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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-04-05 06:44:35 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-04-05 06:44:35 +0000 |
commit | e8a095046cfb5770a0baeee02a3cadc2f676df72 (patch) | |
tree | 4a49485a667d0c27bd3d9467973e7cacf8c26a2b | |
parent | 7c088cb1d85d7bed927c155ce3c579a3588b802d (diff) |
Updates for 2.02 release.
-rw-r--r-- | Changes | 237 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Changes.old | 7 |
2 files changed, 135 insertions, 109 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.02 ==================== -Released: 2004-12-20 (a quick one before Christmas) +Released: ??? Contributors ------------ @@ -8,37 +8,39 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de> -Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de> -Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> -Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> -Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> -Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org> -Matthew Gregan <kinetik@orcon.net.nz> -Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br> -Tony Crawford <tony@klosterdorf.de> +Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> +Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> +Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> +David Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net> +Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com> +Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi> +Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> +Johan Walles +Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> +Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> +Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net> +Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> +Matthias Lang <matthias@corelatus.se> +Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de> +Michael Mühlebach <michael@anduin.ch> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Sasa Stevanovic <mg94c18@alas.matf.bg.ac.yu> +Serguei Leontiev <leo@sai.msu.ru> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- -Matthew Dempsky, mtk - triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179 - The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in the - following pages: - - accept.2 - close.2 - send.2 - setsid.2 - socket.2 - closedir.3 - initgroups.3 - mkstemp.3 - opendir.3 - readdir.3 - telldir.3 +Martin (Joey) Schulze + Removed SEE ALSO reference to non-existent ctime(3) from: + + ctime.3 + tzselect.8 + zdump.8 + zic.8 + + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236884 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several other places. @@ -46,98 +48,123 @@ other places. Individual pages ---------------- -sendfile.2 - mtk - Adjusted descriptions of argument file tyypes to be closer to - 2.6 reality. - Wording and formatting changes - -ctan.3 -ctanh.3 - Tony Crawford - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270817 - Formulae on the pages should be T = S / C not T = C / S. - -errno.3 - Martin Schulze, mtk - Removed errno declaration from prototype, added notes - on historical need for this declaration. - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174175 - -aio_return.3 - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953 - Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)" - -posix_openpt.3 +clone.2 mtk - New by mtk + Noted the PID caching behaviour of NPTL's getpid() + wrapper under BUGS. + + Added futex(2), set_thread_area(2), set_tid_address(2), + tkill(2) under SEE ALSO. + +epoll_ctl.2 +epoll_create.2 + Marko Kohtala / mtk + Improved various error descriptions. -ptsname.3 +epoll_wait.2 + David Lloyd / Mike Frysinger, Marko Kohtala + Added EINTR to errors. + +fcntl.2 + Jamie Lokier / mtk + Improved discussion of F_SETOWN and F_SETSIG with respect to + multi-threaded programs. + Generally cleaned up the discussion of F_SETOWN. + + Updated CONFORMING TO to note that F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN are + now in POSIX. + +link.2 + mtk + Noted discrepancy between Linux and POSIX.1 when oldpath + is a symbolic link. + See: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367 + and: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08152.html + + Michael Haardt / mtk + Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to link + across mount points, even if the mount points refer to the same + file system. + +mincore.2 + mtk, after note from Gordon Jin + Updated ERRORS + +pipe.2 + As per message from Serguei Leontiev + Removed SVr2, AT&T, and BSD from CONFORMING TO, since + a pipe on those systems is actually bidirectional. + (Pipes are implemented as STREAMS on the former, and + sockets on the latter.) + +posix_fadvise.2 mtk - Added description of ptsname_r(). - Added ERRORS. + Noted kernel version where posix_fadvise() appeared and + noted bug in handling of 'len' in kernels < 2.6.6. -ptsname_r.3 +rename.2 + Michael Haardt + Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to rename + a file across mount points, even if the mount points refer to + the same file system. + +semop.2 mtk - New link to ptsname.3 - -shm_open.3 - Matthew Gregan - add <fcntl.h> to synopsis - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271243 - -strcasecmp.3 - Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> - .SH "CONFORMING TO" - -BSD 4.4 - +BSD 4.4, SUSv3 - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234443 - -strfry.3 - Joshua Kwan - Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213538 - -strftime.3 - Cartsen Hey - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276248 + Noted kernel version numbers for semtimedop(). + +setitimer.2 + Matthias Lang, mtk + Noted MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling. + Added note about treatment of out-of-range tv_usec values. + +sigqueue.2 + Johan Walles, Martin (Joey) Schulze + Added sigqueue.2 to SEE ALSO - Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..60. +times.2 + mtk + Added notes on non-standard behaviour: Linux allows 'buf' to + be NULL, but POSIX.1 doesn't specify this and it's non-portable. - SUSv3 says 0..60. I think the manual page probably says - 0..61, because that's what SUSv2 said. - (Some other implementations' man pages also say 0..61 -- - e.g., Solaris 8 & 9, Tru64 5.1B; FreeBSD 5.1 says 0..60.) +uselib.2 + Andries Brouwer + Improved DESCRIPTION; clarified distinction between + EACCES and ENOEXEC. - The glibc manual currently says 0..60. +bcopy.3 + Heikki Orsila + bcopy() handles overlapping case, but memcpy does not, + so for consistency memmove() should be also mentioned. - Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed this the - manual page to also say this: +getmntent_r.3 + Martin (Joey) Schulze + New link to man3/getmntent.3. - -The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61). - +The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60). - +(The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.) +memcpy.3 + Small wording change after suggestion from Sasa Stevanovic. -sysconf.3 - Johannes Berg / http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974 - -.BR POSIX2_FORT_RUN " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV - +.BR POSIX2_FORT_DEV " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV +strcasestr.3 + mtk + Created as link to strstr.3. -system.3 - Pedro Zorzenon - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242638 - Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros <sytdlib.h> - as for wait(2). +strftime.3 + mtk + Noted that SUSv2 allowed a range of 00 to 61 for %S specifier. +strstr.3 mtk - Changed name of argument from 'string' to 'command' (like POSIX). + Added description of strcasestr(). - Noted that glibc does nowadays explicitly check for the existence - of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behaviour - of assuming the shell exists and always returning 1 if - 'command' is NULL. +random.4 + aeb + Improved description of read from /dev/urandom. - Other wording and formatting clean-ups. +st.4 + Kai Makisara + Substantial updates. -undocumented.3 - Remove some functions names that *are* documented. +man.7 + Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> + Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> + Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + Mention the .URL macro more verbosely. diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 8be2baee1..89997d49b 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ ptsname.3 ptsname_r.3 mtk - New link to ptsname.3 + New link to ptsname.3. shm_open.3 Matthew Gregan @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ strftime.3 Cartsen Hey as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276248 - Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..60. + Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..0. SUSv3 says 0..60. I think the manual page probably says 0..61, because that's what SUSv2 said. @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ strftime.3 The glibc manual currently says 0..60. - Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed this the + Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed the manual page to also say this: -The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61). @@ -479,4 +479,3 @@ system.3 undocumented.3 Remove some functions names that *are* documented. - |