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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-06-02 13:28:50 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-06-02 13:28:50 +0000
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Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Mention the .URL macro more verbosely.
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.03 ====================
+
+Released: 2005-06-02
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Johannes Nicolai <johannes.nicolai@hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
+Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
+Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
+Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Pavel Heimlich
+ Change `ttys(4)' to `ttyS(4)' in:
+ tty.4 mouse.4 vcs.4 console_ioctl.4 console.4
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+Individual pages
+----------------
+
+clone.2
+ mtk
+ Substantially enhanced discussion of CLONE_THREAD.
+
+ Added CLONE_SYSVSEM, CLONE_UNTRACED, CLONE_STOPPED.
+
+ Other minor fixes.
+
+execve.2
+ aeb
+
+fcntl.2
+ Johannes Nicolai / mtk
+ Noted F_SETOWN bug for socket file descriptor in Linux 2.4
+ and earlier.
+
+ Added text on permissions required to send signal to owner.
+
+flock.2
+ mtk
+ Noted that lock conversions are not atomic.
+
+getrusage.2
+ mtk
+ ru_nswap has never contained useful information.
+ Kernel 2.6.6 clarified that with a patch
+ ("[PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap"). See also:
+ http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.1/0720.html
+
+kill.2
+ mtk
+ Clarified wording of the 'pid == -1' case.
+
+mount.2
+ mtk
+ Added MNT_EXPIRE, plus a few other tidy-ups.
+
+sched_setaffinity.2
+ mtk
+ Added text to note that sched_setaffinity() will migrate the
+ affected process to one of the specified CPUs if necessary.
+
+ Added a NOTE to point out that the affinity mask is actually a
+ per-thread attribute that can be adjusted independently for
+ each thread in a thread group.
+
+shmctl.2
+ mtk
+ Noted aberrant Linux behaviour with respect to new attaches to a
+ segment that has already been marked for deletion.
+
+ Noted changes in permissions required for SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK.
+
+wait.2
+ mtk
+ Noted that the __W* flags can't be used with waitid().
+
+getconf.3
+ mtk
+ Added_CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION and_CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION.
+
+hosts.5
+ Ross Boylan / Martin Schulze
+ various changes as per
+ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304242
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ Minor changes to discussion of /proc/PID/stat signal fields.
+ Added 'rt_priority' and 'policy' to /proc/PID/stat.
+
+capabilities.7
+ mtk
+ 1,$s/inherited/inheritable/g
+
+regex.7
+ Vincent Fourmond / Joey (Martin) Schulze
+ Removed discussion of `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' since they do
+ not seem to be in the glibc implementation.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666
+
+tzselect.8
+ Joey (Martin) Schulze / Klaus Ethgen
+ The default zoneinfo directory is now
+ (was: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo)
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267471
+