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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================
Released: 2007-12-03
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
*.?p
mtk
Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.
mprotect.2
bind.2
mq_notify.3
makecontext.3
fmemopen.3
David Härdeman / mtk
Rename error handling function in example program
(s/die/handle_error/).
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Removed pages
-------------
HOWTOHELP
MAINTAINING
mtk
The content of these files is now available in HTML format.
New links
---------
cfsetspeed.3
mtk
Link to termios.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
time.1
Alain Portal
Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.
_syscall.2
aeb / mtk
Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have
more than 5 arguments.
fcntl.2
J. Bruce Fields
Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
J. Bruce Fields
Clarify details in description of file leases.
J. Bruce Fields /mtk
Minor wording edits.
J. Bruce Fields
Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.
mmap.2
mtk
Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
sched_setscheduler.2
Mats Wichmann
Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
spu_create.2
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
Luke Browning
Refinement of text describing a "gang".
mtk
Minor edits.
spu_run.2
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
mtk
Minor edits.
err.3
mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
fopen.3
Mike Frysinger
Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
getloadavg.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
printf.3
Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
vprintf() description.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
sigsetops.3
Mats Wichmann
Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized
with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
macros are employed.
termios.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO
noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific.
ttyslot.3
Alain Portal
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
initrd.4
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other
section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section.
full.4
mtk
Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION.
sk98lin.4
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
elf.5
mtk
Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.
proc.5
Maxime Vaudequin
Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8).
Maxime Vaudequin
Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.
utmp.5
Alain Portal
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
iso_8859-2.7
Adam Borowski
Reverse the 2.68 change (applied by mtk in response to Debian
bug 445085) that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
(Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)
man-pages.7
mtk
Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names.
spufs.7
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
mtk
Minor edits.
tcp.7
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
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