The following are changes in previous 2.xx man page releases.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.00 ====================
Released: 2004-12-16 (why wait for the kernel?)
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Andrey Kiselev <dron@ak4719.spb.edu>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Chris Green <cmg@dok.org>
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Emmanuel Colbus <emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr>
Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
Eric Estievenart <eric.estievenart@free.fr>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Jan Kuznik <kuznik@gepro.cz>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
John V. Belmonte <jbelmonte@debian.org>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Luis Javier Merino Morán <ljmerino@pandasoftware.es>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@ginac.de>
Vasya Pupkin <ptushnik@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
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.
For consistency, all instances "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.
In addition:
-- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed
on various pages.
-- types such as "uint" in syscalN() declarations were changed
to "unsigned int", etc.
-- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed.
The affected pages are:
getdents.2
gettid.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Individual pages
----------------
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
fcntl.2
Martin Pool
Added O_NOATIME to list of flags that can be changed via F_SETFL.
mtk/aeb
Noted F_GETOWN bug after suggestion from aeb.
See also:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108380640603164&w=2
getrlimit.2
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.
Added note on RLIMIT_CPU error in older kernels.
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.
Repaired note on SIGCHLD behaviour 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.
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,
mmap.2
mtk
Added cross-ref to setrlimit(2) concerning memory locking limits.
Eric Estievenart
Note that MAP_FIXED replaces existing mappings
msgctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added msqid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
msgget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
msgop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
open.2
Martin Pool
Added O_NOATIME (new in Linux 2.6.8)
mtk
Reordered list of 'flags' description alphabetically
personality.2
2004-11-03 applied patch from Martin Schulze
semctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Rewrote semun text.
Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
semget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialise
semaphore values.
semop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmctl.2
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.
Added notes on 2.6.9 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK changes.
Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING (new in Linux 2.6.8)
shmget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Changed wording and placement of sentence regarding attachment
of segments marked for destruction.
sigaction.2
mtk
Added mention of SIGCONT under SA_NOCLDSTOP.
Added SA_NOCLDWAIT.
Updated discussion for POSIX.1-2001 and SIGCHLD and sa_flags.
Noted that CLD_CONTINUED is supported since Linux 2.6.9.
Added SI_TKILL (new in Linux 2.4.19).
Other minor changes.
signal.2
mtk
Removed text on ignoring SIGCHLD; replaced with pointer
to sigaction.2.
sigwaitinfo.2
After bug report from Andrey Kiselev
Fixed prototype: "timeout" --> "*timeout"
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222145
stat,2
Enrico Zini
Added text to clarify that S_IS*() macros should be applied to
st_mode field.
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
mtk
Added EINVAL error for swapoff() ("not currently a swap area").
Added EBUSY error for swapon().
A few formatting fixes.
times.2
mtk
In Linux 2.6, the return value of times changed; it is no
longer time since boot, but rather:
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.
Some formatting fixes.
undocumented.2
After bug report from Johannes Berg
Changed
.TH UNIMPLEMENTED
to:
.TH UNDOCUMENTED
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220741
wait.2
mtk
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.
Much other text rewritten.
wait4.2
mtk
Rewrote this page, removing much duplicated information,
and replacing with pointers to wait.2.
Luis Javier Merino Morán / mtk
CONFORMING TO said "SVr4, POSIX". Changed to "4.3BSD"
waitid.2
mtk
New link to wait.2
assert.3
After bug report from Branden Robinson
The assert() failure message goes to stderr not stdout.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284814
ctime.3
mtk
Noted that 0 in tm_mday is interpreted to mean the last day
of the preceding month.
getnameinfo.3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229618
getnameinfo() does not set errno, it returns a non-zero
value indicating the error.
mtk
added EAI_OVERFLOW error
killpg.3
mtk
Minor changes to SEE ALSO and CONFORMING TO.
lseek64.3
aeb
New page by Andries Brouwer
tzset.3
Richard Kreckel
Change "NULL" to "empty" when talking about the value of TZ.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=601
printf.3
After bug report from Jan Kuznik
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205736
Fixed bad realloc() use in snprintf() example
random.4
After bug report from John V. Belmonte
Updated init and quit scripts to reflect kernel 2.4/2.6 reality
(Scripts taken from drivers/char/random.c)
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247779
proc.5
mtk
Updated description of /proc/loadavg to include
nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid.
rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8
updated statm, and fixed error in order of list
realpath.3
mtk
Added discussion of resolved_path == NULL.
boot.7
applied patch from Martin Schulze
capabilities.7
mtk
Added O_NOATIME for CAP_FOWNER
netdevice.7
Karel Kulhavy and AEB
formatting fix after note from Karel Kulhavy and AEB, plus a
few wording fixes.
signal.7
mtk
/proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-* were superceded by RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
in kernel 2.6.8.
tcp.7
mtk/aeb
Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY.
