diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 803204638..bdbdcdfc1 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ==================== -Released: 2005-06-21 +Released: ????-??-?? Contributors ------------ @@ -8,36 +8,13 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -Andries Brouwer -Baurjan Ismagulov -Dave Love -Dieter Brueggemann -Geoff Clare -Guido Trotter -####Joey (Martin) Schulze -kabloom kabloom@ucdavis.edu -Kevin Ryde -Justin Pryzby -Mike Furr -Olivier Croquette -Olivier Guilyardi -Peter Cordes -Philipp Spitzer -Tanaka Akira -Thierry Excoffier -Thomas Hood -Vincent Lefevre -Walter Harms +#### Andries Brouwer Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- -For consistency across pages: - - 1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g - Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. @@ -45,136 +22,6 @@ places. New pages --------- -pthreads.7 - mtk - An overview of the Linux implementations of POSIX threads. - Changes to individual pages --------------------------- - -_exit.2 - mtk - Various minor changes - -epoll_ctl.2 - Mike Furr - BUGS: In kernels < 2.6.9, EPOLL_CTL_DEL required a non-NULL - 'event', even though this argument is ignored. - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517. - -flock.2 - mtk / Kevin Ryde - Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks - and open file entries and file descriptors. - See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121 - -getitimer.2 - Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier - Noted the existence of the short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy). - -getrlimit.2 - mtk - RLIMIT_RSS only has affect "in 2.4.x", not "in 2.4 and later". - -getrusage.2 - Geoff Clare - Since Linux 2.6, the ru_nvcsw and ru_nivcsw fields are used. - -nice.2 - mtk / Guido Trotter - Rewrote description of return value. - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296183 - -open.2 - Walter Harms - O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE. - mtk - O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6 - Various minor fixes - -atexit.3 - mtk - Various minor changes - -exit.3 - mtk - Various minor changes - -getopt.3 - mtk / Philipp Spitzer - Fix description of return value. - See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359 - -hsearch.3 - mtk - Changed (char *) to (void *) in example. - See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313607 - -log1p.3 - Justin Pryzby - make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3) - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578 - -makecontext.3 - Tanaka Akira - Fix description of RETURN VAUE for makecontext() - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800 - -on_exit.3 - mtk - Various minor changes - -rand.3 - kabloom@ucdavis.edu - Small fix to a code example - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842. - -realpath.3 - mtk / Thomas Hood - When specifying resolved_path as NULL, realpath() - will (still) only allocate up to PATH_MAX bytes. - Plus other minor changes. - See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239424 - -rcmd.3 - Dave Love - The required header file for these funtions on Linux is - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680 - -scanf.3 - Olivier Guilyardi - Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void. - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109 - -stdin.3 - Vincent Lefevre - freopen() can change the descriptors associated with - stdin/stdout/stderr. - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859. - -strerror.3 - Baurjan Ismagulov - strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880 - -sysconf.3 - Peter Cordes / mtk - Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV" - -proc.5 - mtk - Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7 - -ip.7 - mtk - Various wording and formatting fixes. - Reordered /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* file descriptions alphabetically. - -tcp.7 - Dieter Brueggemann / mtk - Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg - mtk - Various wording and formatting fixes. - Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions - from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 811906926..f8935ede4 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ man.7 Colin Watson Mention the .URL macro more verbosely. - + ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.03 ==================== Released: 2005-06-02 @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ clone.2 execve.2 aeb - Noted effect of ptracing when execing a set-UID program. + Noted effect of ptracing when execing a set-UID program. fcntl.2 Johannes Nicolai / mtk @@ -775,3 +775,183 @@ tzselect.8 (was: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo) As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267471 + +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ==================== + +Released: 2005-06-21 + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Andries Brouwer +Baurjan Ismagulov +Dave Love +Dieter Brueggemann +Geoff Clare +Guido Trotter +kabloom kabloom@ucdavis.edu +Kevin Ryde +Justin Pryzby +Mike Furr +Olivier Croquette +Olivier Guilyardi +Peter Cordes +Philipp Spitzer +Tanaka Akira +Thierry Excoffier +Thomas Hood +Vincent Lefevre +Walter Harms + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + +Global changes +-------------- + +For consistency across pages: + + 1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g + +Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several +places. + + +New pages +--------- + +pthreads.7 + mtk + An overview of the Linux implementations of POSIX threads. + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +_exit.2 + mtk + Various minor changes + +epoll_ctl.2 + Mike Furr + BUGS: In kernels < 2.6.9, EPOLL_CTL_DEL required a non-NULL + 'event', even though this argument is ignored. + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517. + +flock.2 + mtk / Kevin Ryde + Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks + and open file entries and file descriptors. + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121 + +getitimer.2 + Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier + Noted the existence of the short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy). + +getrlimit.2 + mtk + RLIMIT_RSS only has affect "in 2.4.x", not "in 2.4 and later". + +getrusage.2 + Geoff Clare + Since Linux 2.6, the ru_nvcsw and ru_nivcsw fields are used. + +nice.2 + mtk / Guido Trotter + Rewrote description of return value. + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296183 + +open.2 + Walter Harms + O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE. + mtk + O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6 + Various minor fixes + +atexit.3 + mtk + Various minor changes + +exit.3 + mtk + Various minor changes + +getopt.3 + mtk / Philipp Spitzer + Fix description of return value. + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359 + +hsearch.3 + mtk + Changed (char *) to (void *) in example. + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313607 + +log1p.3 + Justin Pryzby + make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3) + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578 + +makecontext.3 + Tanaka Akira + Fix description of RETURN VAUE for makecontext() + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800 + +on_exit.3 + mtk + Various minor changes + +rand.3 + kabloom@ucdavis.edu + Small fix to a code example + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842. + +realpath.3 + mtk / Thomas Hood + When specifying resolved_path as NULL, realpath() + will (still) only allocate up to PATH_MAX bytes. + Plus other minor changes. + See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239424 + +rcmd.3 + Dave Love + The required header file for these funtions on Linux is + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680 + +scanf.3 + Olivier Guilyardi + Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void. + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109 + +stdin.3 + Vincent Lefevre + freopen() can change the descriptors associated with + stdin/stdout/stderr. + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859. + +strerror.3 + Baurjan Ismagulov + strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600 + As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880 + +sysconf.3 + Peter Cordes / mtk + Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV" + +proc.5 + mtk + Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7 + +ip.7 + mtk + Various wording and formatting fixes. + Reordered /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* file descriptions alphabetically. + +tcp.7 + Dieter Brueggemann / mtk + Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg + mtk + Various wording and formatting fixes. + Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions + from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt. diff --git a/man-pages-2.04.Announce b/man-pages-2.04.Announce index 3b429650f..07447f6ce 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.04.Announce +++ b/man-pages-2.04.Announce @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ RELEASE The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . - man-pages-2.04.tar.gz - man pages for Linux + man-pages-2.05.tar.gz - man pages for Linux Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in the file "Changes". diff --git a/man-pages-2.04.lsm b/man-pages-2.04.lsm index 727476e26..330863c57 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.04.lsm +++ b/man-pages-2.04.lsm @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ Begin3 Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux -Version: 2.04 -Entered-date: 2005-06-21 +Version: 2.05 +Entered-date: ????-??-?? Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages Keywords: man pages Author: several Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk Primary-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages - 2438k man-pages-2.04.tar.gz + ????k man-pages-2.05.tar.gz Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT; the other pages are all freely distributable provided