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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ====================
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Released: 2008-03-07
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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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Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Fernando Luis V<>zquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
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Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
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Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Lasse K<>rkk<6B>inen <tronic@trn.iki.fi>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Ron Burk <ronburk@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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Walter Harms <WHarms@bfs.de>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
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New pages
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timerfd_create.2
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mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
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Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and
timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25.
New links
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timerfd_gettime.2
timerfd_settime.2
mtk
Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
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eventfd_read.3
eventfd_write.3
mtk
Links to eventfd.2.
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Changes to individual pages
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Makefile
aeb
Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
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execve.2
mtk
Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
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getitimer.2
mtk
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Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
getrusage.2
mtk
Minor rewordings.
open.2
Michael Haardt
Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
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signalfd.2
mtk
Fix type for 'ssi_ptr' field.
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See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-01/msg00002.html.
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syscalls.2
mtk
Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime()
to list.
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syslog.2
Jeremy Kerr
Add info on command type 10.
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Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Minor grammar fix.
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mtk
Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
Update RETURN VALUE section.
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Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
Other minor edits.
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ctime.3
Walter Harms
Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
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getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
mtk / Sam Varshavchik
Remove some duplicated text.
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malloc.3
Lasse K<>rkk<6B>inen / Mike Frysinger / mtk
Clarify description of realloc() behavior for
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((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
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posix_fallocate.3
Samuel Thibault
s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
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proc.5
Fernando Luis V<>zquez Cao
Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
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It used to be true that the command line arguments were
not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
they should not have that limitation.
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epoll.7
Davide Libenzi / mtk
Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
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descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain
open.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/.
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mtk
Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
mtk
A few minor rewordings.
mtk, after a note by Chris Heath
Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
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file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.
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Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi
Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
mtk, after comments by Devide Libenzi and Chris Heath
Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
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set is [file descriptor, open file description].
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mtk, after a note by Ron Burk
Change A3, to note that when events are available,
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the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
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mtk
Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file
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descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket.
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posixoptions.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
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regex.7
mtk
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348552.
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standards.7
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Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
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time.7
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.