==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ==================== Released: 2006-??-?? Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Andries Brouwer Mike Frysinger Stefan Puiu Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- dd.1 cp.1 truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2 sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2 getlogin.3 ttyname.3 getpass.3 getline.3 hsearch.3 bzero.3 string.3 scanf.3 getnameinfo.3 dlopen.3 stpcpy.3 sysconf.3 readdir.3 argz_add.3 perror.3 gethostbyname.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 strdup.3 printf.3 strptime.3 termios.3 strftime.3 fwide.3 strfmon.3 asprintf.3 tty_ioctl.4 dsp56k.4 elf.5 termcap.5 proc.5 charsets.7 unix.7 mtk Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character). To rectify this the following changes were made in the above pages: Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'. Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'. Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'. Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'. Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'. Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'. Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'. Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'. Various pages mtk Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V". Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- epoll_ctl.2 mtk Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2. gethostname.2 mtk Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's gethostname() wrapper function. recv.2 Stefan Puiu Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT. fmemopen.3 mtk Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL. getopt.3 mtk Noted historical use of to declare getopt(). proc.5 mtk Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15. Documented /proc/PID/task. Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task} are not available if the main thread has terminated. udp.7 Stefan Puiu / mtk Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT (add cross-ref to socket(7)).