From 89b7c08ef1bbd46a079c9028bab43dcbcd6c2fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:38:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Changes: Ready for 3.34 release Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- Changes | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 152 insertions(+) diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 41b6eef10..14c1bdd4d 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -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 +Benjamin Poirier +Brian M. Carlson +David Howells +David Prévot +Denis Barbier +Doug Goldstein +Eric Blake +Guillem Jover +Jon Grant +Michael Kerrisk +Neil Horman +Paul Pluzhnikov +Reuben Thomas +Stefan Puiu +Stephan Mueller +Stephen Cameron +Sunil Mushran 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)