diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 6771e199b..196ca463e 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.18 ==================== -Released: 2009-01-19, Hobart +Released: ????-??-??, Christchurch Contributors @@ -9,17 +9,6 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -Adeodato Simó -Bastien ROUCARIES -Davide Libenzi -Lefteris Dimitroulakis -Mads Martin Joergensen -Marc Lehmann -Martin (Joey) Schulze -Michael Kerrisk -Petr Baudis -Sam Varshavchik -Vegard Nossum Apologies if I missed anyone! @@ -27,223 +16,19 @@ Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- -endian.3 - Michael Kerrisk - New page documenting byte order conversion functions - Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between - host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order: - htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(), - htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(), - htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh() - -getifaddrs.3 - Petr Baudis - New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3) - Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk - -htobe16.3 -htole16.3 -be16toh.3 -le16toh.3 -htobe32.3 -htole32.3 -be32toh.3 -le32toh.3 -htobe64.3 -htole64.3 -be64toh.3 -le64toh.3 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new endian.3 - -cp1251.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set - -iso-8859-10.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set - -iso_8859-13.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set - -iso_8859-14.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set - -iso_8859-3.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set - -iso_8859-5.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set - -iso_8859-8.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set - -koi8-u.7 - Lefteris Dimitroulakis - New page documenting KOI8-U character set - Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- -netdevice.7 - Michael Kerrisk - Document recently added interface flags - IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17) - IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17) - IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25) - - Documentation taken from comments in - New and changed links --------------------- -freeifaddrs.3 - Michael Kerrisk - New link to new getifaddrs.3 -iso-8859-10.7 -iso_8859_10.7 -latin6.7 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new iso_8859-10.7 - -iso-8859-13.7 -iso_8859_13.7 -latin7.7 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new iso_8859-13.7 - -iso-8859-14.7 -iso_8859_14.7 -latin8.7 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new iso_8859-14.7 - -iso-8859-3.7 -iso_8859_3.7 -latin3.7 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new iso_8859-3.7 - -iso-8859-5.7 -iso_8859_5.7 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new iso_8859-5.7 - -iso-8859-8.7 -iso_8859_8.7 - Michael Kerrisk - New links to new iso_8859-8.7 +Global changes +-------------- Changes to individual pages --------------------------- -bind.2 - Michael Kerrisk - SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3) - -epoll_create.2 - Michael Kerrisk - Document EMFILE error - This error is encountered when the limit imposed by - /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances is encountered. - Michael Kerrisk - Clarify distinction between epoll instance and epoll file descriptor - Reword so that the notion of an epoll instance is made clear, - and made distinct from the notion of an epoll file descriptor. - Some other minor rewordings also. - -epoll_ctl.2 - Michael Kerrisk - Reordered parts of the text - Michael Kerrisk - Introduce notion of epoll instance - Introduce notion of epoll instance as distinct from - epoll file descriptor. Plus other wording clean-ups. - Michael Kerrisk - Document ENOSPC error (new in Linux 2.6.28) - This error results when the limit imposed by - /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches is encountered. - -epoll_wait.2 - Michael Kerrisk - Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text - -getdents.2 - Michael Kerrisk - Before kernel < 2.6.4, 'd_type' was effectively always DT_UNKNOWN - -gethostid.2 - Michael Kerrisk - Rename file (was misnamed gethostd.2 in previous release) - -getsockname.2 - Michael Kerrisk - SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3) - -signalfd.2 - Michael Kerrisk - Fix description of fork() semantics - The page text described the semantics of the initial - implementation of signalfd(). These were changed early on, - but the man page wasn't updated. - -byteorder.3 - Michael Kerrisk - SEE ALSO: add endian(3) - -longjmp.3 - Michael Kerrisk - Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask - Michael Kerrisk - siglongjmp() restores signal mask iff 'savesigs' was non-zero - Note that siglongjmp() restores signal mask if, and only - if, 'savesigs' argument of sigsetjmp() was non-zero. (Previous - text omitted the "and only if".) - -memccpy.3 - Michael Kerrisk - Fix CONFORMING TO: s/C99/POSIX.1-2001/ - Michael Kerrisk - If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined - -sethostid.3 - Michael Kerrisk - Rename file (was misnamed sethostd.3 in previous release) - -setjmp.3 - Michael Kerrisk - Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask - Michael Kerrisk - Clarify when setjmp() provides BSD vs System V signal mask semantics - -strsep.3 - Michael Kerrisk - BUGS: explicitly list problems afflicting strsep() - Previously, the page said this function suffered the same - problems as strtok(), but in fact strsep() doesn't suffer - from all of the same problems as strtok(), so explicitly - list just the problems of strsep() in the strsep.3 page. - -proc.5 - Michael Kerrisk - Add pointer to epoll(7) for description of epoll /proc files - -epoll.7 - Michael Kerrisk - Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage - Document the following /proc files that were added in - Linux 2.6.28: - /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances - /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches - Michael Kerrisk - Various wording changes to improve clarity and consistency diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index dd43beb45..6c083201e 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -17306,3 +17306,254 @@ nscd.8 glibc-2.1 and glibc-2.1.3 when nscd -i was not available, I don't think it's worth muddling the point of the page with that, though. + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ==================== + +Released: 2009-01-19, Hobart + + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Adeodato Simó +Bastien ROUCARIES +Davide Libenzi +Lefteris Dimitroulakis +Mads Martin Joergensen +Marc Lehmann +Martin (Joey) Schulze +Michael Kerrisk +Petr Baudis +Sam Varshavchik +Vegard Nossum + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +endian.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New page documenting byte order conversion functions + Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between + host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order: + htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(), + htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(), + htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh() + +getifaddrs.3 + Petr Baudis + New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3) + Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk + +htobe16.3 +htole16.3 +be16toh.3 +le16toh.3 +htobe32.3 +htole32.3 +be32toh.3 +le32toh.3 +htobe64.3 +htole64.3 +be64toh.3 +le64toh.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new endian.3 + +cp1251.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set + +iso-8859-10.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set + +iso_8859-13.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set + +iso_8859-14.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set + +iso_8859-3.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set + +iso_8859-5.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set + +iso_8859-8.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set + +koi8-u.7 + Lefteris Dimitroulakis + New page documenting KOI8-U character set + + +Newly documented interfaces in existing pages +--------------------------------------------- + +netdevice.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Document recently added interface flags + IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17) + IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17) + IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25) + + Documentation taken from comments in + + +New and changed links +--------------------- + +freeifaddrs.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New link to new getifaddrs.3 + +iso-8859-10.7 +iso_8859_10.7 +latin6.7 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new iso_8859-10.7 + +iso-8859-13.7 +iso_8859_13.7 +latin7.7 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new iso_8859-13.7 + +iso-8859-14.7 +iso_8859_14.7 +latin8.7 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new iso_8859-14.7 + +iso-8859-3.7 +iso_8859_3.7 +latin3.7 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new iso_8859-3.7 + +iso-8859-5.7 +iso_8859_5.7 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new iso_8859-5.7 + +iso-8859-8.7 +iso_8859_8.7 + Michael Kerrisk + New links to new iso_8859-8.7 + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +bind.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3) + +epoll_create.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document EMFILE error + This error is encountered when the limit imposed by + /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances is encountered. + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify distinction between epoll instance and epoll file descriptor + Reword so that the notion of an epoll instance is made clear, + and made distinct from the notion of an epoll file descriptor. + Some other minor rewordings also. + +epoll_ctl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Reordered parts of the text + Michael Kerrisk + Introduce notion of epoll instance + Introduce notion of epoll instance as distinct from + epoll file descriptor. Plus other wording clean-ups. + Michael Kerrisk + Document ENOSPC error (new in Linux 2.6.28) + This error results when the limit imposed by + /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches is encountered. + +epoll_wait.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text + +getdents.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Before kernel < 2.6.4, 'd_type' was effectively always DT_UNKNOWN + +gethostid.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Rename file (was misnamed gethostd.2 in previous release) + +getsockname.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3) + +signalfd.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Fix description of fork() semantics + The page text described the semantics of the initial + implementation of signalfd(). These were changed early on, + but the man page wasn't updated. + +byteorder.3 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add endian(3) + +longjmp.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask + Michael Kerrisk + siglongjmp() restores signal mask iff 'savesigs' was non-zero + Note that siglongjmp() restores signal mask if, and only + if, 'savesigs' argument of sigsetjmp() was non-zero. (Previous + text omitted the "and only if".) + +memccpy.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Fix CONFORMING TO: s/C99/POSIX.1-2001/ + Michael Kerrisk + If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined + +sethostid.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Rename file (was misnamed sethostd.3 in previous release) + +setjmp.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify when setjmp() provides BSD vs System V signal mask semantics + +strsep.3 + Michael Kerrisk + BUGS: explicitly list problems afflicting strsep() + Previously, the page said this function suffered the same + problems as strtok(), but in fact strsep() doesn't suffer + from all of the same problems as strtok(), so explicitly + list just the problems of strsep() in the strsep.3 page. + +proc.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Add pointer to epoll(7) for description of epoll /proc files + +epoll.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage + Document the following /proc files that were added in + Linux 2.6.28: + /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances + /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches + Michael Kerrisk + Various wording changes to improve clarity and consistency