man-pages/Changes

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ====================

Released: 2005-06-21

Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr>
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Dieter Brueggemann <dieter.brueggemann@entitec.de>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
####Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
kabloom kabloom@ucdavis.edu
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>
Olivier Guilyardi <ylf@xung.org>
Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>
Philipp Spitzer <philipp@toastfreeware.priv.at>
Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
Thierry Excoffier <exco@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

Global changes
--------------

For consistency across pages:

    1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.


New pages
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pthreads.7
    mtk
        An overview of the Linux implementations of POSIX threads.


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

_exit.2
    mtk
        Various minor changes

epoll_ctl.2
    Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
        BUGS: In kernels < 2.6.9, EPOLL_CTL_DEL required a non-NULL
        'event', even though this argument is ignored.
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517.

flock.2
   mtk / Kevin Ryde
       Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks
       and open file entries and file descriptors.
       See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121
       
getitimer.2
    Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier
        Noted the existence of the short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy).

getrlimit.2
    mtk
        RLIMIT_RSS only has affect "in 2.4.x", not "in 2.4 and later".

getrusage.2
    Geoff Clare
        Since Linux 2.6, the ru_nvcsw and ru_nivcsw fields are used.

nice.2
    mtk / Guido Trotter
        Rewrote description of return value.
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296183

open.2
    Walter Harms
        O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE.
    mtk
        O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6
        Various minor fixes

atexit.3
    mtk
        Various minor changes

exit.3
    mtk
        Various minor changes

getopt.3
   mtk / Philipp Spitzer
       Fix description of return value.
       See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359
       
hsearch.3
    mtk
        Changed (char *) to (void *) in example.
        See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313607

log1p.3
    Justin Pryzby
        make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3)
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578

makecontext.3
    Tanaka Akira
        Fix description of RETURN VAUE for makecontext()
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800

on_exit.3
    mtk
        Various minor changes

rand.3
    kabloom@ucdavis.edu
        Small fix to a code example
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842.

realpath.3
    mtk / Thomas Hood
        When specifying resolved_path as NULL, realpath()
        will (still) only allocate up to PATH_MAX bytes.
	Plus other minor changes.
	See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239424

rcmd.3
    Dave Love
        The required header file for these funtions on Linux is <netdb.h>
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680

scanf.3
    Olivier Guilyardi
        Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void.
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109

stdin.3
    Vincent Lefevre
        freopen() can change the descriptors associated with
        stdin/stdout/stderr.
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859.

strerror.3
    Baurjan Ismagulov
        strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880

sysconf.3
     Peter Cordes / mtk
         Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV"

proc.5
    mtk
        Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7

ip.7
    mtk
        Various wording and formatting fixes.
        Reordered /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* file descriptions alphabetically.

tcp.7
    Dieter Brueggemann / mtk
        Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg
    mtk
        Various wording and formatting fixes.
        Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions
        from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.