==================== Changes in man-pages-2.44 ====================
-Released: 2007-04-04
+Released: 2007-??-??
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
-Andre Majorel <aym-naideb@teaser.fr>
-Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
-Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
-Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
-Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
-Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
-John Ward <jward@idealcorp.com>
-Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com>
-Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org>
-Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
-Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
-Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
-Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
-Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
-Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.ne>
-Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
-Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
-Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
-Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.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>
-
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
-termio.7
- mtk, after a bit of prodding by Reuben Thomas
- A brief discussion of the old System V termio interface,
- with pointers to pages that will contain the information
- that the reader probably wants.
-
-scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
- mtk
- Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
- which may me grammar errors.
Global changes
--------------
-mtk
- JustinPyzby / mtk
- Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
- faccessat.2
- fchmodat.2
- fchownat.2
- fstatat.2
- futimesat.2
- linkat.2
- mkdirat.2
- mknodat.2
- openat.2
- readlinkat.2
- renameat.2
- symlinkat.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.
-
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
-places. (Special thanks to Nicolas François!)
+places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-access.2
- mtk
- Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
- Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
- Improve ENOENT description.
-
-clone.2
- mtk
- Added some detail to the prototype.
- Added some notes on IA-64's clone2().
-
-epoll_ctl.2
- mtk
- Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
-
-faccessat.2
- Justin Pryzby
- Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177.
- * s/effective/real/ in description test.
- * added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
- * various other changes.
-
-getrlimit.2
- mtk / Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
- threads.
-
-io_cancel.2
-io_destroy.2
-io_getevents.2
-io_setup.2
-io_submit.2
- Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS.
- Changed return type from "long" to "int".
-
-mbind.2
- Samuel Thibault / mtk
- Fix EINVAL description.
- See Debian bug 411777.
-
-mincore.2
- Nick Piggin
- Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
- Nick Pollitt
- Remove words "of a file" -- mincore() is describing
- memory residence information, not properties of a file.
- mtk
- Rewrote various parts to make the page clearer.
-
-mmap.2
- mtk
- Rewrote and reorganised various parts to be clearer.
- Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- 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
- 32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
-
-posix_fadvise.2
- Pádraig Brady
- Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
-
-rename.2
- mtk / Timo Sirainen
- Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
- See Debian 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 SUSv3 will explicitly
- require this behaviour.
- Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
-
-signal.2
- Nicolas François
- 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.
-
-splice.2
- Benjamin Gilbert
- Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
-
-statvfs.2
- mtk
- Small wording clarification.
-
-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
- 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.
-
-write.2
- mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
- Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
-
-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
- 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
- functions may be into some part of 'path'.
-
-dlopen.3
- Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- + Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
- Add "#include <stdlib.h>" to example program.
-
-fclose.3
- mtk
- Complete rewrite. The existing page was hard to read,
- and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
-
-getopt.3
- 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 arguments.
- See Debian bug352139.
-
-glob.3
- Nicolas François
- Fix PROTOTYPE.
-
-inet_network.3
- mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
- Clarified description of inet_network().
-
-log.3
- Nicolas François
- Fix .TH line.
-
-log10.3
- Nicolas François
- Fix .TH line.
-
-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.
- 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.
-
-termios.3
- mtk
- Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small
- amount of reordering.
- mtk
- Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode.
- mtk
- Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
- mtk
- Document CMSPAR.
- mtk
- Make description of PARODD a little clearer.
- Reuben Thomas
- Add SEE ALSO link to tty_ioctl.4
- mtk
- Add SEE ALSO link to console_ioctl.4
-
-ualarm.3
- mtk
- Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
- Various rewordings.
-
-usleep.3
- mtk
- Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
- Various rewordings.
-
-termcap.5
- Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- s/curses/ncurses/ under SEE ALSO
-
-bootparam.7
- Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
- Documented "mem=nopentium".
-
-feature_test_macros.7
- mtk
- The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4.
- mtk, after a suggestion by Justin Pryzby
- Added some text warning that the "__" macros the
- <features.h> defines internally should never be
- directly defined by programs.
- mtk, based on notes by Jakub Jelinek
- Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE
- (See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html )
- mtk
- Document _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.
-
-mdoc.7
- 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.
-
-time.7
- mtk
- Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.
Andi Kleen
Describe the correct default for UDP/RAW path MTU discovery.
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.44 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-04-04
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andre Majorel <aym-naideb@teaser.fr>
+Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
+Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
+Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
+Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
+Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
+John Ward <jward@idealcorp.com>
+Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com>
+Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org>
+Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
+Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.ne>
+Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
+Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.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>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+termio.7
+ mtk, after a bit of prodding by Reuben Thomas
+ A brief discussion of the old System V termio interface,
+ with pointers to pages that will contain the information
+ that the reader probably wants.
+
+scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
+ mtk
+ Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
+ which may me grammar errors.
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+mtk
+ Justin Pryzby / mtk
+ Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
+ faccessat.2
+ fchmodat.2
+ fchownat.2
+ fstatat.2
+ futimesat.2
+ linkat.2
+ mkdirat.2
+ mknodat.2
+ openat.2
+ readlinkat.2
+ renameat.2
+ symlinkat.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.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places. (Special thanks to Nicolas François!)
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.2
+ mtk
+ Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
+ Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
+ Improve ENOENT description.
+
+clone.2
+ mtk
+ Added some detail to the prototype.
+ Added some notes on IA-64's clone2().
+
+epoll_ctl.2
+ mtk
+ Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
+
+faccessat.2
+ Justin Pryzby
+ Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177.
+ * s/effective/real/ in description test.
+ * added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
+ * various other changes.
+
+getrlimit.2
+ mtk / Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
+ threads.
+
+io_cancel.2
+io_destroy.2
+io_getevents.2
+io_setup.2
+io_submit.2
+ Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS.
+ Changed return type from "long" to "int".
+
+mbind.2
+ Samuel Thibault / mtk
+ Fix EINVAL description.
+ See Debian bug 411777.
+
+mincore.2
+ Nick Piggin
+ Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
+ Nick Pollitt
+ Remove words "of a file" -- mincore() is describing
+ memory residence information, not properties of a file.
+ mtk
+ Rewrote various parts to make the page clearer.
+
+mmap.2
+ mtk
+ Rewrote and reorganised various parts to be clearer.
+ Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ 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
+ 32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
+
+posix_fadvise.2
+ Pádraig Brady
+ Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
+
+rename.2
+ mtk / Timo Sirainen
+ Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
+ See Debian 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 SUSv3 will explicitly
+ require this behaviour.
+ Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
+
+signal.2
+ Nicolas François
+ 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.
+
+splice.2
+ Benjamin Gilbert
+ Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
+
+statvfs.2
+ mtk
+ Small wording clarification.
+
+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
+ 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.
+
+write.2
+ mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
+ Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
+
+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
+ 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
+ functions may be into some part of 'path'.
+
+dlopen.3
+ Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ + Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
+ Add "#include <stdlib.h>" to example program.
+
+fclose.3
+ mtk
+ Complete rewrite. The existing page was hard to read,
+ and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
+
+getopt.3
+ 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 arguments.
+ See Debian bug352139.
+
+glob.3
+ Nicolas François
+ Fix PROTOTYPE.
+
+inet_network.3
+ mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
+ Clarified description of inet_network().
+
+log.3
+ Nicolas François
+ Fix .TH line.
+
+log10.3
+ Nicolas François
+ Fix .TH line.
+
+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.
+ 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.
+
+termios.3
+ mtk
+ Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small
+ amount of reordering.
+ mtk
+ Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode.
+ mtk
+ Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
+ mtk
+ Document CMSPAR.
+ mtk
+ Make description of PARODD a little clearer.
+ Reuben Thomas
+ Add SEE ALSO link to tty_ioctl.4
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO link to console_ioctl.4
+
+ualarm.3
+ mtk
+ Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
+ Various rewordings.
+
+usleep.3
+ mtk
+ Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
+ Various rewordings.
+
+termcap.5
+ Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ s/curses/ncurses/ under SEE ALSO
+
+bootparam.7
+ Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ Documented "mem=nopentium".
+
+feature_test_macros.7
+ mtk
+ The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4.
+ mtk, after a suggestion by Justin Pryzby
+ Added some text warning that the "__" macros the
+ <features.h> defines internally should never be
+ directly defined by programs.
+ mtk, based on notes by Jakub Jelinek
+ Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE
+ (See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html )
+ mtk
+ Document _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.
+
+mdoc.7
+ 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.
+
+time.7
+ mtk
+ Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.
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