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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
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Released: 2007-??-??
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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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Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
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Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
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Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
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Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
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Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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--------------
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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New pages
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fallocate.2
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David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
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Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
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Changes to individual pages
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close.2
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Fredrik Noring
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Add text cautioning about use of close() in
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multithreaded programs.
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execve.2
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Ollie Wild / mtk
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Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
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and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
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mtk
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Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
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open.2
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mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
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Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
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minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
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recv.2
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mtk
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Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
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sysctl.2
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mtk
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Strengthened the warning against using this system call
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and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
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rpc.3
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Mats Wichmann
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Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
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and pmap_getport().
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@ -8037,6 +8037,13 @@ stat.2
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Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
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have appeared over time.
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syscalls.2
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mtk
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A fairly substantial rewrite of this page,
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bringining it up to date with the current
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kernel version, and listing all system calls
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in tabular form.
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uname.2
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mtk
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Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
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21
HOWTOHELP
21
HOWTOHELP
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System Calls
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clock_nanosleep(2) Since kernel 2.6
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perfmonctl(2) IA-64 specific
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sys_debug_setcontext(2) PowerPC id CONFIG_POWERPC
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@ -253,33 +255,21 @@ restart_syscall(2) (new in kernel 2.6)
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getcpu(2) new in kernel 2.6.16; glibc support since
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version 2.6 with wrapper sched_getcpu(3)
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kexec_load(2) (new in kernel 2.6.13)
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migrate_pages(2) (new in kernel 2.6.16)
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See Documentation/vm/page_migration
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preadv(2), pwritev(2) (new in ?? -- see
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http://www.lwn.net/Articles/164887/ )
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(Perhaps these will ultimately be library
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functions.)
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set_robust_list(2) New in 2.6.17
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get_robust_list(2) Information can be found in the 2.6.17 ChangeLog
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under "lightweight robust futexes"
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move_pages(2) New in 2.6.18
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fallocate(2) May appear in a future kernel
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signalfd(2) Likely to appear around 2.6.23 (or pollfs?)
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See http://lwn.net/Articles/225714/
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timerfd(2) Likely to appear around 2.6.22 (or pollfs?)
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See http://lwn.net/Articles/225714/
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lutimesat(2) Likely to appear in a future kernel
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utimesnsat(2) Kernel 2.6.22?
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futimesns(3) Supported in glibc since version 2.6,
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layered on utimesnsat(2)
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futimesns(3) To be supported in glibc, layered on utimesnsat(2)?
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/sys file system
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(See a further list of missing pages in the "undocumented(3)"
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manual page.)
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Searches like the following are likely to suggest other functions
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(Searches like the following are likely to suggest other functions
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that need to be documented:
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@ -312,7 +302,6 @@ for f in $(cat $(echo $GLIBCDIR/abilist/*.abilist) | grep -v 'GLIBC' | \
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done
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)
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clock_nanosleep(3)
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crypt_r(3) (To be added to crypt.3)
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dlinfo(3) Since glibc 2.3.3
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(Solaris and FreeBSD have a similar function.)
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RELEASE
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The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
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man-pages-2.??.tar.gz- man pages for Linux
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man-pages-2.x6.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
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the file "Changes".
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Begin3
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Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
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Version: 2.65
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Entered-date: 2007-09-17
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Version: 2.66
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Entered-date: 2007-??-??
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Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
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Keywords: man pages
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Author: several
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Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
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Primary-site: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
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2688k man-pages-2.65.tar.gz
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????k man-pages-2.??.tar.gz
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Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
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Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT;
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the other pages are all freely distributable as long as
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