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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-07-06 09:12:50 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-07-06 09:12:50 +0000 |
commit | eb9a3e3c705ff99aae92c0dddaf6fb4826c3c14c (patch) | |
tree | 758c1d0835128d3dd21cf0d234cbabc07864bce6 /Changes.old | |
parent | c65433e6a5d9f49887534a0a69ae13702e34852b (diff) |
typo fix
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index df7404f3f..888fc9471 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -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 |