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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================
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Released: 2007-??-??
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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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Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
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Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
David H<>rdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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*.?p
mtk
Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.
mprotect.2
bind.2
mq_notify.3
makecontext.3
fmemopen.3
David H<>rdeman / mtk
Rename error handling function in example program
(s/die/handle_error/).
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
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Changes to individual pages
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time.1
Alain Portal
Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.
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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
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Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
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sched_setscheduler.2
Mats Wichmann
Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
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err.3
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mtk
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Remove HISTORY section.
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fopen.3
Mike Frysinger
Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
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getloadavg.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
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printf.3
Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
vprintf() description.
sem_wait.3
mtk
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Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
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sigsetops.3
Mats Wichmann
Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized
with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
macros are employed.
2007-11-17 05:35:32 +00:00
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.)
2007-11-19 08:02:51 +00:00
sk98lin.4
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
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elf.5
mtk
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Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.
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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.
2007-11-17 05:35:32 +00:00
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.)
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iso_8859-2.7
Adam Borowski
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Reverse the 2.68 change (applied by mtk in response to Debian
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bug 445085) that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
(Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)
tcp.7
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.