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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-01-16 00:51:15 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-01-16 00:51:15 +0000 |
commit | 93e6d7319dcdcc57435f007d6b4e637f745b79bf (patch) | |
tree | 0c30a4894dccb493b6e54b726a51e626ad3cb4a7 /Changes.old | |
parent | 9459918015b75bc036bb96136cf6766d7f02ef77 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 016d96670..19b04e231 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -2628,3 +2628,144 @@ udp.7 character lines. No changes were made to the content of these pages (yet...). + +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ==================== + +Released: 2006-01-16 + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> +Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com> +Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +Global changes +-------------- + +dd.1 cp.1 +truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2 +sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2 +argz_add.3 asprintf.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 dlopen.3 fwide.3 +gethostbyname.3 getline.3 getlogin.3 getnameinfo.3 getpass.3 hsearch.3 +perror.3 printf.3 readdir.3 scanf.3 stpcpy.3 strdup.3 strfmon.3 +strftime.3 string.3 strptime.3 sysconf.3 termios.3 ttyname.3 +dsp56k.4 tty_ioctl.4 +elf.5 proc.5 termcap.5 +charsets.7 unix.7 + mtk + Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which + is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character). + + To rectify this the following changes were made in the above + pages: + + Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'. + Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'. + Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'. + Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'. + Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'. + Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'. + Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'. + Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'. + +Various pages + mtk + Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V". + +Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several +places. + + +New pages +--------- + +mmap64.3 + Mike Frysinger + New link to mmap.2 + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +capget.2 + mtk + Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged + capset() with 'pid' field == getpid(). + +epoll_ctl.2 + mtk + Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2. + +gethostname.2 + mtk + Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's + gethostname() wrapper function. + +mmap.2 + mtk / Mike Frysinger + Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3) + mtk + A few other small rewordings. + +open.2 + mtk + Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via + open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose. + +recv.2 + Stefan Puiu + Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT. + +dlopen.3 + mtk + Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument; + added descriptions of RTLD_NOLOAD, RTLD_DELETE, + and RTLD_DEEPBIND. + + Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is + automatically called when a library is unloaded. + +fmemopen.3 + mtk + Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL. + +fseeko.3 + Mike Frysinger + Add RETURN VALUE section. + +getopt.3 + mtk + Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt(). + +qsort.3 + mtk / Falk Hueffner + Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar' + function by providing an example. + As per Debian bug 348072. + +proc.5 + mtk + Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15. + + Documented /proc/PID/task. + + Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task} + are not available if the main thread has terminated. + + Senthil Kumar + Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under + /proc/sys/kernel/random. + +udp.7 + Stefan Puiu / mtk + Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT + (add cross-ref to socket(7)). |