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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.23 ====================
Released: 2006-??-??
Released: 2006-02-10
Contributors
------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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New pages
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inotify_init.2
inotify_add_watch.2
inotify_rm_watch.2
Robert Love, with some additions by mtk.
New pages describing the inotify API.
mbind.2
get_mempolicy.2
set_mempolicy.2
Andi Kleen, with additional work by mtk
New pages describing the NUMA memory allocation policy API.
rtc.4
Urs Thuermann, with additoonal work by mtk
New page describing the real-time clock driver.
inotify.7
mtk
Overview of the inotify API.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Andi Kleen
On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall,
but directly through "int $0x80".
fcntl.2
mtk
Small wording changes.
Added cross-ref to inotify.7 under the description of dnotify.
kill.2
mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
See Debian bug 350236.
mlock.2
mtk / Matthias Andree
Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
See the following LKML thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
"Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
msgop.2
mtk / Samuel Thibault
Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
to Debian bug report 350884.
Various other wording fixes.
open.2
mtk
Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
"file status flags".
read.2
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
As per Debian bug 351873.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Major rewrite.
select.2
mtk
Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(),
FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
Other minor wording changes.
read.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2).
(Analogous with read.2 change above.)
errno.3
Kurt Wall / mtk
Add Linux specific errors to this page.
localeconv.3
mtk
Added cross-ref to locale.7 for 'struct lconv' defn.
Other minor wording changes.
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
As per Debian bug 351831.
scanf.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Minor formatting & wording fixes.
setlocale.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
As per Debian bug 351831.
proc.5
mtk
Migrated description of inotify files to the new inotify.7 page.
ascii.7
Dan Jacobson / mtk
Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
See Debian bug 342173.
locale.7
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.

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keyctl(2)
request_key(2)
inotify_add_watch(2)
inotify_init(2)
inotify_rm_watch(2)
delete_module(2)
init_module(2)
create_module(2) (Present up to and including kernel 2.4, absent in 2.6)
query_module(2) (Present up to and including kernel 2.4, absent in 2.6)
ioprio_get(2) (new in kernel 2.6.13)
ioprio_set(2) (new in kernel 2.6.13)
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dlinfo(3) (Solaris and FreeBSD have a similar function.)
dladdr1(3)
dlmopen(3) (Since glibc 2.3.4; probably to be documented on dlopen.3 page)
memmem(3) (GNU extension)
readdir_r(3) (probably as additional text in readdir.3)
sigstack(3)
sigwait(3)

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Begin3
Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
Version: 2.23
Entered-date: 2005-??-??
Entered-date: 2005-02-10
Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
Keywords: man pages
Author: several
Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Primary-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
????k man-pages-2.23.tar.gz
2512k man-pages-2.23.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT;
the other pages are all freely distributable provided