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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2011-10-04 08:41:25 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2011-10-04 08:41:25 +0200
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signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo(2)
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.35 ====================
+
+Released: 2011-10-04, Munich
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
+in the changelog below) reports, notes and ideas that have been
+incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
+David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
+Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
+Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
+Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
+Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+recvmmsg.2
+ Andi Kleen, Michael Kerrisk
+ New man page for recvmmsg(2)
+
+setns.2
+ Eric W. Biederman
+ New manual page for setns(2)
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Various improvements
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash
+ Normal English typographical convention is not to have
+ spaces around em dashes.
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Global fix: s/null pointer/NULL pointer/
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Global fix: use ORing
+ Use "ORing", not "OR'ing", nor an italic ".IR OR ing".
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Global fix: consistent use of "null wide character"
+ Bring more consistency to the discussion of
+ "[terminating] null wide character"
+ by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
+ "[terminating] null wide character (L'\0')".
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
+ Bring more consistency to the discussion of
+ "[terminating] null byte"
+ by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
+ "[terminating] null byte ('\0')".
+
+mount.2, prctl.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ s/task/thread/ for consistency with other pages
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+lseek.2
+ Guillem Jover
+ CONFORMING TO: Note other systems that have SEEK_HOLE+SEEK_DATA
+
+recv.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Add mention of recvmmsg(2)
+
+recvmmsg.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: add sendmmsg(2)
+
+send.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 adds MSG_NOSIGNAL
+
+sigwaitinfo.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note that attempts to wait for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are silently ignored
+
+stat.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 requirements for lstat()
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Regarding automounter action, add a reference to fstatat(2)
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clean up text describing which POSIX describes S_IF* constants
+
+aio_cancel.3
+ Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
+ Clarify meaning of "return status" and "error status"
+
+gets.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ POSIX.1-2008 marks gets() obsolescent
+ The page formerly erroneously stated that POSIX.1-2008
+ removed the specification of this function.
+
+mbsnrtowcs.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
+ This function is specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
+regex.3
+ Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
+ Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"
+
+stpcpy.3
+stpncpy.3
+ Mike Frysinger
+ Note that these functions are in POSIX.1-2008
+ Update the "CONFORMING TO" sections of these functions to
+ note that they are now part of the POSIX.1-2008 standard.
+
+stpncpy.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"
+
+strcpy.3
+ Mike Frysinger
+ SEE ALSO: Add stpncpy(3)
+
+strdup.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ CONFORMING TO: strndup() is in POSIX.1-2008
+
+wcpcpy.3
+wcpncpy.3
+wcsnlen.3
+wcsnrtombs.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
+ These functions are specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
+
+proc.5
+ Eric W. Biederman
+ Document /proc/[pid]/ns/
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions
+
+capabilities.7
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ List setns(2) as an operation allowed by CAP_SYS_ADMIN