO for err.3 (Debian bug 306867)
+ Added SEE ALSO for err.3 .
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
resolver.3
mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze
Remove cross references to resolv+(8); add cross references to
- resolv.conf(5). (See also Debian Bug#214892)
+ resolv.conf(5).
+ See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214892
- Added SEE ALSO entry for resolver(5) (See Debian Bug#251122.)
+ Added SEE ALSO entry for resolver(5);
+ see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251122
strerror.3
mtk / Stefan Puiu
- Rewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavours of
+ Rewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavors of
strerror_r(), and added some additional information on
strerror().
Justin Pryzby
- Added SEE ALSO for err.3 (Debian bug 306867)
+ Added SEE ALSO for err.3, as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
elf.5
bind.2
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Remove text under EINVAL error: "This may change in the future:
- see linux/unix/sock.c for details." This behaviour has been
+ see linux/unix/sock.c for details." This behavior has been
unchanged for a long time, and seems unlikely to change.
Add EADDRINUSE to errors.
mmap.2
mtk / Mike Frysinger
- Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3)
+ Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3).
mtk
A few other small rewordings.
mmap64.3
Mike Frysinger
- New link to mmap.2
+ New link to mmap.2.
open.2
mtk
mtk / Falk Hueffner
Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
function by providing an example.
- As per Debian bug 348072.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348072
proc.5
mtk
---------------------------
mmap.2
- aeb/mtk
+ aeb / mtk
Noted that portable applications should specify fd as -1
when using MAP_ANONYMOUS.
Some rewriting of description of MAP_ANONYMOUS.
rt_sigreturn.2
Thorsten Kukuk
- New link to sigreturn.2
+ New link to sigreturn.2.
rt_sigsuspend.2
mtk
- New link to sigsuspend.2
+ New link to sigsuspend.2.
waitid.2
mtk
qsort.3
mtk
- Small rewording under EXAMPLES
+ Small rewording under EXAMPLES.
strtol.3
strtoul.3
mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
- See Debian bug 350236.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350236
mlock.2
mtk / Matthias Andree
msgop.2
mtk / Samuel Thibault
Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
- to Debian bug report 350884.
+ to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350884
Various other wording fixes.
open.2
read.2
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
- As per Debian bug 351873.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351873
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Other minor wording changes.
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
- As per Debian bug 351831.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
scanf.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
setlocale.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
- As per Debian bug 351831.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
proc.5
mtk
ascii.7
Dan Jacobson / mtk
Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
- See Debian bug 342173.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342173
locale.7
mtk
strpbrk.3
mtk after a suggestion from Samuel Thibault
Added SEE ALSO pointers to wide character equivalent functions
- See Debian bug 351996.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351996
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
mtk
Remove duplicate CLONE_STOPPED text.
Commented out crufty text describing EINVAL error
- for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
+ for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
Under CLONE_SIGHAND, noted that 'flags' must also include
- CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
+ CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
fcntl.2
mtk
Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
-Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
mbind.2
Andi Kleen, Christoph Lameter, mtk
- Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
- from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
- Plus a few other smaller fixes.
+ Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
+ from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
+ Plus a few other smaller fixes.
fexecve.3
mtk
mtk / Paul Brook
Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen
should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
- See Debian bug 356502 and the associated glibc bug report.
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356502
+ and the associated glibc bug report.
+ http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448
mtk
Various formatting fixes.
tempnam.3
Justin Pryzby
Clean up description of EEXIST error.
- Debian bug 357893
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357893
unlink.2
mtk
Global changes
--------------
-Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
-pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
+man7/*
+ mtk
+ Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
+ pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
New pages
---------
-ushare.2
+unshare.2
mtk, with reference to documentation by Janak Desai
New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
pthreads.7
mtk
- Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behaviour with respect to
+ Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behavior with respect to
the alternate signal stack.
mtk
New pages describing the POSIX semaphores API.
- These pages supercede and provide a superset of the information
+ These pages supersede and provide a superset of the information
in the glibc (3thr) "semaphores(3)" manual page.
---------------------------
ppoll.2
- Aleksandr Blokhin <sass@altlinux.ru>
+ Aleksandr Blokhin
Fix broken link.
ptrace.2
elf.5
Greg Johnson
- Removed SEE ALSO reference to non-existent core(5).
+ Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent core(5).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.29 ====================
open.2
mtk / Roberto Jimenoca
Clarified discussion of file types affected by O_NONBLOCK.
- See Debian bug 360243.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360243
openat.2
mtk
shmop.2
mtk
- Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further
- circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
+ Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further
+ circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
unshare.2
mtk
fifo.4
futex.4
complex.5
-environ.5 (many pages outside man-pages actually *expect*
- 'environ' to be in Section 7.)
-ipc.5 renamed to svipc.7
+environ.5
+ (many pages outside man-pages actually *expect*
+ 'environ' to be in Section 7.)
+
+ipc.5
+ renamed to svipc.7
".so" link files have been created to link the old file locations to the
new file locations. These links are added just to ensure that cross
error.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page describing error() and error_at_line()
- Fixes Debian bug 186307.
+ Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186307
program_invocation_name.3
mtk
fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
getitimer.2
- mtk
- Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact
- that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
+ mtk
+ Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact
+ that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
- Added text to note that current incorrect behaviour of
- normalising tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
- kernel; applications should be fixed now.
+ Added text to note that current incorrect behavior of
+ normalizing tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
+ kernel; applications should be fixed now.
gettimeofday.2
Karel Kulhavy
getline.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO pointing to getline.3.
- See Debian bug 364772.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364772
strtod.3
strtoul.3
distinguish error from success after the call.
tmpfile.3
- Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+ Reuben Thomas
DESCRIPTION does not need to say "temporary file name"
just "temporary file", since the name is in any case
unavailable to the user.
- See Debian bug 363518.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363518
mtk
In DESCRIPTION:
Change /automatically deleted when the program terminates normally/
fopen.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Document 'm' (mmap) flag.
- Debian bug 365754.
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365754
mtk
Document 'c' (notcancel) flag.
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
qsort.3
- Johannes Weiner
- Add missing "const" qualifies to cast in EXAMPLE.
- mtk
- Slight rewording of comments in EXAMPLE.
+ Johannes Weiner
+ Add missing "const" qualifies to cast in EXAMPLE.
+ mtk
+ Slight rewording of comments in EXAMPLE.
termios.3
Karel Kulhavy
Page renamings
--------------
-ftm.7 renamed to the more suggestive feature_test_macros.7
+ftm.7
mtk / Stefan Puiu
+ renamed to the more suggestive feature_test_macros.7
New pages
---------
mq_getsetattr.2
- mtk
- New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2), the system
- call that underlies mq_setattr(3) and mq_getattr(3).
+ mtk
+ New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2), the system
+ call that underlies mq_setattr(3) and mq_getattr(3).
rpmatch.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
mmap.2
Justin Pryzby
Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO.
- See Debian bug 367401.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367401
msync.2
Justin Pryzby
stdio.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to unlocked_stdio.3
- See Debian bug 367667.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
strchr.3
Justin Pryzby
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Updated to remove some functions that don't exist, and
therefore don't need to be documented.
- See Debian bug 367671.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367671
unlocked_stdio.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to stdio.3
- See Debian bug 367667.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
mq_overview.7
mtk
Kenichi Okuyama <okuyama.kenichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
-Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peter Eiserloh <eiserlohpp@yahoo.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
ioprio_set.2
Eduardo Madeira Fleury, with edits by mtk, and review by Jens Axboe
- New page for ioprio_get(2) and ioprio_set(2), new in 2.6.13.
+ New page for ioprio_get(2) and ioprio_set(2), new in 2.6.13.
offsetof.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
inotify_add_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
- See Debian bug 369960.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
mtk
Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'.
Reword introductory paragraph to clarify that
inotify_init.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
- See Debian bug 369960.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
inotify_rm_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
- See Debian bug 369960.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
inet.3
Marc Lehmann
Fixed typo in NOTES.
- Debian bug 370277.
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370277
isalpha.3
Joey
re_comp.3
mtk
- Note that these functions are obsolete in favour of regcomp(3).
+ Note that these functions are obsolete in favor of regcomp(3).
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to regcomp.3
Reworded CONFORMING TO statement on scandir() and alphasort().
strchr.3
- Stefan Puiu
- Fix prototype for strchrnul().
+ Stefan Puiu
+ Fix prototype for strchrnul().
strtoul.3
- Stefan Puiu
- Add text clarifying treatment of strings starting with
- minus sign.
+ Stefan Puiu
+ Add text clarifying treatment of strings starting with
+ minus sign.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
inotify.7
mtk
- 'path' argument renamed to 'pathname'.
- A few minor rewordings.
- Added BUGS section describing a couple of bugs.
+ 'path' argument renamed to 'pathname'.
+ A few minor rewordings.
+ Added BUGS section describing a couple of bugs.
ip.7
mtk
man.7
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to groff_man(7).
- Debian bug 369253.
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369253
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.35 ====================
---------
sync_file_range.2
- Andrew Morton / mtk
+ Andrew Morton / mtk
New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17.
Changes to individual pages
Thomas Huriaux / mtk
- Various formatting found as a result of reviewing the following
- command were fixed.
+ Various formatting problems found as a result of reviewing the
+ following command were fixed.
- for a in $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do
- echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null;
+ for a in $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do
+ echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null;
done 2>&1 | less
- See Debian Bug# 378544.
-
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378544
+
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
readlinkat.2
mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
-
+
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
exevce.2
mtk
- Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
+ Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
saved set-IDs during execve().
- See Debian bug 379297.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379297
getitimer.2
mtk
- Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval tiemrs.
-
+ Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval timers.
+
getrlimit.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
- Some rewording; included text describing required file
+ Some rewording; included text describing required file
permissions.
intro.2
mmap.2
mtk
Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
- mtk, after prompting by Dan Gaudet
+ mtk, after prompting by Dean Gaudet
Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
mtk
Various minor formatting fixes.
-
+
openat.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
nanosleep.2
mtk
- Noted buggy behaviour in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
+ Noted buggy behavior in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
nice.2
mtk
Very minor rewording.
-
+
readlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
-
+
setpgid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
-
+
setsid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
-
+
umask.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.
Global changes
--------------
-There was a major reworking of the CONFORMING TO sections
-in most manual pages.
+Most pages
mtk
+ There was a major reworking of the CONFORMING TO sections
+ in most manual pages.
- * generally try to rationalise the names used for standards.
- The preferred names are now documented as the head words
- of the list in standards(7). For the future: there is
- probably no need to talk about anything more than
- C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001 (or later), xBSD, and SVr4.
- (In particular, I've eliminated most references to XPG
- and SVID, replacing them with references to SUS or SVr4.)
+ * generally try to rationalize the names used for standards.
+ The preferred names are now documented as the head words
+ of the list in standards(7). For the future: there is
+ probably no need to talk about anything more than
+ C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001 (or later), xBSD, and SVr4.
+ (In particular, I've eliminated most references to XPG
+ and SVID, replacing them with references to SUS or SVr4.)
- * eliminate discussion of errors that can occur on other
- systems. This information exists only patchily in the
- manual pages, is probably of limited use, is hard to maintain,
- and was in some cases simply wrong (and probably always was).
+ * eliminate discussion of errors that can occur on other
+ systems. This information exists only patchily in the
+ manual pages, is probably of limited use, is hard to maintain,
+ and was in some cases simply wrong (and probably always was).
- * Tried to ensure that those interfaces specified in C99 or
- POSIX.1-2001 are marked as such in their manual pages.
+ * Tried to ensure that those interfaces specified in C99 or
+ POSIX.1-2001 are marked as such in their manual pages.
intro.1
intro.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new standards.7.
-Changed instances of "HP UX" to "HP-UX".
+Various pages
mtk
+ Changed instances of "HP UX" to "HP-UX".
-Changed instances of "DG-UX to "DG/UX"
+Various pages
mtk
+ Changed instances of "DG-UX to "DG/UX"
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Global changes
--------------
-Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references
+Various pages
mtk
- In various pages that were missed for 2.38.
+ Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references
+ in various pages that were missed for 2.38.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
fork.2
mtk, after a suggestion by Christoph Hellwig
- Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
+ Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
in parent and child.
linkat.2
set_mempolicy.2
mtk / Andi Kleen
Memory policy is preserved across execve().
-
+
write.2
mtk / Alain Portal
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
getcwd.3
Samuel Thibault / mtk
- Fix SYNOPSIS and CONFORMING TO text for getwd() and
+ Fix SYNOPSIS and CONFORMING TO text for getwd() and
get_current_dir().
- See Debian bug: 381692
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381692
proc.5
Chuck Ebbert
capabilities.7
Alain Portal
Restore text accidentally deleted in 2.39.
-
+
regex.7
mtk / Alain Portal
Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2".
fork.2
mtk
- Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited
+ Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited
by child.
getdtablesize.2
mtk
- Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable
+ Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable
applications.
-
+
getpagesize.2
mtk
- Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable
+ Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable
applications.
_SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
-
+
madvise.2
mtk
Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
mount.2
mtk / Trond Myklebust
MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
-
+
mmap.2
mtk
- Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of
+ Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of
length==0.
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Added some EINVAL errors.
msync.2
mtk
- Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to
+ Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to
a locked region.
posix_fadvise.2
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
Michael Kerrisk
Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
-
+
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
vfork.2
mtk
Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
-
+
wait4.2
mtk
Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
-
+
clog2.3
mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
Fix broken text in description.
- See Debian bug 386214.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
clog10.3
Kevin Ryde
Fix broken text in description.
- See Debian bug 386214.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
mq_receive.3
Britton Leo Kerin
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
- See Debian bug 387551.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387551
qsort.2
Hrvoje Niksic
- Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar'
+ Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar'
function.
- See Debian bug 391402.
-
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391402
+
sendfile.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
termios.3
mtk
Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
-
+
tzset.3
mtk
Added some TZ examples.
- See Debian bug 386087.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386087
proc.5
mtk
brk.2
Evan Teran / mtk
- Add text describing behaviour of the Linux brk() system call
- and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
- behaviour.
+ Add text describing behavior of the Linux brk() system call
+ and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
+ behavior.
mtk
- Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc
+ Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc
that calls the brk() system call.
futex.2
Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
extensions.
-
+
open.2
mtk / Eduard Bloch
- Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test
+ Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test
macros.
ptrace.2
core.5
mtk
Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
- Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
+ Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
be produced.
crypt.3
Egmont Koblinger
- Make desription of MD5 output string less ambiguous.
+ Make description of MD5 output string less ambiguous.
strerror.3
Reuben Thomas
- Add C99 to CONFORMING TO; see Debian bug 400634.
+ Add C99 to CONFORMING TO; see
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400634
rtc.4
David Brownell
-
+
Update the RTC man page to reflect the new RTC class framework:
- Generalize ... it's not just for PC/AT style RTCs, and there
feature_test_macros.7
mtk / Eduard Bloch
- The LFS spec is now at http://opengroup.org/platform/lfs.html.
+ The LFS spec is now at http://opengroup.org/platform/lfs.html
raw.7
udp.7
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
-Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.ne>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
-Val Henson <val_henson@linux.interl.com>
+Val Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
mtk
Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
- which may me grammar errors.
+ which may be grammar errors.
Global changes
--------------
-mtk
- JustinPyzby / mtk
+Various pages
+ Justin Pryzby / mtk
Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
unlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
-mtk
- Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
- that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems.
-
-mtk, after a suggestion by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
- Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions
- are and are not part of C89. Also fixed/improved a few other
- CONFORMING TO entries.
-
-mtk
- s/Unices/Unix systems/ on the 5 pages where it appears.
-
-mtk
- Wrapped long source lines in the following files
- man2/getsockopt.2
- man2/mknodat.2
- man2/io_setup.2
- man2/select_tut.2
- man2/select.2
- man2/readlinkat.2
- man2/io_cancel.2
- man2/syslog.2
- man3/wcsncat.3
- man3/getipnodebyname.3
- man3/cmsg.3
- man3/wcpncpy.3
- man3/wcsrtombs.3
- man3/wcstok.3
- man3/fgetwc.3
- man3/wmemcmp.3
- man3/wcsspn.3
- man3/div.3
- man3/modf.3
- man3/stdio_ext.3
- man3/ctermid.3
- man3/des_crypt.3
- man3/wcsncmp.3
- man3/wmemchr.3
- man3/wcsstr.3
- man3/wmemcpy.3
- man3/wprintf.3
- man3/wcsnrtombs.3
- man3/termios.3
- man3/erf.3
- man3/ceil.3
- man3/lround.3
- man3/nextafter.3
- man3/wcsncpy.3
- man3/wmemset.3
- man3/getw.3
- man4/console_ioctl.4
- man4/sk98lin.4
- man7/environ.7
- man7/unix.7
- man7/time.7
-
-mtk
- Added a SEE ALSO reference for feature_test_macros(7) to all
- pages where a feature test macro appears in the SYNOPSIS.
-
-mtk
- Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
- alarm.2
- nanosleep.2
- ualarm.3
- usleep.3
-
-Justin Pryzby / mtk
- Fixed consecutive duplicate word typos on a number of pages.
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
+ that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk, after a suggestion by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+ Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions
+ are and are not part of C89. Also fixed/improved a few other
+ CONFORMING TO entries.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ s/Unices/Unix systems/ on the 5 pages where it appears.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Wrapped long source lines in the following files
+ getsockopt.2
+ mknodat.2
+ io_setup.2
+ select_tut.2
+ select.2
+ readlinkat.2
+ io_cancel.2
+ syslog.2
+ wcsncat.3
+ getipnodebyname.3
+ cmsg.3
+ wcpncpy.3
+ wcsrtombs.3
+ wcstok.3
+ fgetwc.3
+ wmemcmp.3
+ wcsspn.3
+ div.3
+ modf.3
+ stdio_ext.3
+ ctermid.3
+ des_crypt.3
+ wcsncmp.3
+ wmemchr.3
+ wcsstr.3
+ wmemcpy.3
+ wprintf.3
+ wcsnrtombs.3
+ termios.3
+ erf.3
+ ceil.3
+ lround.3
+ nextafter.3
+ wcsncpy.3
+ wmemset.3
+ getw.3
+ console_ioctl.4
+ sk98lin.4
+ environ.7
+ unix.7
+ time.7
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Added a SEE ALSO reference for feature_test_macros(7) to all
+ pages where a feature test macro appears in the SYNOPSIS.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
+ alarm.2
+ nanosleep.2
+ ualarm.3
+ usleep.3
+
+Various pages
+ Justin Pryzby / mtk
+ Fixed consecutive duplicate word typos on a number of pages.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places. (Special thanks to Nicolas François!)
access.2
mtk
- Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
+ Since 2.6.20, access() honors the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
Improve ENOENT description.
faccessat.2
Justin Pryzby
- Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177.
+ Various fixes as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411177
* s/effective/real/ in description text.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
mbind.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
Fix EINVAL description.
- See Debian bug 411777.
-
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411777
+
mincore.2
Nick Piggin
Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
mmap.2
mtk
- Rewrote and reorganised various parts to be clearer.
+ Rewrote and reorganized various parts to be clearer.
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's
+ Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's
not true.
mount.2
mtk / Val Henson
Document MS_RELATIME, new in Linux 2.6.20.
-
+
open.2
Andre Majorel / mtk
- On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a
+ On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a
32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
posix_fadvise.2
rename.2
mtk / Timo Sirainen
Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
- See Debian bug 416012.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416012
semop.2
mtk
If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed
in array order. All Unix systems that I know of do this,
- and some Linux applications depend on this behaviour. SUSv3
- made no explicit statement here, but SUSv4 will explicitly
- require this behaviour.
+ and some Linux applications depend on this behavior. SUSv3
+ made no explicit statement here, but SUSv4 will explicitly
+ require this behavior.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
signal.2
Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION.
mtk
Small wording improvement.
-
+
socket.2
Nicolas François
Add reference to ipv6.7 page.
-
+
socketcall.2
Nicolas François
Fix .TH line.
symlink.2
mtk / Nicolas François
- Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to
- "open(2) and NFS". There is no relevant text in open.2 as
+ Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to
+ "open(2) and NFS". There is no relevant text in open.2 as
far as I (mtk) can see.
time.2
mtk / Reuben Thomas
Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD".
This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
- See Debian bug 403888.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403888
write.2
mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert
- When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set,
- the child is not in the normal signal delivery path. This
- means the parent cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal
- or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL). kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be
- used instead to kill the child process after receiving one
+ When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set,
+ the child is not in the normal signal delivery path. This
+ means the parent cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal
+ or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL). kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be
+ used instead to kill the child process after receiving one
of these messages.
-
+
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Fix glibc version number in description of 'cpusetsize' argument.
-
+
vfork.2
mtk
Stripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section.
-
+
basename.3
mtk / Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these
mtk
Added getopt() example program.
mtk
- Add a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific
- double-colon feature, which allows options to have optional
+ Add a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific
+ double-colon feature, which allows options to have optional
arguments.
- See Debian bug352139.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352139
glob.3
Nicolas François
malloc.3
Nicolas François
Small rewording to mention calloc().
-
+
posix_openpt.3
Martín Ferrari
- Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; as per Debian bug 400971.
- Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per Debian bug 400975.
+ Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400971
+ Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400975
Julien BLACHE
s/ptsname/posix_openpt/ in RETURN VALUE
-
+
re_comp.3
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Add "#define _REGEX_RE_COMP" to SYNOPSIS.
-
+
regex.3
Nicolas François
Fix .TH line.
mtk / Nicolas François
Remove CONFIGURATION section, since this does not seem to be
true for Linux.
-
+
svipc.7
Nicolas François
- Fix data types in associated data structures;
- remove non-existent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
+ Fix data types in associated data structures;
+ remove nonexistent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
time.7
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.
+
+
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.45 ====================
Released: 2007-04-05
Global changes
--------------
-This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
+This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages.
-With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
+With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
no changes were made to content.
Changes to individual pages
Global changes
--------------
-This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
+This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages:
-* Most instances of two or more consecutive blank lines in man
+* Most instances of two or more consecutive blank lines in man
page output were shrunk to a single line.
* A number of example programs were reformatted
to more closely match K&R style.
-* In various places (mainly code examples), the use of tabs was
+* In various places (mainly code examples), the use of tabs was
replaced by spaces
-With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
+With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
no changes were made to content.
select_tut.2
mtk
Make SYNOPSIS match select.2.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.47 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-04
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
+John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
+(wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
+sentences on new lines).
+
+There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
+notes below).
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+sched_rr_get_interval.2
+ mtk
+ Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented.
+ The nice interval can be used to control the size of
+ the round-robin quantum.
+ Corrected .TH line.
+
+ip.7
+ John Heffner / mtk
+ Document IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, which will be in 2.6.22.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.48 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-04
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
+(wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
+sentences on new lines).
+
+There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
+notes below).
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ In various places where it occurred,
+ s/nonnegative/non-negative/
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ s/wide character/wide-character/ when used attributively.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+man.7
+ Justin Pryzby / Colin Watson / mtk
+ .SH doesn't require quotes.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411303
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.49 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-20
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
+Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+bsd_signal.3
+ mtk
+ Documentation of bsd_signal().
+
+euidaccess.3
+ mtk
+ Manual page for euidaccess() and eaccess().
+
+getsubopt.3
+ mtk / Justin Pryzby
+ Documentation of getsubopt().
+
+sysv_signal.3
+ mtk
+ Documentation of sysv_signal().
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+epoll_pwait.2
+ mtk
+ New link to epoll_wait.2.
+
+eaccess.3
+ mtk
+ New link to new euidaccess.3,
+
+sem_timedwait.3
+ mtk
+ New link to sem_wait.3.
+
+sem_trywait.3
+ mtk
+ New link to sem_wait.3.
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.3
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
+
+epoll_wait.2
+ mtk
+ Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
+
+execve.2
+ mtk
+ Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
+ NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
+ and should be avoided in portable programs.
+ Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
+ to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
+ is an ABI change.
+ mtk
+ Added an example program.
+ mtk
+ Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
+ 'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
+ For further info, see
+ http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html
+ http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
+ mtk
+ Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be
+ released.
+ mtk
+ Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID
+ programs.
+ mtk
+ Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
+ execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
+ may be treated specially.
+
+faccessat.3
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
+
+mmap.2
+ mtk
+ Place MAP_* flags list in alphabetical order.
+
+readv.2
+ mtk
+ A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things
+ fixes the problem reported by Kyle Sluder in
+ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
+ And added some example code.
+
+sigaction.2
+ mtk
+ Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
+ functions in signal(7).
+ A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
+
+signal.2
+ mtk
+ Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
+ Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
+ functions in signal(7).
+ Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
+ sysv_signal.3 pages.
+
+copysign.3
+ Bruno Haible
+ Clarify discussion of negative zero.
+
+getopt.3
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO ref to new getsubopt.3.
+
+iconv_open.3
+ Bruno Haible
+ Describe the glibc/libiconv //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE extensions
+ for 'tocode'.
+
+iswblank.3
+ Bruno Haible
+ Update CONFORMING TO; iswblank() is in POSIX.1-2001.
+
+inotify.7
+ mtk
+ Definitions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR
+ were added to glibc in version 2.5.
+
+signal.7
+ mtk
+ Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on
+ async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2).
+ Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
+ sysv_signal.3 pages.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.50 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-21
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andreas Halter <halter@google.com>
+Laird Shaw <netocrat@dodo.com.au>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Removed pages (!)
+-----------------
+
+Most Section 1 man pages are removed
+ mtk (with help from Mike Frysinger, Laird Shaw, Andreas Halter)
+ Once upon time Andries added a number of Section 1 manual pages
+ to man-pages. However, since that time, those pages have not
+ seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most
+ distributions. Instead most distributions supply the
+ coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently
+ maintained. In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages,
+ which document the portable subset of functionality of these
+ commands. Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and
+ out of date, I'm removing them. The following pages disappear:
+
+ chgrp.1
+ chmod.1
+ chown.1
+ cp.1
+ dd.1
+ df.1
+ diff.1
+ dir.1
+ dircolors.1
+ du.1
+ install.1
+ ln.1
+ ls.1
+ mkdir.1
+ mkfifo.1
+ mknod.1
+ mv.1
+ rm.1
+ rmdir.1
+ touch.1
+ vdir.1
+
+ The following Section 1 pages will be kept:
+
+ intro.1
+ ldd.1
+ time.1
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.51 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-28
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ (Hopefully) all cross references outside a page now include a
+ section number. This should permit better resulting output
+ from a man2html-type conversion.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to
+ ".BR name ()".
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+futimesat.2
+ mtk
+ s/futimes/futimesat/ in .SH NAME line.
+
+msgop.2
+ mtk
+ Put "msgrcv" and "msgsnd" in .SH NAME line.
+
+mount.2
+ mtk
+ Add "umount2" to .SH NAME line.
+
+wait.2
+ mtk
+ Add "waitid" to .SH NAME line.
+
+getopt.3
+ mtk
+ Add "getopt_long" and "getopt_long_only" in .SH NAME line.
+
+sem_wait.3
+ mtk
+ Add "sem_timedwait" and "sem_trywait" to .SH NAME line.
+
+stdarg.3
+ mtk
+ Add "va_start", "va_arg", "va_end", "va_copy" to .SH NAME line.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.52 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-29
+
+ "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
+ little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
+
+ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
+
+ "But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Most of the changes below are about bringing greater consistency
+to manual pages, including reducing the wide range of .SH
+Section headings.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Make 'manual' component of .TH line into the string
+ "Linux Programmer's Manual".
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM.
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Some .SH header lines were made into .SS lines. (One of the aims
+ here is to reduce the number of non-standard .SH lines.)
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Change title .SH sections named "NOTE" to "NOTES", in some cases
+ also changing the location of the section within the page.
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Commented out .SH AUTHOR sections; the right place for
+ documentation authorship sections is usually comments at the
+ top of the page source.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS.
+ Reason: in many cases, HISTORY was being used to describe
+ Linux/glibc version information, as was already done for
+ VERSIONS sections in other pages.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs
+ under another section e.g., NOTES.
+ Reason: there are too many arbitrary section (.SH) names, and
+ a HISTORY section never was consistently used across Linux
+ manual pages.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Moved SEE ALSO section to be last section on the page
+ Reason: consistency -- and this is where SEE ALSO should be!
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES
+ Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES
+ Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Renamed some "AVAILABILITY" sections to "VERSIONS".
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Renamed some "DIAGNOSTICS" sections to "RETURN VALUE".
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+getopt.3
+tzselect.8
+ mtk
+ s/\.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES/.SH ENVIRONMENT/
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+intro.2
+select.2
+sysctl.2
+bsearch.3
+dlopen.3
+envz_add.3
+fmtmsg.3
+getgrent_r.3
+getgrouplist.3
+getpwent_r.3
+getutent.3
+hsearch.3
+rtime.3
+strptime.3
+tsearch.3
+vcs.4
+wordexp.3
+ mtk
+ s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() of function example
+ program.
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+mprotect.2
+select_tut.2
+dlopen.3
+getgrent_r.3
+getopt.3
+getpwent_r.3
+hsearch.3
+select_tut.2
+tsearch.3
+ mtk
+ Use symbolic constants (EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE) in calls
+ to exit().
+ Reason: consistency.
+
+access.2
+chown.2
+lseek.2
+open.2
+read.2
+utmp.5
+ mtk
+ Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a
+ RESTRICTIONS section under existing NOTES section.
+ Reason: consistency, and reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH)
+ names.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+capget.2
+ mtk
+ s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/
+
+dup.2
+ mtk
+ s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
+
+kill.2
+ Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated
+ within page.
+
+select_tut.2
+ mtk
+ Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE".
+
+sigaltstack.2
+ mtk
+ Move code example into its own EXAMPLE section.
+
+sigreturn.2
+ mtk
+ s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
+
+setuid.2
+ mtk
+ s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/
+
+shmget.2
+ mtk
+ Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2
+ contains the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
+
+shmop.2
+ mtk
+ Minor rewording under DESCRIPTION.
+
+daemon.3
+ mtk
+ Minor wording and formatting changes.
+
+encrypt.3
+ mtk
+ Removed statement that glibc unconditionally exposes declarations
+ of encrypt() and setkey(), since portable applications must
+ use <unistd.h> and define _XOPEN_SOURCE to obtain the declarations
+ of setkey() and encrypt(). Adjusted example program accordingly.
+
+mkstemp.3
+ mtk
+ Slight rewording.
+
+LDP.7
+ mtk
+ Minor wording and formatting changes.
+
+man.7
+ mtk
+ Substantial rewrite, revising and extending the discussion
+ about desired conventions for writing pages.
+ There will be further updates to this page in the next few
+ man-pages releases.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.53 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-30
+
+ "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
+ little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
+
+ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
+
+ "But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Many many pages
+ mtk
+ Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
+ sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
+
+man7/*
+ mtk
+ In various pages in this section, .SH headings were
+ converted to .SS.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.54 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-07
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Emmanuel Mogenet <emogenet@google.com>
+Michael Berg <michaeljberg@gmail.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Where there is an instruction in the SYNOPSIS about linking
+ or compiling with a certain option, the option is now
+ marked up in italics (e.g., "\fI-lm\fP").
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Added page numbers to page cross references.
+
+A few pages
+ mtk
+ s/manpage/man page/, for consistency.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ A description of the conventions that should be followed
+ when writing pages for the man-pages package.
+
+Removed pages
+-------------
+
+man1/README
+ mtk
+ Already deleted most of the man1 pages previously, so
+ this doesn't need to stay.
+
+LDP.7
+ mtk
+ Removed this page since it is out of date, and the proper place
+ to go for up-to-date information is http://www.tldp.org/
+
+ksoftirq.9
+ mtk
+ Reason: this was the only Section 9 page, and it is old
+ (Linux 2.4). The man9 section never took off as an idea, and
+ I see little point in keeping a Section 9 with just a single
+ old page.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+HOWTOHELP
+ mtk
+ Moved some material out of here into new man-pages.7.
+
+alloc_hugepages.2
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing
+ some outdated text.
+
+epoll_pwait.2
+ Michael Berg
+ Fix broken link path;
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425570
+
+fcntl.2
+ mtk
+ Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
+ open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
+
+fdatasync.2
+ mtk
+ Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being
+ equivalent to fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note
+ about this historical behavior.
+
+futex.2
+ mtk
+ Small rewording to fix "fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK"
+ rather than "returns EWOULDBLOCK".
+ See Red Hat bug 172828.
+
+mprotect.2
+ mtk, after an observation by Emmanuel Mogenet
+ A much improved example program.
+ mtk
+ Significant rewrites and additions to description.
+
+mremap.2
+ mtk
+ Remove text about the nonexistent BSD mremap() -- too
+ much information, in my opinion.
+
+sched_yield.2
+ mtk
+ Added ERRORS section.
+
+set_mempolicy.2
+ mtk
+ Moved text for "Versions and Library Support".
+
+set_tid_address.2
+ mtk
+ Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section.
+
+sigaction.2
+ mtk
+ Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2.
+
+sync_file_range.2
+ mtk
+ Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section.
+
+atexit.3
+ mtk
+ Small rearrangement of text under NOTES.
+
+bindresvport.3
+ mtk
+ Rewrite and substantial additional text.
+
+exec.3
+ mtk
+ Minor clarifications for text on execlp() and execvp(). Removed
+ FILES section, since it provides no useful additional info.
+
+fenv.3
+ mtk
+ Moved link instructions from NOTES to SYNOPSIS.
+ Added feenableexcept, fedisableexcept, fegetexcept
+ to .SH NAME list.
+
+fputwc.3
+ mtk
+ Added 'putwc' to .SH NAME list.
+
+gethostbyname.3
+ mtk
+ s/int/socklen_t/ for type of gethostbyaddr() 'len' argument,
+ and add a few more words in NOTES about the type used here.
+
+login.3
+ mtk
+ Removed remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil; add
+ text on that point to SYNOPSIS.
+
+openpty.3
+ mtk
+ Removed redundant remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil
+ since there is text on that point under SYNOPSIS.
+
+sysconf.3
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO referring to getconf(1).
+
+unlocked_stdio.3
+ mtk
+ Revised .SH NAME section.
+
+ascii.7
+ mtk
+ Minor rearrangement of order of text.
+
+capabilities.7
+ mtk
+ s/exec()/execve(2)/ in various places.
+
+complex.7
+ mtk
+ Changed "atan(1)" to "atan(1.0)" to prevent some versions of
+ man2html(1) from mistaking that string as a page cross reference.
+
+rtnetlink.7
+ mtk
+ Small restructuring to avoid 'cannot adjust line' from man(1).
+
+ldconfig.8
+ mtk
+ Removed now very out-of-date sentence about need to link shared
+ libraries with -lc.
+
+man.7
+ mtk
+ Various text was moved out of this page into the new man-pages.7.
+
+mdoc.7
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO referring to new man-pages.7.
+
+mdoc.samples.7
+ mtk
+ A few changes, hopefully done right, to eliminate some
+ errors to stderr when rendering with man(1).
+
+rtnetlink.7
+ mtk
+ Shorten a line in table so it fits in 80 columns.
+ Minor rewording under BUGS.
+
+tzselect.8
+ mtk
+ Moved EXIT STATUS section.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-10
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alexander Taboriskiy <alextab@math-solution.com>
+Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
+Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
+Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+clone.2
+getdents.2
+gettid.2
+ioprio_set.2
+llseek.2
+mmap2.2
+modify_ldt.2
+mq_getsetattr.2
+pivot_root.2
+quotactl.2
+readdir.2
+sysctl.2
+syslog.2
+tkill.2
+ mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger
+ Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros
+ have gone away,
+
+Several pages
+ mtk
+ Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolution.7.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+Moved pages
+-----------
+
+path_resolution.2 has been moved to section 7, thus path_resolution.7
+ mtk
+ Reason: this is an overview page, not one describing as
+ a specific system call.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+MAINTAINING
+ mtk, after a note from Xose Vazquez Perez
+ Added pointer to Red Hat man-pages bugzilla.
+ mtk
+ Added a release philosophy note on separating out big
+ formatting changes into their own release that contains minimal
+ content changes.
+
+accept.2
+ mtk
+ Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
+
+arch_prctl.2
+ mtk
+ Added RETURN VALUE section.
+
+bind.2
+ mtk
+ Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section.
+ Added text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
+
+cacheflush.2
+ mtk
+ Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING TO and note that
+ this call is Linux-specific.
+ Other minor rewordings.
+
+connect.2
+ mtk
+ Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
+
+create_module.2
+ mtk
+ Add ENOSYS error.
+
+fcntl.2
+flock.2
+ mtk
+ Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Documentation/* in
+ kernel source.
+
+get_kernel_syms.2
+ mtk
+ Added ERRORS heading
+ Add ENOSYS error.
+
+getdtablesize.2
+ mtk
+ Added an ERRORS section.
+
+getsid.2
+ mtk
+ Added a RETURN VALUE section.
+
+getpid.2
+ mtk
+ Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are
+ always successful).
+
+ioctl_list.2
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2.
+
+listen.2
+ mtk
+ Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
+
+query_module.2
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Add ENOSYS error.
+
+recv.2
+ mtk
+ Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
+
+sched_get_priority_max.2
+sched_rr_get_interval.2
+sched_setscheduler.2
+sched_yield.2
+ mtk
+ Modified .TH line
+
+send.2
+ mtk
+ Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
+
+set_tid_address.2
+ mtk
+ Added an ERRORS section (stating that the call is
+ always successful).
+
+signal.2
+ mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy
+ Strengthen warning against the use of signal().
+ Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
+ mtk
+ Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section.
+
+socket.2
+ mtk
+ Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
+
+stat.2
+ mtk
+ Added EXAMPLE program.
+
+syscall.2
+ mtk
+ Converted to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE.
+
+sysctl.2
+ mtk
+ Improved the example program.
+
+getnameinfo.3
+ mtk
+ Add text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+ mtk
+ Add example programs.
+ Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list.
+
+memmove.3
+ mtk / Serge van den Boom
+ Clarify discussion of what happens if 'src' and 'dest' overlap.
+
+regex.3
+ Justin Pryzby
+ Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+sigpause.3
+ mtk after a note from Ulrich Drepper
+ Clarify discussion of feature test macros that are needed to
+ expose System V and BSD versions of this function in glibc.
+
+undocumented.3
+ mtk
+ Removed some functions that have been documented.
+
+wprintf.2
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Remove wscanf.3 from SEE ALSO list, since that page does not exist.
+
+utmp.5
+ Joey Hess
+ Removed outdated note on xdm.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418009
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Removed outdated note about Debian and libc5.
+
+bootparam.7
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Fix order of commands listed under 'init='.
+
+hier.7
+ Joey Hess
+ Add /media, remove /dos.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418234
+
+inotify.7
+ mtk
+ Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to
+ read(2) is too small to return information about the next event,
+ and noting the behavior change in 2.6.21.
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Added text to note that ERRORS list should be in alphabetical order.
+
+mdoc.7
+mdoc.samples.7
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO reference to groff_mdoc(7).
+
+unix.7
+ mtk
+ Added EXAMPLE section with pointer to bind.2 EXAMPLE.
+
+ld.so.8
+ mtk
+ Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath.
+ mtk, after a note by John Reiser
+ Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.56 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-11
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Many pages
+ mtk
+ Removed version numbers in .TH lines.
+ Reason: these were only arbitrarily updated, and so impart no
+ useful information. Version information goes into a
+ VERSIONS section nowadays, and the date in the .TH line should
+ be updated to reflect the date of the last (significant)
+ change to the page.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.57 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-17
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Many pages
+ mtk
+ Fix section numbers in page cross references.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording fixes.
+ Small clarification of description of 'mode'.
+
+bind.2
+ mtk
+ Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
+
+exit_group.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording fixes.
+
+exit.3
+ mtk
+ Added more detail on exit handlers.
+ Minor wording fixes.
+
+ioctl.2
+ mtk
+ Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent mt.4.
+
+modify_ldt.2
+ Samuel Thibault / mtk
+ In Linux 2.6, the 'modify_ldt_ldt_s' structure was renamed
+ 'user_desc'.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378668
+ mtk
+ Include definition of 'user_desc' structure.
+ Minor rewordings.
+
+mprotect.2
+ mtk
+ Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
+
+sigaction.2
+ mtk
+ Removed reference to nonexistent sigsend(2).
+
+a64l.3
+ mtk
+ Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent itoa.3.
+
+dysize.3
+ mtk
+ Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent time.3.
+
+encrypt.3
+ mtk
+ Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fcrypt.3.
+
+fmemopen.3
+ mtk
+ Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
+
+fpurge.3
+ mtk
+ Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fclean.3.
+
+getutent.3
+ mtk
+ s/ttyname(0)/ttyname(STDIN_FILENO)/ in program example.
+
+vcs.4
+ mtk
+ s/exit(1)/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/
+
+environ.7
+ mtk
+ Correct some section numbers in page cross references.
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Modify requirements for example programs a little.
+
+uri.7
+ mtk
+ Wrapped long source lines.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.58 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-24
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages, as detailed below
+ mtk
+ Added or updated VERSIONS sections.
+
+killpg.2
+setuid.2
+faccessat.2
+fork.2
+setfsuid.2
+kill.2
+getsid.2
+wait.2
+execve.2
+getpid.2
+setgid.2
+seteuid.2
+setresuid.2
+setfsgid.2
+access.2
+initgroups.3
+euidaccess.3
+tcgetpgrp.3
+path_resolution.7
+capabilities.7
+unix.7
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+credentials.7
+ mtk
+ An overview of Linux process identifiers (PIDs, PPIDs,
+ PGIDS, SIDs, UIDs, GIDs).
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+bind.2
+ mtk
+ Added some comments to example program.
+
+getxattr.2
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
+
+listen.2
+ mtk
+ Updated discussion of somaxconn limit.
+
+listxattr.2
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
+
+posix_fadvise.2
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2.
+
+readahead.2
+ mtk
+ Added VERSIONS section.
+
+remap_file_pages.2
+ mtk
+ Updated VERSIONS section with text on glibc support.
+
+removexattr.2
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
+
+semop.2
+ mtk
+ Added VERSIONS section with info on semtimedop().
+
+setxattr.2
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
+
+dl_iterate_phdr.3
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.4.
+
+getloadavg.3
+ mtk
+ Added VERSIONS section.
+
+posix_openpt.3
+ mtk
+ VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.1.
+
+printf.3
+ mtk after a suggestion by Mike Frysinger
+ Add text to the introductory part of DESCRIPTION, about the
+ 'size' argument of snprintf() and vsnprintf().
+
+shm_open.3
+ mtk
+ Added VERSIONS section; rewrote info about linking with -lrt.
+
+strcat.3
+ Marc Boyer
+ Improve the discussion of strncat().
+
+strcpy.3
+ Marc Boyer
+ Improve the discussion of strncpy().
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ Added discussion of /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.59 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-25
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Manual pages are now standardized on American spelling. See
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
+for more information on the differences. Formerly, different pages (and
+sometimes even a single page!) employed American and British spelling
+conventions; best to standardize on one spelling, and American English
+is the standard in Computer Science.
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Note that man-pages has now standardized on American spelling
+ conventions.
+
+execve.2
+getxattr.2
+listxattr.2
+removexattr.2
+setxattr.2
+signal.2
+syscall.2
+aio_cancel.3
+bindresvport.3
+stdarg.3
+charmap.5
+bootparam.7
+ipv6.7
+man.7
+path_resolution.7
+uri.7
+nscd.8
+ mtk
+ Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
+ independent of fixes for American spelling).
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.60 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-06-25
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Wrapped lines in some files.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Change "i.e. " to i.e., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Removed AUTHORS section.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+vfork.2
+ mtk
+ s/w.r.t/with respect to/
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Strengthened warning against use of AUTHORS section.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.61 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-07-01
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
+Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>
+Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
+Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder@computer.org>
+Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
+Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>
+Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
+Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
+Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ substitute `\\0' by '\\0'.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ s/`/'/ when the thing being quoted is a character.
+
+accept.2
+bind.2
+connect.2
+getsockopt.2
+listen.2
+socket.2
+socketpair.2
+ mtk after a note by Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Add NOTES paragraph noting that <sys/types.h> isn't required by
+ POSIX.1-2001 or Linux, but was required on some implementations.
+
+accept.2
+getsockname.2
+recv.2
+vm86.2
+send.2
+getgrouplist.3
+memmem.3
+nsswitch.conf.5
+putenv.3
+wprintf.3
+ mtk
+ Replace form `...' with \fI...\fP where the enclosed string
+ is a pathname, type name, or argument name.
+
+A few files
+ mtk
+ s/process' /process's/
+
+gets.3
+qsort.3
+getaddrinfo.3
+rpc.3
+ungetwc.3
+wcsnrtombs.3
+capabilities.7
+ mtk
+ Add section number to page cross references.
+
+time.1
+bind.2
+pivot_root.2
+sysctl.2
+ mtk
+ Reordered .SH sections.
+
+full.4
+mouse.4
+random.4
+sd.4
+ mtk
+ Made CONFIG/CONFIGURING heading ==> CONFIGURATION
+
+time.1
+console_codes.4
+random.4
+sk98lin.4
+charmap.5
+ftpusers.5
+bootparam.7
+charsets.7
+glob.7
+mq_overview.7
+unicode.7
+uri.7
+utf-8.7
+ mtk
+ Reformatted headings
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+backtrace.3
+ mtk, with input from Justin Pryzby and Stefan Puiu
+ Documents backtrace(), backtrace_symbols(), and
+ backtrace_symbols_fd().
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+backtrace_symbols.3
+backtrace_symbols_fd.3
+ mtk
+ Links to backtrace.3.
+
+__clone.2
+ Stepan Kasal
+ Link to clone.2.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+Makefile
+ Serge van den Boom
+ Fix setting of 'prefix' macro.
+
+eval.1p
+ Benno Schulenberg
+ Fix bad text (concatenated line).
+
+chdir.2
+ mtk
+ Fixed description of EACCES error.
+ Added sentence defining "current working directory".
+ Other minor wording changes.
+
+cfree.3
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO section.
+
+clone.2
+ mtk
+ s/clone2/__clone2/.
+
+fdatasync.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording changes.
+
+fork.2
+ Alain Portal
+ Fix small wording error.
+
+gethostid.2
+ Stefan Puiu / mtk
+ Add NOTES on what happens if gethostid() can't open /etc/hostid.
+
+idle.2
+ mtk
+ Made NOTES text into a VERSIONS section, since that's what it
+ really describes.
+
+ioperm.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording changes.
+
+intro.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrite to reflect the fact that the _syscallN
+ macros are no longer available.
+
+io_cancel.2
+ mtk
+ Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
+
+io_destroy.2
+ mtk
+ Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
+
+io_getevents.2
+ mtk
+ Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
+
+io_setup.2
+ mtk
+ Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
+
+io_submit.2
+ Ivana Varekova
+ Fix include in SYNOPSIS.
+ mtk
+ Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
+
+ipc.2
+ mtk
+ Add semtimedop() to SEE ALSO.
+ Note that some architectures don't have ipc(2); instead
+ real system calls are provided for shmctl(), semctl(), etc.
+
+killpg.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording changes.
+
+listen.2
+ mtk
+ Added <sys/types.h> to SYNOPSIS.
+
+sched_setscheduler.2
+ mtk
+ Add NOTES para about permissions required to call
+ sched_setscheduler() on other systems.
+
+select.2
+ mtk
+ Noted that 'timeout' can also be changed if select() is
+ interrupted by a signal.
+
+setup.2
+ mtk
+ Remove reference to _syscall0() macro.
+
+shmop.2
+ mtk
+ Changed text for EINVAL error.
+
+socketcall.2
+ mtk
+ Add recvmsg() and sendmsg() to SEE ALSO.
+ Note that some architectures don't have socketcall(2); instead
+ real system calls are provided for socket(), bind(), etc.
+
+swapon.2
+ Ivana Varekova / mtk
+ Update text for EPERM error describing the maximum number of
+ swap files. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
+
+write.2
+ mtk
+ Added details about seekable files and file offset.
+ Noted that write() may write less than 'count' bytes, and
+ gave some examples of why this might occur.
+ Noted what happens if write() is interrupted by a signal.
+ Minor wording changes.
+
+__setfpucw.3
+ mtk
+ Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
+
+confstr.3
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites in code example.
+
+ctime.3
+ Justin Pryzby
+ Make SEE ALSO refer to timegm.3
+
+daemon.3
+ mtk
+ Small wording change.
+
+dl_iterate_phdr.3
+ Michael Gehring
+ Comment was missing closing "*/".
+
+dlopen.3
+ mtk
+ Formatting changes, and minor rewordings.
+ mtk, after a note by Serge van den Boom
+ Add a comment explaining the need for the rather
+ strange cast of the return value of dlsym().
+
+fpclassify.3
+ mtk
+ Add "isinf" to NAME section.
+
+getgrouplist.3
+ mtk
+ Minor rewording.
+
+getline.3
+ mtk
+ Minor rewording, and note that '*n* is ignored
+ if '*lineptr' is NULL.
+
+malloc.3
+ Ivana Varekova / mtk
+ Update description of MALLOC_CHECK_ to include description
+ for value 3. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
+
+netlink.3
+ mtk
+ Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
+
+openpty.3
+ mtk
+ Minor changes to SYNOPSIS.
+
+program_invocation_name.3
+ mtk
+ Shortened page title to INVOCATION_NAME.
+
+rtnetlink.3
+ mtk
+ Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
+
+scanf.3
+ Florian Ernst
+ Fix duplicated word "the".
+ (Really fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412467 !)
+
+select_tut.3
+ mtk
+ Small wording change.
+
+setnetgrent.3
+ mtk
+ Added a CONFORMING TO section.
+
+sigpause.3
+ mtk
+ Added a CONFORMING TO section.
+
+strftime.3
+ Just Pryzby
+ Small wording fix.
+ mtk
+ Note use of "gcc -Wno-format-y2k" to avoid the "`%c' yields only
+ last 2 digits of year in some locales" warning.
+
+strstr.3
+ mtk
+ Add "strcasestr" to NAME section.
+
+syslog.3
+ mtk
+ Small wording change.
+
+
+termios.3
+ mtk
+ Reformat SYNOPSIS.
+ Added a CONFORMING TO section.
+
+timegm.3
+ mtk
+ Small wording changes.
+
+ulimit.3
+ mtk
+ Remove erroneous text saying that glibc does not provide
+ <ulimit.h>; it does.
+
+initrd.4
+ mtk
+ Various reformattings.
+
+core.5
+ mtk
+ Added a sentence noting why core dumps named "core.PID" were useful
+ with LinuxThreads.
+
+bootparam.7
+ mtk
+ Fix capitalization in .SS headings.
+
+epoll.7
+ mtk
+ Language clean ups.
+
+feature_test_macros.7
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO section.
+
+mq_overview.7
+ mtk
+ Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
+
+sem_overview.7
+ mtk
+ Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
+
+socket.7
+ Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
+ Document argument type for SO_REUSEADDR.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255881
+
+uri.7
+ mtk
+ Wrap long line in SYNOPSIS.
+
+ldconfig.8
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO section.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.62 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-07-09
+
+This release consists solely of formatting fixes. There are no changes
+to content.
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Many many pages
+ mtk
+ Many many formatting fixes.
+
+man[013]p/*
+ Stepan Kasal
+ Add section number to .TH line for POSIX pages in man[013]p.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-07-16
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
+Eduardo M. Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
+Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
+Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Martin Röhricht <martin@roehricht.info>
+Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
+Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
+Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+gettimeofday.2
+madvise.2
+msgctl.2
+select.2
+semctl.2
+shmctl.2
+syslog.2
+stat.2
+a64l.3
+printf.3
+termios.3
+xdr.3
+sd.4
+ mtk
+ Minor wording changes.
+
+obsolete.2
+syscall.2
+unimplemented.2
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+sgetmask.2
+ mtk
+ A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
+ (This page replaces a previous link of the same name, which
+ linked to signal.2.)
+
+spu_create.2
+ Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
+ Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
+ (Originally taken from the kernel source file
+ Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
+
+spu_run.2
+ Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
+ Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
+ (Originally taken from the kernel source file
+ Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
+
+spufs.7
+ Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
+ Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
+ (Originally taken from the kernel source file
+ Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
+
+
+Removed Pages
+-------------
+
+__clone.2
+ mtk
+ This file was created by accident in 2.61, as a copy of clone.2.
+ (it should have been a link to clone.2.)
+
+obsolete.2
+ mtk
+ Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
+ respective syscall man pages (stat.2, uname.2).
+
+undocumented.2
+ mtk
+ This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult
+ to maintain. Information about undocumented system calls
+ is maintained in the HOWTOHELP file, and probably in other
+ places soon.
+
+killpg.3
+ mtk
+ This rather incomplete page seems unnecessary since there
+ is a killpg.2.
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+chown32.2
+fchown32.2
+getegid32.2
+geteuid32.2
+getgid32.2
+getgroups32.2
+getresgid32.2
+getresuid32.2
+getuid32.2
+lchown32.2
+setfsgid32.2
+setfsuid32.2
+setgid32.2
+setgroups32.2
+setregid32.2
+setresgid32.2
+setresuid32.2
+setreuid32.2
+setuid32.2
+ mtk
+ Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
+
+fcntl64.2
+fstat64.2
+fstatat64.2
+fstatfs64.2
+ftruncate64.2
+getdents64.2
+lstat64.2
+pread64.2
+pwrite64.2
+sendfile64.2
+stat64.2
+statfs64.2
+truncate64.2
+ mtk
+ Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
+
+__clone2.2
+clone2.2
+ mtk
+ Links to clone.2.
+
+ugetrlimit.2
+ mtk
+ Link to getrlimit.2.
+
+mq_notify.2
+mq_open.2
+mq_timedreceive.2
+mq_timedsend.2
+mq_unlink.2
+ mtk
+ Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
+
+fadvise64.2
+fadvise64_64.2
+ mtk
+ Links to posix_fadvise.2.
+
+rt_sigaction.2
+rt_sigpending.2
+rt_sigprocmask.2
+rt_sigtimedwait.2
+ mtk
+ Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
+
+rt_sigqueueinfo.2
+ mtk
+ Link to sigqueue.2.
+
+madvise1.2
+tuxcall.2
+vserver.2
+ mtk / Ivana Varekova
+ Link to unimplemented.2.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.2
+ mtk
+ Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
+ and a few additions.
+
+chmod.2
+ mtk
+ Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
+ either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
+
+chown.2
+ mtk
+ Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
+ need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
+ Added an example program.
+
+killpg.2
+ mtk
+ Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
+
+mmap.2
+ mtk
+ Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
+
+mmap2.2
+ Ivana Varekova / mtk
+ On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
+ the system page size.
+ mtk
+ Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
+ invokes this system call.
+ mtk
+ Added an EXAMPLE program.
+
+oldfstat.2
+oldlstat.2
+oldstat.2
+ mtk
+ Changed link to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
+
+olduname.2
+oldolduname.2
+ mtk
+ Changed link to point to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
+
+sched_setaffinity.2
+ Martin Röhricht
+ Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
+
+semctl.2
+ mtk
+ Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
+ other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
+
+semop.2
+ mtk
+ Add an example code segment.
+
+shmctl.2
+ mtk
+ Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+sigaction.2
+ mtk
+ Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and
+ wording changes.
+
+sigqueue.2
+ mtk
+ Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
+
+sigwaitinfo.2
+ mtk
+ Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
+ top of sigtimedwait().
+
+ssetmask.2
+ mtk
+ Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 instead of signal.2.
+
+stat.2
+ mtk
+ Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
+ have appeared over time.
+
+syscalls.2
+ mtk
+ A fairly substantial rewrite of this page,
+ bringing it up to date with the current
+ kernel version, and listing all system calls
+ in tabular form.
+
+uname.2
+ mtk
+ Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
+ have appeared over time.
+
+unimplemented.2
+ mtk
+ Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
+ Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
+ Ivana Varekova
+ Add tuxcall to NAME line.
+
+mktemp.3
+ Patrick Mansfield
+ Fix description of return value.
+
+strcat.3
+ Marc Boyer
+ Minor fix to example program.
+
+undocumented.3
+ mtk
+ Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
+ since they are documented.
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
+ mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments by Justin Pryzby
+ Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417933
+
+inotify.7
+ mtk
+ IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
+
+signal.7
+ Stepan Kasal / mtk
+ Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
+ mtk
+ Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
+ Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
+
+svipc.7
+ mtk
+ Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.64 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-07-27
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+INFINITY.3
+_exit.2
+a64l.3
+abs.3
+acct.2
+acosh.3
+addseverity.3
+adjtime.3
+asinh.3
+atanh.3
+atoi.3
+brk.2
+cbrt.3
+cfree.3
+chdir.2
+chmod.2
+chown.2
+clearenv.3
+clock_getres.3
+clone.2
+confstr.3
+copysign.3
+ctermid.3
+ctime.3
+daemon.3
+dirfd.3
+div.3
+drand48.3
+drand48_r.3
+dysize.3
+ecvt.3
+ecvt_r.3
+erf.3
+euidaccess.3
+exp2.3
+expm1.3
+fdatasync.2
+ferror.3
+fexecve.3
+fgetgrent.3
+fgetpwent.3
+finite.3
+flockfile.3
+fopen.3
+fpclassify.3
+fsync.2
+futimes.3
+fwide.3
+gamma.3
+gcvt.3
+getcwd.3
+getdate.3
+getdirentries.3
+getdomainname.2
+getdtablesize.2
+getgrent.3
+getgrent_r.3
+getgrouplist.3
+getgroups.2
+gethostbyname.3
+gethostid.2
+gethostname.2
+getlogin.3
+getmntent.3
+getpagesize.2
+getpw.3
+getpwent.3
+getpwent_r.3
+getpwnam.3
+getsid.2
+getspnam.3
+gettimeofday.2
+getumask.3
+getusershell.3
+gsignal.3
+hypot.3
+inet.3
+initgroups.3
+insque.3
+isalpha.3
+iswblank.3
+j0.3
+kill.2
+killpg.2
+lgamma.3
+lockf.3
+log1p.3
+log2.3
+logb.3
+longjmp.3
+lrint.3
+lround.3
+madvise.2
+mbsnrtowcs.3
+memfrob.3
+mincore.2
+mkdtemp.3
+mknod.2
+mkstemp.3
+mktemp.3
+nan.3
+nanosleep.2
+nextafter.3
+nice.2
+on_exit.3
+perror.3
+posix_memalign.3
+posix_openpt.3
+printf.3
+profil.3
+psignal.3
+putenv.3
+putpwent.3
+qecvt.3
+rand.3
+random.3
+rcmd.3
+readahead.2
+readlink.2
+realpath.3
+remainder.3
+remquo.3
+rexec.3
+rint.3
+round.3
+rpmatch.3
+scalb.3
+scandir.3
+scanf.3
+seekdir.3
+select.2
+sem_wait.3
+semop.2
+setbuf.3
+setenv.3
+seteuid.2
+setjmp.3
+setnetgrent.3
+setpgid.2
+setresuid.2
+setreuid.2
+sigaltstack.2
+siginterrupt.3
+significand.3
+sigqueue.2
+sigvec.3
+sigwaitinfo.2
+sockatmark.3
+stat.2
+stime.2
+strdup.3
+strerror.3
+strsep.3
+strtod.3
+strtok.3
+strtol.3
+strtoul.3
+symlink.2
+sync.2
+syscall.2
+syslog.3
+tcgetsid.3
+telldir.3
+tempnam.3
+termios.3
+tgamma.3
+timegm.3
+toascii.3
+trunc.3
+truncate.2
+ttyslot.3
+tzset.3
+ualarm.3
+unlocked_stdio.3
+unshare.2
+usleep.3
+vfork.2
+vhangup.2
+wait.2
+wait4.2
+wcscasecmp.3
+wcsncasecmp.3
+wcsnlen.3
+wcsnrtombs.3
+wcswidth.3
+wordexp.3
+wprintf.3
+ mtk
+ Added/updated feature test macro requirements for
+ glibc; see feature_test_macros.7 for details.
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+mq_notify.2
+mq_open.2
+mq_timedreceive.2
+mq_timedsend.2
+mq_unlink.2
+ mtk
+ Fix broken link
+
+setpgid.2
+ mtk
+ Fairly substantial changes and corrections, including adding
+ coverage of all of the interfaces that get/set PGIDs.
+
+syscalls.2
+ mtk / aeb
+ Various rewordings; clear up some imprecisions.
+
+lgamma.3
+ mtk
+ Added 'signgam' to SYNOPSIS and NAME line.
+
+strerror.3
+ mtk
+ Note that the XPG version is provided since glibc 2.3.4.
+ The page formerly said that the GNU-specific version
+ is provided by default. That certainly isn't true
+ nowadays, since _POSIX_C_SOURCE is set to 200112L by
+ default, so that the XSI-compliant version is supplied
+ by default.
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a description
+ of how feature test macro requirements should be specified in
+ manual pages. Various other minor fixes and changes.
+
+feature_test_macros.7
+ mtk
+ Added note about how feature test macros are specified
+ in manual pages.
+ Many other corrections, improvements, additions, and
+ details about differences across glibc versions.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.65 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-09-17
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
+Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
+Ari Entlich <lmage11@twcny.rr.com>
+Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
+François Diakhate <diakhate@enseirb.fr>
+Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
+Jon Burgess <jburgess777@googlemail.com>
+Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>
+Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
+Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Use 'glibc' consistently to refer to GNU C library.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Order errors under ERRORS alphabetically.
+
+Various pages
+ Nicolas François
+ Spelling and formatting fixes, as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439560
+
+intro.2
+select.2
+fmtmsg.3
+getgrent_r.3
+envz_add.3
+rtime.3
+strptime.3
+wordexp.3
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Add "#include <stdlib.h>" (to declare exit(3)) to example program.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+timeradd.3
+ mtk
+ Description of timeradd(), timersub(), timerclear(),
+ timerisset(), timercmp() macros for operating on
+ struct timeval.
+
+
+Removed pages
+-------------
+
+fdatasync.2
+ mtk
+ Somehow, over time, material on fdatasync(2) crept into
+ fsync.2, and fdatasync also got added to the NAME section
+ of fsync.2. All of the material in fdatasync.2 that was
+ not already in fsync.2 has now been moved there, and
+ the former page has been removed.
+ In place of the content there, is now a link to fsync.2.
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+clock_getres.2
+clock_gettime.2
+clock_settime.2
+ mtk
+ Link to man3/clock_getres.3.
+
+fdatasync.2
+ mtk
+ Link to fsync.2.
+
+fdopendir.3
+ mtk
+ Link to opendir.3.
+
+gethostbyaddr_r.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Link to gethostbyaddr.3.
+
+timerclear.3
+timercmp.3
+timerisset.3
+timersub.3
+ mtk
+ Links to new timeradd.3.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+Makefile
+ Mike Frysinger
+ Make the install target of man-pages respect the standard
+ "DESTDIR" variable as well as check the exit status of the
+ install command so errors aren't ignored.
+
+get_mempolicy.2
+ Lee Schermerhorn
+ changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" through out the
+ descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
+ policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
+
+ added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
+
+ rewrite portions of description for clarification.
+
+ added all errors currently returned by sys call.
+
+ removed cautionary note that use of MPOL_F_NODE|MPOL_F_ADDR
+ is not supported. This is no longer true.
+
+ added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+getitimer.2
+ mtk
+ Since kernel 2.6.22, Linux setitimer() now conforms to POSIX.1,
+ giving an EINVAL error for a non-canonical tv_usec value.
+
+gettimeofday.2
+ mtk
+ Replace discussion of timer* macros with a pointer
+ to new page timeradd.3.
+
+ioctl_list.2
+ Nicolas George
+ Fixed argument type for BLKGETSIZE.
+
+mbind.2
+ Lee Schermerhorn
+
+ changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
+ descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
+ policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
+
+ rewrite portions of description for clarification.
+
+ clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files and shared
+ memory regions, including SHM_HUGE regions.
+
+ defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
+ means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
+
+ mention what happens if local/target node contains no
+ free memory.
+
+ clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
+ Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
+ this happens.
+
+ added all errors currently returned by sys call.
+
+ added mmap(2), shmget(2), shmat(2) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+mmap.2
+mprotect.2
+ François Diakhate
+ Add text noting that PROT_WRITE may (and on x86 does)
+ imply PROT_READ.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441387
+
+nfsservctl.2
+ Aleksandr Koltsoff
+ Fix prototype.
+
+oldfstat.2
+oldlstat.2
+oldstat.2
+ mtk
+ Fix broken link
+
+prctl.2
+ mtk
+ Update arches/kernel versions for PR_SET_UNALAIGN / PR_GET_UNALIGN.
+
+readahead.2
+ mtk
+ Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fadvise.2.
+
+reboot.2
+ mtk
+ Place SYNOPSIS comments inside C comments (/* ... */).
+
+sched_setaffinity.2
+ Samuel Thibault
+ Note what thread is affected if 'pid' is specified
+ as 0, or as the value returned by getpid().
+
+sched_setscheduler.2
+ Carsten Emde
+ Add text on real-time features of mainline Linux kernel.
+
+select_tut.2
+ mtk
+ sync SYNOPSIS with select.2
+
+set_mempolicy.2
+ Lee Schermerhorn
+
+ changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
+ descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
+ policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
+
+ added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
+
+ rewrite portions of description for clarification.
+
+ clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files.
+
+ defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
+ means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
+
+ mention what happens if local/target node contains no
+ free memory.
+
+ clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
+ Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
+ this happens.
+
+ added all errors currently returned by sys call.
+
+ added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+sigaction.2
+ mtk
+ s/si_sign/si_errno/ in statement about which field is unused.
+ Ari Entlich
+ s/SIGILL/SIGCHLD/ for paragraph describing SIGCHLD.
+
+stat.2
+ mtk
+ Improve text describing underlying system calls.
+
+swapon.2
+ Michael Prokop
+ EINVAL also occurs if target path is on tmpfs or similar.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435885
+
+sync.2
+ mtk
+ Incorporated material from now deleted fdatasync.2.
+
+syscall.2
+ mtk
+ Small fix in example program.
+
+uname.2
+ mtk
+ Improve text describing underlying system calls.
+
+utime.2
+ Vincent Lefevre / mtk
+ Clarify utimes() behaviour when 'times' is NULL.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431480
+ mtk
+ Other minor clarifications of description of utimes().
+
+copysign.3
+ Vincent Lefevre
+ s/sign/sign bit/ to remove ambiguity in description.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435415
+
+euidaccess.3
+ mtk
+ Changed NOTES to VERSIONS.
+
+ffsl.3
+ mtk
+ Add ffsl and ffsll to NAME line.
+
+fts.3
+ mtk
+ Removed statement that fts functions are expected to appear
+ soon in POSIX; it's years old and has not yet come to pass.
+
+ftw.3
+ mtk / Geoff Clare
+ Fixes/improvements for example program.
+
+getdate.3
+ mtk
+ Add getdate_r to NAME section.
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+ mtk / Geoff Clare
+ Fixes/improvements for example program.
+
+gethostbyaddr.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Add documentation for gethostbyaddr_r().
+ Plus a few other small fixes.
+
+gethostbyname.3
+ mtk
+ Add gethostbyname2, gethostbyname2_r, gethostbyname_r,
+ gethostent_r to NAME line.
+
+getmntent.3
+ mtk
+ Fix misnamed function references.
+
+getopt.3
+ Jon Burgess
+ Fix small error in example program.
+
+getrpcent.3
+ mtk
+ Add setrpcent and endrpcent to NAME line.
+
+gsignal.3
+ Aleksandr Koltsoff
+ Fix gsignal() prototype.
+
+hsearch.3
+ mtk
+ Add hcreate_r, hdestroy_r, hsearch_r to NAME line.
+
+inet.3
+ Maxime Bizon
+ Correct definition of "struct in_addr".
+
+isatty.3
+ mtk
+ Minor wording fix.
+
+isgreater.3
+ mtk
+ Add islessequal to NAME line.
+
+lgamma.3
+ Vincent Lefevre
+ Fix CONFORMING TO section.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417592
+
+log1p.3
+ mtk
+ Add log1pf and log1pl to NAME line.
+
+longjmp.3
+ Paul Brook / mtk
+ After a call to longjmp(), the values of modified, non-volatile
+ variables in the function that called setjmp() are unspecified.
+
+makecontext.3
+ Aleksandr Koltsoff
+ Fix makecontext() prototype.
+
+malloc.3
+ mtk / Tolga Dalman
+ Explain what happens for malloc(0), or calloc() where one of the
+ arguments is 0.
+ mtk
+ Added notes on malloc()'s use of sbrk() and mmap().
+ mtk
+ Add mmap(2), alloca(3) to SEE ALSO.
+
+mq_close.3
+mq_getattr.3
+mq_notify.3
+mq_open.3
+mq_receive.3
+mq_send.3
+mq_unlink.3
+ mtk
+ Add "Link with -lrt." to SYNOPSIS.
+
+opendir.3
+ Ulrich Drepper; some edits and additional text by mtk
+ Document fdopendir().
+
+readdir.3
+ mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
+ Document DT_* constants for d_type.
+ Ulrich Drepper / mtk
+ Rework discussion of non-standard structure fields.
+
+sem_wait.3
+ mtk
+ Minor improvements to example program.
+
+syslog.3
+ mtk
+ Add vsyslog to NAME section.
+
+termios.3
+ Nicolas François
+ Fix XCASE feature test macro description.
+
+wcsspn.3
+ Aleksandr Koltsoff
+ Add return type to prototype.
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ Improve description of num_threads field under /proc/PID/stat.
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Fix path error (s%proc/sys%proc/sys/kernel%) in mentions of
+ /proc/sys/ostype, /proc/sys/osrelease and proc/sys/version.
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ I noticed things to correct and to clarify in subsection
+ "/proc/filesystems" of proc.5:
+ - clarify filesystems listing: not only FS compiled
+ into the kernel, also FS kernel modules currently loaded
+ - add a reference to fs(5)
+ - add an explanation for FS marked with "nodev"
+ - s/mount(1)/mount(8)/, also corrected in section "SEE ALSO"
+ - clarify usage by mount: the current wording may lead to
+ think /proc/filesystems is always used by mount when no FS
+ is specified. So, usage of "may" which IMHO is more
+ appropriate + additional explanations
+ In mount(8) we can see:
+
+ If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is
+ specified, mount will try to guess the desired type.
+ If mount was compiled with the blkid library, the
+ guessing is done by this library. Otherwise, mount
+ guesses itself by probing the superblock; if that
+ does not turn up anything that looks familiar,
+ mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems,
+ or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems.
+ All of the filesystem types listed there will be
+ tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"
+ (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems
+ ends in a line with a single * only, mount will
+ read /proc/filesystems afterwards.
+ Samuel Thibault
+ Since linux 2.6.11, /proc/stat has an eighth value for cpu
+ lines: stolen time, which is the time spent in other operating
+ systems when running in a virtualized environment.
+
+arp.7
+ Updated BUGS text referring to jiffies; refer to time.7 instead.
+
+credentials.7
+ mtk
+ Add words to note that file system ID is Linux specific.
+
+hier.7
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ This is some corrections for hier.7:
+ - missing period for /media and /mnt
+ - /mnt description is not totally correct, it is true for some
+ distributions but in others /mnt is used as a temporary FS
+ mount point, as it is specified by FHS:
+ http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#
+ MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT
+ - s/X-Windows/X-Window/ (3 occurrences)
+ - section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
+
+man-pages.7
+man.7
+mdoc.7
+mdoc.samples.7
+ mtk / Nicolas François
+ Nowadays tmac.XXX are called XXX.tmac.
+
+pthreads.7
+ mtk
+ Update text about modern threading implementations
+ (NPTL vs LinuxThreads).
+
+socket.7
+ mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
+ Clarify that SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO only have effect for
+ socket I/O calls; not for multiplexing system calls like
+ select() and poll().
+
+time.7
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO reference to new timeradd.3.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-10-01
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
+Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
+Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+fallocate.2
+ David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
+ Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+close.2
+ Fredrik Noring
+ Add text cautioning about use of close() in
+ multithreaded programs.
+
+execve.2
+ Ollie Wild / mtk
+ Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
+ and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
+ mtk
+ Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+open.2
+ mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
+ Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
+ minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
+
+recv.2
+ mtk
+ Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
+
+sysctl.2
+ mtk
+ Strengthened the warning against using this system call
+ and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
+
+rpc.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
+ and pmap_getport().
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.67 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-10-08
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
+Andrew Josey <a.josey@opengroup.org>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+*.1p
+*.3p
+ mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen and consultation with Andrew Josey.
+ Add a PROLOG section:
+ This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
+ The Linux implementation of this interface may differ
+ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details
+ of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented
+ on Linux.
+
+*.0p
+*.1p
+*.3p
+ mtk
+ Some formatting fixes, mostly to get rid of unwanted
+ spaces before "," in formatted output.
+
+*
+*/*
+ mtk
+ Change all occurrences of my email address in man-pages source
+ to my new gmail address.
+
+Many many pages
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ I noticed useless use of macros with alternating formatting
+ (".IR" instead ".I" which suffices, ".BR" instead ".B", etc.)
+ because there is only one element. For example in ldconfig.8:
+
+ -.BR /sbin/ldconfig
+ +.B /sbin/ldconfig
+
+ This is not very important, it only makes the sources more tidy.
+ To find these I used:
+
+ egrep '^\.(B[RI]|R[IB]|I[RB]) ([^ ]+|\"[^\"]\+\")$'
+
+ And if you want to make these changes, you can use:
+
+ sed 's/^\(\.[BRI]\)[BRI]\( \([^ ]\+\|\"[^\"]\+\"\)\)$/\1\2/g'
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.68 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-11-19
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
+Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk>
+Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
+Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
+Hyokyong Kim <hyokyong@ppj.kr>
+Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
+Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
+Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+faccessat.2
+fchmodat.2
+fchownat.2
+fstatat.2
+futimesat.2
+linkat.2
+mkdirat.2
+mknodat.2
+readlinkat.2
+renameat.2
+symlinkat.2
+mkfifoat.3
+ mtk, after http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445436
+ by Timo Juhani Lindfors
+ Added <fcntl.h> to SYNOPSIS.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+_syscall.2
+ mtk
+ Created as a new page, by taking the content specific to
+ the _syscall() macros from intro(2).
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+README
+ mtk
+ Brought up to date.
+
+man-pages-*-Announce
+ mtk
+ Brought the info in here up to date.
+
+intro.1
+ mtk
+ Added intro paragraph about section, plus a paragraph
+ about exit status values.
+ Move "user intro" text to NOTES.
+
+get_mempolicy.2
+ mtk
+ Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
+
+intro.2
+ mtk
+ Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
+ Moved _syscallN() material to new _syscall(2) page.
+
+mbind.2
+ mtk
+ Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
+
+mmap.2
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Fix syntax error in example program.
+
+prctl.2
+ mtk
+ Linux 2.6.22 added support on Alpha for PR_SET_UNALIGN.
+
+ptrace.2
+ Nicolas François / mtk
+ s/PTRACE_POKEUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER/
+ s/PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_PEEKUSER/
+
+read.2
+ mtk / Geoff Clare
+ Add text describing timerfd EINVAL error for read(2).
+
+set_mempolicy.2
+ mtk
+ Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
+
+syscall.2
+ mtk
+ Added _syscall(2) and intro(2) to SEE ALSO section.
+
+syscalls.2
+ mtk
+ Added fallocate(2); removed timerfd(2).
+
+sysinfo.2
+ mtk
+ Removed reference to example in intro(2).
+
+dlopen.3
+ mtk
+ Added "Link with -ldl." to SYNOPSIS.
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+ Ulrich Drepper / mtk
+ Remove references to getipnodebyname.3 and getipnodebyaddr.3.
+
+gethostbyname.3
+ mtk / Ulrich Drepper
+ Remove SEE ALSO references to getipnodebyname.3 and
+ getipnodebyaddr.3.
+
+ Pádraig Brady / mtk / Ulrich Drepper
+ Point out that the functions described on this page
+ are made obsolete by getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3).
+
+getipnodebyname.3
+ mtk
+ Clarify that glibc does not implement these functions.
+
+glob.3
+ Ulrich Drepper / mtk
+ Fix description of GLOB_ONLYDIR.
+ mtk
+ Added description of GLOB_TILDE_NOMATCH.
+ Expanded the description of various flags.
+ Various wording fixes..
+
+intro.3
+ mtk
+ Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
+
+posix_fallocate.3
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO referring to fallocate.2.
+
+rpc.3
+ Sam Varshavchik
+ Add some arg declarations to prototypes; fix typos.
+
+setbuf.3
+ Mike Frysinger
+ Fix text in BUGS section.
+
+sigset.3
+ mtk
+ The sigset() bugs were fixed in glibc 2.5.
+ See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1951
+
+intro.4
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites.
+
+st.4
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Various small corrections, formattings and modifications.
+
+elf.5
+ Mike Frysinger
+ Document:
+ - new p_flag: PT_GNU_STACK
+ - new sections: .gnu.version .gnu.version_d .gnu.version_r
+ .note.GNU-stack
+ - new structures: ElfN_Verdef ElfN_Verdaux ElfN_Verneed
+ ElfN_Vernaux
+
+intro.5
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites.
+
+proc.5
+ Ivana Varekova / mtk
+ Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
+ only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Update description of /proc/pci.
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Give italic formatting to file names in proc.5.
+ mtk
+ The display type of the /proc/PID/stat fields changed
+ %lu to %u in Linux 2.6.22:
+ flags
+ rt_priority
+ policy
+
+slabinfo.5
+ Ivana Varekova / mtk
+ Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
+ only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
+
+intro.6
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites.
+
+bootparam.7
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Update references to files in kernel "Documentation" directory.
+
+intro.7
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites.
+
+ipv6.7
+ Andrew McDonald
+ Fix description of IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT option.
+
+standards.7
+ mtk
+ Note online location of C99 standard.
+
+intro.8
+ mtk
+ Some rewrites, plus new paragraph on exit status values.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-03
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
+David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+*.[013]p
+ mtk
+ Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.
+
+mprotect.2
+bind.2
+mq_notify.3
+makecontext.3
+fmemopen.3
+ David Härdeman / mtk
+ Rename error handling function in example program
+ (s/die/handle_error/).
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Removed pages
+-------------
+
+HOWTOHELP
+MAINTAINING
+ mtk
+ The content of these files is now available in HTML format.
+
+New links
+---------
+
+cfsetspeed.3
+ mtk
+ Link to termios.3.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+time.1
+ Alain Portal
+ Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.
+
+_syscall.2
+ aeb / mtk
+ Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have
+ more than 5 arguments.
+
+fcntl.2
+ J. Bruce Fields
+ Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
+ J. Bruce Fields
+ Clarify details in description of file leases.
+ J. Bruce Fields / mtk
+ Minor wording edits.
+ J. Bruce Fields
+ Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.
+
+mmap.2
+ mtk
+ Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
+
+sched_setscheduler.2
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
+ sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
+
+spu_create.2
+ Jeremy Kerr
+ Various updates and improvements.
+ Luke Browning
+ Refinement of text describing a "gang".
+ mtk
+ Minor edits.
+
+spu_run.2
+ Jeremy Kerr
+ Various updates and improvements.
+ mtk
+ Minor edits.
+
+err.3
+ mtk
+ Remove HISTORY section.
+
+fopen.3
+ Mike Frysinger
+ Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
+
+getloadavg.3
+ Alain Portal / mtk
+ Remove HISTORY section.
+
+printf.3
+ Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
+ Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
+ vprintf() description.
+
+sem_wait.3
+ mtk
+ Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
+
+sigsetops.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized
+ with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
+ macros are employed.
+
+termios.3
+ mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
+ Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO
+ noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific.
+
+ttyslot.3
+ Alain Portal
+ Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
+ that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
+ systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
+
+initrd.4
+ mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
+ Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other
+ section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section.
+
+full.4
+ mtk
+ Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION.
+
+sk98lin.4
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
+
+elf.5
+ mtk
+ Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.
+
+proc.5
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8).
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and
+ /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.
+
+utmp.5
+ Alain Portal
+ Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
+ that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
+ systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
+
+iso_8859-2.7
+ Adam Borowski
+ Reverse the 2.68 change applied by mtk in response to
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445085
+ that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
+ (Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names.
+
+spufs.7
+ Jeremy Kerr
+ Various updates and improvements.
+ mtk
+ Minor edits.
+
+tcp.7
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.70 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-06
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Many pages
+ mtk
+ Remove section numbers for page references where the
+ reference refers to the page itself. (This stops man2html
+ producing links from a page back to itself.)
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+get_mempolicy.2
+ mtk
+ Add CONFORMING TO section.
+
+io_getevents.2
+ mtk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
+
+mbind.2
+ mtk
+ Add CONFORMING TO section.
+
+msgop.2
+ mtk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO entries.
+
+sigprocmask.2
+ mtk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
+
+splice.2
+ mtk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
+ Add SEE ALSO referring to vmsplice(2).
+
+csin.3
+ mtk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
+ Add SEE ALSO referring to ccos(3).
+
+gethostbyname.3
+ mtk
+ Add gethostbyaddr_r to NAME section.
+
+rint.3
+ mtk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
+
+sigsetops.3
+ mtk
+ Minor rewording.
+
+epoll.7
+ mtk
+ Minor rewording.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-14
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>
+Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+err.3
+fts.3
+getloadavg.3
+queue.3
+rcmd.3
+rexec.3
+stdin.3
+elf.5
+operator.7
+ mtk
+ Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pages with man
+ macros. The only pages in man-pages that still use
+ mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Deleted pages
+-------------
+
+TODO
+ mtk
+ This information is now on the website.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+Changes.old
+ mtk
+ Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format.
+ Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
+ Other minor tidy-ups.
+
+fcntl.2
+ mtk
+ Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
+ new in kernel 2.6.24.
+
+listen.2
+ Josh Triplett
+ Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.
+
+getpw.3
+ Alain PORTAL
+ Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.
+
+sysconf.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.
+
+tty.4
+ John Sigler
+ Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+regex.7
+ Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
+ Separate text on back references from that describing basic regexps,
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
+ mtk
+ Remove crufty text about word boundaries.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-14
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Alex Tuninga <atuninga@google.com>
+Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+Rob Weryk <rjweryk@uwo.ca>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ Alain PORTAL / mtk
+ Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").
+
+Various pages
+ Alain PORTAL / mtk
+ Format pathname in italics (.I).
+
+dbopen.3
+mpool.3
+recno.3
+ Alain PORTAL
+ Remove brackets ([]) around error names.
+
+console.4
+tty.4
+ttyS.4
+issue.5
+ttytype.5
+utmp.5
+ mtk / Maxime Vaudequin
+ Some systems have mingetty(8), others have agetty(8), so both
+ should be mentioned when we are talking about getty-style programs.
+
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Renamed pages
+-------------
+
+filesystems.5
+ mtk / Alain PORTAL
+ Was previously fs.5
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+argz.3
+ Bert Wesarg / mtk
+ Link to argz_add.3.
+
+envz.3
+ Bert Wesarg / mtk
+ Link to envz_add.3.
+
+fs.5
+ mtk / Alain PORTAL
+ Link to filesystems.5.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+readahead.2
+ Rob Weryk
+ Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS.
+
+seteuid.2
+ mtk
+ s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line.
+
+__setfpucw.3
+ mtk
+ Fixed include files references / formatting.
+
+abort.3
+ mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga
+ A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort().
+
+argz_add.3
+ Bert Wesarg / mtk
+ s/envz/envz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
+
+basename.3
+ mtk
+ s/DIRNAME/BASENAME/ in .TH line, and swap function names
+ in NAME section.
+
+envz_add.3
+ Bert Wesarg / mtk
+ s/argz/argz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
+
+flockfile.3
+ mtk
+ s/LOCKFILE/FLOCKFILE/ in .TH line.
+
+getgrent_r.3
+ mtk
+ s/GETGRENT/GETGRENT_R/ in .TH line.
+
+stdio.3
+ Sam Varshavchik
+ Reformat function list at end of page as a proper table.
+
+ttyslot.3
+ Maxime Vaudequin
+ Revert earlier s/getty/mingetty/. This page talks about
+ historical behavior, and that means "getty(8)".
+
+undocumented.3
+ mtk
+ Remove reference to "obstack stuff"; it's not clear what
+ that is about.
+
+console_ioctl.4
+ mtk
+ s/CONSOLE_IOCTLS/CONSOLE_IOCTL/ in .TH line.
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ s/fs (5)/filesystems (5)/
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk / Alain PORTAL
+ Improve discussion of formatting of file names.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.73 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-14
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ Alain PORTAL
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+mknod.2
+ mtk, after a report by Reuben Thomas
+ Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod().
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
+
+fgetgrent.3
+ mtk
+ Small rewording.
+
+fgetpwent.3
+ mtk
+ Small rewording.
+
+rcmd.3
+ mtk
+ Noted feature test macro requirements.
+ BUGS: noted that iruserok() is not declared in glibc headers.
+
+filesystems.5
+ mtk
+ Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS to list of file systems.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-12-20
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
+David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ Alain PORTAL
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk / Alain Portal
+ s/``...''/"..."/
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ s/epoch/Epoch/
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
+ logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+_syscall.2
+ mtk
+ Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.
+
+chroot.2
+ mtk
+ Various minor formatting changes.
+
+epoll_wait.2
+ mtk
+ Fix types in structs.
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+mount.2
+ mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
+ Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
+ functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.
+
+sched_setaffinity.2
+ mtk
+ Minor rearrangement of text.
+
+select_tut.2
+ mtk
+ Fix (my) typos in argument names.
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+spu_create.2
+ Jeremy Kerr
+ We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
+
+times.2
+ mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
+ http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
+ Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
+ to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
+ to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
+ Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
+ in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
+ return -1 indicating an error.
+ mtk
+ Remove cruft HZ text.
+ Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
+
+getw.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
+ in POSIX.1-2001.
+
+hash.3
+ mtk / Alain Portal
+ Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.
+
+st.4
+ Alain Portal / mtk
+ Many formatting fixes.
+ mtk
+ Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.
+
+vcs.4
+ Samuel Thibault
+ Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
+ attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
+ mtk
+ Minor edits.
+
+bootparam.7
+ Alain PORTAL
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+inotify.7
+ mtk
+ Minor heading changes and reformattings.
+
+man-pages.7
+ mtk
+ Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
+ logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
+
+spufs.7
+ Jeremy Kerr
+ Add a little information about the differences to mbox.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.75 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-01-08
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoinic.com>
+Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_4@chezphil.org>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
+Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ (Grammatical) hyphenation was fixed in many places.
+
+epoll_wait.2
+mbind.2
+spu_run.2
+ecvt.3
+fmtmsg.3
+getnameinfo.3
+rtc.4
+proc.5
+charsets.7
+ip.7
+ipv6.7
+raw.7
+uri.7
+ Justin Pryzby / mtk
+ Fix incorrect usage of "a" and "an" before following vowel /
+ consonant, by reviewing the output of the following scripts:
+
+ for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
+ echo $a
+ MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
+ egrep '(^| )an [^aeiou][a-z]'
+ done | less
+
+ for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
+ echo $a
+ MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
+ egrep '(^| )a [aeiou][a-z]'
+ done| less
+
+err.3
+fts.3
+queue.3
+rcmd.3
+rexec.3
+stdin.3
+elf.5
+ mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
+ Improve macros used in 2.71 to convert from "mdoc" to "man".
+
+_exit.2
+chroot.2
+getgid.2
+getpid.2
+getrusage.2
+getsid.2
+gettid.2
+getuid.2
+iopl.2
+kill.2
+personality.2
+pivot_root.2
+ptrace.2
+sched_setparam.2
+sched_setscheduler.2
+sched_yield.2
+seteuid.2
+setgid.2
+setpgid.2
+setresuid.2
+setreuid.2
+setuid.2
+unlink.2
+wait.2
+openpty.3
+raise.3
+setlogmask.3
+sleep.3
+ttyslot.3
+ulimit.3
+tty.4
+tty_ioctl.4
+path_resolution.7
+ mtk
+ s/current process/calling process/
+
+cacheflush.2
+clone.2
+fcntl.2
+getitimer.2
+getrlimit.2
+mmap.2
+mprotect.2
+times.2
+adjtime.3
+byteorder.3
+inet.3
+offsetof.3
+rtc.4
+icmp.7
+pipe.7
+time.7
+ mtk
+ s/x86/i386/ since that is the name used in 'arch' directories
+ in the kernel source, and previously both i386 and x86 were both
+ used in man pages; also nowadays 'x86' is somewhat ambiguous,
+ since it is the name of the 'arch' directory for i386 and x86-64.
+
+conj.3
+cacos.3
+cacosh.3
+cabs.3
+carg.3
+casin.3
+casinh.3
+catan.3
+catanh.3
+ccos.3
+ccosh.3
+cexp.3
+cimag.3
+clog.3
+cosh.3
+creal.3
+csin.3
+csinh.3
+ctan.3
+ctanh.3
+sinh.3
+tanh.3
+ mtk
+ Various reformattings.
+
+Various pages
+ Alain Portal
+ Formating fixes.
+
+mlock.2
+mprotect.2
+mpool.3
+offsetof.3
+ Alain Portal
+ Format SYNOPSIS in a manner consistent with other pages.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk / Alain Portal
+ Format casts so that there is a non-breaking space after the
+ type, and remove unnecessary parentheses around the casted value.
+ Thus, for example, the following:
+
+ .IR "(size_t) (\-1)" .
+
+ becomes:
+
+ .IR "(size_t)\ \-1" .
+
+Various pages
+ mtk / Alain Portal
+ Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Make the formatting of instances of '*varname' consistent, changing
+ instances such as:
+
+ .RI * varname
+
+ to:
+
+ .I *varname
+
+pciconfig_read.2
+nfsservctl.2
+bstring.3
+cpow.3
+getipnodebyname.3
+getpwnam.3
+getrpcent.3
+lsearch.3
+malloc_hook.3
+mpool.3
+stdin.3
+strtol.3
+strtoul.3
+unlocked_stdio.3
+regex.3
+sd.4
+resolv.conf.5
+utmp.5
+futex.7
+ mtk
+ Format SYNOPSIS consistently.
+
+drand48.3
+drand48_r.3
+flockfile.3
+erf.3
+sigvec.3
+timeradd.3
+wprintf.3
+ mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
+ Standardize sentence used under "Feature Test Macro Requirements"
+ when referring to all functions shown in the SYNOPSIS.
+
+get_kernel_syms.2
+getdents.2
+getitimer.2
+nanosleep.2
+query_module.2
+statvfs.2
+clock_getres.3
+getaddrinfo.3
+getgrent.3
+getipnodebyname.3
+console_ioctl.4
+tty_ioctl.4
+rtnetlink.7
+ mtk
+ Indent structure definitions by +4n.
+
+recv.2
+btree.3
+dbopen.3
+ether_aton.3
+fts.3
+hash.3
+mpool.3
+profil.3
+rcmd.3
+recno.3
+rpc.3
+xdr.3
+console_ioctl.4
+ddp.7
+ip.7
+ipv6.7
+svipc.7
+ mtk
+ Use C99 standard types in declarations.
+ s/u_long/unsigned long/
+ s/ulong/unsigned long/
+ s/u_char/unsigned char/
+ s/u_short/unsigned short/
+ s/ushort/unsigned short/
+ s/u_int8_t/uint8_t/
+ s/u_int16_t/uint16_t/
+ s/u_int32_t/uint32_t/
+ s/u_int/unsigned int/
+
+exit_group.2
+fallocate.2
+getdents.2
+ioctl_list.2
+nfsservctl.2
+sched_setaffinity.2
+set_tid_address.2
+ustat.2
+argz_add.3
+confstr.3
+envz_add.3
+getline.3
+getpwnam.3
+gets.3
+getw.3
+inet_ntop.3
+inet_pton.3
+offsetof.3
+console_ioctl.4
+termcap.5
+ascii.7
+feature_test_macros.7
+netlink.7
+operator.7
+svipc.7
+ mtk
+ Fix unbalanced .nf/.fi pairs.
+
+chmod.2
+getxattr.2
+listxattr.2
+lseek.2
+removexattr.2
+setxattr.2
+stat.2
+feature_test_macros.7
+fpathconf.3
+fopen.3
+
+ mtk
+ Rename argument: s/file*des/fd/ , since that is the name most
+ commonly used on man pages for a file descriptor argument.
+
+bindresvport.3
+des_crypt.3
+getopt.3
+getrpcent.3
+realpath.3
+rpc.3
+xdr.3
+ mtk
+ Removed .SM macros.
+
+madvise.2
+getdirentries.3
+printf.3
+sigvec.3
+ mtk
+ Remove extraneous .br macro before/after .SH/.SS.
+
+_syscall.2
+lookup_dcookie.2
+aio_cancel.3
+aio_error.3
+aio_fsync.3
+aio_read.3
+aio_return.3
+aio_write.3
+canonicalize_file_name.3
+envz_add.3
+getgrouplist.3
+getttyent.3
+key_setsecret.3
+mtrace.3
+tcgetpgrp.3
+tcgetsid.3
+ttyslot.3
+tty_ioctl.4
+ mtk
+ Remove extraneous .sp macros.
+
+fcntl.2
+outb.2
+send.2
+syscalls.2
+getopt.3
+proc.5
+man-pages.7
+standards.7
+tcp.7
+ mtk
+ Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+_syscall.2
+ mtk
+ Nowadays there are seven macros (see 2.74 change log also).
+
+arch_prctl.2
+ mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
+ Clarify interpretation of 'addr'; plus a few other minor edits
+ and updates.
+
+bind.2
+ mtk
+ Minor rewrites.
+
+close.2
+ mtk
+ Clarify relationship between file descriptor and open file
+ description.
+
+connect.2
+ mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
+ Since kernel 2.2, AF_UNSPEC for unconnecting a connected
+ socket *is* supported.
+
+execve.2
+ Alain Portal
+ Minor rewordings.
+
+futimesat.2
+ Alain Portal
+ Remove duplicate "#include <fcntl.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
+
+getgid.2
+ mtk
+ Add getresgid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
+
+getpagesize.2
+ mtk
+ Small rewording.
+
+getresuid.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrote various parts.
+
+getuid.2
+ mtk
+ Add getresuid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
+
+ioctl_list.2
+ Alain Portal
+ Use proper tables for layout, and various formatting fixes.
+ mtk
+ Various formatting fixes.
+
+listen.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrote various parts.
+
+mbind.2
+ Andi Kleen / mtk / Alain Portal
+ Modify explanation of EINVAL 'maxnode' error.
+
+mmap.2
+ mtk
+ Add comma to clarify meaning of a sentence.
+
+open.2
+ mtk
+ Clarify initial description of O_EXCL.
+ Clarify description of behaviors of O_CREAT | O_EXCL
+ for symbolic links.
+ Clarify text describing use of lockfiles without O_EXCL.
+ mtk, with input from Timo Sirainen and Trond Myklebust
+ O_EXCL is supported on NFSv3 and later, with Linux 2.6 and later.
+
+pipe.2
+ mtk
+ Rename 'filedes' argument 'pipefd'.
+
+pivot_root.2
+ mtk
+ s/cwd/current working directory/
+
+seteuid.2
+ mtk
+ Minor changes.
+
+setpgid.2
+ mtk
+ Add credentials(7) to SEE ALSO, and updated copyright credits,
+ to reflect my rewrite of a few months ago.
+
+setsid.2
+ mtk
+ Add getsid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
+
+spu_create.2
+ Alain Portal / mtk; acked by Jeremy Kerr
+ Minor formatting/wording changes.
+ mtk
+ Put EPERM in right alphabetical position in ERRORS list.
+
+argz_add.3
+ mtk
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+atexit.3
+ mtk
+ Minor changes to example program.
+
+cerf.3
+ mtk
+ These functions are still not present as at glibc 2.7.
+
+dbopen.3
+ Alain Portal / mtk
+ Various minor spelling and formatting fixes.
+
+envz_add.3
+ mtk
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+fexecve.3
+ mtk
+ Fix placement of feature test macro in SYNOPSIS.
+
+fmax.3
+fmin.3
+ mtk
+ Small rewording.
+
+getline.3
+ mtk
+ Minor changes to example program.
+
+getrpcent.3
+getrpcport.3
+ mtk
+ Use modern C prototypes in SYNOPSIS.
+
+getutent.3
+ Alain Portal / mtk
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+mbsnrtowcs.3
+mbsrtowcs.3
+mbstowcs.3
+ mtk
+ Use .IP tags to create properly formatted lists.
+
+rpc.3
+ mtk
+ Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
+ Add text and start of page describing header files
+ and types required by functions.
+ Reformat discussion of request under clnt_control().
+
+xdr.3
+ mtk
+ Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
+ Remove crufty "int empty" from xdrrec_eof() description.
+
+console_codes.4
+ Phil Endecott
+ Relocate misplaced line:
+ "and if LF/NL (new line mode) is set also a carriage return;"
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458338.
+
+console_ioctl.4
+ mtk
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+bootparam.7
+ mtk, after a note by Alan Portal
+ Fix reference to kernel documentation source file in the
+ "The Sound Driver" subsection.
+
+man-pages.7
+ Alain Portal
+ Move CONFIGURATION description after SYNOPSIS description.
+ mtk / Alain Portal
+ Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>).
+
+posixoptions.7
+ mtk
+ Minor formatting and wording fixes.
+
+rtnetlink.7
+ Andreas Henriksson
+ Fix description of RTM_F_EQUALIZE.
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458325.
+
+signal.7
+ mtk
+ Minor formatting and wording fixes.
+
+socket.7
+ mtk
+ Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC.
+
+spufs.7
+ mtk / Jeremy Kerr / Alain Portal
+ s/SPE/SPU/
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-01-14
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+longjmp.3
+printf.3
+scanf.3
+setbuf.3
+setjmp.3
+sk98lin.4
+environ.7
+ mtk
+ Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.
+
+ioctl_list.2
+mlock.2
+mprotect.2
+mremap.2
+syslog.2
+cfree.3
+mpool.3
+offsetof.3
+rpc.3
+stdin.3
+ mtk
+ Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.
+
+ftok.3
+ mtk
+ s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+chown.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording change.
+
+dup.2
+ mtk
+ Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().
+
+open.2
+ Trond Myklebust / mtk
+ Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.
+
+gettid.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
+ thing as a POSIX thread ID.
+
+pipe.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.
+
+umask.2
+ mtk
+ A few rewrites and additions.
+
+strptime.3
+ Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
+ Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.
+
+initrd.4
+ mtk
+ Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.
+
+random.4
+ mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
+ Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.
+
+pthreads.7
+ mtk
+ Minor changes.
+
+spufs.7
+ mtk / Jeremy Kerr
+ Define abbreviation "MSS".
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-01-31
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
+Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
+Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
+WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+stdarg.3
+bootparam.7
+ Thomas Huriaux
+ Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
+ as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+remove_COLOPHON.sh
+ mtk
+ Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided
+ as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
+ sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
+ in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences
+ between the trees.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+fcntl.2
+ mtk
+ Replace tables with .TP macros.
+
+fork.2
+ mtk
+ Added discussion of directory streams.
+ Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
+ Changed authorship notice.
+
+futex.2
+ mtk
+ Add ENOSYS error to errors.
+ Phil Endecott
+ Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
+
+inotify_add_watch.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording changes.
+
+splice.2
+ WANG Cong
+ Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
+
+wait.2
+ Phil Endecott
+ Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
+
+tkill.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
+ tgkill().
+
+alloca.3
+ mtk
+ Change description in NAME section.
+ Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
+ SIGSEGV).
+ mtk / Vincent Lefevre
+ Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
+ point out some cases where it can be useful;
+ as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
+
+bootparam.7
+ Pavel Heimlich
+ Remove junk line.
+
+inotify.7
+ mtk
+ Replace tables with .TP macros.
+ s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.78 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-02-15
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
+Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
+Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
+Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+sigaction.2
+signal.2
+sigwaitinfo.2
+signal.7
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+eventfd.2
+ mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
+ Documents the eventfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
+
+signalfd.2
+ mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
+ Documents the signalfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+futex.2
+ mtk / Phil Endecott
+ Improve wording describing error returns.
+
+open.2
+ Greg Banks
+ Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
+
+reboot.2
+ mtk / Michael Tokarev
+ Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not
+ return.
+ mtk
+ Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
+ and also what is used in the kernel source.
+ Other minor wording changes.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-03-07
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
+Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
+Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
+Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Lasse Kärkkäinen <tronic@trn.iki.fi>
+Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Ron Burk <ronburk@gmail.com>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+Walter Harms <WHarms@bfs.de>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+timerfd_create.2
+ mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
+ Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and
+ timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25.
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+timerfd_gettime.2
+timerfd_settime.2
+ mtk
+ Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
+
+eventfd_read.3
+eventfd_write.3
+ mtk
+ Links to eventfd.2.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+Makefile
+ aeb
+ Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
+
+execve.2
+ mtk
+ Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
+
+getitimer.2
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
+
+getrusage.2
+ mtk
+ Minor rewordings.
+
+open.2
+ Michael Haardt
+ Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
+
+signalfd.2
+ mtk
+ Fix type for 'ssi_ptr' field.
+ See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-01/msg00002.html.
+
+syscalls.2
+ mtk
+ Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime()
+ to list.
+
+syslog.2
+ Jeremy Kerr
+ Add info on command type 10.
+ Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
+ Minor grammar fix.
+ mtk
+ Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
+ Update RETURN VALUE section.
+ Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
+ Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
+ Other minor edits.
+
+ctime.3
+ Walter Harms
+ Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
+ was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
+ See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+ mtk
+ Clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
+ mtk / Sam Varshavchik
+ Remove some duplicated text.
+
+malloc.3
+ Lasse Kärkkäinen / Mike Frysinger / mtk
+ Clarify description of realloc() behavior for
+ ((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
+
+posix_fallocate.3
+ Samuel Thibault
+ s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
+
+proc.5
+ Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
+ Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
+ It used to be true that the command line arguments were
+ not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
+ In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
+ kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
+ which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
+ Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
+ they should not have that limitation.
+
+epoll.7
+ Davide Libenzi / mtk
+ Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
+ descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
+ referring to the same underlying open file description remain
+ open.
+ See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/.
+ mtk
+ Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
+ mtk
+ A few minor rewordings.
+ mtk, after a note by Chris Heath
+ Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
+ file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
+ file descriptors to the same epoll set.
+ Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi
+ Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
+ mtk, after comments by Devide Libenzi and Chris Heath
+ Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
+ set is [file descriptor, open file description].
+ mtk, after a note by Ron Burk
+ Change A3, to note that when events are available,
+ the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
+ mtk
+ Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file
+ descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket.
+
+posixoptions.7
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
+
+regex.7
+ mtk
+ Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348552.
+
+standards.7
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
+
+time.7
+ mtk
+ Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
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