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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-06-21 14:47:55 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-06-21 14:47:55 +0000 |
commit | 19ce063feb1ab0440f585bfdcc106864b0455bb8 (patch) | |
tree | c5e3279281de06cb047b7e2a7e66109304ee28d9 | |
parent | ccca85bec2fb7ec04151053df3b77d9a24a6f44b (diff) |
Getting ready for 2.04 release
-rw-r--r-- | Changes | 155 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man-pages-2.04.lsm | 2 |
2 files changed, 153 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ==================== -Released: ????-??-?? +Released: 2005-06-21 Contributors ------------ @@ -9,23 +9,172 @@ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> +Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr> +Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> +Dieter Brueggemann <dieter.brueggemann@entitec.de> +Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk> +Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org> ####Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> +kabloom kabloom@ucdavis.edu +Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> +Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> +Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> +Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr> +Olivier Guilyardi <ylf@xung.org> +Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca> +Philipp Spitzer <philipp@toastfreeware.priv.at> +Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org> +Thierry Excoffier <exco@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr> +Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> +Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> +Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- +For consistency across pages: + + 1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g + Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. -New Pages +New pages --------- pthreads.7 mtk An overview of the Linux implementations of POSIX threads. + Changes to individual pages ----------------- +--------------------------- + +_exit.2 + mtk + Various minor changes + +epoll_ctl.2 + Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> + 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. + +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 + +getitimer.2 + Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier + Noted the existence of the short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy). + +getrlimit.2 + mtk + RLIMIT_RSS only has affect "in 2.4.x", not "in 2.4 and later". + +getrusage.2 + Geoff Clare + Since Linux 2.6, the ru_nvcsw and ru_nivcsw fields are used. + +nice.2 + mtk / Guido Trotter + Rewrote description of return value. + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296183 + +open.2 + Walter Harms + O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE. + mtk + O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6 + Various minor fixes + +atexit.3 + mtk + Various minor changes + +exit.3 + mtk + Various minor changes + +getopt.3 + mtk / Philipp Spitzer + Fix description of return value. + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359 + +hsearch.3 + mtk + Changed (char *) to (void *) in example. + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313607 + +log1p.3 + Justin Pryzby + 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 VAUE for makecontext() + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800 + +on_exit.3 + mtk + 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. + +realpath.3 + mtk / Thomas Hood + When specifying resolved_path as NULL, realpath() + will (still) only allocate up to PATH_MAX bytes. + Plus other minor changes. + See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239424 + +rcmd.3 + Dave Love + The required header file for these funtions 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 + +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. + +strerror.3 + Baurjan Ismagulov + 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" + +proc.5 + mtk + Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7 + +ip.7 + mtk + Various wording and formatting fixes. + Reordered /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* file descriptions alphabetically. + +tcp.7 + Dieter Brueggemann / mtk + 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 + from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. diff --git a/man-pages-2.04.lsm b/man-pages-2.04.lsm index 671eb44f2..a01e6def0 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.04.lsm +++ b/man-pages-2.04.lsm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Begin3 Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux Version: 2.04 -Entered-date: ????-??-?? +Entered-date: 2005-06-21 Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages Keywords: man pages Author: several |