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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-07-15 13:41:20 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-07-15 13:41:20 +0000
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+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.06 ====================
+
+Released: 2005-07-15
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Bhavesh P Davda <bhavesh@avaya.com>
+Clau Weber <claus@jambit.com>
+Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
+David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
+Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
+Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
+Steven Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+Many uses of hyphens and dashes were corrected.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+canonicalize_file_name.3
+ Walter Harms / mtk
+
+Removed Pages
+-------------
+
+sstk.2
+ mtk
+ AFAIK, this sytem call has never actually done anything (other
+ than be a stub) on any Unix.
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+accept.2
+ mtk
+ Various wording and formatting fixes.
+
+bind.2
+ mtk
+ Minor formatting changes
+
+clone.2
+ mtk
+ Various minor wording improvements; some formatting fixes
+
+connect.2
+ mtk
+ Various wording and formatting fixes.
+
+epoll_create.2
+ Bhavesh P Davda
+ s/positive/non-negative/ [for file descriptor]
+
+getrlimit.2
+ mtk
+ Documented RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE limit.
+ RLIMIT_RSS ceased to have any effect in 2.4 in kernel 2.4.30.
+ (It already didn't have any effect in 2.2.x and 2.6.x.)
+ s/MADVISE_WILLNEED/MADV_WILLNEED/
+
+listen.2
+ mtk
+ Removed historic comment on BSD backlog ceiling.
+ Minor wording and formatting changes.
+
+semop.2
+ mtk
+ Added BUG: in some circumstances, a process that is
+ waiting for a semaphore to become zero is not not woken
+ up when the value does actually reach zero.
+ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110260821123863&w=2
+ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110261701025794&w=2
+
+socket.2
+ mtk
+ Various minor wording improvements
+
+umask.2
+ mtk
+ Added mkdir(2) to discussion, made term "file mode creation
+ mask" clearer.
+ Various, mostly small, wording changes
+
+errno.3
+ Martin Pool
+ Change description for ESTALE
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237344
+
+fgetgrent.3
+getgrent.3
+getgrent_r.3
+ David Lloyd
+ Added SEE ALSO putgrent(3)
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211336
+
+getgrent.3
+getgrnam.3
+getpwent.3
+getpwnam.3
+ Lars Wirzenius / mtk
+ Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by refernces to
+ "passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
+ mtk
+ Miscellaneous wording improvements
+ Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
+
+getnameinfo.3
+ mtk
+ Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
+
+getnetent.3
+ Petter Reinholdtsen
+ s/endservent/endnetent/
+ As per Debian Bug#316517
+
+getspnam.3
+ Lars Wirzenius / mtk
+ Replace mention of /etc/shadow by refernces to
+ "shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
+ mtk, Claus Weber
+ Miscellaneous wording improvements
+ Consistent DESCRIPTION wording vis-a-vis getpwnam.3 etc.
+
+hsearch.3
+ Frederik Deweerdt
+ Fix hsearch_r() prototype
+
+scanf.3
+ Justin Pryzby / mtk
+ Fix description of RETURN VALUE
+ As per Debian Bug#317037
+ mtk
+ various parts substantially rewritten; added description of
+ %n$ form; various text incorporated from the GNU C library
+ documentation ((C) The Free Software Foundation).
+
+shm_open.3
+ mtk
+ Modified details of how user and group ownership of a new
+ object are set.
+ Various minor wording and formatting cleanups.
+
+elf.5
+ Mike Frysinger
+ tweaked the short description to include definition of 'ELF'
+ add ELFOSABI_NONE to the ELFOSABI_ list
+ tweak/add more machines to EM_ list for ehdr->e_machine
+ fix indenting to be consistent
+ tweak the display of the ELF_ST_* macros
+ document the Elf_Dyn structure
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ Updated discussion of /proc/stat.
+ Added text on the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
+
+ip.7
+ Steven Murdoch
+ Change protocol in UDP prototype.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182635
+
+tcp.7
+ Dov Murik
+ The first sentence under NOTES about SO_KEEPALIVE and SIGPIPE
+ makes no grammatical sense (and possibly also no technical sense).
+ It has been removed.