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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2022-10-11 22:40:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2022-10-11 22:40:50 +0200 |
| commit | 81b4ae5c6bf0caf8ccb14519086816d0401a3eea (patch) | |
| tree | 01055434a16041407862e891f77d81a5a31df7e6 | |
| parent | 324e1d8289644e5159d43a04945df0841c45b966 (diff) | |
Start of man-pages-NEXT: Move Changes to Changes.old
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Changes | 357 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Changes.old | 390 |
2 files changed, 392 insertions, 355 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-6.00 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-?.?? ==================== -Released: 2022-10-09, València +Released: ????-??-??, València Contributors @@ -11,378 +11,25 @@ ideas, and discussions that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> -"Dr. Jürgen Sauermann" <mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> -"Dr. Wolfgang Armbruster" <dr.w.e.armbruster@gmail.com> -"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> -"M. Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com> -"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> -"Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws> -"Valentin V. Bartenev" <vbart@nginx.com> -<pellucida@tutanota.com> -Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> -Ahelenia Ziemiańska (наб) <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> -Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> -Aleksander Baranowski <alex@euro-linux.com> -Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> -Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> -Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> -Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com> -Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> -Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> -Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> -Andrew Persons <andrewscottpersons@gmail.com> -Andrew Wock <ajwock@gmail.com> -Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com> -Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> -Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> -Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> -Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> -Benoit Lecocq <benoit@openbsd.org> -Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@vortex.is> -Brett Holman <bholman.devel@gmail.com> -CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org> -Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> -Charan Teja Reddy <quic_charante@quicinc.com> -Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> -Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> -Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> -Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> -Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> -Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> -Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> -David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> -David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> -David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> -David Sletten <david.paul.sletten@gmail.com> -David Ward <david.ward@gatech.edu> -Davide Benini <davide.benini@gmail.com> -Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> -Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> -Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> -Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> -Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com> -Fabian <fabian@ritter-vogt.de> -Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> -GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com> -Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> -Greg Banks <gbanks@linkedin.com> -Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> -Grzegorz Szpetkowski <gszpetkowski@gmail.com> -Günther Noack <guenther@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> -Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> -Huang Pei <huangpei@loongson.cn> -Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> -Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> -Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> -Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> -Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> -Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> -Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> -Jayprakash Ray <r.jay3283@gmail.com> -JeanHeyd Meneide <wg14@soasis.org> -Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> -Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@inria.fr> -Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au> -Jesse Rosenstock <jmr@google.com> -Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> -Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com> -Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org> -Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp> -Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> -Lucien Gentis <lucien.gentis@waika9.com> -Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de> -Luis Lozano <llozano@chromium.org> -Marco Bonelli <marco@mebeim.net> -Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> -Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> -Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph@gmail.com> -Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@google.com> -Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> -Melker Narikka <meklu@meklu.org> -Michael Kearney <mikekearney85@hotmail.com> -Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> -Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> -Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com> -Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> -Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> -Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> -Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> -Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> -NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> -Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org> -Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com> -Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu> -Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> -Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> -Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@ionos.com> -Patrick Reader <_@pxeger.com> -Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> -Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> -Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> -Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> -Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> -Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> -Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> -Randall <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> -Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> -Robert Schneider <robert.schneider03@sap.com> -Rumen Telbizov <rumen.telbizov@menlosecurity.com> -Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> -Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net> -Sean Young <sean@mess.org> -Simon Branch <simonmbranch@gmail.com> -Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com> -Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> -Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> -Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> -Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> -Theodore Dubois <tbodt@google.com> -Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> -Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org> -Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> -Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> -Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> -Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> -Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com> -Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de> -Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> -Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com> -Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> -Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> -enh <enh@google.com> -glibg10b <pugonfireyt@gmail.com> -nick black <nickblack@linux.com> -zhangkui <zhangkui@oppo.com> -Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> -Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> - Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- -man2/ - landlock_add_rule.2 - landlock_create_ruleset.2 - landlock_restrict_self.2 - memfd_secret.2 - -man2type/ - open_how.2type - -man3/ - _Generic.3 - -man3const/ - NULL.3const - -man3head/ - sysexits.h.3head - -man3type/ - aiocb.3type - blkcnt_t.3type - blksize_t.3type - cc_t.3type - clock_t.3type - clockid_t.3type - dev_t.3type - div_t.3type - double_t.3type - epoll_event.3type - fenv_t.3type - id_t.3type - intN_t.3type - intmax_t.3type - intptr_t.3type - iovec.3type - itimerspec.3type - lconv.3type - mode_t.3type - off_t.3type - ptrdiff_t.3type - regex_t.3type - size_t.3type - sockaddr.3type - stat.3type - time_t.3type - timer_t.3type - timespec.3type - timeval.3type - tm.3type - va_list.3type - void.3type - -man7/ - landlock.7 - Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- -epoll_wait.2 - epoll_pwait2(2) - -fanotify_init.2 - FAN_REPORT_PIDFD - -fanotify_mark.2 - FAN_FS_ERROR - FAN_MARK_EVICTABLE - FAN_RENAME - FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID - -madvise.2 - MADV_POPULATE_READ - MADV_POPULATE_WRITE - -pipe.2 - O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE - -process_madvise.2 - MADV_WILLNEED - -send.2 - MSG_FASTOPEN - -userfaultfd.2 - UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY - -proc.5 - /proc/[pid]/pagemap bit 57 - -fanotify.7 - /proc/sys/fs/fanotify/max_queued_events - /proc/sys/fs/fanotify/max_user_group - /proc/sys/fs/fanotify/max_user_marks - -tcp.7 - TCP_FASTOPEN - TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT - New and changed links --------------------- -man3/ - strftime_l.3 - -man3type/ - epoll_data.3type - epoll_data_t.3type - fexcept_t.3type - float_t.3type - gid_t.3type - imaxdiv_t.3type - in6_addr.3type - in_addr.3type - in_addr_t.3type - in_port_t.3type - int16_t.3type - int32_t.3type - int64_t.3type - int8_t.3type - ldiv_t.3type - lldiv_t.3type - loff_t.3type - off64_t.3type - pid_t.3type - regmatch_t.3type - regoff_t.3type - sa_family_t.3type - sockaddr_in.3type - sockaddr_in6.3type - sockaddr_storage.3type - sockaddr_un.3type - socklen_t.3type - speed_t.3type - ssize_t.3type - suseconds_t.3type - tcflag_t.3type - uid_t.3type - uint16_t.3type - uint32_t.3type - uint64_t.3type - uint8_t.3type - uintN_t.3type - uintmax_t.3type - uintptr_t.3type - useconds_t.3type - Global changes -------------- -- Man dirs: - - - Move definitions of types to separate pages in man2type/ and - man3type/. Previously, they were spreaded (and duplicated) in other - pages, or in system_data_types.7 (with links in man3/). - - - Add man3head/ for pages that document header files. - - - Add man3const/ for pages that document constants. - -- Licenses: - - - Use SPDX-License-Indentiffier for licenses specified by SPDX - (including the newly-added Linux-man-pages-copyleft). This reduces - the overhead text at the top of most manual page source files. - License texts have been moved to LICENSES/. - -- Build system: - - - Add several make(1) targets to lint the manual pages, and also lint - and build the C programs contained in them. Use of these targets - requires unreleased versions of software, such as groff-1.23.0, so - it's not yet intended to be used by the public. - - - Add targets to build tarballs of the repository. - -- man(7) source: - - - Improve consistency of man(7) source. Also, reduce the number of - warnings that groff(1) and mandoc(7) emit when parsing the pages - with the highest warning level. Most of these fixes were found - thanks to the new `make lint-man` target. - -- Manual pages sections: - - - Title (.TH): - - - Remove 5th argument to TH (middle-header). - - - Specify "Linux man-pages" and the version in the 4th argument - (left-footer). - - - Add the LIBRARY section. This section standardizes a way to - document the library that provides a given interface. - - - Add the CAVEATS section. BUGS and NOTES were serving that purpose - before, but CAVEATS is more appropriate. - - - Rename the CONFORMING TO section to STANDARDS for consistency with - other projects, such as the BSDs. - - - SYNOPSIS: Add the ISO C2X [[deprecated]] attribute for functions - that have been deprecated or removed. - - - EXAMPLES: Improve consistency of C source code. Also, reduce the - number of warnings that several linting tools emit. - - - COLOPHON: Remove section (its purpose is now served by the title). - -- Repository: - - - CONTRIBUTING, README, INSTALL: Document important changes in the - project organization. - Changes to individual pages --------------------------- -The manual pages (and other files in the repository) have been improved -beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied -to individual pages, use git(1). diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 77c06b98d..12beb0d75 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -54953,3 +54953,393 @@ vdso.7 Update CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE + CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE info for powerpc Alejandro Colomar [Christophe Leroy] Add y2038 compliant gettime for ppc/32 + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-6.00 ==================== + +Released: 2022-10-09, València + + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed patches/fixes, reports, notes, +ideas, and discussions that have been incorporated in changes in +this release: + + +"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> +"Dr. Jürgen Sauermann" <mail@xn--jrgen-sauermann-zvb.de> +"Dr. Wolfgang Armbruster" <dr.w.e.armbruster@gmail.com> +"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> +"M. Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com> +"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> +"Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws> +"Valentin V. Bartenev" <vbart@nginx.com> +<pellucida@tutanota.com> +Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> +Ahelenia Ziemiańska (наб) <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> +Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +Aleksander Baranowski <alex@euro-linux.com> +Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> +Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> +Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> +Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com> +Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> +Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> +Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> +Andrew Persons <andrewscottpersons@gmail.com> +Andrew Wock <ajwock@gmail.com> +Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com> +Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> +Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> +Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> +Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> +Benoit Lecocq <benoit@openbsd.org> +Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@vortex.is> +Brett Holman <bholman.devel@gmail.com> +CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org> +Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> +Charan Teja Reddy <quic_charante@quicinc.com> +Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at> +Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> +Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> +Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> +Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> +Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> +Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> +David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> +David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> +David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> +David Sletten <david.paul.sletten@gmail.com> +David Ward <david.ward@gatech.edu> +Davide Benini <davide.benini@gmail.com> +Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de> +Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> +Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> +Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> +Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com> +Fabian <fabian@ritter-vogt.de> +Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> +GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com> +Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com> +Greg Banks <gbanks@linkedin.com> +Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> +Grzegorz Szpetkowski <gszpetkowski@gmail.com> +Günther Noack <guenther@unix-ag.uni-kl.de> +Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> +Huang Pei <huangpei@loongson.cn> +Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> +Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> +Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> +Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> +Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> +Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> +Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> +Jayprakash Ray <r.jay3283@gmail.com> +JeanHeyd Meneide <wg14@soasis.org> +Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> +Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@inria.fr> +Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au> +Jesse Rosenstock <jmr@google.com> +Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> +Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com> +Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org> +Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp> +Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> +Lucien Gentis <lucien.gentis@waika9.com> +Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de> +Luis Lozano <llozano@chromium.org> +Marco Bonelli <marco@mebeim.net> +Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> +Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> +Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph@gmail.com> +Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@google.com> +Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> +Melker Narikka <meklu@meklu.org> +Michael Kearney <mikekearney85@hotmail.com> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> +Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> +Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> +Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> +Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> +NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> +Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org> +Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com> +Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu> +Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> +Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> +Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@ionos.com> +Patrick Reader <_@pxeger.com> +Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> +Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> +Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> +Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> +Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> +Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> +Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> +Randall <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> +Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> +Robert Schneider <robert.schneider03@sap.com> +Rumen Telbizov <rumen.telbizov@menlosecurity.com> +Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> +Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net> +Sean Young <sean@mess.org> +Simon Branch <simonmbranch@gmail.com> +Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com> +Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> +Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> +Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> +Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> +Theodore Dubois <tbodt@google.com> +Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> +Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@stoeckmann.org> +Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> +Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> +Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> +Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> +Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com> +Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de> +Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> +Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com> +Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> +Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org> +enh <enh@google.com> +glibg10b <pugonfireyt@gmail.com> +nick black <nickblack@linux.com> +zhangkui <zhangkui@oppo.com> +Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> +Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +man2/ + landlock_add_rule.2 + landlock_create_ruleset.2 + landlock_restrict_self.2 + memfd_secret.2 + +man2type/ + open_how.2type + +man3/ + _Generic.3 + +man3const/ + NULL.3const + +man3head/ + sysexits.h.3head + +man3type/ + aiocb.3type + blkcnt_t.3type + blksize_t.3type + cc_t.3type + clock_t.3type + clockid_t.3type + dev_t.3type + div_t.3type + double_t.3type + epoll_event.3type + fenv_t.3type + id_t.3type + intN_t.3type + intmax_t.3type + intptr_t.3type + iovec.3type + itimerspec.3type + lconv.3type + mode_t.3type + off_t.3type + ptrdiff_t.3type + regex_t.3type + size_t.3type + sockaddr.3type + stat.3type + time_t.3type + timer_t.3type + timespec.3type + timeval.3type + tm.3type + va_list.3type + void.3type + +man7/ + landlock.7 + + +Newly documented interfaces in existing pages +--------------------------------------------- + +epoll_wait.2 + epoll_pwait2(2) + +fanotify_init.2 + FAN_REPORT_PIDFD + +fanotify_mark.2 + FAN_FS_ERROR + FAN_MARK_EVICTABLE + FAN_RENAME + FAN_REPORT_TARGET_FID + +madvise.2 + MADV_POPULATE_READ + MADV_POPULATE_WRITE + +pipe.2 + O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE + +process_madvise.2 + MADV_WILLNEED + +send.2 + MSG_FASTOPEN + +userfaultfd.2 + UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY + +proc.5 + /proc/[pid]/pagemap bit 57 + +fanotify.7 + /proc/sys/fs/fanotify/max_queued_events + /proc/sys/fs/fanotify/max_user_group + /proc/sys/fs/fanotify/max_user_marks + +tcp.7 + TCP_FASTOPEN + TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT + + +New and changed links +--------------------- + +man3/ + strftime_l.3 + +man3type/ + epoll_data.3type + epoll_data_t.3type + fexcept_t.3type + float_t.3type + gid_t.3type + imaxdiv_t.3type + in6_addr.3type + in_addr.3type + in_addr_t.3type + in_port_t.3type + int16_t.3type + int32_t.3type + int64_t.3type + int8_t.3type + ldiv_t.3type + lldiv_t.3type + loff_t.3type + off64_t.3type + pid_t.3type + regmatch_t.3type + regoff_t.3type + sa_family_t.3type + sockaddr_in.3type + sockaddr_in6.3type + sockaddr_storage.3type + sockaddr_un.3type + socklen_t.3type + speed_t.3type + ssize_t.3type + suseconds_t.3type + tcflag_t.3type + uid_t.3type + uint16_t.3type + uint32_t.3type + uint64_t.3type + uint8_t.3type + uintN_t.3type + uintmax_t.3type + uintptr_t.3type + useconds_t.3type + + +Global changes +-------------- + +- Man dirs: + + - Move definitions of types to separate pages in man2type/ and + man3type/. Previously, they were spreaded (and duplicated) in other + pages, or in system_data_types.7 (with links in man3/). + + - Add man3head/ for pages that document header files. + + - Add man3const/ for pages that document constants. + +- Licenses: + + - Use SPDX-License-Indentiffier for licenses specified by SPDX + (including the newly-added Linux-man-pages-copyleft). This reduces + the overhead text at the top of most manual page source files. + License texts have been moved to LICENSES/. + +- Build system: + + - Add several make(1) targets to lint the manual pages, and also lint + and build the C programs contained in them. Use of these targets + requires unreleased versions of software, such as groff-1.23.0, so + it's not yet intended to be used by the public. + + - Add targets to build tarballs of the repository. + +- man(7) source: + + - Improve consistency of man(7) source. Also, reduce the number of + warnings that groff(1) and mandoc(7) emit when parsing the pages + with the highest warning level. Most of these fixes were found + thanks to the new `make lint-man` target. + +- Manual pages sections: + + - Title (.TH): + + - Remove 5th argument to TH (middle-header). + + - Specify "Linux man-pages" and the version in the 4th argument + (left-footer). + + - Add the LIBRARY section. This section standardizes a way to + document the library that provides a given interface. + + - Add the CAVEATS section. BUGS and NOTES were serving that purpose + before, but CAVEATS is more appropriate. + + - Rename the CONFORMING TO section to STANDARDS for consistency with + other projects, such as the BSDs. + + - SYNOPSIS: Add the ISO C2X [[deprecated]] attribute for functions + that have been deprecated or removed. + + - EXAMPLES: Improve consistency of C source code. Also, reduce the + number of warnings that several linting tools emit. + + - COLOPHON: Remove section (its purpose is now served by the title). + +- Repository: + + - CONTRIBUTING, README, INSTALL: Document important changes in the + project organization. + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +The manual pages (and other files in the repository) have been improved +beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied +to individual pages, use git(1). |