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Michael Kerrisk 2008-04-25 06:24:05 +00:00
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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Contributors
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com>
Aurelien Gerome <ag@roxor.cx>
@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@science-computing.de>
Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@trialog.com>
Theodoros V. Kalamatianos <thkala@softlab.ece.ntua.gr>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
@ -50,6 +52,20 @@ packet.7
s/time stamp/timestamp/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
madvise.2
mbind.2
mincore.2
mmap.2
mmap2.2
msync.2
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Change name of 'start' argument to 'addr' for consistency
with:
* other memory related interfaces
* POSIX specification (for those interfaces in POSIX)
* Linux and glibc source code (in at least some cases)
Various pages
mtk
s/filesystem/file system/, for consistency with majority use
@ -155,6 +171,17 @@ epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then epoll_pwait() is equivalent
to epoll_wait().
fork.2
mtk
NOTES: since glibc 2.3.3, the glibc NPTL fork() wrapper
bypasses the fork() system call to invoke clone() with
flags providing equivalent functionality.
gettid.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section noting that this system call first
@ -167,20 +194,39 @@ kill.2
mtk
A few minor rewordings.
mmap.2
mtk
Added some .SS headings to make structure of page a little
more obvious.
mount.2
mtk
The MS_REMOUNT changes in 2.4 were at 2.4.10 (not 2.4).
mtk
Minor wording change.
msgop.2
mtk
Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.
open.2
mtk
Note that O_CLOEXEC should be in the next POSIX.1 revision.
poll.2
mtk
If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then ppoll() is equivalent to poll()
with respect to signal mask manipulations.
recv.2
Felix Kater / mtk
Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
utime.2
Reuben Thomas
Remove unnecessary subheading for utimes().
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477402.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
@ -213,6 +259,10 @@ signalfd.2
Update field names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/).
Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added some comments to code in NOTES.
stat.2
mtk
Minor wording change.
@ -238,7 +288,7 @@ backtrace.3
Nicolas François
s/backtrace_symbols/backtrace-symbols_fd/ in one sentence.
ctimes.3
ctime.3
mtk
Add warning under NOTES that asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(), and
localtime() may each overwrite the static object returned by any
@ -308,6 +358,10 @@ random.3
Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
sem_post.3
mtk
Added pointer to example in sem_wait(3).
sem_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
@ -367,3 +421,7 @@ pthreads.7
standards.7
mtk
Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision.
ld.so.8
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Various wording improvements.