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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.23 ====================
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2006-02-09 19:11:41 +00:00
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Released: 2006-02-10
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2005-11-03 14:09:48 +00:00
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Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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2006-02-09 19:11:41 +00:00
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
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Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
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Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
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2006-02-01 19:22:03 +00:00
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2006-02-09 19:11:41 +00:00
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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2005-12-13 11:22:52 +00:00
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2005-10-19 13:11:27 +00:00
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Global changes
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2005-10-19 13:11:27 +00:00
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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2005-07-06 09:12:50 +00:00
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2005-12-13 11:22:52 +00:00
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2006-01-15 23:11:15 +00:00
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New pages
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2006-02-09 19:11:41 +00:00
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inotify_init.2
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inotify_add_watch.2
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inotify_rm_watch.2
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Robert Love, with some additions by mtk.
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New pages describing the inotify API.
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mbind.2
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get_mempolicy.2
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set_mempolicy.2
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Andi Kleen, with additional work by mtk
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New pages describing the NUMA memory allocation policy API.
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rtc.4
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Urs Thuermann, with additoonal work by mtk
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New page describing the real-time clock driver.
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inotify.7
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mtk
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Overview of the inotify API.
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Changes to individual pages
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2006-01-04 10:54:13 +00:00
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2006-02-09 19:11:41 +00:00
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clone.2
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Andi Kleen
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On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall,
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but directly through "int $0x80".
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fcntl.2
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mtk
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Small wording changes.
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Added cross-ref to inotify.7 under the description of dnotify.
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kill.2
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mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
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Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
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what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
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See Debian bug 350236.
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mlock.2
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mtk / Matthias Andree
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Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and
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RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
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See the following LKML thread:
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
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"Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
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msgop.2
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mtk / Samuel Thibault
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Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
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to Debian bug report 350884.
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Various other wording fixes.
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open.2
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mtk
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Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
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"file status flags".
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read.2
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Justin Pryzby
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Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
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As per Debian bug 351873.
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sched_setaffinity.2
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mtk
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Major rewrite.
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select.2
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mtk
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Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(),
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FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
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Other minor wording changes.
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read.2
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mtk
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Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2).
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(Analogous with read.2 change above.)
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errno.3
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Kurt Wall / mtk
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Add Linux specific errors to this page.
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localeconv.3
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mtk
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Added cross-ref to locale.7 for 'struct lconv' defn.
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Other minor wording changes.
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Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
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As per Debian bug 351831.
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scanf.3
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mtk / Justin Pryzby
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Minor formatting & wording fixes.
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setlocale.3
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Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
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As per Debian bug 351831.
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proc.5
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mtk
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Migrated description of inotify files to the new inotify.7 page.
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ascii.7
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Dan Jacobson / mtk
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Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
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See Debian bug 342173.
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locale.7
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mtk
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Minor wording and formatting changes.
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