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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-07-07 08:43:28 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-07-07 08:43:28 +0000 |
commit | cf2a0c4dd074d061f27c62782e974f08a5d7fec6 (patch) | |
tree | a647b1e09d0d5e053e77886808a6fe724a355310 /Changes.old | |
parent | 3a31e6f872627dc3d357a1e5aa8af746f0c8bcee (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index d1ed7d9cd..4cf15a1e5 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -12528,3 +12528,198 @@ signal.7 Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard signals is unspecified. SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3). + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.03 ==================== + +Released: 2008-07-08, Konolfingen + + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr> +Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> +Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> +Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> +Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> +Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +getcpu.2 + Andi Kleen, with some text and edits by mtk + Documents the getcpu(2) system call, introduced in Linux 2.6.19. + +sched_getcpu.3 + mtk + Documents sched_getcpu(3), a wrapper for getcpu(2), provided + since glibc 2.6. + +cpuset.7 + Paul Jackson, with review and editing by mtk, and comments by + Hidetoshi Seto and Li Zefan + A description of the cpuset file system, the mechanism introduced + kernel 2.6.12 for confining processes to designated processors + and nodes. (Becomes the fourth largest page in man-pages!) + + +Newly documented interfaces in existing pages +--------------------------------------------- + +readdir.3 + mtk + Add documentation of readdir_r(). + + +New links +--------- + +updwtmpx.3 + Alain Portal + Link to updwtmp.3 (3.02 changelog wrongly said this had been done). + +readdir_r.3 + mtk + Link to readdir.3. + + +Global changes +-------------- + +get_mempolicy.2 +mbind.2 +sched_setaffinity.2 +set_mempolicy.2 + mtk + SEE ALSO: Add getcpu(2). + +accept.2 +close.2 +connect.2 +dup.2 +epoll_wait.2 +fcntl.2 +flock.2 +futex.2 +msgop.2 +poll.2 +read.2 +recv.2 +select.2 +semop.2 +send.2 +sigwaitinfo.2 +spu_run.2 +wait.2 +write.2 +aio_suspend.3 +mq_receive.3 +mq_send.3 +scanf.3 +sem_wait.3 +usleep.3 +inotify.7 + mtk + ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in discussion of EINTR. + +Various pages + mtk + Wrapped very long source lines. + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +accept.2 + mtk + Small wording change. + +io_getevents.2 + mtk + ERRORS: Add EINTR error. + +open.2 + mtk + ERRORS: Add EINTR error. + +sigaction.2 + mtk + Note circumstances in which each SA_* flag is meaningful. + mtk + Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for + SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD. + mtk + Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7) + describing system call restarting. + mtk + Other minor edits. + +truncate.2 + mtk + ERRORS: Added EINTR error. + A few minor rewordings. + +wait.2 + mtk + Remove statement that WUNTRACED and WCONTINUED only have effect + if SA_NOCLDSTOP has not been set for SIGCHLD. That's not true. + +errno.3 + mtk + Add a pointer to signal(7) for further explanation of EINTR. + +getgrouplist.3 + mtk + SEE ALSO: Add passwd(5). + +readdir.3 + mtk + Remove <sys/types.h> from SYNOPSIS; POSIX.1-2001 does not + require it. + Some minor rewordings. + +sleep.3 + mtk + RETURN VALUE: explicitly mention interruption by signal handler. + SEE ALSO: add signal(7). + +usleep.3 + mtk + POSIX.1-2001 also does not document EINVAL. + +group.5 + mtk + SEE ALSO: Add getgrent(3), getgrnam(3). + +passwd.5 + mtk + SEE ALSO: Add getpwent(3), getpwnam(3). + +proc.5 + mtk + Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7). + +signal.7 + mtk + Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting + which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which + system calls are never restarted. + mtk + Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal + plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no + signal handler has been established, and note the system + calls that behave this way. + mtk + Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid. + SEE ALSO: added a number of pages. + mtk + Update async-signal-safe function list for POSIX.1-2004 (which + adds sockatmark()). |