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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ====================
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.39 ====================
Released: 2012-03-25, Christchurch
Released: ????-??-??, Munich
Contributors
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in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
Artyom Pervukhin <artyom@evasive.ru>
Beňas Petr <xbenas00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Ben Bacarisse <software@bsb.me.uk>
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Iain Fraser <iainkfraser@gmail.com>
Justin T Pryzby <justinp@norchemlab.com>
Kirill Brilliantov <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
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New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
get_nprocs_conf.3
Beňas Petr
New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3)
Michael Kerrisk
Some additions and improvements
malloc_get_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3)
mallopt.3
Michael Kerrisk
New man page for mallopt(3)
mtrace.3
Michael Kerrisk
Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail
scandirat.3
Mark R Bannister
New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document aligned_alloc(3)
aligned_alloc() is new in C11.
Michael Kerrisk
Document pvalloc(3)
qsort.3
Mark R Bannister
Add documentation of qsort_r(3)
Ben Bacarisse
Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r()
New and changed links
---------------------
aligned_alloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_memalign.3
get_nprocs.3
Beňas Petr
Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page
malloc_set_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page
pvalloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_memalign.3
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: place sections in correct order
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk [Justin T Pryzby]
Global fix: Remove duplicated words
Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's
grep-fu:
for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do
grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" |
grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1';
done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1'
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Correct order of SEE ALSO entries
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futimesat.2
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements
keyctl.2
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Strip trailing tabs from source line
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC
Denys Vlasenko
Various fixes to recent updates of this page
symlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list
The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down
in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented
system calls.
Michael Kerrisk
Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6
Michael Kerrisk
Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
unlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
copysign.3
Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples
malloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas
Michael Kerrisk
Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3)
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3)
SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3)
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rename memalign() argument
Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency
with posix_memalign().
Michael Kerrisk
Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3)
rtnetlink.3
Kirill Brilliantov [Sergei Zhirikov]
Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH()
See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088
scandir.3
Mark R Bannister
SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3)
sigqueue.3
Nix
Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line
rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not
be listed in the .TH line of this page.
tzset.3
Peter Schiffer
Correct description for Julian 'n' date format
The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1.
Michael Kerrisk
Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats
packet.7
Michael Kerrisk [Iain Fraser]
Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk [Artyom Pervukhin]
Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards

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ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
Add --audit command-line option
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ====================
Released: 2012-03-25, Christchurch
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
Artyom Pervukhin <artyom@evasive.ru>
Beňas Petr <xbenas00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Ben Bacarisse <software@bsb.me.uk>
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Iain Fraser <iainkfraser@gmail.com>
Justin T Pryzby <justinp@norchemlab.com>
Kirill Brilliantov <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
get_nprocs_conf.3
Beňas Petr
New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3)
Michael Kerrisk
Some additions and improvements
malloc_get_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3)
mallopt.3
Michael Kerrisk
New man page for mallopt(3)
mtrace.3
Michael Kerrisk
Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail
scandirat.3
Mark R Bannister
New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document aligned_alloc(3)
aligned_alloc() is new in C11.
Michael Kerrisk
Document pvalloc(3)
qsort.3
Mark R Bannister
Add documentation of qsort_r(3)
Ben Bacarisse
Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r()
New and changed links
---------------------
aligned_alloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_memalign.3
get_nprocs.3
Beňas Petr
Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page
malloc_set_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page
pvalloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_memalign.3
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: place sections in correct order
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk [Justin T Pryzby]
Global fix: Remove duplicated words
Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's
grep-fu:
for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do
grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" |
grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1';
done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1'
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Correct order of SEE ALSO entries
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futimesat.2
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements
keyctl.2
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Strip trailing tabs from source line
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC
Denys Vlasenko
Various fixes to recent updates of this page
symlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list
The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down
in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented
system calls.
Michael Kerrisk
Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6
Michael Kerrisk
Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
unlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
copysign.3
Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples
malloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas
Michael Kerrisk
Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3)
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3)
SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3)
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rename memalign() argument
Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency
with posix_memalign().
Michael Kerrisk
Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3)
rtnetlink.3
Kirill Brilliantov [Sergei Zhirikov]
Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH()
See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088
scandir.3
Mark R Bannister
SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3)
sigqueue.3
Nix
Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line
rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not
be listed in the .TH line of this page.
tzset.3
Peter Schiffer
Correct description for Julian 'n' date format
The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1.
Michael Kerrisk
Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats
packet.7
Michael Kerrisk [Iain Fraser]
Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk [Artyom Pervukhin]
Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards