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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-06-02 13:28:50 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-06-02 13:28:50 +0000 |
commit | 9a7957be33c1e4a6765e8e781484e81047fca474 (patch) | |
tree | d73c41700e2df2a06ff05066f5285900882af06d /Changes.old | |
parent | 552b1e550448a9764f6986bdb06d0034a941a709 (diff) |
Initial set-up for 2.04 release
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index ca8e0edf2..122633fdd 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -652,3 +652,125 @@ man.7 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 + |