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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.26 ====================
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Released: 2006-03-21
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Contributors
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------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
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Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
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Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
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Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
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Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
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Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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clone.2
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getdents.2
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gettid.2
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llseek.2
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mmap2.2
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modify_ldt.2
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pivot_root.2
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quotactl.2
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readdir.2
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sysctl.2
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syslog.2
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tkill.2
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mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
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Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be
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preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
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Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
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pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
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New pages
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intro.2
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mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
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Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
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openat.2
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mtk
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New page describing openat(2), added in kernel 2.6.16,
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and some notes on rationale for the at*(2) system calls.
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mbind.2
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Andi Kleen, Christoph Lameter, mtk
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Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
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from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
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Plus a few other smaller fixes.
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ushare.2
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mtk
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New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
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fexecve.3
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mtk
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New page describing fexecve(3).
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futimes.3
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mtk
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New page describing futimes(3).
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undocumented.3
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mtk
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Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
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Changes to individual pages
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clone.2
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fork.2
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vfork.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
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execve.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
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msgctl.2
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msgget.2
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msgop.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO pointing to mq_overview.7.
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open.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO pointing to new openat.2.
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Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate
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NOTES section.
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Modified wording referring that refers to raw(8) to
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indicate that this interface is deprecated.
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poll.2
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mtk
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Added discussion of ppoll(2), which is new in 2.6.16.
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ppoll.2
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mtk
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New link to poll.2.
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recvmsg.2
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sendmsg.2
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mtk / Paul Brook
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Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen
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should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
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See Debian bug 356502 and the associated glibc bug report.
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448.
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mtk
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Various formatting fixes.
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select.2
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mtk
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Updated to reflect the fact that pselect() has been implemented
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in the kernel in 2.6.16; various other minor wording changes.
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pselect() prototype needs "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600".
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tempnam.3
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Justin Pryzby
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Clean up description of EEXIST error.
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Debian bug 357893
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unlink.2
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mtk
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Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM.
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utime.2
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mtk
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Added new SEE ALSO entry pointing to new futimes.3 page.
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exec.3
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
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shm_unlink.3
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mtk
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New link to shm_open.3 (should have been made when page
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was originally written).
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swab.3
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Walter Harms
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Add needed "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE".
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capabilities.7
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mtk
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Various changes to bring this page closer to
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current kernel versions.
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inotify.7
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mtk
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Noted that glibc 2.4 is required to get glibc support
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for inotify.
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mq_overview.7
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mtk
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Some rewording and added a few words about System V
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message queues.
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netlink.7
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Hasso Tepper
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Substantial updates to various parts of this page.
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mtk, Alain Portal
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Minor fixes
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pthreads.7
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mtk
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Updated to reflect that the NPTL limitation that only the main
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thread could call setsid() and setpgid() was removed in 2.6.16.
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raw.7
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Hasso Tepper
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Removed text implying that only in kernel 2.2 does IP_HDRINCL
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prevent datagrams from being fragmented.
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socket.7
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mtk
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Documented SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options,
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new in 2.6.14.
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Placed socket options in alphabetical order.
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