man-pages/Changes

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================

Released: 2008-07-09, Konolfingen


Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Web site
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licenses.html
    mtk
        A page describing the preferred licenses for new pages that
        are contributed to man-pages.


New and rewritten pages
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end.3
    mtk
        Documents etext, edata, and end symbols.


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

memchr.3
    mtk
        Add description of rawmemchr().


New links
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edata.3
etext.3
    mtk
        Links to end.3.

getdate_err.3
    mtk
        Link to getdate.3.

h_errno.3
    mtk
        Link to gethsotbyname.3.

optarg.3
opterr.3
optind.3
optopt.3
    mtk
        Links to getopt.3.

rawmemchr.3
    mtk
        Link to memchr.3.

sys_errlist.3
sys_nerr.3
    mtk
        Links to perror.3.


Global changes
--------------



Changes to individual pages
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clock_nanosleep.2
    mtk
        Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.

ioprio_set.2
    Nikanth Karthikesan
        Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is longer required to set
        a low priority (IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE).

sched_setaffinity.3
    mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
        Update type used for cpusetsize argument in SYNOPSIS.

sigaction.2
    mtk
        Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
        Add some text for si_trapno field.
        The si_errno field is *generally* unused.
    mtk
        Put descriptions of SA_* constants in alphabetical order.

signalfd.2
    mtk
        Modify description of ssi_trapno field.

swapon.2
    mtk
        Fix two version number typos for MAX_SWAPFILES discussion:
        s/2.6.10/2.4.10/

dl_iterate_phdr.3
    Alain Portal
        SEE ALSO: Add elf(5).

crypt.3
    mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
        Describe additional encryption algorithms.

errno.3
    mtk
        Small rewrites in DESCRIPTION.

exec.3
    mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
        Small rewording.

exp10.3
    Alain Portal
        SEE ALSO: Add log10(3).

exp2.3
    Alain Portal
        Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.

getopt.3
    mtk
        Add details on initial value of optind, and note that it can
	be reset to restart scanning of an argument vector.

getspnam.3
    mtk
        Improve comments on struct spwd.

log10.3
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: Add exp10(3).

scanf.3
    Vincent Lefevre / mtk
        Clarify treatment of intial white space by %% conversion
        specification.
        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.

capabilities.7
    mtk
        Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for
        ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.