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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ====================
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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.22 ====================
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Released: 2006-01-16
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Released: 2006-??-??
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Contributors
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------------
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@ -8,48 +8,10 @@ Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
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Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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--------------
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dd.1 cp.1
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truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2
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sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2
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argz_add.3 asprintf.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 dlopen.3 fwide.3
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gethostbyname.3 getline.3 getlogin.3 getnameinfo.3 getpass.3 hsearch.3
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perror.3 printf.3 readdir.3 scanf.3 stpcpy.3 strdup.3 strfmon.3
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strftime.3 string.3 strptime.3 sysconf.3 termios.3 ttyname.3
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dsp56k.4 tty_ioctl.4
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elf.5 proc.5 termcap.5
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charsets.7 unix.7
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mtk
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Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
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is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
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To rectify this the following changes were made in the above
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pages:
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Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
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Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
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Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
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Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
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Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
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Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
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Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
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Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
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Various pages
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mtk
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Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V".
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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@ -57,84 +19,7 @@ places.
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New pages
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mmap64.3
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Mike Frysinger
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New link to mmap.2
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Changes to individual pages
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---------------------------
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capget.2
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mtk
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Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
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capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().
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epoll_ctl.2
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mtk
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Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2.
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gethostname.2
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mtk
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Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
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gethostname() wrapper function.
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mmap.2
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mtk / Mike Frysinger
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Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3)
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mtk
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A few other small rewordings.
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open.2
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mtk
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Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
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open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.
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recv.2
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Stefan Puiu
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Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
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dlopen.3
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mtk
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Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
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added description is of RTLD_NOLOAD, RTLD_DELETE,
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and RTLD_DEEPBIND.
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Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
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automatically called when a library is unloaded.
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fmemopen.3
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mtk
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Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.
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fseeko.3
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Mike Frysinger
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Add RETURN VALUE section.
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getopt.3
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mtk
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Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().
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qsort.3
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mtk / Falk Hueffner
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Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
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function by providing an example.
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As per Debian bug 348072.
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proc.5
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mtk
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Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.
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Documented /proc/PID/task.
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Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task}
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are not available if the main thread has terminated.
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Senthil Kumar
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Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
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/proc/sys/kernel/random.
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udp.7
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Stefan Puiu / mtk
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Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT
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(add cross-ref to socket(7)).
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character lines.
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No changes were made to the content of these pages (yet...).
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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ====================
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Released: 2006-01-16
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Contributors
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------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
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Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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--------------
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dd.1 cp.1
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truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2
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sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2
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argz_add.3 asprintf.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 dlopen.3 fwide.3
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gethostbyname.3 getline.3 getlogin.3 getnameinfo.3 getpass.3 hsearch.3
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perror.3 printf.3 readdir.3 scanf.3 stpcpy.3 strdup.3 strfmon.3
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strftime.3 string.3 strptime.3 sysconf.3 termios.3 ttyname.3
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dsp56k.4 tty_ioctl.4
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elf.5 proc.5 termcap.5
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charsets.7 unix.7
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mtk
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Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
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is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
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To rectify this the following changes were made in the above
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pages:
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Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
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Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
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Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
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Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
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Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
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Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
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Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
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Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
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Various pages
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mtk
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Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V".
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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New pages
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---------
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mmap64.3
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Mike Frysinger
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New link to mmap.2
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Changes to individual pages
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---------------------------
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capget.2
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mtk
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Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
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capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().
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epoll_ctl.2
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mtk
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Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2.
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gethostname.2
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mtk
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Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
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gethostname() wrapper function.
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mmap.2
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mtk / Mike Frysinger
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Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3)
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mtk
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A few other small rewordings.
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open.2
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mtk
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Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
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open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.
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recv.2
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Stefan Puiu
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Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
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dlopen.3
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mtk
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Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
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added descriptions of RTLD_NOLOAD, RTLD_DELETE,
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and RTLD_DEEPBIND.
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Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
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automatically called when a library is unloaded.
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fmemopen.3
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mtk
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Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.
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fseeko.3
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Mike Frysinger
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Add RETURN VALUE section.
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getopt.3
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mtk
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Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().
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qsort.3
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mtk / Falk Hueffner
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Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
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function by providing an example.
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As per Debian bug 348072.
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proc.5
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mtk
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Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.
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Documented /proc/PID/task.
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Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task}
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are not available if the main thread has terminated.
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Senthil Kumar
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Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
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/proc/sys/kernel/random.
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udp.7
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Stefan Puiu / mtk
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Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT
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(add cross-ref to socket(7)).
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RELEASE
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The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
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man-pages-2.21.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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man-pages-2.22.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
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the file "Changes".
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Begin3
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Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
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Version: 2.21
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Entered-date: 2005-01-16
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Version: 2.22
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Entered-date: 2005-??-??
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Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
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Keywords: man pages
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Author: several
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Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
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Primary-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
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2521k man-pages-2.21.tar.gz
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????k man-pages-2.22.tar.gz
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Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
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Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT;
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the other pages are all freely distributable provided
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