diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 33c5b591c..fd6dfea97 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-2.00 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ==================== -Released: 2004-12-16 (why wait for the kernel?) +Released: ?????????????? Contributors ------------ @@ -8,328 +8,14 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -Alberto Bertogli -Anand Kumria -Andrey Kiselev -Andries Brouwer -Chris Green -Branden Robinson -Emmanuel Colbus -Enrico Zini -Eric Estievenart -Fabian Kreutz -Florian Weimer -Jan Kuznik -Joey (Martin) Schulze -Johannes Berg -John V. Belmonte -Karel Kulhavy -Luis Javier Merino Morán -Martin Pool -Richard Kreckel -Vasya Pupkin Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- -Many math pages had their synopses compressed, as per suggestion -from Fabian Kreutz. - -Many minor content and formatting bug fixes were made to the math -pages, following suggestions from Fabian Kreutz (who recently -translated many of the 1.70 math pages into German) and -Andries Brouwer. - -For consistency, all instances "super-user" were changed to the more -common "superuser". - -After a note from Vasya Pupkin, I added to the SYNOPSIS -of several Section 2 pages using the _syscallN() macros. - - In addition: - -- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed - on various pages. - - -- types such as "uint" in syscalN() declarations were changed - to "unsigned int", etc. - - -- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed. - - The affected pages are: - - getdents.2 - gettid.2 - llseek.2 - mmap2.2 - modify_ldt.2 - pivot_root.2 - quotactl.2 - readdir.2 - sysctl.2 - syslog.2 - tkill.2 - Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several other places. Individual pages ---------------- - -bind.2 - Florian Weimer - Added 'const' to declaration of 'my_addr' in prototype. - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239762 - -fcntl.2 - Martin Pool - Added O_NOATIME to list of flags that can be changed via F_SETFL. - mtk/aeb - Noted F_GETOWN bug after suggestion from aeb. - See also: - http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108380640603164&w=2 - -getrlimit.2 - mtk - Material on getrusage.2 has been separated out into its own page. - Rewrote discussion on RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to incorporate kernel - 2.6.9 changes. - Added note on RLIMIT_CPU error in older kernels. - Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING - Also made a few other minor changes. - -getrusage.2 - mtk - This page is new(ish) -- it was created by splitting - getrlimit.2. - - Repaired note on SIGCHLD behaviour to note that the - POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9. - -kill.2 - Modified after suggestion from Emmanuel Colbus - Changed wording of sentence under NOTES describing - when signals can be sent to init. - -mlock.2, munlock.2, mlockall.2, munlockall.2 - These have been consolidated into a single mlock.2 page. - In the process, much duplication was eliminated - and new information was added about RLIMIT_MEMLOCK - and the changes in memory locking in kernel 2.6.9, - -mmap.2 - mtk - Added cross-ref to setrlimit(2) concerning memory locking limits. - Eric Estievenart - Note that MAP_FIXED replaces existing mappings - -msgctl.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Added msqid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions. - -msgget.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Added notes on /proc files. - -msgop.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Added notes on /proc files. - -open.2 - Martin Pool - Added O_NOATIME (new in Linux 2.6.8) - mtk - Reordered list of 'flags' description alphabetically - -personality.2 - 2004-11-03 applied patch from Martin Schulze - -semctl.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Rewrote semun text. - Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions. - -semget.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Added notes on /proc files. - Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialise - semaphore values. - -semop.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Added notes on /proc files. - -shmctl.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Updated shmid_ds structure definitions. - Added information on SHM_DEST and SHM_LOCKED flags. - Noted that CAP_IPC_LOCK is not required for SHM_UNLOCK - since kernel 2.6.9. - Added notes on 2.6.9 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK changes. - Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING (new in Linux 2.6.8) - -shmget.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Added notes on /proc files. - -shmop.2 - mtk - Substantial language and formatting clean-ups. - Changed wording and placement of sentence regarding attachment - of segments marked for destruction. - -sigaction.2 - mtk - Added mention of SIGCONT under SA_NOCLDSTOP. - Added SA_NOCLDWAIT. - Updated discussion for POSIX.1-2001 and SIGCHLD and sa_flags. - Noted that CLD_CONTINUED is supported since Linux 2.6.9. - Added SI_TKILL (new in Linux 2.4.19). - Other minor changes. - -signal.2 - mtk - Removed text on ignoring SIGCHLD; replaced with pointer - to sigaction.2. - -sigwaitinfo.2 - After bug report from Andrey Kiselev - Fixed prototype: "timeout" --> "*timeout" - as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222145 - -stat,2 - Enrico Zini - Added text to clarify that S_IS*() macros should be applied to - st_mode field. - as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249698 - -swapon.2 - After bug report from Anand Kumria - Added "no swap space signature" to EINVAL error - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi - mtk - Added EINVAL error for swapoff() ("not currently a swap area"). - Added EBUSY error for swapon(). - A few formatting fixes. - -times.2 - mtk - In Linux 2.6, the return value of times changed; it is no - longer time since boot, but rather: - - boot_time + 2^32 / HZ - 300 - - Repaired note on SIGCHLD behaviour to note that the - POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9. - Some formatting fixes. - -undocumented.2 - After bug report from Johannes Berg - Changed - .TH UNIMPLEMENTED - to: - .TH UNDOCUMENTED - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220741 - -wait.2 - mtk - Added waitid(2). - Added WCONTINUED and WIFCONTINUED (new in 2.6.10). - Added text on SA_NOCLDSTOP. - Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behaviour. - Much other text rewritten. - -wait4.2 - mtk - Rewrote this page, removing much duplicated information, - and replacing with pointers to wait.2. - Luis Javier Merino Morán / mtk - CONFORMING TO said "SVr4, POSIX". Changed to "4.3BSD" - -waitid.2 - mtk - New link to wait.2 - -assert.3 - After bug report from Branden Robinson - The assert() failure message goes to stderr not stdout. - As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284814 - -ctime.3 - mtk - Noted that 0 in tm_mday is interpreted to mean the last day - of the preceding month. - -getnameinfo.3 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229618 - getnameinfo() does not set errno, it returns a non-zero - value indicating the error. - mtk - added EAI_OVERFLOW error - -killpg.3 - mtk - Minor changes to SEE ALSO and CONFORMING TO. - -lseek64.3 - aeb - New page by Andries Brouwer - -tzset.3 - Richard Kreckel - Change "NULL" to "empty" when talking about the value of TZ. - http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=601 - -printf.3 - After bug report from Jan Kuznik - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205736 - Fixed bad realloc() use in snprintf() example - -random.4 - After bug report from John V. Belmonte - Updated init and quit scripts to reflect kernel 2.4/2.6 reality - (Scripts taken from drivers/char/random.c) - as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247779 - -proc.5 - mtk - Updated description of /proc/loadavg to include - nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid. - - rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8 - - updated statm, and fixed error in order of list - -realpath.3 - mtk - Added discussion of resolved_path == NULL. - -boot.7 - applied patch from Martin Schulze - -capabilities.7 - mtk - Added O_NOATIME for CAP_FOWNER - -netdevice.7 - Karel Kulhavy and AEB - formatting fix after note from Karel Kulhavy and AEB, plus a - few wording fixes. - -signal.7 - mtk - /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-* were superceded by RLIMIT_SIGPENDING - in kernel 2.6.8. - -tcp.7 - mtk/aeb - Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY. diff --git a/man-pages-2.00.Announce b/man-pages-2.01.Announce similarity index 88% rename from man-pages-2.00.Announce rename to man-pages-2.01.Announce index e5755c959..608f13969 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.00.Announce +++ b/man-pages-2.01.Announce @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@ RELEASE -The proud new Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . +The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . - man-pages-2.00.tar.gz - man pages for Linux - -(The previous release was man-pages-1.70. The new major version number -reflects only that there is a new maintainer, and the desire to avoid -eventual releases named man-pages-1.100 etc. Let's assume for now that -I won't manage 100 minor releases under this numbering scheme...) + man-pages-2.01.tar.gz - man pages for Linux Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in the file "Changes". diff --git a/man-pages-2.00.lsm b/man-pages-2.01.lsm similarity index 82% rename from man-pages-2.00.lsm rename to man-pages-2.01.lsm index 2de01b677..785db2a32 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.00.lsm +++ b/man-pages-2.01.lsm @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ Begin3 Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux -Version: 2.00 -Entered-date: 2004-12-16 +Version: 2.01 +Entered-date: ???????????????? Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages Keywords: man pages Author: several Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk Primary-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages - 2417k man-pages-2.00.tar.gz + ?????????2417k man-pages-2.00.tar.gz Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT; the other pages are all freely distributable provided