man-pages/Changes

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================

Released: 2005-06-27

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

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

A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

Global changes
--------------

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.  (Special thanks to A Costa.)


New pages
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Changes to individual pages
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_exit.2
    mtk / aeb
        Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
            function".

close.2
    mtk
        Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
        Minor formatting changes.

dup.2
    mtk
        Consistent use of terms "open file description",
            "file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
        Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
            accurate.
        Minor formatting fixes

fcntl.2
    mtk
        Consistent use of terms "open file description",
            "file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
        Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
        Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
            with a cross ref to dup.2
        Minor wording and formatting fixes

fpclassify.3
    mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
        The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
        to differentiate positive and neagtive infinity.
        See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765

getgid.2
getuid.2
    Delian Krustev
        Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852

getitimer.2
    mtk
       The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
       man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.

getpriority.2
   mtk
       Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
       Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.

open.2
    mtk / aeb
        Clarification of term "open file description" along with
            explanation of what information it maintains.
	Other wording improvements
        Various minor wording changes

atexit.3
    mtk / aeb
        Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
            function".
    mtk
        Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
            shared library unload.
        Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
            abnormal termination.
        Formatting fixes.

exit.3
    mtk / aeb
        Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
            function".
    mtk
        Minor rewording and formatting changes.

getloadavg.3
    mtk
        Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype

log2.3
    Martin (Joey) Schulze
        Add ERANGE error.

readdir.3
    mtk
        Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
        Some formatting cleanups.

strtod.3
    Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
        strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE of _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668

tdestroy.3
    mtk
        New link to tsearch.3

tsearch.3
    mtk
        Added tdestroy to .TH line

mem.4
    mtk
        Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"

null.4
    mtk
        Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
            "chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"

vcs.4
    Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
        Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
        See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515

signal.7
    Ove Kaaven
        SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369

urn.7
    mtk
        New link to uri.7