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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ====================
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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.18 ====================
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Released: 2009-01-19, Hobart
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Released: ????-??-??, Christchurch
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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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Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
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Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
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Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>
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Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
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Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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New and rewritten pages
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endian.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New page documenting byte order conversion functions
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Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between
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host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order:
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htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(),
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htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(),
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htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh()
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getifaddrs.3
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Petr Baudis
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New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3)
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Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk
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htobe16.3
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htole16.3
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be16toh.3
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le16toh.3
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htobe32.3
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htole32.3
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be32toh.3
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le32toh.3
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htobe64.3
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htole64.3
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be64toh.3
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le64toh.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new endian.3
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cp1251.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set
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iso-8859-10.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set
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iso_8859-13.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set
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iso_8859-14.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set
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iso_8859-3.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set
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iso_8859-5.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set
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iso_8859-8.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set
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koi8-u.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting KOI8-U character set
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Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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---------------------------------------------
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netdevice.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document recently added interface flags
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IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17)
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IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17)
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IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25)
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Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h>
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New and changed links
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---------------------
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freeifaddrs.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New link to new getifaddrs.3
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iso-8859-10.7
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iso_8859_10.7
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latin6.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-10.7
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iso-8859-13.7
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iso_8859_13.7
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latin7.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-13.7
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iso-8859-14.7
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iso_8859_14.7
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latin8.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-14.7
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iso-8859-3.7
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iso_8859_3.7
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latin3.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-3.7
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iso-8859-5.7
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iso_8859_5.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-5.7
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iso-8859-8.7
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iso_8859_8.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-8.7
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Global changes
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--------------
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Changes to individual pages
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---------------------------
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bind.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3)
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epoll_create.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document EMFILE error
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This error is encountered when the limit imposed by
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances is encountered.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify distinction between epoll instance and epoll file descriptor
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Reword so that the notion of an epoll instance is made clear,
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and made distinct from the notion of an epoll file descriptor.
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Some other minor rewordings also.
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epoll_ctl.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Reordered parts of the text
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Michael Kerrisk
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Introduce notion of epoll instance
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Introduce notion of epoll instance as distinct from
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epoll file descriptor. Plus other wording clean-ups.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document ENOSPC error (new in Linux 2.6.28)
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This error results when the limit imposed by
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches is encountered.
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epoll_wait.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text
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getdents.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Before kernel < 2.6.4, 'd_type' was effectively always DT_UNKNOWN
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gethostid.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rename file (was misnamed gethostd.2 in previous release)
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getsockname.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3)
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signalfd.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Fix description of fork() semantics
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The page text described the semantics of the initial
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implementation of signalfd(). These were changed early on,
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but the man page wasn't updated.
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byteorder.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add endian(3)
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longjmp.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask
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Michael Kerrisk
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siglongjmp() restores signal mask iff 'savesigs' was non-zero
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Note that siglongjmp() restores signal mask if, and only
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if, 'savesigs' argument of sigsetjmp() was non-zero. (Previous
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text omitted the "and only if".)
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memccpy.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Fix CONFORMING TO: s/C99/POSIX.1-2001/
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Michael Kerrisk
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If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined
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sethostid.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rename file (was misnamed sethostd.3 in previous release)
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setjmp.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify when setjmp() provides BSD vs System V signal mask semantics
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strsep.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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BUGS: explicitly list problems afflicting strsep()
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Previously, the page said this function suffered the same
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problems as strtok(), but in fact strsep() doesn't suffer
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from all of the same problems as strtok(), so explicitly
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list just the problems of strsep() in the strsep.3 page.
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proc.5
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add pointer to epoll(7) for description of epoll /proc files
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epoll.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage
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Document the following /proc files that were added in
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Linux 2.6.28:
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches
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Michael Kerrisk
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Various wording changes to improve clarity and consistency
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glibc-2.1 and glibc-2.1.3 when nscd -i was not available,
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I don't think it's worth muddling the point of the page
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with that, though.
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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ====================
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Released: 2009-01-19, Hobart
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Contributors
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------------
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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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Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
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Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
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Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
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Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>
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Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
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Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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New and rewritten pages
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-----------------------
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endian.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New page documenting byte order conversion functions
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Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between
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host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order:
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htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(),
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htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(),
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htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh()
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getifaddrs.3
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Petr Baudis
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New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3)
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Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk
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htobe16.3
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htole16.3
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be16toh.3
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le16toh.3
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htobe32.3
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htole32.3
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be32toh.3
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le32toh.3
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htobe64.3
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htole64.3
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be64toh.3
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le64toh.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new endian.3
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cp1251.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set
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iso-8859-10.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set
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iso_8859-13.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set
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iso_8859-14.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set
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iso_8859-3.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set
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iso_8859-5.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set
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iso_8859-8.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set
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koi8-u.7
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Lefteris Dimitroulakis
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New page documenting KOI8-U character set
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Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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---------------------------------------------
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netdevice.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document recently added interface flags
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IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17)
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IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17)
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IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25)
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Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h>
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New and changed links
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---------------------
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freeifaddrs.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New link to new getifaddrs.3
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iso-8859-10.7
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iso_8859_10.7
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latin6.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-10.7
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iso-8859-13.7
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iso_8859_13.7
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latin7.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-13.7
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iso-8859-14.7
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iso_8859_14.7
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latin8.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-14.7
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iso-8859-3.7
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iso_8859_3.7
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latin3.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-3.7
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iso-8859-5.7
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iso_8859_5.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-5.7
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iso-8859-8.7
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iso_8859_8.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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New links to new iso_8859-8.7
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Changes to individual pages
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---------------------------
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bind.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3)
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epoll_create.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document EMFILE error
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This error is encountered when the limit imposed by
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances is encountered.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify distinction between epoll instance and epoll file descriptor
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Reword so that the notion of an epoll instance is made clear,
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and made distinct from the notion of an epoll file descriptor.
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Some other minor rewordings also.
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epoll_ctl.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Reordered parts of the text
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Michael Kerrisk
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Introduce notion of epoll instance
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Introduce notion of epoll instance as distinct from
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epoll file descriptor. Plus other wording clean-ups.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document ENOSPC error (new in Linux 2.6.28)
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This error results when the limit imposed by
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches is encountered.
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epoll_wait.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text
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getdents.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Before kernel < 2.6.4, 'd_type' was effectively always DT_UNKNOWN
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gethostid.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rename file (was misnamed gethostd.2 in previous release)
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getsockname.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3)
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signalfd.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Fix description of fork() semantics
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The page text described the semantics of the initial
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implementation of signalfd(). These were changed early on,
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but the man page wasn't updated.
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byteorder.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add endian(3)
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longjmp.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask
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Michael Kerrisk
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siglongjmp() restores signal mask iff 'savesigs' was non-zero
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Note that siglongjmp() restores signal mask if, and only
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if, 'savesigs' argument of sigsetjmp() was non-zero. (Previous
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text omitted the "and only if".)
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memccpy.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Fix CONFORMING TO: s/C99/POSIX.1-2001/
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Michael Kerrisk
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If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined
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sethostid.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rename file (was misnamed sethostd.3 in previous release)
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setjmp.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify when setjmp() provides BSD vs System V signal mask semantics
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strsep.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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BUGS: explicitly list problems afflicting strsep()
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Previously, the page said this function suffered the same
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problems as strtok(), but in fact strsep() doesn't suffer
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from all of the same problems as strtok(), so explicitly
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list just the problems of strsep() in the strsep.3 page.
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proc.5
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add pointer to epoll(7) for description of epoll /proc files
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epoll.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage
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Document the following /proc files that were added in
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Linux 2.6.28:
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
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/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches
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Michael Kerrisk
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Various wording changes to improve clarity and consistency
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