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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.80 ====================
Released: 2008-??-??
Released: 2008-04-25
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aurelien Gerome <ag@roxor.cx>
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com>
Aurelien Gerome <ag@roxor.cx>
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@science-computing.de>
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clone.2
mtk
Added note that CLONE_STOP (which no-one ever used anyway) is
Added note that CLONE_STOPPED (which no-one ever used anyway) is
now deprecated.
epoll_ctl.2
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msgop.2
mtk
Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.
Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.
mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
Remove "msgop" from NAME section.
open.2
mtk
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If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then ppoll() is equivalent to poll()
with respect to signal mask manipulations.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/;
(The page referred-to page still doesn't exit yet, but hopefully
will do sometime soon.)
recv.2
Felix Kater / mtk
Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
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kernel 2.6.23 and later.
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
shmop.2
mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
Remove "shmop" from NAME section.
signalfd.2
mtk
Added BUGS text noting that before kernel 2.6.25, the ssi_int
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Added comments describing fields in signalfd_siginfo structure.
Update field names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/).
Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence.
Minor edits to structure definition.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added some comments to code in NOTES.
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mtk
Minor wording change.
syscalls.2
mtk
This page is now up to date as at kernel 2.6.25.
syslog.2
mtk
Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities.
timerfd_create.2
mtk
Minor change to example program.
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aio_suspend.3
aio_write.3
Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@csc.calpoly.edu>
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYMOPSIS.
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
backtrace.3
Nicolas François
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getopt.3
mtk
Add 'optarg', 'optind', 'opterr', and 'optopt' to NAME section.
Add subheading for getopt_long() and getopt_long_only()
description.
getpt.3
mtk
Point out that this function should be avoided in favour of
posix_openpt().
malloc.3
mtk
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mq_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
needed for 'mode' constants.
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h>
is needed for 'mode' constants.
opendir.3
mtk
Describe treatment of close-on-exec flag by opendir() and
fdopendir().
openpty.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add ttyname(3).
raise.3
mtk / Timothy Baldwin
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Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
random(3) instead.
Folkert van Heusden
Clarify wording describing range of values returned by rand().
random.3
aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
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Nicolas François
s/unicode.com/unicode.org/
credentials.7
mtk
NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and
GIDs. But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread. NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
inotify.7
mtk
Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors.

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Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
Version: 2.80
Entered-date: 2008-??-??
Entered-date: 2008-04-25
Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
Keywords: man pages
Author: several
Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Primary-site: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
????k man-pages-2.80.tar.gz
2733k man-pages-2.80.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT;
the other pages are all freely distributable as long as