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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-04-14 09:26:47 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-04-14 09:26:47 +0000 |
commit | 4667b1b5fe8a10aa3e63e503089cf6ce18232a73 (patch) | |
tree | 598b8ecf77cbb1e3a5c548e9b720417f05652db3 /Changes.old | |
parent | 5931962772fbd65e2f3243fa186be46e8d165c51 (diff) |
2.03 initial changes
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 89997d49b..a352e1ce7 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -479,3 +479,176 @@ system.3 undocumented.3 Remove some functions names that *are* documented. + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.02 ==================== + +Released: 2005-04-14 + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +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 +-------------- + +Martin (Joey) Schulze + Removed SEE ALSO reference to non-existent newctime(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. + +Individual pages +---------------- + +clone.2 + 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. + +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 + Noted kernel version where posix_fadvise() appeared and + noted bug in handling of 'len' in kernels < 2.6.6. + +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 + 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 + +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. + +uselib.2 + Andries Brouwer + Improved DESCRIPTION; clarified distinction between + EACCES and ENOEXEC. + +bcopy.3 + Heikki Orsila + bcopy() handles overlapping case, but memcpy does not, + so for consistency memmove() should be also mentioned. + +getmntent_r.3 + Martin (Joey) Schulze + New link to man3/getmntent.3. + +memcpy.3 + Small wording change after suggestion from Sasa Stevanovic. + +strcasestr.3 + mtk + Created as link to strstr.3. + +strftime.3 + mtk + Noted that SUSv2 allowed a range of 00 to 61 for %S specifier. + +strstr.3 + mtk + Added description of strcasestr(). + +random.4 + aeb + Improved description of read from /dev/urandom. + +st.4 + Kai Makisara + Substantial updates. + +man.7 + Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> + Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> + Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> + Mention the .URL macro more verbosely. + |