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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-07-06 09:12:50 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2005-07-06 09:12:50 +0000
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@@ -955,3 +955,162 @@ tcp.7
Various wording and formatting fixes.
Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions
from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
+
+Released: 2005-06-27
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
+Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
+Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
+Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
+Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+_exit.2
+ mtk / aeb
+ Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
+ function".
+
+close.2
+ mtk
+ Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
+ Minor formatting changes.
+
+dup.2
+ mtk
+ Consistent use of terms "open file description",
+ "file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
+ Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
+ accurate.
+ Minor formatting fixes
+
+fcntl.2
+ mtk
+ Consistent use of terms "open file description",
+ "file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
+ Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
+ Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
+ with a cross ref to dup.2
+ Minor wording and formatting fixes
+
+fpclassify.3
+ mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
+ The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
+ to differentiate positive and neagtive infinity.
+ See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
+
+getgid.2
+getuid.2
+ Delian Krustev
+ Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
+
+getitimer.2
+ mtk
+ The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
+ man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
+
+getpriority.2
+ mtk
+ Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
+ Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
+
+open.2
+ mtk / aeb
+ Clarification of term "open file description" along with
+ explanation of what information it maintains.
+ Other wording improvements
+ Various minor wording changes
+
+atexit.3
+ mtk / aeb
+ Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
+ function".
+ mtk
+ Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
+ shared library unload.
+ Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
+ abnormal termination.
+ Formatting fixes.
+
+exit.3
+ mtk / aeb
+ Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
+ function".
+ mtk
+ Minor rewording and formatting changes.
+
+getloadavg.3
+ mtk
+ Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype
+
+log2.3
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Add ERANGE error.
+
+readdir.3
+ mtk
+ Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
+ Some formatting cleanups.
+
+strtod.3
+ Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
+ strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
+
+tdestroy.3
+ mtk
+ New link to tsearch.3
+
+tsearch.3
+ mtk
+ Added tdestroy to .TH line
+
+mem.4
+ mtk
+ Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"
+
+null.4
+ mtk
+ Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
+ "chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"
+
+vcs.4
+ Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
+
+signal.7
+ Ove Kaaven
+ SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
+ As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
+
+urn.7
+ mtk
+ New link to uri.7