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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.03 ====================
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Released: 2008-07-03, Konolfingen
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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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Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
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Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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New and rewritten pages
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getcpu.2
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Andi Kleen, with some text and edits by mtk
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Documents the getcpu(2) system call, introduced in Linux 2.6.19.
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sched_getcpu.3
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mtk
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Documents sched_getcpu(3), a wrapper for getcpu(2), provided
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since glibc 2.6.
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cpuset.7
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Paul Jackson, with review and editing by mtk, and comments by
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Hidetoshi Seto and Li Zefan
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A description of the cpuset file system, the mechanism introduced
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kernel 2.6.12 for confining processes to designated processors
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and nodes. (Becomes the fourth largest page in man-pages!)
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Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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---------------------------------------------
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readdir.3
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mtk
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Add documentation of readdir_r().
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New links
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updwtmpx.3
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Alain Portal
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Link to updwtmp.3 (3.02 changelog wrongly said this had been done).
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readdir_r.3
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mtk
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Link to readdir.3.
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Global changes
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get_mempolicy.2
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mbind.2
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sched_setaffinity.2
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set_mempolicy.2
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mtk
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SEE ALSO: Add getcpu(2).
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accept.2
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connect.2
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epoll_wait.2
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fcntl.2
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flock.2
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futex.2
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inotify.7
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mq_receive.3
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mq_send.3
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poll.2
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read.2
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recv.2
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select.2
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sem_wait.3
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semop.2
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send.2
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sigwaitinfo.2
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usleep.3
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wait.2
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write.2
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mtk
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ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in discussion of EINTR.
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Changes to individual pages
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accept.2
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mtk
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Small wording change.
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io_getevents.2
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mtk
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ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
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open.2
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mtk
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ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
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sigaction.2
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mtk
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Note circumstances in which each SA_* flag is meaningful.
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mtk
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Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for
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SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD.
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mtk
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Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7)
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describing system call restarting.
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mtk
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Other minor edits.
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truncate.2
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mtk
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ERRORS: Added EINTR error.
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A few minor rewordings.
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wait.2
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mtk
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Remove statement that WUNTRACED and WCONTINUED only have effect
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if SA_NOCLDSTOP has not been set for SIGCHLD. That's not true.
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errno.3
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mtk
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Add a pointer to signal(7) for further explanation of EINTR.
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getgrouplist.3
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mtk
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SEE ALSO: Add passwd(5).
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readdir.3
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mtk
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Remove <sys/types.h> from SYNOPSIS; POSIX.1-2001 does not
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require it.
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Some minor rewordings.
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sleep.3
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mtk
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RETURN VALUE: explicitly mention interruption by signal handler.
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SEE ALSO: add signal(7).
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usleep.3
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mtk
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POSIX.1-2001 also does not document EINVAL.
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group.5
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mtk
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SEE ALSO: Add getgrent(3), getgrnam(3).
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passwd.5
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mtk
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SEE ALSO: Add getpwent(3), getpwnam(3).
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proc.5
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mtk
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Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7).
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signal.7
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mtk
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Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting
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which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
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system calls are never restarted.
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mtk
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Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal
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plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
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signal handler has been established, and note the system
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calls that behave this way.
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mtk
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Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid.
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SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
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mtk
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Update async-signal-safe function list for POSIX.1-2004 (which
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adds sockatmark()).
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