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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-23 08:13:05 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-23 08:13:05 +0200 |
commit | fc60dabeffda9fee8baf56c07f7981c81b4e8549 (patch) | |
tree | cb8ecd25b6ec7c3a34ddfe66527463448396aafb /Changes.old | |
parent | 3225e4b9fa6621e20c2078c03f86197bb166a9cc (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 9eedadfcc..bec13c28b 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -22053,3 +22053,192 @@ signal.7 unix.7 Michael Kerrisk Add pointer to cmsg(3) for an example of the use of SCM_RIGHTS + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.34 ==================== + +Released: 2011-09-23, Munich + + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets +in the changelog below) reports, notes and ideas that have been +incorporated in changes in this release: + +Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org> +Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com> +Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> +David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> +David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> +Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com> +Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com> +Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> +Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> +Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> +Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> +Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> +Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com> +Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com> +Stephen Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> +Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +rt_sigqueueinfo.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Stephan Mueller] + New page for rt_sigqueueinfo(2) and rt_tgsigqueueinfo(2) + This replaces the previous '.so' man page link file for + rt_sigqueueinfo.2, which linked to this sigqueue() man page. + +cciss.4 + Stephen M. Cameron + New man page for cciss driver + I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence + of having worked on the cciss driver for the past several years, + and having written considerable portions of it. + Michael Kerrisk + Copyedit by mtk + +hpsa.4 + Stephen M. Cameron + New man page for the hpsa driver + I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence + of being the main author of the hpsa driver + Michael Kerrisk + Copyedits my mtk + + +Newly documented interfaces in existing pages +--------------------------------------------- + +fstatat.2 + Michael Kerrisk [David Howells] + Document AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT + +lseek.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake, Sunil Mushran] + Document SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA + These flags, designed for discovering holes in a file, + were added in Linux 3.1. Included comments from Eric + Blake and Sunil Mushran. + +madvise.2 + Doug Goldstein + Add MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE + Document the MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flags added to + madvise() in Linux 2.6.38. + + +New and changed links +--------------------- + +rt_tgsigqueueinfo.2 + Michael Kerrisk + New link to new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page + +sigqueue.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Create link to page that was relocated to section 3 + + +Global changes +-------------- + +Various pages + Michael Kerrisk + Change reference to "sigqueue(2)" to "sigqueue(3)" + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +fallocate.2 + Michael Kerrisk + ERRORS: Add EPERM and ESPIPE errors + +lseek.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Alan Curry, Reuben Thomas] + Remove suspect note about 'whence' being incorrect English. + +prctl.2 + Paul Pluzhnikov + PR_SET_DUMPABLE makes process non-ptrace-attachable + +readlink.2 + Guillem Jover + Document using st_size to allocate the buffer + Michael Kerrisk + Added copyright text + changelog note for Guillem Jover's patch + +sched_setscheduler.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document 2.6.39 changes to rules governing changes from SCHED_IDLE policy + Since Linux 2.6.39, unprivileged processes under the + SCHED_IDLE policy can switch to another nonrealtime + policy if their nice value falls within the range + permitted by their RLIMIT_NICE limit. + +tkill.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo (2) + +btowc.3, wctob.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Brian M. Carlson] + Add pointers to better, thread-safe alternative functions + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606899 + +fwide.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements + Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose + prototype of this function. + +index.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant] + Fix text mentioning terminating null + +pthread_sigqueue.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Replace explicit mention of rt_tgsigqueueinfo() with SEE ALSO reference + +sigqueue.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Move this page to section 3 + Now that the underlying system call rt_sigqueueinfo(2) is + properly documented, move sigqueue() to Section 3, since + it is really a library function. + Michael Kerrisk + Update text in line with existence of new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page + +wcsnlen.3 + Jon Grant + Improve description of 'maxlen' argument + It's worth clarifying 'maxlen' is in wide-char units, not bytes. + +wprintf.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements + Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose + prototype of these functions. + +feature_test_macros.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Document _ISOC95_SOURCE + _ISOC95_SOURCE was added in glibc 2.12 as a means + to expose C90 Amendment 1 definitions. + +ip.7 + Benjamin Poirier [Neil Horman] + Improve description of IP_MTU_DISCOVER + +signal.7 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo(2) |