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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-10-04 08:41:25 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-10-04 08:41:25 +0200 |
commit | 321695ec70babdf4647d6048505c5223bf926c68 (patch) | |
tree | 4e48d7eea9ae8dc7144f16828261266243374da6 /Changes.old | |
parent | 6f31b7cf70d8d98538614fa122cbd43752af7918 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index cd99e921d..5b81a5b1e 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -22243,3 +22243,169 @@ ip.7 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 |