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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2011-09-23 08:13:05 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2011-09-23 08:13:05 +0200
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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)