man-pages/Changes

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.09 ====================

Released: 2005-10-13

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

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

Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

Global changes
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ptsname.3
getpt.3
unlockpt.3
openpty.3
posix_openpt.3
grantpt.3
pts.4
tty_ioctl.4
    mtk
        Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.


New pages
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pty.7
   mtk
      Overview of Unix 98 and BSD pseudo-terminals.


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

ldd.1
   mtk
       Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).

fcntl.2
    Peter Chubb / Trond Myklebust / mtk
        Since kernel 2.6.10, a read lease can only be placed on a 
            file descriptor that is opened read-only.
        See the following LKML thread of Aug 2005 
        ("fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??"):
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112371777712197&w=2
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112374818213000&w=2
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112376335305284&w=2
        http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112377294030092&w=2

mprotect.2
    mtk
        Add new text to ENOMEM error

mremap.2
    mtk
        Added description of MREMAP_FIXED and 'new_address' argument
            under NOTES.
        Revised text of EINVAL error.

read.2
    Samuel Thibault / mtk
        read() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
    mtk
        Added open(2) to SEE ALSO
        
shmget.2
    mtk
        s/int/size_t/ for type of 'size' argument (fix from 
            Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).

write.2
    Samuel Thibault / mtk
        write() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
        
atanh.3
    mtk
        Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7)

fopen.3
    mtk
        Improved "a+" description (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).

getrpcent.3
    mtk
        s/getrpcent/setrpcent/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
        
stdio.3
    mtk / Justin Pryzby
        Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are 
            BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
            As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
    
strftime.3
    mtk
        Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from 
            Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).

nsswitch.conf.5
    mtk
        s/network/networks/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).

proc.5
    mtk
        Added description of /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout.

socket.7
    mtk 
        Update description of SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT.
        (fix derived from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).