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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-06-21 14:47:55 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-06-21 14:47:55 +0000
commit19ce063feb1ab0440f585bfdcc106864b0455bb8 (patch)
treec5e3279281de06cb047b7e2a7e66109304ee28d9
parentccca85bec2fb7ec04151053df3b77d9a24a6f44b (diff)
Getting ready for 2.04 release
-rw-r--r--Changes155
-rw-r--r--man-pages-2.04.lsm2
2 files changed, 153 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 2b38d977c..803204638 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -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