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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-2.49 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.50 ==================== -Released: 2007-05-20 +Released: 2007-05-21 Contributors ------------ @@ -8,152 +8,51 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp> -Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> -Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> +Andreas Halter <halter@google.com> +Laird Shaw <netocrat@dodo.com.au> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Apologies if I missed anyone! - -New pages ---------- - -bsd_signal.3 - mtk - Documentation of bsd_signal(). - -euidaccess.3 - mtk - Manual page for euidaccess() and eaccess(). - -getsubopt.3 - mtk / Justin Pryzby - Documentation of getsubopt(). - -sysv_signal.3 - mtk - Documentation of sysv_signal(). - - -New links ---------- - -epoll_pwait.2 - mtk - New link to epoll_wait.2. - -eaccess.3 - mtk - New link to new euidaccess.3, - -sem_timedwait.3 - mtk - New link to sem_wait.3. - -sem_trywait.3 - mtk - New link to sem_wait.3. - - -Global changes --------------- - -Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several -places. - - -Changes to individual pages ---------------------------- - -access.3 - mtk - Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page. - -epoll_pwait.2 - mtk - Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19. - -execve.2 - mtk - Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be - NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable, - and should be avoided in portable programs. - Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408) - to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it - is an ABI change. - mtk - Added an example program. - mtk - Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the - 'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script. - For further info, see - http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html - http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ - mtk - Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be - released. - mtk - Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID - programs. - mtk - Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during - execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2 - may be treated specially. - -faccessat.3 - mtk - Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page. - -mmap.2 - mtk - Place MAP_* flags list in alphabetical order. - -readv.2 - mtk - A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things - fixes the problem reported by Kyle Sluder in - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399 - And added some example code. - -sigaction.2 - mtk - Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe - functions in signal(7). - A few other minor formatting and wording changes. - -signal.2 - mtk - Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7). - Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe - functions in signal(7). - Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and - sysv_signal.3 pages. - -copysign.3 - Bruno Haible - Clarify discussion of negative zero. - -iconv_open.3 - Bruno Haible - Describe the glibc/libiconv //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE extensions - for 'tocode'. - -iswblank.3 - Bruno Haible - Update CONFORMING TO; iswblank() is in POSIX.1-2001. - -subopt.3 - mtk - Add SEE ALSO ref to new getsubopt.3. - -inotify.7 - mtk - Defintions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR - were added to glibc in version 2.5. - -signal.7 - mtk - Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on - async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2). - Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and - sysv_signal.3 pages. +Removed pages (!) +----------------- + +Most Section 1 man pages are removed + mtk (with help from Mike Frysinger, Laird Shaw, Andreas Halter) + Once upon time Andries added a number of Section 1 manual pages + to man-pages. However, since that time, those pages have not + seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most + distributions. Instead most distributions supply the + coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently + maintained. In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages, + which document the portable subset of functionality of these + commands. Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and + out of date, I'm removing them. The following pages disappear: + + chgrp.1 + chmod.1 + chown.1 + cp.1 + dd.1 + df.1 + diff.1 + dir.1 + dircolors.1 + du.1 + install.1 + ln.1 + ls.1 + mkdir.1 + mkfifo.1 + mknod.1 + mv.1 + rm.1 + rmdir.1 + touch.1 + vdir.1 + + The following Section 1 pages will be kept: + + intro.1 + ldd.1 + time.1 |