diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 88dedd647..6648419c9 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -11,11 +11,16 @@ been incorporated in changes in this release: Andries E. Brouwer Felix Kater +Aurelien Gerome Ingo Molnar Justin Pryzby +Karsten Weiss Marty Leisner +Nicolas François +Theodoros V. Kalamatianos Thomas Huriaux Tim Stoakes +Timothy Baldwin Tolga Dalman Apologies if I missed anyone! @@ -35,7 +40,7 @@ st.4 ip.7 packet.7 mtk - Replace "(il)legal" by "permitted" or "valid". + Replace "(il)legal" by "(not) permitted" or "(in)valid". read.2 utime.2 @@ -95,6 +100,7 @@ Various pages carrying the verbatim license. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. +(Special thanks to Nicolas François.) New pages @@ -140,44 +146,119 @@ setkey_r.3 Changes to individual pages --------------------------- +clone.2 + mtk + Added note that CLONE_STOP (which no-one ever used anyway) is + now deprecated. + epoll_ctl.2 mtk Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL. +gettid.2 + mtk + Added VERSIONS section noting that this system call first + appeared in 2.4.11. + +kill.2 + Marty Leiser / mtk + Add text explicitly noting that sig==0 can be used to check for + the existence of a PID or PGID. + mtk + A few minor rewordings. + mount.2 + mtk + The MS_REMOUNT changes in 2.4 were at 2.4.10 (not 2.4). mtk Minor wording change. +open.2 + mtk + Note that O_CLOEXEC should be in the next POSIX.1 revision. + +recv.2 + Felix Kater / mtk + Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT. + sched_setscheduler.2 mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23). Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH. Minor rewordings. +select_tut.2 + Justin Pryzby + Various working clean-ps. + +semop.2 + Aurelien Gerome + Small fix in example code. + +setpgid.2 + mtk / Karsten Weiss + Clarify description of setpgid() a little. + setpriority.2 mtk, after a note from Ingo Molnar Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in kernel 2.6.23 and later. Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list. +signalfd.2 + mtk + Added BUGS text noting that before kernel 2.6.25, the ssi_int + and ssi_ptr fields are not set. + Added comments describing fields in signalfd_siginfo structure. + Update field names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/). + Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence. + stat.2 mtk Minor wording change. +timerfd_create.2 + mtk + Minor change to example program. + Minor wording change. + utime.2 mtk Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls always change *both* timestamps). CONFORMING TO: utimes() is in POSIX.1-2001. +wait.2 + mtk, after a note by Justin Pryzby + Add a sentence clarifying that even though the default disposition + of SIGCHLD is "ignore", explicitly setting the disposition to + SIG_IGN results in different treatment of zombies. + +backtrace.3 + Nicolas François + s/backtrace_symbols/backtrace-symbols_fd/ in one sentence. + +ctimes.3 + mtk + Add warning under NOTES that asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(), and + localtime() may each overwrite the static object returned by any + of the other calls. + Other minor edits. + +fexecve.3 + mtk + Clean up SYNOPSIS after work by cut-and-paste-Pete: + the necessary header file is not ! + futimes.3 mtk Add documentation of lutimes(), which appeared in glibc 2.6. mtk Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls always change *both* timestamps). - futimes() did not come from 4.2BSD. (It came from FreeBSD; see - the FreeBSD man page.) + CONFORMING TO: futimes() did not come from 4.2BSD. (It came from + FreeBSD; see the FreeBSD man page.) + getenv.3 mtk Noted that caller must not modify returned value string. @@ -194,11 +275,24 @@ getopt.3 mtk Add 'optarg', 'optind', 'opterr', and 'optopt' to NAME section. +malloc.3 + mtk + RETURN VALUE: Note circumstances in which successful malloc() and + calloc() can return NULL. + mq_open.3 mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner Note that is needed for O_* constants and is needed for 'mode' constants. +raise.3 + mtk / Timothy Baldwin + Clarify semantics of raise() when called from a multithreaded + program. + as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476484. + mtk + Rewrites and additions to various parts of the page. + rand.3 Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of @@ -247,7 +341,29 @@ undocumented.3 mtk initstate_r(3), setkey_r(3), setstate_r(3) are now documented. +utmp.5 + Nicolas François + Small rewording. + +resolv.conf.5 + Nicolas François + gethostname is in Section 2, not section 3. + +charsets.7 + Nicolas François + s/unicode.com/unicode.org/ + +inotify.7 + mtk + Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors. + mtk + Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify + file descriptor as readable. + +pthreads.7 + Justin Pryzby + Grammar fix, plus fix typo in script. + standards.7 mtk Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision. -