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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
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2004-12-15 17:04:46 +00:00
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2006-03-24 06:14:30 +00:00
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Released: 2006-03-24
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2004-12-15 17:04:46 +00:00
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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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2006-03-24 06:14:30 +00:00
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Charles P. Wright <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>
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Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
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Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elet.hu>
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Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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2006-03-24 06:20:39 +00:00
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Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
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2006-03-24 06:14:30 +00:00
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Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
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Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
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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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2006-03-24 06:14:30 +00:00
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2006-03-20 21:14:16 +00:00
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Global changes
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Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
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pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
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2006-02-16 18:36:27 +00:00
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2006-03-24 06:14:30 +00:00
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2006-02-16 18:36:27 +00:00
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New pages
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2006-03-20 21:14:16 +00:00
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ushare.2
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mtk, with reference to documentation by Janak Desai
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2006-03-20 21:14:16 +00:00
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New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
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2006-02-16 18:36:27 +00:00
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2005-11-03 14:09:48 +00:00
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Changes to individual pages
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2006-01-04 10:54:13 +00:00
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2006-03-20 21:14:16 +00:00
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clone.2
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fork.2
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vfork.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
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mbind.2
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Christoph Lameter
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MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL requires CAP_SYS_NICE not CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
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mremap.2
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mtk
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Clarified the description of MREMAP_FIXED and restructured
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the text to reflect the fact that this flag is exposed
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by glibc since version 2.4.
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ptrace.2
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Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz,
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Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
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after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
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Document the following ptrace requests:
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PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
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plus associated flags:
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PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
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PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
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PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
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PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
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PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
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PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
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PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
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PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
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PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
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PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
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PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
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PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
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sched_get_priority_max.2
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sched_setscheduler.2
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sched_setparam.2
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mtk, Ingo Molnar
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Modified to document SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16.
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Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
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and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
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mail message containing the patch that implemented this policy.
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Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
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proc.5
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mtk, using text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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Document /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, new in kernel 2.6.16.
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mtk, using information from ChangeLog-2.6.14.
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Document /proc/PID/smaps, new in kernel 2.6.14.
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capabilities.7
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mtk
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Noted affect of CAP_SYS_NICE for mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL).
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pthreads.7
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mtk
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Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behaviour with respect to
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the alternate signal stack.
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