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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-07-19 08:24:44 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-07-19 08:24:44 +0000
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@@ -1304,3 +1304,62 @@ tcp.7
The first sentence under NOTES about SO_KEEPALIVE and SIGPIPE
makes no grammatical sense (and possibly also no technical sense).
It has been removed.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.07 ====================
+
+Released: 2005-07-19
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+The terms "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" are now used consistently
+(no abbreviations) across all manual pages.
+
+Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID"
+(no more "saved user ID", "ved effective UID", saved group ID", etc.)
+
+Global fixes in textual descriptions:
+
+ uid --> UID
+ gid --> GID
+ pid --> PID
+ id --> ID
+
+Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with explanatory text,
+instead of atime/ctime/mtime.
+
+Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
+there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+setresuid.2
+ mtk
+ Some rewording.
+
+stat.2
+ Mike Frysinger
+ Improve description of st_dev and st_rdev.
+ mtk
+ Various wording and formatting improvements.
+
+truncate.2
+ mtk
+ Some formatting fixes