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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2006-01-16 00:51:15 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2006-01-16 00:51:15 +0000
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+==================== 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)).