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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================
Released: 2008-07-09, Konolfingen
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Web site
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licenses.html
mtk
A page describing the preferred licenses for new pages that
are contributed to man-pages.
New and rewritten pages
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end.3
mtk
Documents etext, edata, and end symbols.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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memchr.3
mtk
Add description of rawmemchr().
New links
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edata.3
etext.3
mtk
Links to end.3.
getdate_err.3
mtk
Link to getdate.3.
h_errno.3
mtk
Link to gethsotbyname.3.
optarg.3
opterr.3
optind.3
optopt.3
mtk
Links to getopt.3.
rawmemchr.3
mtk
Link to memchr.3.
sys_errlist.3
sys_nerr.3
mtk
Links to perror.3.
Global changes
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Changes to individual pages
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clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
ioprio_set.2
Nikanth Karthikesan
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is longer required to set
a low priority (IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE).
sched_setaffinity.3
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Update type used for cpusetsize argument in SYNOPSIS.
sigaction.2
mtk
Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
Add some text for si_trapno field.
The si_errno field is *generally* unused.
mtk
Put descriptions of SA_* constants in alphabetical order.
signalfd.2
mtk
Modify description of ssi_trapno field.
swapon.2
mtk
Fix two version number typos for MAX_SWAPFILES discussion:
s/2.6.10/2.4.10/
dl_iterate_phdr.3
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: Add elf(5).
crypt.3
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Describe additional encryption algorithms.
errno.3
mtk
Small rewrites in DESCRIPTION.
exec.3
mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
Small rewording.
exp10.3
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: Add log10(3).
exp2.3
Alain Portal
Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.
getopt.3
mtk
Add details on initial value of optind, and note that it can
be reset to restart scanning of an argument vector.
getspnam.3
mtk
Improve comments on struct spwd.
log10.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add exp10(3).
scanf.3
Vincent Lefevre / mtk
Clarify treatment of intial white space by %% conversion
specification.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
capabilities.7
mtk
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for
ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.