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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
Released: 2006-??-??
Released: 2006-03-24
Contributors
------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Charles P. Wright <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elet.hu>
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Janak Desai
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
New pages
---------
ushare.2
mtk
mtk, with reference to documentation by Janak Desai
New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
@ -34,3 +45,60 @@ fork.2
vfork.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
mbind.2
Christoph Lameter
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL requires CAP_SYS_NICE not CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
mremap.2
mtk
Clarified the description of MREMAP_FIXED and restructured
the text to reflect the fact that this flag is exposed
by glibc since version 2.4.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz,
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
Document the following ptrace requests:
PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
plus associated flags:
PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
sched_get_priority_max.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_setparam.2
mtk, Ingo Molnar
Modified to document SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16.
Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
mail message containing the patch that implemented this policy.
Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
proc.5
mtk, using text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Document /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, new in kernel 2.6.16.
mtk, using information from ChangeLog-2.6.14.
Document /proc/PID/smaps, new in kernel 2.6.14.
capabilities.7
mtk
Noted affect of CAP_SYS_NICE for mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL).
pthreads.7
mtk
Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behaviour with respect to
the alternate signal stack.

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Fix thinko: s/assuming a non-blocking/assuming a blocking/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.26 ====================
Released: 2006-??-??
Released: 2006-03-21
Contributors
------------
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New pages
---------
intro.2
mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
openat.2
mtk
New page describing openat(2), added in kernel 2.6.16,
@ -3220,10 +3216,6 @@ mbind.2
from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
Plus a few other smaller fixes.
ushare.2
mtk
New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
fexecve.3
mtk
New page describing fexecve(3).
@ -3232,23 +3224,17 @@ futimes.3
mtk
New page describing futimes(3).
undocumented.3
mtk
Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
fork.2
vfork.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
execve.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
intro.2
mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
msgctl.2
msgget.2
msgop.2
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Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate
NOTES section.
Modified wording referring that refers to raw(8) to
Modified wording referring to raw(8) to
indicate that this interface is deprecated.
poll.2
@ -3316,6 +3302,10 @@ swab.3
Walter Harms
Add needed "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE".
undocumented.3
mtk
Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
capabilities.7
mtk
Various changes to bring this page closer to
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new in 2.6.14.
Placed socket options in alphabetical order.

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-- Example programs should do error checking after system calls and
library function calls.
-- Exaample programs should be commplete, and compile without
-- Example programs should be complete, and compile without
warnings when compiled with "cc -Wall",
-- Where possible and appropriate, example programs should allow
@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Searches like the following are likely to sugest other functions
that need to be documented:
MPDIR=~/man-pages # Directory containing uncopressed man-pages
MPDIR=~/man-pages # Directory containing uncompressed man-pages
GLIBCDIR=/SOME_DIR # Directory containing glibc tree
for f in $(cat $(echo $GLIBCDIR/abilist/*.abilist) | grep -v 'GLIBC' | \
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program_invocation_short_name(3)
sigstack(3)
sigwait(3)
sockatmasrk(3)
sockatmark(3)
strftime_l(3) (since glibc 2.3)
strptime_l(3) (since glibc 2.3.2)
sysv_signal(3)

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Begin3
Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
Version: 2.27
Entered-date: 2005-03-21
Entered-date: 2005-03-24
Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
Keywords: man pages
Author: several