==================== Changes in man-pages-2.41 ====================

Released: 2006-10-12

Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Global changes
--------------

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.


New pages
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splice.2
tee.2
vmsplice.2
    Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
        See also:
            http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
            http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
            http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
            http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
            http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/

Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

ldd.1
    Stefan Puiu
        Note glibc version where "ldd -u" appeared.

execve.2
    mtk
        The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().

fork.2
    mtk
        Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited 
        by child.

getdtablesize.2
    mtk
        Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable 
        applications.
        
getpagesize.2
    mtk
        Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable 
        applications.
        _SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
        
madvise.2
    mtk
        Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
        Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.

mount.2
    mtk / Trond Myklebust
        MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
        
mmap.2
    mtk
        Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of 
        length==0.
    Justin Pryzby / mtk
        Added some EINVAL errors.

mremap.2
    mtk
        Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.

msync.2
    mtk
        Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to 
        a locked region.

prctl.2
    Marcel Holtmann / mtk
        Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
        possible.
    Guillem Jover
        Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
        Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
        PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
        PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
    
remap_file_pages.2
    mtk
        Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.

sync_file_range.2
    mtk
        Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.

vfork.2
    mtk
        Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
        
wait4.2
    mtk
        Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
        
clog2.3
    mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
        Fix broken text in description.
        See Debian bug 386214.

clog10.3
    Kevin Ryde
        Fix broken text in description.
        See Debian bug 386214.

mq_receive.3
    Britton Leo Kerin
        Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
        See Debian bug 387551.

posix_fadvise.2
    Andrew Morton
        Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.

qsort.2
    Hrvoje Niksic
        Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar' 
        function.
        See Debian bug 391402.
        
sendfile.2
    mtk
        Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.

termios.3
    mtk
        Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
        
tzset.3
    mtk
        Added some TZ examples.
        See Debian bug 386087.

proc.5
    mtk
        Added delayacct_blkio_ticks (new in 2.6.18) to /proc/PID/statm.

ip.7
    Stuart MacDonald / Andi Kleen
        Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP.

pthreads.7
    mtk
        Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.

socket.7
    Senthil Kumar
        Place socket options in alphabetical order.