==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ==================== Released: 2012-03-25, Christchurch Contributors ------------ The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Akihiro MOTOKI Artyom Pervukhin Beňas Petr Ben Bacarisse Bjarni Ingi Gislason David Prévot Denis Barbier Denys Vlasenko Eric Blake Iain Fraser Justin T Pryzby Kirill Brilliantov Mark R Bannister Matthew Gregan Michael Kerrisk Nix Peter Schiffer Sergei Zhirikov Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- get_nprocs_conf.3 Beňas Petr New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3) Michael Kerrisk Some additions and improvements malloc_get_state.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3) mallopt.3 Michael Kerrisk New man page for mallopt(3) mtrace.3 Michael Kerrisk Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail scandirat.3 Mark R Bannister New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15) Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- posix_memalign.3 Michael Kerrisk Document aligned_alloc(3) aligned_alloc() is new in C11. Michael Kerrisk Document pvalloc(3) qsort.3 Mark R Bannister Add documentation of qsort_r(3) Ben Bacarisse Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch Michael Kerrisk Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r() New and changed links --------------------- aligned_alloc.3 Michael Kerrisk New link to posix_memalign.3 get_nprocs.3 Beňas Petr Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page malloc_set_state.3 Michael Kerrisk Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page pvalloc.3 Michael Kerrisk New link to posix_memalign.3 Global changes -------------- Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global fix: place sections in correct order Various pages Michael Kerrisk [Justin T Pryzby] Global fix: Remove duplicated words Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's grep-fu: for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" | grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1'; done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' Various pages Michael Kerrisk Correct order of SEE ALSO entries Changes to individual pages --------------------------- futimesat.2 Michael Kerrisk PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements keyctl.2 Bjarni Ingi Gislason Strip trailing tabs from source line See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688 ptrace.2 Denys Vlasenko Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC Denys Vlasenko Various fixes to recent updates of this page symlinkat.2 Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake] PROTOTYPE: Correct header file syscalls.2 Michael Kerrisk Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented system calls. Michael Kerrisk Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6 Michael Kerrisk Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2) unlinkat.2 Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake] PROTOTYPE: Correct header file Michael Kerrisk PROTOTYPE: Add for AT_* constants utimensat.2 Michael Kerrisk PROTOTYPE: Add for AT_* constants copysign.3 Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman] DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples malloc.3 Michael Kerrisk NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas Michael Kerrisk Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3) Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3) SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3) posix_memalign.3 Michael Kerrisk Rename memalign() argument Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency with posix_memalign(). Michael Kerrisk Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3) rtnetlink.3 Kirill Brilliantov [Sergei Zhirikov] Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH() See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088 scandir.3 Mark R Bannister SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3) sigqueue.3 Nix Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not be listed in the .TH line of this page. tzset.3 Peter Schiffer Correct description for Julian 'n' date format The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1. Michael Kerrisk Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats packet.7 Michael Kerrisk [Iain Fraser] Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field tcp.7 Michael Kerrisk [Artyom Pervukhin] Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards