Changes: Ready for 3.34 release

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2011-09-23 07:38:20 +02:00 · 2011-09-23 07:38:20 +02:00 · 89b7c08ef1
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@ -10,6 +10,24 @@ The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
 in the changelog below) reports, notes and ideas that have been
 incorporated in changes in this release:

+Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
+Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
+Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
+David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
+David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
+Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
+Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
+Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
+Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
+Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
+Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
+Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
+Stephen Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
+Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>

 Apologies if I missed anyone!

@ -17,19 +35,153 @@ Apologies if I missed anyone!
 New and rewritten pages
 -----------------------

+rt_sigqueueinfo.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Stephan Mueller]
+        New page for rt_sigqueueinfo(2) and rt_tgsigqueueinfo(2)
+            This replaces the previous '.so' man page link file for
+            rt_sigqueueinfo.2, which linked to this sigqueue() man page.
+
+cciss.4
+    Stephen M. Cameron
+        New man page for cciss driver
+            I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
+            of having worked on the cciss driver for the past several years,
+            and having written considerable portions of it.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Copyedit by mtk
+
+hpsa.4
+    Stephen M. Cameron
+        New man page for the hpsa driver
+            I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
+            of being the main author of the hpsa driver
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Copyedits my mtk
+

 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
 ---------------------------------------------

+fstatat.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [David Howells]
+        Document AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
+
+lseek.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Eric Blake, Sunil Mushran]
+        Document SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA
+            These flags, designed for discovering holes in a file,
+            were added in Linux 3.1. Included comments from Eric
+            Blake and Sunil Mushran.
+
+madvise.2
+    Doug Goldstein
+        Add MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
+            Document the MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flags added to
+            madvise() in Linux 2.6.38.
+

 New and changed links
 ---------------------

+rt_tgsigqueueinfo.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New link to new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
+
+sigqueue.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Create link to page that was relocated to section 3
+

 Global changes
 --------------

+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Change reference to "sigqueue(2)" to "sigqueue(3)"
+

 Changes to individual pages
 ---------------------------

+fallocate.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        ERRORS: Add EPERM and ESPIPE errors
+
+lseek.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Alan Curry, Reuben Thomas]
+        Remove suspect note about 'whence' being incorrect English.
+
+prctl.2
+    Paul Pluzhnikov
+        PR_SET_DUMPABLE makes process non-ptrace-attachable
+
+readlink.2
+    Guillem Jover
+        Document using st_size to allocate the buffer
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Added copyright text + changelog note for Guillem Jover's patch
+
+sched_setscheduler.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document 2.6.39 changes to rules governing changes from SCHED_IDLE policy
+            Since Linux 2.6.39, unprivileged processes under the
+            SCHED_IDLE policy can switch to another nonrealtime
+            policy if their nice value falls within the range
+            permitted by their RLIMIT_NICE limit.
+
+tkill.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo (2)
+
+btowc.3, wctob.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Brian M. Carlson]
+        Add pointers to better, thread-safe alternative functions
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606899
+
+fwide.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements
+            Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose
+            prototype of this function.
+
+index.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Jon Grant]
+        Fix text mentioning terminating null
+
+pthread_sigqueue.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Replace explicit mention of rt_tgsigqueueinfo() with SEE ALSO reference
+
+sigqueue.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Move this page to section 3
+            Now that the underlying system call rt_sigqueueinfo(2) is
+            properly documented, move sigqueue() to Section 3, since
+            it is really a library function.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Update text in line with existence of new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
+
+wcsnlen.3
+    Jon Grant
+        Improve description of 'maxlen' argument
+            It's worth clarifying 'maxlen' is in wide-char units, not bytes.
+
+wprintf.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements
+            Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose
+            prototype of these functions.
+
+feature_test_macros.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document _ISOC95_SOURCE
+            _ISOC95_SOURCE was added in glibc 2.12 as a means
+            to expose C90 Amendment 1 definitions.
+
+ip.7
+    Benjamin Poirier  [Neil Horman]
+        Improve description of IP_MTU_DISCOVER
+
+signal.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo(2)