Ready for 2.63

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Michael Kerrisk 2007-07-02 12:15:39 +00:00
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Released: 2007-07-09
This release consists solely of formatting fixes. There are no changes
to content.
Contributors
------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Eduardo M. Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Martin Röhricht <martin@roehricht.info>
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ msgctl.2
select.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
syslog.2
stat.2
a64l.3
printf.3
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Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
New pages
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@ -55,10 +58,33 @@ sgetmask.2
(This page replaces a previous link of the same, which linked
signal.2.)
spu_create.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spu_run.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spufs.7
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
Removed Pages
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__clone.2
mtk
This file was created by accident in 2.61, as a copy of clone.2.
(it should have been a link to clone.2.)
obsolete.2
mtk
Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
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mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
__clone2.2
clone2.2
mtk
Links to clone.2.
ugetrlimit.2
mtk
Link to getrlimit.2.
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
fadvise64.2
fadvise64_64.2
mtk
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mtk
Link to sigqueue.2.
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
madvise1.2
tuxcall.2
vserver.2
mtk
mtk / Ivana Varekova
Link to unimplemented.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
and a few additions.
chmod.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
chown.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
Added an example program.
killpg.2
mtk
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
mmap2.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
the system page size.
mtk
Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
invokes this system call.
mtk
Added an EXAMPLE program.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
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Martin Röhricht
Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
semctl.2
mtk
Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
semop.2
mtk
Add an example code segment.
shmctl.2
mtk
Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
sigaction.2
mtk
Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and
wording changes.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
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unimplemented.2
mtk
Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
Ivana Varekova
Add tuxcall to NAME line.
mktemp.3
Patrick Mansfield
Fix description of return value.
strcat.3
Marc Boyer
Minor fix to example program.
undocumented.3
mtk
Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
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proc.5
mtk
Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments
by Justin Pryzby
Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
See Debian bug 417933.
inotify.7
mtk
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Stepan Kasal / mtk
Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
mtk
Various rewites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
mtk
Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
svipc.7
mtk
Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO.

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System Calls
------------
perfmonctl(2) IA-64 specific
sys_debug_setcontext(2) PowerPC id CONFIG_POWERPC
vserver(2) new in 2.6
add_key(2) (new in kernel 2.6.10)
keyctl(2) (new in kernel 2.6.10)
request_key(2) (new in kernel 2.6.10)