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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.02 ====================
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Released: 2008-??-??, Konolfingen
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Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
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Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
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WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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New and rewritten pages
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clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
A description of the clock_nanosleep() system call,
which was added in kernel 2.6.
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Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
New links
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utmpx.5
mtk
Link to utmp.5.
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Global changes
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gethostid.2
gethostname.2
getaddrinfo.3
gethostbyname.3
getipnodebyname.3
getnameinfo.3
resolver.3
hosts.5
resolv.conf.5
hostname.7
mtk
s/host name/hostname/
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Changes to individual pages
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fchmodat.2
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: add symlink.7. (3.01 changelog wrongly said this
had been done.)
io_setup.2
Alain Portal
Remove superfluous text from RETURN VALUE.
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sigreturn.2
mtk
Added a bit more detail on what sigreturn() actually does.
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getaddrinfo.3
mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
getaddrinfo() supports specifying IPv6 scope-IDs.
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getlogin.3
mtk
ERRORS: add ENOTTY.
SEE ALSO: add utmp(5).
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getutent.3
WANG Cong
utmpname() does return a value.
mtk
Add paragraph to start of DESCRIPTION recommending
use of POSIX.1 "utmpx" functions.
CONFORMING TO: mention utmpxname().
Add an ERRORS section.
There are no utmpx equivalents of the _r reentrant functions.
Clarify discussion of return values.
Add pointer to definition of utmp structure in utmp(5).
Clarify discussion of utmpx file on other systems (versus
Linux situation).
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inet_pton.3
Stephane Chazelas
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Fix error in description of IPv6 presentation format:
s/x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x/x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x/.
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setbuf.3
Reuben Thomas / mtk
Fix confused wording for return value of setvbuf().
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488104.
mtk
Other minor rewordings.
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utmp.5
mtk
Add discussion of POSIX.1 utmpx specification.
Move some text from CONFORMING TO to NOTES.
Consolidate duplicated information about ut_tv and ut_session
on biarch platforms.
Removed some crufty text.
Added comments to macros for ut_type field.
Correct the description of the ut_id field.
Provide a little more detail on fields of utmp structure.
SEE ALSO: add login(3), logout(3), logwtmp(3).
UT_LINESIZE is 32 (not 12).
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man-pages.7
mtk
Enhanced the dscussion of font conventions.