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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.06 ====================
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Released: 2005-06-27
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Released: ????-??-??
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Contributors
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@ -8,14 +8,17 @@ 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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A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
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Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
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Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
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Bhavesh P Davda <bhavesh@avaya.com>
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Clau Weber <claus@jambit.com>
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David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
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Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
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#### Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
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Steven Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
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places.
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Many uses of hyphens and dashes were corrected.
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New pages
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Removed Pages
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sstk.2
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mtk
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AFAIK, this sytem call has never actually done anything (other
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than be a stub) on any Unix.
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Changes to individual pages
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_exit.2
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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close.2
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accept.2
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mtk
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Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
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Minor formatting changes.
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Various wording and formatting fixes.
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dup.2
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bind.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
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accurate.
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Minor formatting fixes
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Minor formatting changes
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fcntl.2
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clone.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
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Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
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with a cross ref to dup.2
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Minor wording and formatting fixes
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Various minor wording improvements; some formatting fixes
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fpclassify.3
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mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
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The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
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to differentiate positive and neagtive infinity.
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See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
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getgid.2
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getuid.2
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Delian Krustev
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Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
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getitimer.2
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connect.2
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mtk
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The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
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man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
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Various wording and formatting fixes.
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epoll_create.2
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Bhavesh P Davda
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s/positive/non-negative/ [for file descriptor]
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getpriority.2
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listen.2
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mtk
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Removed historic comment on BSD backlog ceiling.
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Minor wording and formatting changes.
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socket.2
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mtk
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Various minor wording improvements
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umask.2
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mtk
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Added mkdir(2) to discussion, made term "file mode creation
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mask" clearer.
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Various, mostly small, wording changes
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errno.3
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Martin Pool
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Change description for ESTALE
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237344
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fgetgrent.3
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getgrent.3
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getgrent_r.3
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David Lloyd
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Added SEE ALSO putgrent(3)
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211336
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getgrent.3
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getgrnam.3
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getpwent.3
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getpwnam.3
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Lars Wirzenius / mtk
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Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by refernces to
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"passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
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mtk
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Miscellaneous wording improvements
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Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
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getnameinfo.3
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mtk
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Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
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Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
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Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
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open.2
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mtk / aeb
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Clarification of term "open file description" along with
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explanation of what information it maintains.
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Other wording improvements
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Various minor wording changes
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getnetent.3
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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s/endservent/endnetent/
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As per Debian Bug#316517
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atexit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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getspnam.3
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Lars Wirzenius / mtk
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Replace mention of /etc/shadow by refernces to
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"shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
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mtk, Claus Weber
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Miscellaneous wording improvements
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Consistent DESCRIPTION wording vis-a-vis getpwnam.3 etc.
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scanf.3
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Justin Pryzby / mtk
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As per Debian Bug#317037
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shm_open.3
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mtk
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Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
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shared library unload.
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Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
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abnormal termination.
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Formatting fixes.
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Modified details of how user and group ownership of a new
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object are set.
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Various minor wording and formatting cleanups.
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proc.5
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mtk
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Updated discussion of /proc/stat
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exit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Minor rewording and formatting changes.
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getloadavg.3
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mtk
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Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype
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log2.3
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Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Add ERANGE error.
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readdir.3
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mtk
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Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
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Some formatting cleanups.
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strtod.3
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Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
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strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE of _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
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tdestroy.3
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mtk
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New link to tsearch.3
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tsearch.3
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mtk
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Added tdestroy to .TH line
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mem.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"
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null.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
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"chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"
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vcs.4
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Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
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signal.7
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Ove Kaaven
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SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
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urn.7
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mtk
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New link to uri.7
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ip.7
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Steven Murdoch
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Change protocol in UDP prototype.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182635
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Changes.old
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Changes.old
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Various wording and formatting fixes.
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Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions
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from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
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Released: 2005-06-27
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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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A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
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Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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--------------
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
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New pages
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---------
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Changes to individual pages
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---------------------------
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_exit.2
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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close.2
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mtk
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Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
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Minor formatting changes.
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dup.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
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accurate.
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Minor formatting fixes
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fcntl.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
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Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
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with a cross ref to dup.2
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Minor wording and formatting fixes
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fpclassify.3
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mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
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The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
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to differentiate positive and neagtive infinity.
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See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
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getgid.2
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getuid.2
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Delian Krustev
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Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
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getitimer.2
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mtk
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The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
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man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
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getpriority.2
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mtk
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Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
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Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
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open.2
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mtk / aeb
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Clarification of term "open file description" along with
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explanation of what information it maintains.
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Other wording improvements
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Various minor wording changes
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atexit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
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shared library unload.
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Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
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abnormal termination.
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Formatting fixes.
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exit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Minor rewording and formatting changes.
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getloadavg.3
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mtk
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Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype
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log2.3
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Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Add ERANGE error.
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readdir.3
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mtk
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Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
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Some formatting cleanups.
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strtod.3
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Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
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strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
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tdestroy.3
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mtk
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New link to tsearch.3
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tsearch.3
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mtk
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mem.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"
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null.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
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"chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"
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vcs.4
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Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
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signal.7
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Ove Kaaven
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SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
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urn.7
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mtk
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New link to uri.7
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RELEASE
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The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
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man-pages-2.05.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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man-pages-2.06.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
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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: 2.05
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Entered-date: 2005-06-27
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Version: 2.06
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Entered-date: ????-??-??
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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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2440k man-pages-2.05.tar.gz
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????k man-pages-2.06.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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record will never change once it has been set, which reserves that slot
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without needing a configuration file. Clearing \fIut_id\fP may result
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in race conditions leading to corrupted utmp entries and and potential
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in race conditions leading to corrupted utmp entries and potential
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security holes. Clearing the above mentioned fields by filling them
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with null bytes is not required by SYSV semantics, but it allows to run
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many programs which assume BSD semantics and which do not modify utmp.
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