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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-03-31 12:57:55 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-03-31 12:57:55 +0000 |
commit | 9651df7566d9bef3ac87d5186a62e33bda6ea577 (patch) | |
tree | d2991f338469cf4ec75e51e90eff9e5728c4909f /Changes.old | |
parent | c42f7ee8dadf9eafbf2bd09d999de6eaa6bac2c9 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 20754f354..8be2baee1 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -335,3 +335,148 @@ signal.7 tcp.7 mtk/aeb Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY. + +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ==================== + +Released: 2004-12-20 (a quick one before Christmas) + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de> +Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de> +Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> +Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> +Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> +Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org> +Matthew Gregan <kinetik@orcon.net.nz> +Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br> +Tony Crawford <tony@klosterdorf.de> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + +Global changes +-------------- + +Matthew Dempsky, mtk + triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179 + The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in the + following pages: + + accept.2 + close.2 + send.2 + setsid.2 + socket.2 + closedir.3 + initgroups.3 + mkstemp.3 + opendir.3 + readdir.3 + telldir.3 + +Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several +other places. + +Individual pages +---------------- + +sendfile.2 + mtk + Adjusted descriptions of argument file types to be closer to + 2.6 reality. + Wording and formatting changes + +ctan.3 +ctanh.3 + Tony Crawford + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270817 + Formulae on the pages should be T = S / C not T = C / S. + +errno.3 + Martin Schulze, mtk + Removed errno declaration from prototype, added notes + on historical need for this declaration. + http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174175 + +aio_return.3 + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953 + Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)" + +posix_openpt.3 + mtk + New by mtk + +ptsname.3 + mtk + Added description of ptsname_r(). + Added ERRORS. + +ptsname_r.3 + mtk + New link to ptsname.3 + +shm_open.3 + Matthew Gregan + add <fcntl.h> to synopsis + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271243 + +strcasecmp.3 + Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org> + .SH "CONFORMING TO" + -BSD 4.4 + +BSD 4.4, SUSv3 + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234443 + +strfry.3 + Joshua Kwan + Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213538 + +strftime.3 + Cartsen Hey + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276248 + + Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..60. + + SUSv3 says 0..60. I think the manual page probably says + 0..61, because that's what SUSv2 said. + (Some other implementations' man pages also say 0..61 -- + e.g., Solaris 8 & 9, Tru64 5.1B; FreeBSD 5.1 says 0..60.) + + The glibc manual currently says 0..60. + + Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed this the + manual page to also say this: + + -The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61). + +The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60). + +(The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.) + +sysconf.3 + Johannes Berg / http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974 + -.BR POSIX2_FORT_RUN " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV + +.BR POSIX2_FORT_DEV " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV + +system.3 + Pedro Zorzenon + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242638 + Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros <sytdlib.h> + as for wait(2). + + mtk + Changed name of argument from 'string' to 'command' (like POSIX). + + Noted that glibc does nowadays explicitly check for the existence + of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behaviour + of assuming the shell exists and always returning 1 if + 'command' is NULL. + + Other wording and formatting clean-ups. + +undocumented.3 + Remove some functions names that *are* documented. + |