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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.34 ====================
Released: 2006-06-20
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
Chris Curtis <chris.curtis@riptidesoftware.com>
Eduardo Madeira Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Joerg Scheurich <rusmufti@helpdesk.bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
Kenichi Okuyama <okuyama.kenichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peter Eiserloh <eiserlohpp@yahoo.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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tzselect.8
zdump.8
zic.8
mtk, Joey
Added header comment noting that these pages are in the public
domain.
bindresvport.3
getrpcent.3
getrpcport.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
rpc.5
mtk, aeb, Joey
Added following to top of these pages to clarify origin and
license:
.\" This page was taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM (BSD license)
New pages
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ioprio_get.2
mtk
New link to new ioprio_set.2.
ioprio_set.2
Eduardo Madeira Fleury, with edits by mtk, and review by Jens Axboe
New page for ioprio_get(2) and ioprio_set(2), new in 2.6.13.
offsetof.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page describing offsetof() macro.
Changes to individual pages
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_exit.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2.
acct.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5.
fcntl.2
mtk
Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY.
inotify_add_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See Debian bug 369960.
mtk
Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'.
Reword introductory paragraph to clarify that
inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
mtk
Moved BUGS section from this page to inotify.7.
inotify_init.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See Debian bug 369960.
inotify_rm_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See Debian bug 369960.
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
mmap.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2.
mount.2
Kenichi Okuyama
s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error.
mremap.2
Mike Frysinger
s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS.
pipe.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2.
read.2
mtk
SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3.
readahead.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2.
send.2
Peter Eiserloh
Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send()
and sendto() calls.
setsid.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3.
shmctl.2
mtk
Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION.
stat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2.
statfs.2
mtk
Relocated "Note" about f_fsid.
write.2
mtk
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
__setfpucw.3
mtk, Joey
Added license statement (GPL) after consultation with
Joerg Scheurich.
assert_perror.3
Justin Pryzby
Add #define _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
difftime.3
Joey
Added note about time_t representation on other systems.
Added CONFORMING TO.
ftw.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
A fairly major revision...
Document FTW_ACTIONRETVAL; include .SH "RETURN VALUE";
Reorganized and rewrote much of the page
Added an example program.
inet.3
Marc Lehmann
Fixed typo in NOTES.
Debian bug 370277.
isalpha.3
Joey
Updated CONFORMING TO.
mktemp.3
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO.
printf.3
Walter Harms
Add documentation of %m.
readdir.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to ftw.3.
re_comp.3
mtk
Note that these functions are obsolete in favour of regcomp(3).
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to regcomp.3
scandir.3
Mats Wichmann
Reworded CONFORMING TO statement on scandir() and alphasort().
strchr.3
Stefan Puiu
Fix prototype for strchrnul().
strtoul.3
Stefan Puiu
Add text clarifying treatment of strings starting with
minus sign.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
mtk
Clarify discussion of use of free(3).
Various other minor changes to text and formatting.
tmpfile.3
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
Updated CONFORMING TO.
undocumented.3
mtk
Remove offsetof(), which is now documented.
null.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to full.4.
console_codes.4
Thomas Dickey
Various improvements and corrections.
epoll.7
mtk
Added CONFORMING TO section mentioning FreeBSD kqueue and
Solaris /dev/poll.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added pointer to location of LFS specification.
futex.7
mtk, after suggestion by Joey.
Added license statement to page, after discussion with
original author, bert hubert.
mtk
Reformat long lines; no content changes.
inotify.7
mtk
'path' argument renamed to 'pathname'.
A few minor rewordings.
Added BUGS section describing a couple of bugs.
ip.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to byteorder.3.
man.7
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to groff_man(7).
Debian bug 369253.