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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.62 ====================
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ====================
Released: 2007-07-09
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Martin Röhricht <martin@roehricht.info>
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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Many many pages
gettimeofday.2
madvise.2
msgctl.2
select.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
stat.2
a64l.3
printf.3
termios.3
xdr.3
sd.4
mtk
Many many formatting fixes
Minor wording changes.
Stepan Kasal
Add section number to .TH line for POSIX pages in man[013]p.
obsolete.2
syscall.2
unimplemented.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
New pages
---------
sgetmask.2
mtk
A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
(This page replaces a previous link of the same, which linked
signal.2.)
Removed Pages
-------------
obsolete.2
mtk
Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
respective syscall man pages (stat.2, uname.2).
undocumented.2
mtk
This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult
to maintain. Information about undocumented system calls
is maintained in the HOWTOHELP file, and probably in other
places soon.
killpg.3
mtk
This rather incomplete page seems unnecessary since there
is a killpg.2.
New links
---------
chown32.2
fchown32.2
getegid32.2
geteuid32.2
getgid32.2
getgroups32.2
getresgid32.2
getresuid32.2
getuid32.2
lchown32.2
setfsgid32.2
setfsuid32.2
setgid32.2
setgroups32.2
setregid32.2
setresgid32.2
setresuid32.2
setreuid32.2
setuid32.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
fcntl64.2
fstat64.2
fstatat64.2
fstatfs64.2
ftruncate64.2
getdents64.2
lstat64.2
pread64.2
pwrite64.2
sendfile64.2
stat64.2
statfs64.2
truncate64.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
fadvise64.2
fadvise64_64.2
mtk
Links to posix_fadvise.2.
rt_sigaction.2
rt_sigpending.2
rt_sigprocmask.2
rt_sigtimedwait.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
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
vserver.2
mtk
Link to unimplemented.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
killpg.2
mtk
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
mtk
Changed link to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
olduname.2
oldolduname.2
mtk
Changed link to point to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
sched_setaffinity.2
Martin Röhricht
Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
top of sigtimedwait().
ssetmask.2
mtk
Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 instead of signal.2.
stat.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
uname.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
unimplemented.2
mtk
Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
mktemp.3
Patrick Mansfield
Fix description of return value.
undocumented.3
mtk
Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
since they are documented.
proc.5
mtk
Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
inotify.7
mtk
IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
signal.7
Stepan Kasal / mtk
Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
mtk
Various rewites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.