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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-09-23 01:44:36 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-09-23 01:44:36 +0200 |
commit | 5071e2eba36491d0563128a23c39733c4f66fc62 (patch) | |
tree | 6d8f5a4cbe80217e98306160c4b1c9bb86b8d7b4 /Changes.old | |
parent | 0743fbdae3b8e8443c46358ab7d2c57163ae5f07 (diff) |
Set up changelogs for start of 3.10
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 372d9ea11..7ead94d16 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -14756,3 +14756,198 @@ pthreads.7 signal.7 mtk Update list of async-signal-safe functions for POSIX.1-2008. + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.09 ==================== + +Released: 2008-09-10, Munich + + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2006@lina.inka.de> +Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> +Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org> +Christopher Head <chead@telus.net> +H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> +Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> +Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> +Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> +Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> +Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com> +Michael Schurter <michael@susens-schurter.com> +Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@foveal.com> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> +Suka <sukadev@us.ibm.com> +Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@wayland.id.au> +Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org> +Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +fopencookie.3 + mtk + Document fopencookie(3), a library function that allows + custom implementation of a stdio stream. + +networks.5 + Martin (Joey) Schulze, with a few light edits by mtk + Documents the /etc/networks file. + + +Global changes +-------------- + +Various pages + mtk + s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency across pages and + with POSIX.1. + +kill.2 +sigaction.2 +sigpending.2 +sigprocmask.2 +sigsuspend.2 +confstr.3 +ctermid.3 +ctime.3 +ferror.3 +flockfile.3 +fopen.3 +getaddrinfo.3 +getgrnam.3 +getnameinfo.3 +getopt.3 +getpwnam.3 +longjmp.3 +popen.3 +rand.3 +readdir.3 +setjmp.3 +sigsetops.3 +sigwait.3 +strtok.3 +tzset.3 +unlocked_stdio.3 + mtk + Add/fix feature test macro requirements. + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +fcntl.2 + mtk, after a note by Mike Bianchi + More clearly and consistently describe whether + or not the third argument to fcntl() is required, + and what its type should be. + mtk + Move description of negative l_len from NOTES, integrating + it into the discussion of file locking. + Minor rewrites of the text on file locking. + +getrusage.2 + Bernd Eckenfels + SEE ALSO: Add clock(3), clock_gettime(3). + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475 + +ioctl_list.2 + mtk + Remove old sentence about where to send updates for this page. + Add more detail on mount options that prevent updates to atime. + +sched_setscheduler.2 + Carsten Emde + Update kernel version numbers relating to real-time support. + +stat.2 + H. Peter Anvin + Note that lstat() will generally not trigger automounter + action, whereas stat() will. + +clock.3 + Bernd Eckenfels + SEE ALSO: Add clock_gettime(3). + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475 + +clock_getres.3 + Tolga Dalman / mtk + Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS; remove now redundant + sentence mentioning librt from NOTES. + +getdate.3 + mtk + Rewrite description of getdate_r() and integrate into main text + (rather than describing in NOTES). + Other parts rewritten for greater clarity. + Make it clearer in the main text that glibc does not implement %Z; + remove discussion of that point from NOTES. + Added an example program. + +hsearch.3 + mtk + Noted that table size as specified by 'nel' is immutable. + Described differences between hsearch() and hsearch_r(). + Added missing pieces to RETURN VALUE. + Added a number of new entries under ERRORS. + NOTES: added some basic advice on sizing the hash table; + noted that when a table is destroyed, the caller is responsible + for freeing the buffers pointed to by 'key' and 'data' fields. + One of the BUGS was fixed in glibc 2.3. + Rewrote and clarified various other pieces. + Rename arguments for reentrant functions, using same name as + glibc headers: s/ret/retval/; s/tab/htab/. + mtk, after a suggestion by Timothy S. Wayland + Integrate discussion of reentrant functions into main discussion + (rather than as a short paragraph at the end). + +iconv.3 + Bruno Haible + Describe "shift sequence" input. + +ptsname.3 + sukadev + Fix return type of ptsname_r() in SYNOPSIS. + +readdir.3 + H. Peter Anvin + s/stat(2)/lstat(2)/ when discussing d_type (since we + are talking about a case where we might be interested to + whether the file itself is a symbolic link). + +sigsetops.3 + Chris Head, signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger + Fix typo: s/sigdelset/sigorset/ + +proc.5 + Mats Wichmann / mtk + s/\[number]/[pid]/ in file names for /proc/PID files. + And similar changes for task/[tid] sub-directories. + mtk / Mats Wichmann + In the description if /proc/[pid]/environ, remove reference to + lilo(8)/grub(8) since there seems to be nothing in those pages + that related to this /proc file. + Michael Schurter / mtk + Remove sentence wrongly saying that /proc/meminfo reports + info in bytes; + see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462969 + mtk + Note that /proc/meminfo reports system-wide memory usage + statistics. + Joe Korty + Document new fields in /proc/interrupts that were added in + Linux 2.6.24. + +unix.7 + Marko Kreen + Since glibc 2.8, _GNU_SOURCE must be defined in order to get + the definition of the ucred structure from <sys/socket.h>. |