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