2007-09-19 21:40:03 +00:00
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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
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2007-09-19 21:42:43 +00:00
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Released: 2007-10-01
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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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Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
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Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
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Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
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Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
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Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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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
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places.
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New pages
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fallocate.2
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David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
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Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
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Changes to individual pages
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close.2
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Fredrik Noring
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Add text cautioning about use of close() in
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multithreaded programs.
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execve.2
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Ollie Wild / mtk
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Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
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and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
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mtk
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Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
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open.2
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mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
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Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
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minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
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recv.2
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mtk
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Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
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sysctl.2
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mtk
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Strengthened the warning against using this system call
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and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
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rpc.3
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Mats Wichmann
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Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
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and pmap_getport().
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