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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.06 ====================
Released: 2005-07-15
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>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Bhavesh P Davda <bhavesh@avaya.com>
Clau Weber <claus@jambit.com>
Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
#### Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Steven Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Many uses of hyphens and dashes were corrected.
New pages
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canonicalize_file_name.3
Walter Harms / mtk
Removed Pages
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sstk.2
mtk
AFAIK, this sytem call has never actually done anything (other
than be a stub) on any Unix.
Changes to individual pages
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accept.2
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
bind.2
mtk
Minor formatting changes
clone.2
mtk
Various minor wording improvements; some formatting fixes
connect.2
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
epoll_create.2
Bhavesh P Davda
s/positive/non-negative/ [for file descriptor]
getrlimit.2
mtk
Documented RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE limit.
RLIMIT_RSS ceased to have any effect in 2.4 in kernel 2.4.30.
(It already didn't have any effect in 2.2.x and 2.6.x.)
s/MADVISE_WILLNEED/MADV_WILLNEED/
listen.2
mtk
Removed historic comment on BSD backlog ceiling.
Minor wording and formatting changes.
semop.2
mtk
Added BUG: in some circumstances, a process that is
waiting for a semaphore to become zero is not not woken
up when the value does actually reach zero.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110260821123863&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110261701025794&w=2
socket.2
mtk
Various minor wording improvements
umask.2
mtk
Added mkdir(2) to discussion, made term "file mode creation
mask" clearer.
Various, mostly small, wording changes
errno.3
Martin Pool
Change description for ESTALE
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237344
fgetgrent.3
getgrent.3
getgrent_r.3
David Lloyd
Added SEE ALSO putgrent(3)
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211336
getgrent.3
getgrnam.3
getpwent.3
getpwnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by refernces to
"passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
mtk
Miscellaneous wording improvements
Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
getnameinfo.3
mtk
Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
getnetent.3
Petter Reinholdtsen
s/endservent/endnetent/
As per Debian Bug#316517
getspnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/shadow by refernces to
"shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
mtk, Claus Weber
Miscellaneous wording improvements
Consistent DESCRIPTION wording vis-a-vis getpwnam.3 etc.
hsearch.3
Frederik Deweerdt
Fix hsearch_r() prototype
scanf.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fix description of RETURN VALUE
As per Debian Bug#317037
mtk
various parts substantially rewritten; added description of
%n$ form; various text incorporated from the GNU C library
documentation ((C) The Free Software Foundation).
shm_open.3
mtk
Modified details of how user and group ownership of a new
object are set.
Various minor wording and formatting cleanups.
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
tweaked the short description to include definition of 'ELF'
add ELFOSABI_NONE to the ELFOSABI_ list
tweak/add more machines to EM_ list for ehdr->e_machine
fix indenting to be consistent
tweak the display of the ELF_ST_* macros
document the Elf_Dyn structure
proc.5
mtk
Updated discussion of /proc/stat.
Added text on the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
ip.7
Steven Murdoch
Change protocol in UDP prototype.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182635
tcp.7
Dov Murik
The first sentence under NOTES about SO_KEEPALIVE and SIGPIPE
makes no grammatical sense (and possibly also no technical sense).
It has been removed.