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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.00 ====================
Released: 2004-12-16
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Andrey Kiselev <dron@ak4719.spb.edu>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Chris Green <cmg@dok.org>
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Emmanuel Colbus <emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr>
Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
Eric Estievenart <eric.estievenart@free.fr>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Jan Kuznik <kuznik@gepro.cz>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
John V. Belmonte <jbelmonte@debian.org>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Luis Javier Merino Morán <ljmerino@pandasoftware.es>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@ginac.de>
Vasya Pupkin <ptushnik@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Fabian Kreutz
Many math pages had their synopses compressed, as per suggestion
from Fabian Kreutz.
Various pages
Fabian Kreutz / aeb
Many minor content and formatting bug fixes were made to the math
pages, following suggestions from Fabian Kreutz (who recently
translated many of the 1.70 math pages into German) and
Andries Brouwer.
Various pages
mtk
For consistency, all instances of "super-user" were changed
to the more common "superuser".
Various pages
Vasya Pupkin / mtk
After a note from Vasya Pupkin, I added <errno.h> to the SYNOPSIS
of several Section 2 pages using the _syscallN() macros.
In addition:
-- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed
on various pages.
-- types such as "uint" in syscallN() declarations were changed
to "unsigned int", etc.
-- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed.
The affected pages are:
getdents.2
gettid.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
Florian Weimer
Added 'const' to declaration of 'my_addr' in prototype.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239762.
fcntl.2
Martin Pool
Added O_NOATIME to list of flags that can be changed via F_SETFL.
mtk/aeb
Noted F_GETOWN bug after suggestion from aeb.
See also:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108380640603164&w=2
getrlimit.2
mtk
Material on getrusage.2 has been separated out into its own page.
Rewrote discussion on RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to incorporate kernel
2.6.9 changes.
Added note on RLIMIT_CPU error in older kernels.
Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING.
Also made a few other minor changes.
getrusage.2
mtk
This page is new(ish) -- it was created by splitting
getrlimit.2.
Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
kill.2
Modified after suggestion from Emmanuel Colbus
Changed wording of sentence under NOTES describing
when signals can be sent to init(1).
mlock.2
munlock.2
mlockall.2
munlockall.2
These have been consolidated into a single mlock.2 page.
In the process, much duplication was eliminated
and new information was added about RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
and the changes in memory locking in kernel 2.6.9,
mmap.2
mtk
Added cross-ref to setrlimit(2) concerning memory locking limits.
Eric Estievenart
Note that MAP_FIXED replaces existing mappings
msgctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added msqid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
msgget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
msgop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
open.2
Martin Pool
Added O_NOATIME (new in Linux 2.6.8)
mtk
Reordered list of 'flags' description alphabetically
personality.2
2004-11-03 applied patch from Martin Schulze
semctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Rewrote semun text.
Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
semget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialize
semaphore values.
semop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Updated shmid_ds structure definitions.
Added information on SHM_DEST and SHM_LOCKED flags.
Noted that CAP_IPC_LOCK is not required for SHM_UNLOCK
since kernel 2.6.9.
Added notes on 2.6.9 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK changes.
Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING (new in Linux 2.6.8)
shmget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Changed wording and placement of sentence regarding attachment
of segments marked for destruction.
sigaction.2
mtk
Added mention of SIGCONT under SA_NOCLDSTOP.
Added SA_NOCLDWAIT.
Updated discussion for POSIX.1-2001 and SIGCHLD and sa_flags.
Noted that CLD_CONTINUED is supported since Linux 2.6.9.
Added SI_TKILL (new in Linux 2.4.19).
Other minor changes.
signal.2
mtk
Removed text on ignoring SIGCHLD; replaced with pointer
to sigaction.2.
sigwaitinfo.2
After bug report from Andrey Kiselev
Fixed prototype: "timeout" --> "*timeout"
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222145
stat.2
Enrico Zini
Added text to clarify that S_IS*() macros should be applied to
st_mode field.
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249698
swapon.2
After Debian bug report from Anand Kumria
Added "no swap space signature" to EINVAL error.
mtk
Added EINVAL error for swapoff() ("not currently a swap area").
Added EBUSY error for swapon().
A few formatting fixes.
times.2
mtk
In Linux 2.6, the return value of times changed; it is no
longer time since boot, but rather:
boot_time + 2^32 / HZ - 300
Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
Some formatting fixes.
undocumented.2
After bug report from Johannes Berg
Changed
.TH UNIMPLEMENTED
to:
.TH UNDOCUMENTED
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220741
wait.2
mtk
Added waitid(2).
Added WCONTINUED and WIFCONTINUED (new in 2.6.10).
Added text on SA_NOCLDSTOP.
Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behavior.
Much other text rewritten.
wait4.2
mtk
Rewrote this page, removing much duplicated information,
and replacing with pointers to wait.2.
Luis Javier Merino Morán / mtk
CONFORMING TO said "SVr4, POSIX". Changed to "4.3BSD"
waitid.2
mtk
New link to wait.2
assert.3
After bug report from Branden Robinson
The assert() failure message goes to stderr not stdout.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284814
ctime.3
mtk
Noted that 0 in tm_mday is interpreted to mean the last day
of the preceding month.
getnameinfo.3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229618
getnameinfo() does not set errno, it returns a non-zero
value indicating the error.
mtk
added EAI_OVERFLOW error
killpg.3
mtk
Minor changes to SEE ALSO and CONFORMING TO.
lseek64.3
aeb
New page by Andries Brouwer
tzset.3
Richard Kreckel
Change "NULL" to "empty" when talking about the value of TZ.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=601
printf.3
After bug report from Jan Kuznik
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205736
Fixed bad realloc() use in snprintf() example
realpath.3
mtk
Added discussion of resolved_path == NULL.
random.4
After bug report from John V. Belmonte
Updated init and quit scripts to reflect kernel 2.4/2.6 reality
(Scripts taken from drivers/char/random.c)
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247779
proc.5
mtk
Updated description of /proc/loadavg to include
nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid.
rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8
updated statm, and fixed error in order of list
boot.7
applied patch from Martin Schulze
capabilities.7
mtk
Added O_NOATIME for CAP_FOWNER
netdevice.7
Karel Kulhavy and AEB
Formatting fix after note from Karel Kulhavy and AEB, plus a
few wording fixes.
signal.7
mtk
/proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-* were superseded by RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
in kernel 2.6.8.
tcp.7
mtk/aeb
Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ====================
Released: 2004-12-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org>
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org>
Matthew Gregan <kinetik@orcon.net.nz>
Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br>
Tony Crawford <tony@klosterdorf.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
accept.2
close.2
send.2
setsid.2
socket.2
closedir.3
initgroups.3
mkstemp.3
opendir.3
readdir.3
telldir.3
Matthew Dempsky, mtk
triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179
The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in these pages.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sendfile.2
mtk
Adjusted descriptions of argument file types to be closer to
2.6 reality.
Wording and formatting changes.
ctan.3
ctanh.3
Tony Crawford
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270817
Formulae on the pages should be T = S / C not T = C / S.
errno.3
Martin Schulze, mtk
Removed errno declaration from prototype, added notes
on historical need for this declaration.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174175
aio_return.3
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953
Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)".
posix_openpt.3
mtk
New by mtk
ptsname.3
mtk
Added description of ptsname_r().
Added ERRORS.
ptsname_r.3
mtk
New link to ptsname.3.
shm_open.3
Matthew Gregan
add <fcntl.h> to synopsis
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271243
strcasecmp.3
Marek Habersack
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-BSD 4.4
+BSD 4.4, SUSv3
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234443
strfry.3
Joshua Kwan
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213538
strftime.3
Cartsen Hey
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276248
Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..60.
SUSv3 says 0..60. I think the manual page probably says
0..61, because that's what SUSv2 said.
(Some other implementations' man pages also say 0..61 --
e.g., Solaris 8 & 9, Tru64 5.1B; FreeBSD 5.1 says 0..60.)
The glibc manual currently says 0..60.
Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed the
manual page to also say this:
-The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61).
+The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60).
+(The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)
sysconf.3
Johannes Berg
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974
-.BR POSIX2_FORT_RUN " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
+.BR POSIX2_FORT_DEV " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
system.3
Pedro Zorzenon
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242638
Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros from <stdlib.h>
for wait(2).
mtk
Changed name of argument from 'string' to 'command' (like POSIX).
Noted that glibc does nowadays explicitly check for the existence
of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behavior
of assuming the shell exists and always returning 1 if
'command' is NULL.
Other wording and formatting clean-ups.
undocumented.3
Remove some functions names that *are* documented.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.02 ====================
Released: 2005-04-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
David Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>
Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Johan Walles
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthias Lang <matthias@corelatus.se>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Michael Mühlebach <michael@anduin.ch>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Sasa Stevanovic <mg94c18@alas.matf.bg.ac.yu>
Serguei Leontiev <leo@sai.msu.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
ctime.3
tzselect.8
zdump.8
zic.8
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent newctime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236884
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Noted the PID caching behavior of NPTL's getpid()
wrapper under BUGS.
Added futex(2), set_thread_area(2), set_tid_address(2),
tkill(2) under SEE ALSO.
epoll_ctl.2
epoll_create.2
Marko Kohtala / mtk
Improved various error descriptions.
epoll_wait.2
David Lloyd / Mike Frysinger, Marko Kohtala
Added EINTR to errors.
fcntl.2
Jamie Lokier / mtk
Improved discussion of F_SETOWN and F_SETSIG with respect to
multi-threaded programs.
Generally cleaned up the discussion of F_SETOWN.
Updated CONFORMING TO to note that F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN are
now in POSIX.
link.2
mtk
Noted discrepancy between Linux and POSIX.1 when oldpath
is a symbolic link.
See: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367
and: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08152.html
Michael Haardt / mtk
Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to link
across mount points, even if the mount points refer to the same
file system.
mincore.2
mtk, after note from Gordon Jin
Updated ERRORS.
pipe.2
As per message from Serguei Leontiev
Removed SVr2, AT&T, and BSD from CONFORMING TO, since
a pipe on those systems is actually bidirectional.
(Pipes are implemented as STREAMS on the former, and
sockets on the latter.)
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Noted kernel version where posix_fadvise() appeared and
noted bug in handling of 'len' in kernels < 2.6.6.
rename.2
Michael Haardt
Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to rename
a file across mount points, even if the mount points refer to
the same file system.
semop.2
mtk
Noted kernel version numbers for semtimedop().
setitimer.2
Matthias Lang, mtk
Noted MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling.
Added note about treatment of out-of-range tv_usec values.
sigqueue.2
Johan Walles, Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added sigqueue.2 to SEE ALSO.
times.2
mtk
Added notes on non-standard behavior: Linux allows 'buf' to
be NULL, but POSIX.1 doesn't specify this and it's non-portable.
uselib.2
Andries Brouwer
Improved DESCRIPTION; clarified distinction between
EACCES and ENOEXEC.
bcopy.3
Heikki Orsila
bcopy() handles overlapping case, but memcpy() does not,
so for consistency memmove() should be also mentioned.
getmntent_r.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
New link to man3/getmntent.3.
memcpy.3
Small wording change after suggestion from Sasa Stevanovic.
strcasestr.3
mtk
Created as link to strstr.3.
strftime.3
mtk
Noted that SUSv2 allowed a range of 00 to 61 for %S specifier.
strstr.3
mtk
Added description of strcasestr().
random.4
aeb
Improved description of read from /dev/urandom.
st.4
Kai Makisara
Substantial updates.
man.7
Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson
Colin Watson
Mention the .URL macro more verbosely.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.03 ====================
Released: 2005-06-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Johannes Nicolai <johannes.nicolai@hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
console.4
console_ioctl.4
mouse.4
tty.4
vcs.4
Pavel Heimlich
Change `ttys(4)' to `ttyS(4)'.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Substantially enhanced discussion of CLONE_THREAD.
Added CLONE_SYSVSEM, CLONE_UNTRACED, CLONE_STOPPED.
Other minor fixes.
execve.2
aeb
Noted effect of ptracing when execing a set-UID program.
fcntl.2
Johannes Nicolai / mtk
Noted F_SETOWN bug for socket file descriptor in Linux 2.4
and earlier.
Added text on permissions required to send signal to owner.
flock.2
mtk
Noted that lock conversions are not atomic.
getrusage.2
mtk
ru_nswap has never contained useful information.
Kernel 2.6.6 clarified that with a patch
("[PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap"). See also:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.1/0720.html
kill.2
mtk
Clarified wording of the 'pid == -1' case.
mount.2
mtk
Added MNT_EXPIRE, plus a few other tidy-ups.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Added text to note that sched_setaffinity() will migrate the
affected process to one of the specified CPUs if necessary.
Added a NOTE to point out that the affinity mask is actually a
per-thread attribute that can be adjusted independently for
each thread in a thread group.
shmctl.2
mtk
Noted aberrant Linux behavior with respect to new attaches to a
segment that has already been marked for deletion.
Noted changes in permissions required for SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK.
wait.2
mtk
Noted that the __W* flags can't be used with waitid().
confstr.3
mtk
Added _CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION and _CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION.
hosts.5
Ross Boylan / Martin Schulze
various changes as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304242
proc.5
mtk
Minor changes to discussion of /proc/PID/stat signal fields.
Added 'rt_priority' and 'policy' to /proc/PID/stat.
capabilities.7
mtk
1,$s/inherited/inheritable/g
regex.7
Vincent Fourmond / Joey (Martin) Schulze
Removed discussion of `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' since they do
not seem to be in the glibc implementation.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666
tzselect.8
Joey (Martin) Schulze / Klaus Ethgen
The default zoneinfo directory is now /usr/share/zoneinfo.
(was: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo)
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267471
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ====================
Released: 2005-06-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr>
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Dieter Brueggemann <dieter.brueggemann@entitec.de>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
kabloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>
Olivier Guilyardi <ylf@xung.org>
Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>
Philipp Spitzer <philipp@toastfreeware.priv.at>
Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
Thierry Excoffier <exco@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
For consistency across pages:
1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
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
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 VALUE for makecontext(),
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800
on_exit.3
mtk
Various minor changes.
rand.3
kabloom
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 functions 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.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
Released: 2005-06-27
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_exit.2
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
function".
close.2
mtk
Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
Minor formatting changes.
dup.2
mtk
Consistent use of terms "open file description",
"file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not accurate.
Minor formatting fixes.
fcntl.2
mtk
Consistent use of terms "open file description",
"file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
with a cross ref to dup.2
Minor wording and formatting fixes.
fpclassify.3
mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
to differentiate positive and negative infinity.
See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
getgid.2
getuid.2
Delian Krustev
Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
getitimer.2
mtk
The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
getpriority.2
mtk
Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
open.2
mtk / aeb
Clarification of term "open file description" along with
explanation of what information it maintains.
Other wording improvements.
Various minor wording changes.
atexit.3
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
function".
mtk
Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
shared library unload.
Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
abnormal termination.
Formatting fixes.
exit.3
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
function".
mtk
Minor rewording and formatting changes.
getloadavg.3
mtk
Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype.
log2.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add ERANGE error.
readdir.3
mtk
Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
Some formatting cleanups.
strtod.3
Dora Anna Volgyesi / mtk
strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
tdestroy.3
mtk
New link to tsearch.3.
tsearch.3
mtk
Added tdestroy to .TH line.
mem.4
mtk
Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem".
null.4
mtk
Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
"chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero".
vcs.4
Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
signal.7
Ove Kaaven
SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
urn.7
mtk
New link to uri.7
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.06 ====================
Released: 2005-07-15
Contributors
------------
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>
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
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Many uses of hyphens and dashes were corrected.
New pages
---------
canonicalize_file_name.3
Walter Harms / mtk
Removed Pages
-------------
sstk.2
mtk
AFAIK, this system call has never actually done anything (other
than be a stub) on any Unix.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
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 references 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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316517
getspnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/shadow by references 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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?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.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.07 ====================
Released: 2005-07-19
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
The terms "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" are now used
consistently (no abbreviations) across all manual pages.
Various pages
mtk
Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID"
(no more "saved user ID", "saved effective UID",
saved group ID", etc.)
Various pages
mtk
Global fixes in textual descriptions:
uid --> UID
gid --> GID
pid --> PID
id --> ID
Various pages
mtk
Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with
explanatory text, instead of atime/ctime/mtime.
Various pages
mtk
Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
setresuid.2
mtk
Some rewording.
stat.2
Mike Frysinger
Improve description of st_dev and st_rdev.
mtk
Various wording and formatting improvements.
truncate.2
mtk
Some formatting fixes
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.08 ====================
Released: 2005-09-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com>
Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>
Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn"
(not "RFC nnn" or "RFCnnn").
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
du.1
Mike Frysinger
To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human",
not "HUMAN".
time.1
Mike Frysinger
s/standard output/standard error/
clone.2
Paul Brook / mtk
Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
connect.2
Heikki Orsila
Add EINTR error
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
getpriority.2
mtk
Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
representations of the nice value.
Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to
getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
getrlimit.2
mtk
Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Added description of RLIMIT_NICE
mmap.2
mtk
Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
mremap.2
mtk
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
Added entries to SEE ALSO.
Some formatting fixes.
msgctl.2
mtk
Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
nanosleep.2
Baurzhan Ismagulov
Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314435
nice.2
mtk
Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described
in getpriority.2.
Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on
RLIMIT_NICE.
outb.2
David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk
Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263756
pause.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
Some formatting fixes.
poll.2
Tommy Pettersson
nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322934
mtk
Some wording and formatting improvements.
prctl.2
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2.
rand.3
Hrvoje Niksic / mtk
Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
As per debian bug 328629
readv.2
mtk / Walter harms
Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when
vector size exceeds IOV_MAX.
Formatting clean-ups.
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards.
sched_setparam.2
mtk
Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and
resource limits.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
semctl.2
mtk
Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
shmctl.2
mtk
Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
sigaction.2
mtk
Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
into separate new pages.
Other minor changes
mtk
NOTES: described SA_NODEFER / sa_mask bug which was present in
all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong
From: Bodo Stroesser
Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06
signal.2
mtk
Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
sigpending.2
mtk
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Changed CONFORMING TO.
sigprocmask.2
mtk
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
and SIGSEGV.
Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
sigsuspend.2
mtk
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added NOTES on usage.
Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
stat.2
Mike Frysinger
Improve st_blocks description.
carg.3
Ramiro Aceves / aeb
Change:
One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
to:
One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z)
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326720
cmsg.3
mtk
s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name)
dlopen.3
Alain Portal
s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname
field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current behavior
is all that SUSv3 requires).
1,$s/PF_/AF_/g
Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED,
and AI_NUMERICSERV.
Some wording and formatting fixes.
getpwnam.3
Bernhard R. Link / mtk
Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
pointing out that applications should preferentially inspect HOME.
inet.3
Mike Frysinger
Mention "little endian" and "big endian".
Added note about octal and hex interpretation of
numbers-and-dots notation.
rpc.3
mtk / Ludovic Courtes
Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently
have such a page in the man-pages set.
In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325115
setenv.3
mtk
glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug.
strnlen.3
Mike Frysinger
Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype.
initrd.4
Norbert Buchmuller / mtk
Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing
the root device is obsolete, in favor of pivot root.
(However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually
describe the pivot_root method...)
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323621
proc.5
mtk
Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13).
Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13).
More needs to be said about this file.
Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted
in part of the text of this page being duplicated.
utmp.5
Mike Frysinger
Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv.
capabilities.7
mtk
Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE.
ip.7
mtk / Andrew Pimlott
Add a couple of words to make it clear that port is a 16-bit number.
Reformat long source lines (no text changed).
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
Hasso Tepper
Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL.
signal.7
mtk
Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2.
socket.7
mtk
Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.
tcp.7
mtk
s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name)
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
udp.7
mtk
Added description of UDP_CORK socket option.
s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/ (POSIX standard name)
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.09 ====================
Released: 2005-10-13
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
ptsname.3
getpt.3
unlockpt.3
openpty.3
posix_openpt.3
grantpt.3
pts.4
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
pty.7
mtk
Overview of Unix 98 and BSD pseudo-terminals.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
mtk
Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fcntl.2
Peter Chubb / Trond Myklebust / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.10, a read lease can only be placed on a
file descriptor that is opened read-only.
See the following LKML thread of Aug 2005
("fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??"):
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112371777712197&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112374818213000&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112376335305284&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112377294030092&w=2
mprotect.2
mtk
Add new text to ENOMEM error.
mremap.2
mtk
Added description of MREMAP_FIXED and 'new_address' argument
under NOTES.
Revised text of EINVAL error.
read.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
read() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
mtk
Added open(2) to SEE ALSO.
shmget.2
mtk
s/int/size_t/ for type of 'size' argument (fix from
Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
write.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
write() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
atanh.3
mtk
Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fopen.3
mtk
Improved "a+" description (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
getrpcent.3
mtk
s/getrpcent/setrpcent/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
stdio.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are
BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
strftime.3
mtk
Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from
Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
nsswitch.conf.5
mtk
s/network/networks/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
proc.5
mtk
Added description of /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout.
socket.7
mtk
Update description of SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT.
(fix derived from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.10 ====================
Released: 2005-10-19
Global changes
--------------
The changes in this release consist *solely* of formatting fixes, with
the aim bringing greater consistency to the manual pages according to
the following rules:
-- Function name references should *always* be followed by
parentheses, "()" (possibly containing a manual page section
number).
-- The parentheses following a function name should *not* be
formatted. Thus, for example, instead of:
.B name()
one should write:
.BR name ()
Much of the change was automated using two scripts:
add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh and unformat_parens.sh.
For the (possible) benefit of downstream manual page maintainers and
translators, I have placed these scripts in a new subdirectory 'scripts'.
NOTE THE FOLLOWING POINTS WELL:
-- These scripts provide a computer-assisted solution to the above
two goals. However, they are not perfect, and their output should
be scanned by a human. (To see what changes the two scripts
*would* make, without making them, use the "-n" command line option.)
-- The scripts do not fix all instances that violate the above rules:
some manual fixes are required. Two further scripts are provided
to help find remaining instances of function names without
following "()": find_dots_no_parens.sh and find_slashes_no_parens.sh.
The following changes were made:
-- add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh was applied to the pages in Sections
2 and 3.
-- unformat_parens.sh was applied to pages in Sections 2, 3, 4, and 7
(the only sections where such changes were required).
-- further changes (not so very many) were performed by hand.
(found places to fix with the assistance of find_dots_no_parens.sh
and find_slashes_no_parens.sh).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.11 ====================
Released: 2005-10-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Most instances of the constant "NULL" are not formatted (bolded) in
man pages, but a few are. For consistency, formatting on "NULL" has
been removed where it occurred.
Many minor formatting fixes were made.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
getrlimit.2
mtk
Added EINVAL error for rlim_cur > rlim_max when calling setrlimit().
path_resolution.2
mtk
Repaired discussion of capabilities and file system UID, which
mistakenly had involved exec() in the discussion.
prctl.2
mtk
Removed text saying there is no library interface. There
is nowadays.
mkfifo.3
mtk
Minor change to RETURN VALUE text.
sk98lin.4
Alain Portal
Formatting fixes.
capabilities.7
mtk
Minor changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.12 ====================
Released: 2005-10-31
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
herbert <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Martin Landers <martin.landers@treibgut.net>
Michael Benedict <benedict@starbak.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mlock.2
mtk
Reworded text around PAGESIZE, noting also that
sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) can be used.
path_resolution.2
mtk / aeb
Removed words "as well" (added in 2.11) from the phrase
"and it gets these last five capabilities if its fsuid is 0 as well"
since there are (unusual) situations in which fsuid can be 0 while
the effective UID is not.
Reworked (cut down) discussion of capabilities, moving part of
it into capabilities.7
setresuid.2
mtk
Add text to note that setresuid() always modifies the file
system UID, and setresgid() likewise always modifies the file
system GID.
shmget.2
mtk
Added (brief) description of SHM_HUGETLB.
sigaltstack.2
mtk / Martin Landers
Noted that ss_sp is automatically aligned by the kernel.
byteorder.3
Brian M. Carlson / herbert
Change <netinet/in.h> to <arpa/inet.h> in prototype; add text
explaining that some systems need the former header.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265244
capabilities.7
mtk
Reworked part of the discussion of exec() and capabilities.
Added sub-section "Effect of User ID Changes on Capabilities".
Reworked discussion of CAP_SYS_ADMIN and file-max.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.13 ====================
Released: 2005-11-03
This release consists entirely of formatting and typographical fixes.
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Various pages
mtk
Function and page cross references that were italicized were
made bold (which is how the majority of function and page
cross references were already done).
Various pages
mtk
Instances of things like "NULL-terminated string" were changed to
"null-terminated string".
Various pages
mtk
Pathnames, structures, arguments, and <header-files> that were
bold were changed to italics.
Various pages
mtk
Instances of the constant "NULL" that were bold-faced were made
unformatted (which is how most instances of "NULL" were already
formatted.)
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.14 ====================
Released: 2005-11-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Angelo <ang3l0@katamail.com>
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@nit.ca>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
rexec.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
This page is taken as is from the FreeBSD 5.4 distribution.
(Not checked against Linux reality, but likely things are
the same.)
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336875
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
arch_prctl.2
mtk
Updated discussion about lack of prototype in glibc.
execve.2
mtk
Improved description of E2BIG error: it relates to the sum
of the bytes in both environment and argument list.
fcntl.2
mtk
Clarified parts of the discussion of file leases,
noting effect of open(O_NONBLOCK), interruption
by signal handler, or termination by signal in
lease breaker. In response to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
stat.2
mtk / Stefan Brüns
Added LINUX NOTES describing nanosecond timestamps.
frexp.3
Volker Reichelt / mtk
Fixed to point out that that frexp() returns a number whose
*absolute* value is >= 0.5 and < 1. Amended the example
program to demonstrate this.
open.2
mtk / Avery Pennarun
Add EWOULDBLOCK error for file leases.
In response to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
putenv.3
mtk
Although the glibc implementation returns -1 on error (and some
other man pages (e.g., the BSDs) also document that value for
error returns), SUSv3 merely says "non-zero" (and this is
what manual pages on many implementations also say).
posix_memalign.3
mtk
Formerly, the page said that all systems declare memalign() in
<malloc.h>. In fact, many declare it in <stdlib.h>.
strtok.3
mtk
Almost a complete rewrite after Angelo pointed out
that the existing page was deficient.
sd.4
Martin Schulze
Remove SEE ALSO for nonexistent scsi.4.
proc.5
mtk
Updated discussion of /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max.
signal.7
mtk
Added pthreads.7 to SEE ALSO.
ld.so.8
mtk
Fix typo: s/LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT/LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.15 ====================
Released: 2005-11-30
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
Malcolm Scott <mas90@io.malc.org.uk>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
sigvec.3 -- for details, see below.
sigset.3 -- for details, see below.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
kill.2
mtk
Added text describing the 2.6.[0-7] EPERM bug that occurred
when sending signals to a process group.
sigaction.2
mtk
Noted that si_signo is unused on Linux.
sigpending.2
mtk
Added BUGS noting wrapper function problem that existed
in glibc versions <= 2.2.1.
sigpause.2
mtk
Moved to section 3; see also sigpause.3 below.
sigsetops.3
mtk
Added a GLIBC NOTES section describing sigisemptyset(),
sigandset(), and sigorset().
sigvec.2
sigblock.2
mtk
These pages have been deleted, and replaced by a new sigvec.3
man page that more fully describes the BSD signal API.
siggetmask.2
sigmask.2
sigsetmask.2
mtk
These links to the now-deleted sigblock.2 have been also been
deleted. They are replaced by corresponding links in Section 3:
sigmask.3, sigsetmask.3, siggetmask.3.
sigvec.3
mtk
This new page is provides a fuller description of the
BSD signal API than was provided in the now-deleted sigvec.2
and sigblock.2.
sigblock.3
siggetmask.3
sigmask.3
sigsetmask.3
mtk
Created as links to sigvec.3.
sigpause.3
mtk
Moved here from Section 2.
Some minor wording fixes; clarified System V origins of
X/Open flavor of this function.
sigset.3
mtk
New page describing the System V signal API: sigset(), sighold(),
sigrelse(), sigignore().
strftime.3
James Vega
Add further text clarifying that %+ specifier is not supported in
glibc2.
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES section describing optional 'flag' and 'width'
components of conversion specifiers.
Some wording changes to bring terminology closer to SUSv3.
Added an example program.
vm86old.2
mtk / aeb
Add as new link to vm86.2.
intro.7
mtk
Added a few words to reflect the fact that several of the section
7 pages provide overviews of various topics.
signal.7
mtk
Added some SEE ALSO entries.
socket.7
Senthil Kumar / mtk
Added text noting that select()/poll() do not respect SO_RCVLOWAT.
udp.7
Malcolm Scott
s/tcp_socket/udp_socket/ in example
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340927
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.16 ====================
Released: 2005-12-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
Urs Thuermann
Added instructions for finding maintainer in Debian package.
poll.2
mtk
Added NOTES about INFTIM constant provided on some other
implementations.
shmop.2
Alan Stern
The -1 error return of shmat() should be cast "(void *)".
strftime.3
aeb
Remove junk text (actually intended as source code comment
in page).
ip.7
Urs Thuermann
Fix a typo: s/SOCK_RAW/SOCK_PACKET/
packet.7
Urs Thuermann
Clarification: s%SOCK_PACKET%PF_INET/SOCK_PACKET%
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.17 ====================
Released: 2005-12-13
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
fmemopen.3
Walter Harms / mtk
New documentation for the glibc-specific fmemopen() and
open_memstream(). Based on glibc info page.
pipe.7
mtk (with prompting and suggestions for improvements by
Michael Haardt)
New page providing overview of pipes and FIFOs.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
mtk
Added notes on how to write example programs for manual pages.
fork.2
mtk
Added pointers to examples of fork() in wait.2 and pipe.2.
pipe.2
mtk
Added an example program.
Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
wait.2
mtk
Added example program demonstrating use of fork() and waitpid().
carg.3
Justin Pryzby
Delete line that should have been deleted when applying
2.08 fix for this page.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Rearranged EAI_* list alphabetically.
inet.3
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES describing feature test macros required
to expose declaration of inet_aton().
open_memstream.3
mtk
New link to new fmemopen.3.
fifo.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
environ.5
mtk
Removed BROWSER, since it seems not in fact to be common.
socket.7
Urs Thuermann
Added documentation of SO_TIMESTAMP.
tcp.7
mtk
Noted 200 millisecond ceiling imposed on TCP_CORK.
udp.7
mtk
Rearranged options into something approximating alphabetical order.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.18 ====================
Released: 2005-12-15
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
Karsten Sperling <karsten.sperling@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
mtk
Added mention of AF_INET6 address family.
Added discussion of sockaddr structure and an example in the
Unix domain.
recv.2
mtk
Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
send.2
mtk
Added cross-reference from discussion of MSG_MORE to UDP_CORK
in udp(7).
Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
err.3
mtk
Added CONFORMING TO section noting that these are
non-standard BSDisms.
errno.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO for err.3.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
gethostbyname.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Added references to nsswitch.conf(5); remove cross references
to resolv+(8).
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308397
perror.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO for err.3 .
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
resolver.3
mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze
Remove cross references to resolv+(8); add cross references to
resolv.conf(5).
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214892
Added SEE ALSO entry for resolver(5);
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251122
strerror.3
mtk / Stefan Puiu
Rewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavors of
strerror_r(), and added some additional information on
strerror().
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO for err.3, as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
Fix three typos in identifier names.
operator.7
Karsten Sperling
The + operator should be in the list of unary operators.
raw.7
mtk
Small wording changes around discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Fixed a couple of wording errors elsewhere.
Reformatted some long lines.
socket.7
mtk, after a note by Stefan Puiu
Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Reformatted some long lines.
Noted the Linux-specific feature whereby setsockopt() doubles
the value given for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
Noted kernel-imposed minimum values for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
udp.7
mtk, after a note by Stefan Puiu
Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
unix.7
mtk
Added new (UN)SUPPORTED FEATURES section in which it is noted
that Unix domain sockets do not support MSG_OOB or MSG_MORE.
Noted details of SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF support for
Unix domain sockets.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.19 ====================
Released: 2005-12-23
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
mtk
Minor changes.
bind.2
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Remove text under EINVAL error: "This may change in the future:
see linux/unix/sock.c for details." This behavior has been
unchanged for a long time, and seems unlikely to change.
Add EADDRINUSE to errors.
send.2
aeb
Add cmsg(3) to SEE ALSO.
fopen.3
Walter Harms / mtk
Added description of 'x' mode character (exclusive open).
pipe.7
mtk / aeb
Some wording changes to description of pipes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.20 ====================
Released: 2006-01-03
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sigaltstack.2
mtk
Added some text to explain the usual scenario in which
sigaltstack() is employed.
getloadavg.3
mtk
Noted that this function is available since glibc 2.2.
strcpy.3
mtk
s/nulls/null bytes/
capabilities.7
mtk
Noted that capability bounding set appeared with kernel 2.2.11.
arp.7
icmp.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
netdevice.7
packet.7
raw.7
rtnetlink.7
socket.7
tcp.7
unix.7
udp.7
mtk
The only changes to these pages have been for formatting:
-- Structure definitions were changed to K&R style
-- Some long source lines were broken to fit into ~70
character lines.
No changes were made to the content of these pages (yet...).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ====================
Released: 2006-01-16
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
dd.1 cp.1
truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2
sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2
argz_add.3 asprintf.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 dlopen.3 fwide.3
gethostbyname.3 getline.3 getlogin.3 getnameinfo.3 getpass.3 hsearch.3
perror.3 printf.3 readdir.3 scanf.3 stpcpy.3 strdup.3 strfmon.3
strftime.3 string.3 strptime.3 sysconf.3 termios.3 ttyname.3
dsp56k.4 tty_ioctl.4
elf.5 proc.5 termcap.5
charsets.7 unix.7
mtk
Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
To rectify this the following changes were made in the above
pages:
Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
Various pages
mtk
Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
mtk
Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().
epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2.
gethostname.2
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
gethostname() wrapper function.
mmap.2
mtk / Mike Frysinger
Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3).
mtk
A few other small rewordings.
mmap64.3
Mike Frysinger
New link to mmap.2.
open.2
mtk
Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.
recv.2
Stefan Puiu
Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
dlopen.3
mtk
Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
added descriptions of RTLD_NOLOAD, RTLD_DELETE,
and RTLD_DEEPBIND.
Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
automatically called when a library is unloaded.
fmemopen.3
mtk
Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.
fseeko.3
Mike Frysinger
Add RETURN VALUE section.
getopt.3
mtk
Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().
qsort.3
mtk / Falk Hueffner
Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
function by providing an example.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348072
proc.5
mtk
Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.
Documented /proc/PID/task.
Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task}
are not available if the main thread has terminated.
Senthil Kumar
Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
/proc/sys/kernel/random.
udp.7
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT
(add cross-ref to socket(7)).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.22 ====================
Released: 2006-02-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Colin Tuckley <colin@tuckley.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mmap.2
aeb / mtk
Noted that portable applications should specify fd as -1
when using MAP_ANONYMOUS.
Some rewriting of description of MAP_ANONYMOUS.
rt_sigreturn.2
Thorsten Kukuk
New link to sigreturn.2.
rt_sigsuspend.2
mtk
New link to sigsuspend.2.
waitid.2
mtk
Noted that waitid() does not set infop->si_uid field on
most other implementations.
getopt.3
Walter harms / mtk
Make clear that when calling getopt_long() and there are no
short options, then 'optstring' should be "", not NULL.
openpty.3
Thomas Hood / mtk
In glibc 2.0.92, openpty() was modified to preferably open
Unix 98 ptys instead of BSD ptys.
qsort.3
mtk
Small rewording under EXAMPLES.
strtol.3
strtoul.3
Stefan Puiu
s/string must begin/string may begin/
proc.5
mtk
Documented inotify files under /proc/sys/fs/inotify:
max_queued_events, max_user_instances, and max_user_watches.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.23 ====================
Released: 2006-02-10
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
inotify_init.2
inotify_add_watch.2
inotify_rm_watch.2
Robert Love, with some additions by mtk.
New pages describing the inotify API.
mbind.2
get_mempolicy.2
set_mempolicy.2
Andi Kleen, with additional work by mtk
New pages describing the NUMA memory allocation policy API.
Drawn from the set at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa.
rtc.4
Urs Thuermann, with additional work by mtk
New page describing the real-time clock driver.
inotify.7
mtk
Overview of the inotify API.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Andi Kleen
On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall,
but directly through "int $0x80".
fcntl.2
mtk
Small wording changes.
Added cross-ref to inotify.7 under the description of dnotify.
kill.2
mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350236
mlock.2
mtk / Matthias Andree
Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
See the following LKML thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
"Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
msgop.2
mtk / Samuel Thibault
Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350884
Various other wording fixes.
open.2
mtk
Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
"file status flags".
read.2
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351873
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Major rewrite.
select.2
mtk
Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(),
FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
Other minor wording changes.
read.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2).
(Analogous with read.2 change above.)
errno.3
Kurt Wall / mtk
Add Linux specific errors to this page.
localeconv.3
mtk
Added cross-ref to locale.7 for 'struct lconv' defn.
Other minor wording changes.
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
scanf.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Minor formatting & wording fixes.
setlocale.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
proc.5
mtk
Migrated description of inotify files to the new inotify.7 page.
ascii.7
Dan Jacobson / mtk
Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342173
locale.7
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.24 ====================
Released: 2006-02-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Joerg Habenicht <habenich@planetserver.com>
Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
get_kernel_syms.2
create_module.2
delete_module.2
init_module.2
query_module.2
FSF / mtk (with assistance of Luc Van Oostenryck)
man-pages finally gets pages for these system calls, several
of which are obsolete in Linux 2.6.
Took the old GPLed pages dated 1996 and made a number of
clean-ups and minor additions.
Global changes
--------------
various pages
mtk
Change "file name" to "filename"
Change "path name" to "pathname"
stpncpy.3
strstr.3
strcmp.3
toupper.3
strlen.3
stpcpy.3
puts.3
strdup.3
strtok.3
isalpha.3
strspn.3
gets.3
strpbrk.3
mtk after a suggestion from Samuel Thibault
Added SEE ALSO pointers to wide character equivalent functions
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351996
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Remove duplicate CLONE_STOPPED text.
Commented out crufty text describing EINVAL error
for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
Under CLONE_SIGHAND, noted that 'flags' must also include
CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
fcntl.2
mtk
Under ERRORS: Separate out EAGAIN error for locking mmaped files.
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Minor wording fix.
msgop.2
mtk
Documented the EAGAIN error for msgrcv().
fnmatch.3
Mike Frysinger / mtk
Expand explanation of FNM_PATHNAME.
lockf.3
Joerg Habenicht / mtk
Fix up discussion of EAGAIN/EACCESS errors.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.25 ====================
Released: 2006-03-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
Krzysztof Benedyczak <golbi@mat.uni.torun.pl>
Marten von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Michael Wronksi <michal.wronski@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
mq_close.3
mq_getattr.3
mq_notify.3
mq_open.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
mq_unlink.3
mtk
New pages describing POSIX message queue API.
posix_fallocate.3
mtk, after a suggestion by James Peach
New page describing posix_fallocate().
mq_overview.7
mtk
New page giving overview of the POSIX message queue API.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
lseek.2
Michael Haardt
Add a case to the EINVAL error text.
mtk
Various minor wording fixes
Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Added "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600" to prototype.
Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3.
proc.5
mtk
Migrated information on POSIX message queues to new mqueue.7 page.
inotify.7
Marten von Gagern
Fix thinko: s/assuming a non-blocking/assuming a blocking/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.26 ====================
Released: 2006-03-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
clone.2
getdents.2
gettid.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be
preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
New pages
---------
openat.2
mtk
New page describing openat(2), added in kernel 2.6.16,
and some notes on rationale for the at*(2) system calls.
mbind.2
Andi Kleen, Christoph Lameter, mtk
Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
Plus a few other smaller fixes.
fexecve.3
mtk
New page describing fexecve(3).
futimes.3
mtk
New page describing futimes(3).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
intro.2
mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
msgctl.2
msgget.2
msgop.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to mq_overview.7.
open.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new openat.2.
Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate
NOTES section.
Modified wording referring to raw(8) to
indicate that this interface is deprecated.
poll.2
mtk
Added discussion of ppoll(2), which is new in 2.6.16.
ppoll.2
mtk
New link to poll.2.
recvmsg.2
sendmsg.2
mtk / Paul Brook
Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen
should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356502
and the associated glibc bug report.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448
mtk
Various formatting fixes.
select.2
mtk
Updated to reflect the fact that pselect() has been implemented
in the kernel in 2.6.16; various other minor wording changes.
pselect() prototype needs "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600".
tempnam.3
Justin Pryzby
Clean up description of EEXIST error.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357893
unlink.2
mtk
Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM.
utime.2
mtk
Added new SEE ALSO entry pointing to new futimes.3 page.
exec.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
shm_unlink.3
mtk
New link to shm_open.3 (should have been made when page
was originally written).
swab.3
Walter Harms
Add needed "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE".
undocumented.3
mtk
Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
capabilities.7
mtk
Various changes to bring this page closer to
current kernel versions.
inotify.7
mtk
Noted that glibc 2.4 is required to get glibc support
for inotify.
mq_overview.7
mtk
Some rewording and added a few words about System V
message queues.
netlink.7
Hasso Tepper
Substantial updates to various parts of this page.
mtk, Alain Portal
Minor fixes
pthreads.7
mtk
Updated to reflect that the NPTL limitation that only the main
thread could call setsid() and setpgid() was removed in 2.6.16.
raw.7
Hasso Tepper
Removed text implying that only in kernel 2.2 does IP_HDRINCL
prevent datagrams from being fragmented.
socket.7
mtk
Documented SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options,
new in 2.6.14.
Placed socket options in alphabetical order.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
Released: 2006-03-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Charles P. Wright <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elet.hu>
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
man7/*
mtk
Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
New pages
---------
unshare.2
mtk, with reference to documentation by Janak Desai
New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
fork.2
vfork.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
mbind.2
Christoph Lameter
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL requires CAP_SYS_NICE not CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
mremap.2
mtk
Clarified the description of MREMAP_FIXED and restructured
the text to reflect the fact that this flag is exposed
by glibc since version 2.4.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz,
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
Document the following ptrace requests:
PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
plus associated flags:
PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
sched_get_priority_max.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_setparam.2
mtk, Ingo Molnar
Modified to document SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16.
Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
mail message containing the patch that implemented this policy.
Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
proc.5
mtk, using text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Document /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, new in kernel 2.6.16.
mtk, using information from ChangeLog-2.6.14.
Document /proc/PID/smaps, new in kernel 2.6.14.
capabilities.7
mtk
Noted affect of CAP_SYS_NICE for mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL).
pthreads.7
mtk
Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behavior with respect to
the alternate signal stack.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.28 ====================
Released: 2006-03-31
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aleksandr Blokhin <sass@altlinux.ru>
Greg Johnson <gjohnson@lanl.gov>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
sem_post.3
sem_getvalue.3
sem_close.3
sem_open.3
sem_destroy.3
sem_wait.3
sem_unlink.3
sem_init.3
sem_overview.7
mtk
New pages describing the POSIX semaphores API.
These pages supersede and provide a superset of the information
in the glibc (3thr) "semaphores(3)" manual page.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ppoll.2
Aleksandr Blokhin
Fix broken link.
ptrace.2
mtk
Wrapped long lines (no content changes).
semctl.2
semget.2
semop.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO pointing to the new sem_overview.7 page.
elf.5
Greg Johnson
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent core(5).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.29 ====================
Released: 2006-04-06
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Roberto Jimenoca <robertojimenoca@terra.es>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
getrlimit.2
prctl.2
sigaction.2
elf.5
signal.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new core.5 page.
New pages
---------
mkdirat.2
mtk
New page describing mkdirat(2), new in 2.6.16.
mknodat.2
mtk
New page describing mknodat(2), new in 2.6.16.
core.5
mtk
New page describing core dump files.
mkfifoat.3
mtk
New page describing mkfifoat(3).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
getpeername.2
getsockname.2
Michael Haardt / mtk
Document EINVAL error for 'len' argument < 0.
fcntl.2
mtk
Expanded discussion of mandatory locking.
getrlimit.2
mtk
Added BUGS text on 2.6.x handling of RLIMIT_CPU limit
of zero seconds. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
mkdir.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mkdirat.2.
mknod.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mknodat.2.
open.2
mtk / Roberto Jimenoca
Clarified discussion of file types affected by O_NONBLOCK.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360243
openat.2
mtk
Rewrote NOTES describing rationale for openat().
Various other minor changes.
recv.2
Stefan Puiu
Removed a misleading cross-ref to socket.2.
shmop.2
mtk
Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further
circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
unshare.2
mtk
Remove text saying that specifying invalid flags "is likely
to cause compatibility problems" since the kernel now
(2.6.17-rc1) contains an explicit check for invalid bits
with a consequent EINVAL error.
mkfifo.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mkfifoat.3.
proc.5
mtk
Information on core_pattern and core_uses_pid has
been migrated to the new core.5 page.
ip.7
Stefan Puiu
Removed paragraph referring to obsolete ipchains / ipfw(4).
sem_overview.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry referring to pthreads.7.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.30 ====================
Released: 2006-04-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andre Lehovich <andrel@yahoo.com>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
linkat.2
mtk
New page describing linkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
renameat.2
mtk
New page describing renameat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
symlinkat.2
mtk
New page describing symlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
unlinkat.2
mtk
New page describing unlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
link.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new linkat.2 page.
openat.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entries pointing to new *at.2 pages.
rename.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new renameat.2 page.
rmdir.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new unlinkat.2 page.
symlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new symlinkat.2 page.
unlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new unlinkat.2 page.
termios.3
mtk / Karel Kulhavy
Document the feature test macros required to expose various flags.
Karel Kulhavy
Clarify 'speed' argument for cfsetispeed() text.
Karel Kulhavy / mtk
Note that LOBLK is not implemented on Linux.
mtk
Clarify arguments for cfsetspeed().
Various formatting changes.
full.4
Andre Lehovich
Add a sentence describing the purpose of full(4).
core.5
aeb / mtk
Rework text describing circumstances in which
core dump files are not produced.
mtk / Stefan Puiu
A core dump of a multithreaded process always includes the
PID in the core filename.
mtk / Stefan Puiu
Eliminate some accidentally duplicated text.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.31 ====================
Released: 2006-05-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Page renamings
--------------
The following pages have been relocated into section 7, since
that is their more natural home. SEE ALSO references in various
other pages have been adjusted.
epoll.4
fifo.4
futex.4
complex.5
environ.5
(many pages outside man-pages actually *expect*
'environ' to be in Section 7.)
ipc.5
renamed to svipc.7
".so" link files have been created to link the old file locations to the
new file locations. These links are added just to ensure that cross
references from any other (non-man-pages) pages will remain valid;
eventually these links will be removed.
New pages
---------
fstatat.2
mtk
New page for fstatat(2), new in 2.6.16.
adjtime.3
mtk
New page for adjtime(3).
error.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page describing error() and error_at_line()
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186307
program_invocation_name.3
mtk
New page describing program_invocation_name and
program_invocation_short_name variables.
sockatmark.3
mtk
New page for sockatmark(3).
ftm.7
mtk
New page describing feature test macros.
time.7
mtk
New page giving an overview of "time" on Linux systems.
Global changes
--------------
getgroups.2
wait4.2
chown.2
chdir.2
gettimeofday.2
initgroups.3
dirfd.3
mtk
Simplified wording around requirement for _BSD_SOURCE
feature test macro.
times.2
time.2
gettimeofday.2
getitimer.2
nanosleep.2
ctime.3
rtc.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new time.7.
err.3
errno.3
perror.3
strerror.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to new error.3.
getdate.3
printf.3
scanf.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to setlocale.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
Mark Glines
Remove mention of SOCK_RDM from this page, since this socket
type does not support accept()ing connections.
adjtimex.2
mtk
Modified text referring to adjtime(); added SEE ALSO for new
adjtime.3 page.
fsync.2
mtk, after a note by Karel Kulhavy
Rewrote most of the DESCRIPTION, as well as some other parts
the page, to clarify use and operation of, and rationale for,
fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
getitimer.2
mtk
Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact
that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
Added text to note that current incorrect behavior of
normalizing tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
kernel; applications should be fixed now.
gettimeofday.2
Karel Kulhavy
Point out more explicitly that 'tz' argument should
normally be NULL.
mtk
Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
mount.2
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.16, MS_NOATIME and MS_NODIRATIME are settable
on a per-mount basis.
Detail exactly which mount flags can be changed on MS_REMOUNT.
nanosleep.2
mtk / Karel Kulhavy
Clarify RETURN VALUE discussion.
openat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fstatat.2.
program_invocation_short_name.3
mtk
New link to new program_invocation_name.3.
recv.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new sockatmark.3.
rmdir.2
Joshua Kwan / Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Correct wording of EBUSY case.
mtk
Add ".." case to ENOTEMPTY error
select.2
Karel Kulhavy
Note more clearly that fd_set arguments can be NULL.
mtk / Karel Kulhavy
Improve opening paragraph describing purpose of select().
mtk
Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
semget.2
mtk / Nishanth Aravamudan
Add text to noting that the initial values of semaphores
in a new set are indeterminate.
shmget.2
mtk
Add text noting that contents of newly created segment are zero
values.
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that all threads should block signal being waited for.
stat.2
Nishanth Aravamudan / mtk
Added NOTE that st_size is always returned as zero for most
/proc files.
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fstatat.2.
syscall.2
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Remove bogus BUGS text.
utime.2
mtk
Various minor changes.
confstr.3
mtk
Rewrote RETURN VALUE discussion.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Removed BUGS.
ctanh.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Fix errors in DESCRIPTION.
ctime.3
mtk
The range of tm_sec is 0..60 (not 0..61).
error_at_line.3
error_message_count.3
error_on_per_line.3
error_print_progname.3
mtk
New links to new error.3.
fmemopen.3
mtk / Ryan S. Arnold
Add text noting that explicitly controlling output buffering
may be useful to catch errors on output operations on an
fmemopen() stream.
getline.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO pointing to getline.3.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364772
strtod.3
strtoul.3
mtk
Describe correct handling of errno in order to
distinguish error from success after the call.
Added EXAMPLE section which points to strtol.3 which provides
an example of the use of the analogous strtol(3).
strtol.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Add an example program.
mtk
Describe correct handling or errno in order to
distinguish error from success after the call.
tmpfile.3
Reuben Thomas
DESCRIPTION does not need to say "temporary file name"
just "temporary file", since the name is in any case
unavailable to the user.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363518
mtk
In DESCRIPTION:
Change /automatically deleted when the program terminates normally/
to /automatically deleted when the program terminates/
since deletion occurs on both normal and abnormal termination.
ip.7
Karel Kulhavy / mtk
Various wording improvements and clarifications.
signal.7
mtk / Ulrich Drepper
Add text noting that a signal's disposition is process-wide,
shared by all threads.
mtk
Add text on changing signal dispositions.
Add text on "signal mask and pending signals".
Other minor edits.
time.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new adjtime.3.
ld.so.8
Justin Pryzby
Remove bogus duplicate line.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.32 ====================
Released: 2006-05-13
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Johannes Weiner <root@hnaz.ath.cx>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
faccessat.2
mtk
New page for faccessat(2), new in 2.6.16.
fchmodat.2
mtk
New page for fchmodat(2), new in 2.6.16.
fchownat.2
mtk
New page for fchownat(2), new in 2.6.16.
futimesat.2
mtk
New page for futimesat(2), new in 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new faccessat.2 page.
capget.2
mtk
Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
chmod.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fchmodat.2 page.
chown.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fchownat.2 page.
mmap.2
mtk
Updated discussion of MAP_NORESERVE since it is no longer
restricted to MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
Add reference to discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
in proc.5.
openat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new faccessat.2, fchmodat.2,
fchownat.2, futimesat.2 pages.
shmget.2
mtk
Document SHM_NORESERVE flag, new in 2.6.15.
truncate.2
Paul Brook / mtk
Expand text noting that ftruncate()/truncate() may fail if
asked to extend a file beyond its current length.
Add EPERM error.
utime.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
fopen.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Document 'm' (mmap) flag.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365754
mtk
Document 'c' (notcancel) flag.
futimes.3
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
qsort.3
Johannes Weiner
Add missing "const" qualifies to cast in EXAMPLE.
mtk
Slight rewording of comments in EXAMPLE.
termios.3
Karel Kulhavy
Clarify meaning of IXANY.
Clarify relationship of MIN with VMIN and TIME with VTIME.
mtk
Noted that CIBAUD, OFDEL, and DELECHO are not implemented
on Linux.
Added explanatory paragraph for phrases "not in POSIX" and
"XSI".
capabilities.7
mtk
Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
Add ioprio_set() to list of operations permitted by
CAP_SYS_NICE.
Add ioprio_set() IOPRIO_CLASS_RT and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE
scheduling classes to list of operations permitted by
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Note effects of CAP_SYS_NICE for migrate_pages().
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.33 ====================
Released: 2006-05-23
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin Osvald" <martin.osvald@gmail.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Page renamings
--------------
ftm.7
mtk / Stefan Puiu
renamed to the more suggestive feature_test_macros.7
New pages
---------
mq_getsetattr.2
mtk
New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2), the system
call that underlies mq_setattr(3) and mq_getattr(3).
rpmatch.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page for rpmatch(3).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chmod.2
mtk
Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
POSIX does now document ELOOP.
open.2
mtk
Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
mmap.2
Justin Pryzby
Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367401
msync.2
Justin Pryzby
Note that EINVAL can also be caused by
flags == MS_SYNC | MS_ASYNC.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Add CPU_ISSET, CPU_CLR, CPU_SET, CPU_ZERO to NAME section.
select.2
mtk
Various minor changes.
select_tut.2
mtk
Removed much material that is redundant with select.2.
Various other changes.
umask.2
mtk
Substantial rewrite of description of 'mask'.
CPU_ISSET.3
CPU_CLR.3
CPU_SET.3
CPU_ZERO.3
mtk
New links to sched_setaffinity.2
FD_CLR.3
FD_ISSET.3
FD_SET.3
FD_ZERO.3
mtk
New links to select.2.
fts.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE also referring to ftw.3.
ftw.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE also referring to fts.3.
getline.3
Justin Pryzby
Various minor clarifications.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Clarify that O_EXCL is an open(2) flag.
mq_open.3
Martin Osvald
Fix prototype declaration for 'attr'.
mq_notify.3
Martin Osvald
s/sigev_signal/sigev_signo/
mq_setattr.3
mtk
New link to mq_getattr.3.
mq_timedreceive.3
mtk
New link to mq_receive.3.
mq_timedsend.3
mtk
New link to mq_send.3.
setlocale.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to rpmatch.3.
sigandset.3
sigisemptyset.3
sigorset.3
mtk
New links to sigsetops.3.
stdio.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to unlocked_stdio.3
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
strchr.3
Justin Pryzby
Add description of strchrnul().
strchrnul.3
mtk
New link to strchr.3.
undocumented.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Updated to remove some functions that don't exist, and
therefore don't need to be documented.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367671
unlocked_stdio.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to stdio.3
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
mq_overview.7
mtk
Added section describing relationship between library
interfaces and system calls.
Added SEE ALSO referring to new mq_getsetattr.2.
feature_test_macros.7
Stefan Puiu
Fix typo: s/_POSIX_C_SOURCE/_POSIX_SOURCE/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.34 ====================
Released: 2006-06-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
Chris Curtis <chris.curtis@riptidesoftware.com>
Eduardo Madeira Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Joerg Scheurich <rusmufti@helpdesk.bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
Kenichi Okuyama <okuyama.kenichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peter Eiserloh <eiserlohpp@yahoo.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
tzselect.8
zdump.8
zic.8
mtk, Joey
Added header comment noting that these pages are in the public
domain.
bindresvport.3
getrpcent.3
getrpcport.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
rpc.5
mtk, aeb, Joey
Added following to top of these pages to clarify origin and
license:
.\" This page was taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM (BSD license)
New pages
---------
ioprio_set.2
Eduardo Madeira Fleury, with edits by mtk, and review by Jens Axboe
New page for ioprio_get(2) and ioprio_set(2), new in 2.6.13.
offsetof.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page describing offsetof() macro.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_exit.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2.
acct.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5.
fcntl.2
mtk
Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY.
inotify_add_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
mtk
Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'.
Reword introductory paragraph to clarify that
inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
mtk
Moved BUGS section from this page to inotify.7.
inotify_init.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
inotify_rm_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
ioprio_get.2
mtk
New link to new ioprio_set.2.
mmap.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2.
mount.2
Kenichi Okuyama
s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error.
mremap.2
Mike Frysinger
s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS.
pipe.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2.
read.2
mtk
SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3.
readahead.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2.
send.2
Peter Eiserloh
Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send()
and sendto() calls.
setsid.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3.
shmctl.2
mtk
Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION.
stat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2.
statfs.2
mtk
Relocated "Note" about f_fsid.
write.2
mtk
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
__setfpucw.3
mtk, Joey
Added license statement (GPL) after consultation with
Joerg Scheurich.
assert_perror.3
Justin Pryzby
Add #define _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
difftime.3
Joey
Added note about time_t representation on other systems.
Added CONFORMING TO.
ftw.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
A fairly major revision...
Document FTW_ACTIONRETVAL; include .SH "RETURN VALUE";
Reorganized and rewrote much of the page
Added an example program.
inet.3
Marc Lehmann
Fixed typo in NOTES.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370277
isalpha.3
Joey
Updated CONFORMING TO.
mktemp.3
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO.
printf.3
Walter Harms
Add documentation of %m.
readdir.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to ftw.3.
re_comp.3
mtk
Note that these functions are obsolete in favor of regcomp(3).
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to regcomp.3
scandir.3
Mats Wichmann
Reworded CONFORMING TO statement on scandir() and alphasort().
strchr.3
Stefan Puiu
Fix prototype for strchrnul().
strtoul.3
Stefan Puiu
Add text clarifying treatment of strings starting with
minus sign.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
mtk
Clarify discussion of use of free(3).
Various other minor changes to text and formatting.
tmpfile.3
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
Updated CONFORMING TO.
undocumented.3
mtk
Remove offsetof(), which is now documented.
null.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to full.4.
console_codes.4
Thomas Dickey
Various improvements and corrections.
epoll.7
mtk
Added CONFORMING TO section mentioning FreeBSD kqueue and
Solaris /dev/poll.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added pointer to location of LFS specification.
futex.7
mtk, after suggestion by Joey.
Added license statement to page, after discussion with
original author, bert hubert.
mtk
Reformat long lines; no content changes.
inotify.7
mtk
'path' argument renamed to 'pathname'.
A few minor rewordings.
Added BUGS section describing a couple of bugs.
ip.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to byteorder.3.
man.7
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to groff_man(7).
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369253
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.35 ====================
Released: 2006-07-06
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
Horacio Rodriguez Montero <Horacio.Rodriguez.Montero@galinter.com.ar>
Johan Lithander <johan.lithander@teligent.se>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
sync_file_range.2
Andrew Morton / mtk
New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
adjtime.3
mtk
Noted BUG that occurs if 'delta' is specified as NULL.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
bind.2
Stefan Puiu
Add EADDRNOTAVAIL error.
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Make example code more complete.
epoll_ctl.2
mtk / Davide Libenzi
Added EPOLLRDHUP description.
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to poll.2.
poll.2
mtk / Davide Libenzi
Added POLLRDHUP description.
mtk
The correct header file is <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h>.
Rewrote and reformatted various other parts.
readlink.2
mtk
Nowadays, readlink() returns 'ssize_t', as required in
POSIX.1-2001.
wavelan.4
mtk
Added license statement.
nscd.conf.5
Thorsten Kukuk
Add documentation for various new fields.
passwd.5
Horacio Rodriguez Montero
Add explanation of 'x' character in 'password' field.
mtk
The proper name of "*" is "asterisk" not "star".
tcp.7
Johan Lithander
Update RFC reference for ECN.
Andi Kleen
Add sentence on "low memory" limit for tcp_mem on 32-bit systems.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.36 ====================
Released: 2006-07-11
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Jens Axboe <jans@suse.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
MAINTAINING
mtk
How to maintain man-pages.
TODO
mtk
Things that it would be nice to get done for man-pages one day.
scripts/FIXME_list.sh
mtk
This script, intended for use by manual page maintainers,
displays the FIXMEs in the manual page source files.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fdatasync.2
fsync.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to sync_file_range.2.
sendfile.2
mtk / Jens Axboe
Fix description of 'offset' argument to explain the case
where 'offset' is NULL.
ferror.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to fdopen.3.
intro.3
mtk
Removed information about Section 3 subsections -- it doesn't
reflect current reality, and probably never has.
Added SEE ALSO referring to intro.2.
tcp.7
Kyle McMartin
Correction: tcp_window_scaling is ENabled by default.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.37 ====================
Released: 2006-08-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Dean Gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Frank van Viegen <F.C.vanViegen@UTwente.nl>
Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Ville Skytt<74> <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Thomas Huriaux / mtk
Various formatting problems found as a result of reviewing the
following command were fixed.
for a in $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do
echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null;
done 2>&1 | less
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378544
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
readlinkat.2
mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
Ville Skytt<74>
Document "-u" option.
chdir.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on current working directory.
chroot.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on root directory.
epoll_ctl.2
Frank van Viegen / mtk
Fix description of EBADF error.
exevce.2
mtk
Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
saved set-IDs during execve().
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379297
getitimer.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval timers.
getrlimit.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.
getpriority.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve().
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Some rewording; included text describing required file
permissions.
intro.2
mtk
Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO.
makecontext.3
Helmut Grohne / mtk
Point out that args following 'argc' are int.
mtk
Added an example program.
Various minor wording fixes.
mmap.2
mtk
Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
mtk, after prompting by Dean Gaudet
Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
mtk
Various minor formatting fixes.
openat.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
nanosleep.2
mtk
Noted buggy behavior in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
nice.2
mtk
Very minor rewording.
readlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
setpgid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
setsid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
umask.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.
atexit.3
mtk
Noted inheritance of registrations across fork().
capabilities.7
mtk
Added material on privileges required for move_pages().
CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.38 ====================
Released: 2006-08-03
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Most pages
mtk
There was a major reworking of the CONFORMING TO sections
in most manual pages.
* generally try to rationalize the names used for standards.
The preferred names are now documented as the head words
of the list in standards(7). For the future: there is
probably no need to talk about anything more than
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001 (or later), xBSD, and SVr4.
(In particular, I've eliminated most references to XPG
and SVID, replacing them with references to SUS or SVr4.)
* eliminate discussion of errors that can occur on other
systems. This information exists only patchily in the
manual pages, is probably of limited use, is hard to maintain,
and was in some cases simply wrong (and probably always was).
* Tried to ensure that those interfaces specified in C99 or
POSIX.1-2001 are marked as such in their manual pages.
intro.1
intro.2
intro.3
intro.4
intro.5
intro.7
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new standards.7.
Various pages
mtk
Changed instances of "HP UX" to "HP-UX".
Various pages
mtk
Changed instances of "DG-UX to "DG/UX"
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
standards.7
mtk
Based on material taken from intro.2, but expanded to
include discussion of many additional standards.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
mtk
Minor wording change for ENOTSOCK error.
intro.2
mtk
Removed information on standards to new standards.7.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.39 ====================
Released: 2006-08-05
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references
in various pages that were missed for 2.38.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chdir.2
mtk
_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 also gets fchdir() prototype.
standards.7
mtk
Added a few more standards, and expand some explanations.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.40 ====================
Released: 2006-09-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Toralf F<>rster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
mtk (after a note by Alain Portal)
Make naming of 'pathname' argument consistent; various
minor rewordings.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words.
execve.2
mtk
Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec().
fork.2
mtk, after a suggestion by Christoph Hellwig
Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
in parent and child.
linkat.2
mtk
Document AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW (new in 2.6.18).
set_mempolicy.2
mtk / Andi Kleen
Memory policy is preserved across execve().
write.2
mtk / Alain Portal
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
(i.e., really make the change that was logged in 2.34)
getcwd.3
Samuel Thibault / mtk
Fix SYNOPSIS and CONFORMING TO text for getwd() and
get_current_dir().
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381692
proc.5
Chuck Ebbert
Document /proc/PID/auxv.
capabilities.7
Alain Portal
Restore text accidentally deleted in 2.39.
regex.7
mtk / Alain Portal
Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2".
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.41 ====================
Released: 2006-10-12
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
splice.2
tee.2
vmsplice.2
Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
See also:
http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
Stefan Puiu
Note glibc version where "ldd -u" appeared.
execve.2
mtk
The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().
fork.2
mtk
Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited
by child.
getdtablesize.2
mtk
Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable
applications.
getpagesize.2
mtk
Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable
applications.
_SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
madvise.2
mtk
Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.
mount.2
mtk / Trond Myklebust
MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of
length==0.
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Added some EINVAL errors.
mremap.2
mtk
Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
msync.2
mtk
Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to
a locked region.
posix_fadvise.2
Andrew Morton
Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
prctl.2
Marcel Holtmann / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
possible.
Guillem Jover
Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
Michael Kerrisk
Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
sync_file_range.2
mtk
Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
vfork.2
mtk
Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
wait4.2
mtk
Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
clog2.3
mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
Fix broken text in description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
clog10.3
Kevin Ryde
Fix broken text in description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
mq_receive.3
Britton Leo Kerin
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387551
qsort.2
Hrvoje Niksic
Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar'
function.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391402
sendfile.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
termios.3
mtk
Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
tzset.3
mtk
Added some TZ examples.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386087
proc.5
mtk
Added delayacct_blkio_ticks (new in 2.6.18) to /proc/PID/statm.
ip.7
Stuart MacDonald / Andi Kleen
Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP.
pthreads.7
mtk
Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.
socket.7
Senthil Kumar
Place socket options in alphabetical order.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.42 ====================
Released: 2006-11-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Evan Teran <eteran@alum.rit.edu>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
brk.2
Evan Teran / mtk
Add text describing behavior of the Linux brk() system call
and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
behavior.
mtk
Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc
that calls the brk() system call.
futex.2
mtk
FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.
getaddrinfo.3
getnameinfo.3
Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
extensions.
open.2
mtk / Eduard Bloch
Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test
macros.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert
Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
syslog.3
Doug Goldstein
Fix header file required for vsyslog() in SYNOPSIS.
wcwidth.3
Petr Baudis
Fix CONFORMING TO.
core.5
mtk
Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
be produced.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.43 ====================
Released: 2006-11-29
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ioperm.2
mtk
Clarify discussion of privilege requirements.
Added ENOMEM to ERRORS.
open.2
mtk / Eduard Bloch
Clarify description of O_LARGEFILE.
crypt.3
Egmont Koblinger
Make description of MD5 output string less ambiguous.
strerror.3
Reuben Thomas
Add C99 to CONFORMING TO; see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400634
rtc.4
David Brownell
Update the RTC man page to reflect the new RTC class framework:
- Generalize ... it's not just for PC/AT style RTCs, and there
may be more than one RTC per system.
- Not all RTCs expose the same feature set as PC/AT ones; most
of these ioctls will be rejected by some RTCs.
- Be explicit about when {A,P}IE_{ON,OFF} calls are needed.
- Describe the parameter to the get/set epoch request; correct
the description of the get/set frequency parameter.
- Document RTC_WKALM_{RD,SET}, which don't need AIE_{ON,OFF} and
which support longer alarm periods.
- Hey, not all system clock implementations count timer irqs any
more now that the new RT-derived clock support is merging.
proc.5
mtk
s/fseek(3)/lseek(2)/ under /proc/PID/mem entry.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk / Eduard Bloch
The LFS spec is now at http://opengroup.org/platform/lfs.html
raw.7
udp.7
Andi Kleen
Describe the correct default for UDP/RAW path MTU discovery.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.44 ====================
Released: 2007-04-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andre Majorel <aym-naideb@teaser.fr>
Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
John Ward <jward@idealcorp.com>
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com>
Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Mart<EFBFBD>n Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
P<EFBFBD>draig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Val Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
termio.7
mtk, after a bit of prodding by Reuben Thomas
A brief discussion of the old System V termio interface,
with pointers to pages that will contain the information
that the reader probably wants.
scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
mtk
Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
which may be grammar errors.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
unlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
Various pages
mtk
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems.
Various pages
mtk, after a suggestion by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions
are and are not part of C89. Also fixed/improved a few other
CONFORMING TO entries.
Various pages
mtk
s/Unices/Unix systems/ on the 5 pages where it appears.
Various pages
mtk
Wrapped long source lines in the following files
getsockopt.2
mknodat.2
io_setup.2
select_tut.2
select.2
readlinkat.2
io_cancel.2
syslog.2
wcsncat.3
getipnodebyname.3
cmsg.3
wcpncpy.3
wcsrtombs.3
wcstok.3
fgetwc.3
wmemcmp.3
wcsspn.3
div.3
modf.3
stdio_ext.3
ctermid.3
des_crypt.3
wcsncmp.3
wmemchr.3
wcsstr.3
wmemcpy.3
wprintf.3
wcsnrtombs.3
termios.3
erf.3
ceil.3
lround.3
nextafter.3
wcsncpy.3
wmemset.3
getw.3
console_ioctl.4
sk98lin.4
environ.7
unix.7
time.7
Various pages
mtk
Added a SEE ALSO reference for feature_test_macros(7) to all
pages where a feature test macro appears in the SYNOPSIS.
Various pages
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
alarm.2
nanosleep.2
ualarm.3
usleep.3
Various pages
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fixed consecutive duplicate word typos on a number of pages.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places. (Special thanks to Nicolas Fran<61>ois!)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Since 2.6.20, access() honors the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
Improve ENOENT description.
clone.2
mtk
Added some detail to the prototype.
Added some notes on IA-64's clone2().
epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
faccessat.2
Justin Pryzby
Various fixes as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411177
* s/effective/real/ in description text.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
getrlimit.2
mtk / Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
threads.
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS.
Changed return type from "long" to "int".
mbind.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
Fix EINVAL description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411777
mincore.2
Nick Piggin
Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
Nick Pollitt
Remove words "of a file" -- mincore() is describing
memory residence information, not properties of a file.
mtk
Rewrote various parts to make the page clearer.
mmap.2
mtk
Rewrote and reorganized various parts to be clearer.
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's
not true.
mount.2
mtk / Val Henson
Document MS_RELATIME, new in Linux 2.6.20.
open.2
Andre Majorel / mtk
On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a
32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
posix_fadvise.2
P<>draig Brady
Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
rename.2
mtk / Timo Sirainen
Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416012
semop.2
mtk
If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed
in array order. All Unix systems that I know of do this,
and some Linux applications depend on this behavior. SUSv3
made no explicit statement here, but SUSv4 will explicitly
require this behavior.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
signal.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION.
mtk
Small wording improvement.
socket.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Add reference to ipv6.7 page.
socketcall.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix .TH line.
splice.2
Benjamin Gilbert
Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
statvfs.2
mtk
Small wording clarification.
symlink.2
mtk / Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to
"open(2) and NFS". There is no relevant text in open.2 as
far as I (mtk) can see.
time.2
mtk / Reuben Thomas
Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD".
This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403888
write.2
mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert
When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set,
the child is not in the normal signal delivery path. This
means the parent cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal
or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL). kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be
used instead to kill the child process after receiving one
of these messages.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Fix glibc version number in description of 'cpusetsize' argument.
vfork.2
mtk
Stripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section.
basename.3
mtk / Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these
functions may be into some part of 'path'.
dlopen.3
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
Add "#include <stdlib.h>" to example program.
fclose.3
mtk
Complete rewrite. The existing page was hard to read,
and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
getopt.3
mtk
Added getopt() example program.
mtk
Add a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific
double-colon feature, which allows options to have optional
arguments.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352139
glob.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix PROTOTYPE.
inet_network.3
mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
Clarified description of inet_network().
log.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix .TH line.
log10.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix .TH line.
malloc.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Small rewording to mention calloc().
posix_openpt.3
Mart<72>n Ferrari
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400971
Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400975
Julien BLACHE
s/ptsname/posix_openpt/ in RETURN VALUE
re_comp.3
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Add "#define _REGEX_RE_COMP" to SYNOPSIS.
regex.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix .TH line.
termios.3
mtk
Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small
amount of reordering.
mtk
Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode.
mtk
Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
mtk
Document CMSPAR.
mtk
Make description of PARODD a little clearer.
Reuben Thomas
Add SEE ALSO link to tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Add SEE ALSO link to console_ioctl.4
ualarm.3
mtk
Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
Various rewordings.
usleep.3
mtk
Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
Various rewordings.
termcap.5
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
s/curses/ncurses/ under SEE ALSO
bootparam.7
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Documented "mem=nopentium".
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4.
mtk, after a suggestion by Justin Pryzby
Added some text warning that the "__" macros that
<features.h> defines internally should never be
directly defined by programs.
mtk, based on notes by Jakub Jelinek
Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE
(See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html )
mtk
Document _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.
mdoc.7
mtk / Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Remove CONFIGURATION section, since this does not seem to be
true for Linux.
svipc.7
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix data types in associated data structures;
remove nonexistent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
time.7
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.45 ====================
Released: 2007-04-05
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages.
With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
no changes were made to content.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_cancel.2
io_submit.2
mtk
Clarified RETURN VALUE text
bindresvport.3
mtk
Rewrote prototype using modern C syntax.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.46 ====================
Released: 2007-04-06
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages:
* Most instances of two or more consecutive blank lines in man
page output were shrunk to a single line.
* A number of example programs were reformatted
to more closely match K&R style.
* In various places (mainly code examples), the use of tabs was
replaced by spaces
With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
no changes were made to content.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bdflush.2
mtk
Add <sys/kdaemon.h> header file to SYNOPSIS.
sched_rr_get_interval.2
mtk
Moved timespec definition from SYNOPSIS into description.
select_tut.2
mtk
Make SYNOPSIS match select.2.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.47 ====================
Released: 2007-05-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
(wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
sentences on new lines).
There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
notes below).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sched_rr_get_interval.2
mtk
Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented.
The nice interval can be used to control the size of
the round-robin quantum.
Corrected .TH line.
ip.7
John Heffner / mtk
Document IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, which will be in 2.6.22.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.48 ====================
Released: 2007-05-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
(wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
sentences on new lines).
There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
notes below).
Various pages
mtk
In various places where it occurred,
s/nonnegative/non-negative/
Various pages
mtk
s/wide character/wide-character/ when used attributively.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
man.7
Justin Pryzby / Colin Watson / mtk
.SH doesn't require quotes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411303
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.49 ====================
Released: 2007-05-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
bsd_signal.3
mtk
Documentation of bsd_signal().
euidaccess.3
mtk
Manual page for euidaccess() and eaccess().
getsubopt.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Documentation of getsubopt().
sysv_signal.3
mtk
Documentation of sysv_signal().
New links
---------
epoll_pwait.2
mtk
New link to epoll_wait.2.
eaccess.3
mtk
New link to new euidaccess.3,
sem_timedwait.3
mtk
New link to sem_wait.3.
sem_trywait.3
mtk
New link to sem_wait.3.
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
execve.2
mtk
Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
and should be avoided in portable programs.
Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
is an ABI change.
mtk
Added an example program.
mtk
Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
For further info, see
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
mtk
Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be
released.
mtk
Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID
programs.
mtk
Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
may be treated specially.
faccessat.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
mmap.2
mtk
Place MAP_* flags list in alphabetical order.
readv.2
mtk
A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things
fixes the problem reported by Kyle Sluder in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
And added some example code.
sigaction.2
mtk
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
signal.2
mtk
Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
sysv_signal.3 pages.
copysign.3
Bruno Haible
Clarify discussion of negative zero.
getopt.3
mtk
Add SEE ALSO ref to new getsubopt.3.
iconv_open.3
Bruno Haible
Describe the glibc/libiconv //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE extensions
for 'tocode'.
iswblank.3
Bruno Haible
Update CONFORMING TO; iswblank() is in POSIX.1-2001.
inotify.7
mtk
Definitions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR
were added to glibc in version 2.5.
signal.7
mtk
Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on
async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2).
Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
sysv_signal.3 pages.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.50 ====================
Released: 2007-05-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andreas Halter <halter@google.com>
Laird Shaw <netocrat@dodo.com.au>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Removed pages (!)
-----------------
Most Section 1 man pages are removed
mtk (with help from Mike Frysinger, Laird Shaw, Andreas Halter)
Once upon time Andries added a number of Section 1 manual pages
to man-pages. However, since that time, those pages have not
seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most
distributions. Instead most distributions supply the
coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently
maintained. In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages,
which document the portable subset of functionality of these
commands. Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and
out of date, I'm removing them. The following pages disappear:
chgrp.1
chmod.1
chown.1
cp.1
dd.1
df.1
diff.1
dir.1
dircolors.1
du.1
install.1
ln.1
ls.1
mkdir.1
mkfifo.1
mknod.1
mv.1
rm.1
rmdir.1
touch.1
vdir.1
The following Section 1 pages will be kept:
intro.1
ldd.1
time.1
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.51 ====================
Released: 2007-05-28
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
(Hopefully) all cross references outside a page now include a
section number. This should permit better resulting output
from a man2html-type conversion.
Various pages
mtk
Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to
".BR name ()".
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futimesat.2
mtk
s/futimes/futimesat/ in .SH NAME line.
msgop.2
mtk
Put "msgrcv" and "msgsnd" in .SH NAME line.
mount.2
mtk
Add "umount2" to .SH NAME line.
wait.2
mtk
Add "waitid" to .SH NAME line.
getopt.3
mtk
Add "getopt_long" and "getopt_long_only" in .SH NAME line.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Add "sem_timedwait" and "sem_trywait" to .SH NAME line.
stdarg.3
mtk
Add "va_start", "va_arg", "va_end", "va_copy" to .SH NAME line.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.52 ====================
Released: 2007-05-29
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
Global changes
--------------
Most of the changes below are about bringing greater consistency
to manual pages, including reducing the wide range of .SH
Section headings.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Various pages
mtk
Make 'manual' component of .TH line into the string
"Linux Programmer's Manual".
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM.
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Some .SH header lines were made into .SS lines. (One of the aims
here is to reduce the number of non-standard .SH lines.)
Various pages
mtk
Change title .SH sections named "NOTE" to "NOTES", in some cases
also changing the location of the section within the page.
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Commented out .SH AUTHOR sections; the right place for
documentation authorship sections is usually comments at the
top of the page source.
Various pages
mtk
Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS.
Reason: in many cases, HISTORY was being used to describe
Linux/glibc version information, as was already done for
VERSIONS sections in other pages.
Various pages
mtk
Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs
under another section e.g., NOTES.
Reason: there are too many arbitrary section (.SH) names, and
a HISTORY section never was consistently used across Linux
manual pages.
Various pages
mtk
Moved SEE ALSO section to be last section on the page
Reason: consistency -- and this is where SEE ALSO should be!
Various pages
mtk
Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES
Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
Various pages
mtk
Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES
Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
Various pages
mtk
Renamed some "AVAILABILITY" sections to "VERSIONS".
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Renamed some "DIAGNOSTICS" sections to "RETURN VALUE".
Reason: consistency.
getopt.3
tzselect.8
mtk
s/\.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES/.SH ENVIRONMENT/
Reason: consistency.
intro.2
select.2
sysctl.2
bsearch.3
dlopen.3
envz_add.3
fmtmsg.3
getgrent_r.3
getgrouplist.3
getpwent_r.3
getutent.3
hsearch.3
rtime.3
strptime.3
tsearch.3
vcs.4
wordexp.3
mtk
s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() of function example
program.
Reason: consistency.
mprotect.2
select_tut.2
dlopen.3
getgrent_r.3
getopt.3
getpwent_r.3
hsearch.3
select_tut.2
tsearch.3
mtk
Use symbolic constants (EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE) in calls
to exit().
Reason: consistency.
access.2
chown.2
lseek.2
open.2
read.2
utmp.5
mtk
Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a
RESTRICTIONS section under existing NOTES section.
Reason: consistency, and reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH)
names.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
mtk
s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/
dup.2
mtk
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
kill.2
mtk
Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated
within page.
select_tut.2
mtk
Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE".
sigaltstack.2
mtk
Move code example into its own EXAMPLE section.
sigreturn.2
mtk
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
setuid.2
mtk
s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/
shmget.2
mtk
Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2
contains the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
shmop.2
mtk
Minor rewording under DESCRIPTION.
daemon.3
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.
encrypt.3
mtk
Removed statement that glibc unconditionally exposes declarations
of encrypt() and setkey(), since portable applications must
use <unistd.h> and define _XOPEN_SOURCE to obtain the declarations
of setkey() and encrypt(). Adjusted example program accordingly.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Slight rewording.
LDP.7
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.
man.7
mtk
Substantial rewrite, revising and extending the discussion
about desired conventions for writing pages.
There will be further updates to this page in the next few
man-pages releases.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.53 ====================
Released: 2007-05-30
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
Global changes
--------------
Many many pages
mtk
Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
man7/*
mtk
In various pages in this section, .SH headings were
converted to .SS.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.54 ====================
Released: 2007-06-07
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Emmanuel Mogenet <emogenet@google.com>
Michael Berg <michaeljberg@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Where there is an instruction in the SYNOPSIS about linking
or compiling with a certain option, the option is now
marked up in italics (e.g., "\fI-lm\fP").
Various pages
mtk
Added page numbers to page cross references.
A few pages
mtk
s/manpage/man page/, for consistency.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
man-pages.7
mtk
A description of the conventions that should be followed
when writing pages for the man-pages package.
Removed pages
-------------
man1/README
mtk
Already deleted most of the man1 pages previously, so
this doesn't need to stay.
LDP.7
mtk
Removed this page since it is out of date, and the proper place
to go for up-to-date information is http://www.tldp.org/
ksoftirq.9
mtk
Reason: this was the only Section 9 page, and it is old
(Linux 2.4). The man9 section never took off as an idea, and
I see little point in keeping a Section 9 with just a single
old page.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
mtk
Moved some material out of here into new man-pages.7.
alloc_hugepages.2
mtk
Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing
some outdated text.
epoll_pwait.2
Michael Berg
Fix broken link path;
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425570
fcntl.2
mtk
Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
fdatasync.2
mtk
Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being
equivalent to fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note
about this historical behavior.
futex.2
mtk
Small rewording to fix "fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK"
rather than "returns EWOULDBLOCK".
See Red Hat bug 172828.
mprotect.2
mtk, after an observation by Emmanuel Mogenet
A much improved example program.
mtk
Significant rewrites and additions to description.
mremap.2
mtk
Remove text about the nonexistent BSD mremap() -- too
much information, in my opinion.
sched_yield.2
mtk
Added ERRORS section.
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
Moved text for "Versions and Library Support".
set_tid_address.2
mtk
Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section.
sigaction.2
mtk
Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2.
sync_file_range.2
mtk
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section.
atexit.3
mtk
Small rearrangement of text under NOTES.
bindresvport.3
mtk
Rewrite and substantial additional text.
exec.3
mtk
Minor clarifications for text on execlp() and execvp(). Removed
FILES section, since it provides no useful additional info.
fenv.3
mtk
Moved link instructions from NOTES to SYNOPSIS.
Added feenableexcept, fedisableexcept, fegetexcept
to .SH NAME list.
fputwc.3
mtk
Added 'putwc' to .SH NAME list.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
s/int/socklen_t/ for type of gethostbyaddr() 'len' argument,
and add a few more words in NOTES about the type used here.
login.3
mtk
Removed remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil; add
text on that point to SYNOPSIS.
openpty.3
mtk
Removed redundant remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil
since there is text on that point under SYNOPSIS.
sysconf.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to getconf(1).
unlocked_stdio.3
mtk
Revised .SH NAME section.
ascii.7
mtk
Minor rearrangement of order of text.
capabilities.7
mtk
s/exec()/execve(2)/ in various places.
complex.7
mtk
Changed "atan(1)" to "atan(1.0)" to prevent some versions of
man2html(1) from mistaking that string as a page cross reference.
rtnetlink.7
mtk
Small restructuring to avoid 'cannot adjust line' from man(1).
ldconfig.8
mtk
Removed now very out-of-date sentence about need to link shared
libraries with -lc.
man.7
mtk
Various text was moved out of this page into the new man-pages.7.
mdoc.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new man-pages.7.
mdoc.samples.7
mtk
A few changes, hopefully done right, to eliminate some
errors to stderr when rendering with man(1).
rtnetlink.7
mtk
Shorten a line in table so it fits in 80 columns.
Minor rewording under BUGS.
tzselect.8
mtk
Moved EXIT STATUS section.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ====================
Released: 2007-06-10
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alexander Taboriskiy <alextab@math-solution.com>
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
clone.2
getdents.2
gettid.2
ioprio_set.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
mq_getsetattr.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger
Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros
have gone away,
Several pages
mtk
Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolution.7.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Moved pages
-----------
path_resolution.2 has been moved to section 7, thus path_resolution.7
mtk
Reason: this is an overview page, not one describing as
a specific system call.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
MAINTAINING
mtk, after a note from Xose Vazquez Perez
Added pointer to Red Hat man-pages bugzilla.
mtk
Added a release philosophy note on separating out big
formatting changes into their own release that contains minimal
content changes.
accept.2
mtk
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
arch_prctl.2
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
bind.2
mtk
Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section.
Added text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
cacheflush.2
mtk
Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING TO and note that
this call is Linux-specific.
Other minor rewordings.
connect.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
create_module.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error.
fcntl.2
flock.2
mtk
Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Documentation/* in
kernel source.
get_kernel_syms.2
mtk
Added ERRORS heading
Add ENOSYS error.
getdtablesize.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section.
getsid.2
mtk
Added a RETURN VALUE section.
getpid.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are
always successful).
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2.
listen.2
mtk
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
query_module.2
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add ENOSYS error.
recv.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
sched_get_priority_max.2
sched_rr_get_interval.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_yield.2
mtk
Modified .TH line
send.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
set_tid_address.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the call is
always successful).
signal.2
mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy
Strengthen warning against the use of signal().
Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
mtk
Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section.
socket.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
stat.2
mtk
Added EXAMPLE program.
syscall.2
mtk
Converted to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE.
sysctl.2
mtk
Improved the example program.
getnameinfo.3
mtk
Add text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Add example programs.
Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list.
memmove.3
mtk / Serge van den Boom
Clarify discussion of what happens if 'src' and 'dest' overlap.
regex.3
Justin Pryzby
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO list.
sigpause.3
mtk after a note from Ulrich Drepper
Clarify discussion of feature test macros that are needed to
expose System V and BSD versions of this function in glibc.
undocumented.3
mtk
Removed some functions that have been documented.
wprintf.2
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Remove wscanf.3 from SEE ALSO list, since that page does not exist.
utmp.5
Joey Hess
Removed outdated note on xdm.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418009
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Removed outdated note about Debian and libc5.
bootparam.7
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Fix order of commands listed under 'init='.
hier.7
Joey Hess
Add /media, remove /dos.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418234
inotify.7
mtk
Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to
read(2) is too small to return information about the next event,
and noting the behavior change in 2.6.21.
man-pages.7
mtk
Added text to note that ERRORS list should be in alphabetical order.
mdoc.7
mdoc.samples.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to groff_mdoc(7).
unix.7
mtk
Added EXAMPLE section with pointer to bind.2 EXAMPLE.
ld.so.8
mtk
Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath.
mtk, after a note by John Reiser
Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.56 ====================
Released: 2007-06-11
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
mtk
Removed version numbers in .TH lines.
Reason: these were only arbitrarily updated, and so impart no
useful information. Version information goes into a
VERSIONS section nowadays, and the date in the .TH line should
be updated to reflect the date of the last (significant)
change to the page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.57 ====================
Released: 2007-06-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
mtk
Fix section numbers in page cross references.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Minor wording fixes.
Small clarification of description of 'mode'.
bind.2
mtk
Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
exit_group.2
mtk
Minor wording fixes.
exit.3
mtk
Added more detail on exit handlers.
Minor wording fixes.
ioctl.2
mtk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent mt.4.
modify_ldt.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
In Linux 2.6, the 'modify_ldt_ldt_s' structure was renamed
'user_desc'.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378668
mtk
Include definition of 'user_desc' structure.
Minor rewordings.
mprotect.2
mtk
Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
sigaction.2
mtk
Removed reference to nonexistent sigsend(2).
a64l.3
mtk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent itoa.3.
dysize.3
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent time.3.
encrypt.3
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fcrypt.3.
fmemopen.3
mtk
Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
fpurge.3
mtk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fclean.3.
getutent.3
mtk
s/ttyname(0)/ttyname(STDIN_FILENO)/ in program example.
vcs.4
mtk
s/exit(1)/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/
environ.7
mtk
Correct some section numbers in page cross references.
man-pages.7
mtk
Modify requirements for example programs a little.
uri.7
mtk
Wrapped long source lines.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.58 ====================
Released: 2007-06-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages, as detailed below
mtk
Added or updated VERSIONS sections.
killpg.2
setuid.2
faccessat.2
fork.2
setfsuid.2
kill.2
getsid.2
wait.2
execve.2
getpid.2
setgid.2
seteuid.2
setresuid.2
setfsgid.2
access.2
initgroups.3
euidaccess.3
tcgetpgrp.3
path_resolution.7
capabilities.7
unix.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7.
New pages
---------
credentials.7
mtk
An overview of Linux process identifiers (PIDs, PPIDs,
PGIDS, SIDs, UIDs, GIDs).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
mtk
Added some comments to example program.
getxattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
listen.2
mtk
Updated discussion of somaxconn limit.
listxattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
VERSIONS: Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2.
readahead.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section.
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Updated VERSIONS section with text on glibc support.
removexattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
semop.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section with info on semtimedop().
setxattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
dl_iterate_phdr.3
mtk
VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.4.
getloadavg.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section.
posix_openpt.3
mtk
VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.1.
printf.3
mtk after a suggestion by Mike Frysinger
Add text to the introductory part of DESCRIPTION, about the
'size' argument of snprintf() and vsnprintf().
shm_open.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section; rewrote info about linking with -lrt.
strcat.3
Marc Boyer
Improve the discussion of strncat().
strcpy.3
Marc Boyer
Improve the discussion of strncpy().
proc.5
mtk
Added discussion of /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.59 ====================
Released: 2007-06-25
Global changes
--------------
Manual pages are now standardized on American spelling. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
for more information on the differences. Formerly, different pages (and
sometimes even a single page!) employed American and British spelling
conventions; best to standardize on one spelling, and American English
is the standard in Computer Science.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
man-pages.7
mtk
Note that man-pages has now standardized on American spelling
conventions.
execve.2
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
signal.2
syscall.2
aio_cancel.3
bindresvport.3
stdarg.3
charmap.5
bootparam.7
ipv6.7
man.7
path_resolution.7
uri.7
nscd.8
mtk
Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
independent of fixes for American spelling).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.60 ====================
Released: 2007-06-25
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Wrapped lines in some files.
Various pages
mtk
Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
Various pages
mtk
Change "i.e. " to i.e., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
Various pages
mtk
Removed AUTHORS section.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
vfork.2
mtk
s/w.r.t/with respect to/
man-pages.7
mtk
Strengthened warning against use of AUTHORS section.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.61 ====================
Released: 2007-07-01
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder@computer.org>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Lo<EFBFBD>c Minier <lool@dooz.org>
Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>
Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
substitute `\\0' by '\\0'.
Various pages
mtk
s/`/'/ when the thing being quoted is a character.
accept.2
bind.2
connect.2
getsockopt.2
listen.2
socket.2
socketpair.2
mtk after a note by Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add NOTES paragraph noting that <sys/types.h> isn't required by
POSIX.1-2001 or Linux, but was required on some implementations.
accept.2
getsockname.2
recv.2
vm86.2
send.2
getgrouplist.3
memmem.3
nsswitch.conf.5
putenv.3
wprintf.3
mtk
Replace form `...' with \fI...\fP where the enclosed string
is a pathname, type name, or argument name.
A few files
mtk
s/process' /process's/
gets.3
qsort.3
getaddrinfo.3
rpc.3
ungetwc.3
wcsnrtombs.3
capabilities.7
mtk
Add section number to page cross references.
time.1
bind.2
pivot_root.2
sysctl.2
mtk
Reordered .SH sections.
full.4
mouse.4
random.4
sd.4
mtk
Made CONFIG/CONFIGURING heading ==> CONFIGURATION
time.1
console_codes.4
random.4
sk98lin.4
charmap.5
ftpusers.5
bootparam.7
charsets.7
glob.7
mq_overview.7
unicode.7
uri.7
utf-8.7
mtk
Reformatted headings
New pages
---------
backtrace.3
mtk, with input from Justin Pryzby and Stefan Puiu
Documents backtrace(), backtrace_symbols(), and
backtrace_symbols_fd().
New links
---------
backtrace_symbols.3
backtrace_symbols_fd.3
mtk
Links to backtrace.3.
__clone.2
Stepan Kasal
Link to clone.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Makefile
Serge van den Boom
Fix setting of 'prefix' macro.
eval.1p
Benno Schulenberg
Fix bad text (concatenated line).
chdir.2
mtk
Fixed description of EACCES error.
Added sentence defining "current working directory".
Other minor wording changes.
cfree.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO section.
clone.2
mtk
s/clone2/__clone2/.
fdatasync.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
fork.2
Alain Portal
Fix small wording error.
gethostid.2
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Add NOTES on what happens if gethostid() can't open /etc/hostid.
idle.2
mtk
Made NOTES text into a VERSIONS section, since that's what it
really describes.
ioperm.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
intro.2
mtk
Rewrite to reflect the fact that the _syscallN
macros are no longer available.
io_cancel.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_destroy.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_getevents.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_setup.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_submit.2
Ivana Varekova
Fix include in SYNOPSIS.
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
ipc.2
mtk
Add semtimedop() to SEE ALSO.
Note that some architectures don't have ipc(2); instead
real system calls are provided for shmctl(), semctl(), etc.
killpg.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
listen.2
mtk
Added <sys/types.h> to SYNOPSIS.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Add NOTES para about permissions required to call
sched_setscheduler() on other systems.
select.2
mtk
Noted that 'timeout' can also be changed if select() is
interrupted by a signal.
setup.2
mtk
Remove reference to _syscall0() macro.
shmop.2
mtk
Changed text for EINVAL error.
socketcall.2
mtk
Add recvmsg() and sendmsg() to SEE ALSO.
Note that some architectures don't have socketcall(2); instead
real system calls are provided for socket(), bind(), etc.
swapon.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Update text for EPERM error describing the maximum number of
swap files. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
write.2
mtk
Added details about seekable files and file offset.
Noted that write() may write less than 'count' bytes, and
gave some examples of why this might occur.
Noted what happens if write() is interrupted by a signal.
Minor wording changes.
__setfpucw.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
confstr.3
mtk
Minor rewrites in code example.
ctime.3
Justin Pryzby
Make SEE ALSO refer to timegm.3
daemon.3
mtk
Small wording change.
dl_iterate_phdr.3
Michael Gehring
Comment was missing closing "*/".
dlopen.3
mtk
Formatting changes, and minor rewordings.
mtk, after a note by Serge van den Boom
Add a comment explaining the need for the rather
strange cast of the return value of dlsym().
fpclassify.3
mtk
Add "isinf" to NAME section.
getgrouplist.3
mtk
Minor rewording.
getline.3
mtk
Minor rewording, and note that '*n* is ignored
if '*lineptr' is NULL.
malloc.3
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Update description of MALLOC_CHECK_ to include description
for value 3. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
netlink.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
openpty.3
mtk
Minor changes to SYNOPSIS.
program_invocation_name.3
mtk
Shortened page title to INVOCATION_NAME.
rtnetlink.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
scanf.3
Florian Ernst
Fix duplicated word "the".
(Really fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412467 !)
select_tut.3
mtk
Small wording change.
setnetgrent.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section.
sigpause.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section.
strftime.3
Just Pryzby
Small wording fix.
mtk
Note use of "gcc -Wno-format-y2k" to avoid the "`%c' yields only
last 2 digits of year in some locales" warning.
strstr.3
mtk
Add "strcasestr" to NAME section.
syslog.3
mtk
Small wording change.
termios.3
mtk
Reformat SYNOPSIS.
Added a CONFORMING TO section.
timegm.3
mtk
Small wording changes.
ulimit.3
mtk
Remove erroneous text saying that glibc does not provide
<ulimit.h>; it does.
initrd.4
mtk
Various reformattings.
core.5
mtk
Added a sentence noting why core dumps named "core.PID" were useful
with LinuxThreads.
bootparam.7
mtk
Fix capitalization in .SS headings.
epoll.7
mtk
Language clean ups.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO section.
mq_overview.7
mtk
Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
sem_overview.7
mtk
Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
socket.7
Lo<4C>c Minier <lool@dooz.org>
Document argument type for SO_REUSEADDR.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255881
uri.7
mtk
Wrap long line in SYNOPSIS.
ldconfig.8
mtk
Added SEE ALSO section.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.62 ====================
Released: 2007-07-09
This release consists solely of formatting fixes. There are no changes
to content.
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Many many pages
mtk
Many many formatting fixes.
man[013]p/*
Stepan Kasal
Add section number to .TH line for POSIX pages in man[013]p.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ====================
Released: 2007-07-16
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Eduardo M. Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Martin R<>hricht <martin@roehricht.info>
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
gettimeofday.2
madvise.2
msgctl.2
select.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
syslog.2
stat.2
a64l.3
printf.3
termios.3
xdr.3
sd.4
mtk
Minor wording changes.
obsolete.2
syscall.2
unimplemented.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
New pages
---------
sgetmask.2
mtk
A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
(This page replaces a previous link of the same name, which
linked to signal.2.)
spu_create.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spu_run.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spufs.7
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
Removed Pages
-------------
__clone.2
mtk
This file was created by accident in 2.61, as a copy of clone.2.
(it should have been a link to clone.2.)
obsolete.2
mtk
Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
respective syscall man pages (stat.2, uname.2).
undocumented.2
mtk
This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult
to maintain. Information about undocumented system calls
is maintained in the HOWTOHELP file, and probably in other
places soon.
killpg.3
mtk
This rather incomplete page seems unnecessary since there
is a killpg.2.
New links
---------
chown32.2
fchown32.2
getegid32.2
geteuid32.2
getgid32.2
getgroups32.2
getresgid32.2
getresuid32.2
getuid32.2
lchown32.2
setfsgid32.2
setfsuid32.2
setgid32.2
setgroups32.2
setregid32.2
setresgid32.2
setresuid32.2
setreuid32.2
setuid32.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
fcntl64.2
fstat64.2
fstatat64.2
fstatfs64.2
ftruncate64.2
getdents64.2
lstat64.2
pread64.2
pwrite64.2
sendfile64.2
stat64.2
statfs64.2
truncate64.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
__clone2.2
clone2.2
mtk
Links to clone.2.
ugetrlimit.2
mtk
Link to getrlimit.2.
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
fadvise64.2
fadvise64_64.2
mtk
Links to posix_fadvise.2.
rt_sigaction.2
rt_sigpending.2
rt_sigprocmask.2
rt_sigtimedwait.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
mtk
Link to sigqueue.2.
madvise1.2
tuxcall.2
vserver.2
mtk / Ivana Varekova
Link to unimplemented.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
and a few additions.
chmod.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
chown.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
Added an example program.
killpg.2
mtk
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
mmap2.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
the system page size.
mtk
Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
invokes this system call.
mtk
Added an EXAMPLE program.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
mtk
Changed link to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
olduname.2
oldolduname.2
mtk
Changed link to point to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
sched_setaffinity.2
Martin R<>hricht
Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
semctl.2
mtk
Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
semop.2
mtk
Add an example code segment.
shmctl.2
mtk
Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
sigaction.2
mtk
Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and
wording changes.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
top of sigtimedwait().
ssetmask.2
mtk
Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 instead of signal.2.
stat.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
syscalls.2
mtk
A fairly substantial rewrite of this page,
bringing it up to date with the current
kernel version, and listing all system calls
in tabular form.
uname.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
unimplemented.2
mtk
Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
Ivana Varekova
Add tuxcall to NAME line.
mktemp.3
Patrick Mansfield
Fix description of return value.
strcat.3
Marc Boyer
Minor fix to example program.
undocumented.3
mtk
Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
since they are documented.
proc.5
mtk
Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments by Justin Pryzby
Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417933
inotify.7
mtk
IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
signal.7
Stepan Kasal / mtk
Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
mtk
Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
svipc.7
mtk
Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.64 ====================
Released: 2007-07-27
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
INFINITY.3
_exit.2
a64l.3
abs.3
acct.2
acosh.3
addseverity.3
adjtime.3
asinh.3
atanh.3
atoi.3
brk.2
cbrt.3
cfree.3
chdir.2
chmod.2
chown.2
clearenv.3
clock_getres.3
clone.2
confstr.3
copysign.3
ctermid.3
ctime.3
daemon.3
dirfd.3
div.3
drand48.3
drand48_r.3
dysize.3
ecvt.3
ecvt_r.3
erf.3
euidaccess.3
exp2.3
expm1.3
fdatasync.2
ferror.3
fexecve.3
fgetgrent.3
fgetpwent.3
finite.3
flockfile.3
fopen.3
fpclassify.3
fsync.2
futimes.3
fwide.3
gamma.3
gcvt.3
getcwd.3
getdate.3
getdirentries.3
getdomainname.2
getdtablesize.2
getgrent.3
getgrent_r.3
getgrouplist.3
getgroups.2
gethostbyname.3
gethostid.2
gethostname.2
getlogin.3
getmntent.3
getpagesize.2
getpw.3
getpwent.3
getpwent_r.3
getpwnam.3
getsid.2
getspnam.3
gettimeofday.2
getumask.3
getusershell.3
gsignal.3
hypot.3
inet.3
initgroups.3
insque.3
isalpha.3
iswblank.3
j0.3
kill.2
killpg.2
lgamma.3
lockf.3
log1p.3
log2.3
logb.3
longjmp.3
lrint.3
lround.3
madvise.2
mbsnrtowcs.3
memfrob.3
mincore.2
mkdtemp.3
mknod.2
mkstemp.3
mktemp.3
nan.3
nanosleep.2
nextafter.3
nice.2
on_exit.3
perror.3
posix_memalign.3
posix_openpt.3
printf.3
profil.3
psignal.3
putenv.3
putpwent.3
qecvt.3
rand.3
random.3
rcmd.3
readahead.2
readlink.2
realpath.3
remainder.3
remquo.3
rexec.3
rint.3
round.3
rpmatch.3
scalb.3
scandir.3
scanf.3
seekdir.3
select.2
sem_wait.3
semop.2
setbuf.3
setenv.3
seteuid.2
setjmp.3
setnetgrent.3
setpgid.2
setresuid.2
setreuid.2
sigaltstack.2
siginterrupt.3
significand.3
sigqueue.2
sigvec.3
sigwaitinfo.2
sockatmark.3
stat.2
stime.2
strdup.3
strerror.3
strsep.3
strtod.3
strtok.3
strtol.3
strtoul.3
symlink.2
sync.2
syscall.2
syslog.3
tcgetsid.3
telldir.3
tempnam.3
termios.3
tgamma.3
timegm.3
toascii.3
trunc.3
truncate.2
ttyslot.3
tzset.3
ualarm.3
unlocked_stdio.3
unshare.2
usleep.3
vfork.2
vhangup.2
wait.2
wait4.2
wcscasecmp.3
wcsncasecmp.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
wcswidth.3
wordexp.3
wprintf.3
mtk
Added/updated feature test macro requirements for
glibc; see feature_test_macros.7 for details.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Fix broken link
setpgid.2
mtk
Fairly substantial changes and corrections, including adding
coverage of all of the interfaces that get/set PGIDs.
syscalls.2
mtk / aeb
Various rewordings; clear up some imprecisions.
lgamma.3
mtk
Added 'signgam' to SYNOPSIS and NAME line.
strerror.3
mtk
Note that the XPG version is provided since glibc 2.3.4.
The page formerly said that the GNU-specific version
is provided by default. That certainly isn't true
nowadays, since _POSIX_C_SOURCE is set to 200112L by
default, so that the XSI-compliant version is supplied
by default.
man-pages.7
mtk
Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a description
of how feature test macro requirements should be specified in
manual pages. Various other minor fixes and changes.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added note about how feature test macros are specified
in manual pages.
Many other corrections, improvements, additions, and
details about differences across glibc versions.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.65 ====================
Released: 2007-09-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Ari Entlich <lmage11@twcny.rr.com>
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Fran<EFBFBD>ois Diakhate <diakhate@enseirb.fr>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Jon Burgess <jburgess777@googlemail.com>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Various pages
mtk
Use 'glibc' consistently to refer to GNU C library.
Various pages
mtk
Order errors under ERRORS alphabetically.
Various pages
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Spelling and formatting fixes, as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439560
intro.2
select.2
fmtmsg.3
getgrent_r.3
envz_add.3
rtime.3
strptime.3
wordexp.3
Maxime Vaudequin
Add "#include <stdlib.h>" (to declare exit(3)) to example program.
New pages
---------
timeradd.3
mtk
Description of timeradd(), timersub(), timerclear(),
timerisset(), timercmp() macros for operating on
struct timeval.
Removed pages
-------------
fdatasync.2
mtk
Somehow, over time, material on fdatasync(2) crept into
fsync.2, and fdatasync also got added to the NAME section
of fsync.2. All of the material in fdatasync.2 that was
not already in fsync.2 has now been moved there, and
the former page has been removed.
In place of the content there, is now a link to fsync.2.
New links
---------
clock_getres.2
clock_gettime.2
clock_settime.2
mtk
Link to man3/clock_getres.3.
fdatasync.2
mtk
Link to fsync.2.
fdopendir.3
mtk
Link to opendir.3.
gethostbyaddr_r.3
Mats Wichmann
Link to gethostbyaddr.3.
timerclear.3
timercmp.3
timerisset.3
timersub.3
mtk
Links to new timeradd.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Makefile
Mike Frysinger
Make the install target of man-pages respect the standard
"DESTDIR" variable as well as check the exit status of the
install command so errors aren't ignored.
get_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" through out the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
removed cautionary note that use of MPOL_F_NODE|MPOL_F_ADDR
is not supported. This is no longer true.
added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
getitimer.2
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.22, Linux setitimer() now conforms to POSIX.1,
giving an EINVAL error for a non-canonical tv_usec value.
gettimeofday.2
mtk
Replace discussion of timer* macros with a pointer
to new page timeradd.3.
ioctl_list.2
Nicolas George
Fixed argument type for BLKGETSIZE.
mbind.2
Lee Schermerhorn
changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files and shared
memory regions, including SHM_HUGE regions.
defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
mention what happens if local/target node contains no
free memory.
clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
this happens.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
added mmap(2), shmget(2), shmat(2) to SEE ALSO list.
mmap.2
mprotect.2
Fran<61>ois Diakhate
Add text noting that PROT_WRITE may (and on x86 does)
imply PROT_READ.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441387
nfsservctl.2
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Fix prototype.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
mtk
Fix broken link
prctl.2
mtk
Update arches/kernel versions for PR_SET_UNALAIGN / PR_GET_UNALIGN.
readahead.2
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fadvise.2.
reboot.2
mtk
Place SYNOPSIS comments inside C comments (/* ... */).
sched_setaffinity.2
Samuel Thibault
Note what thread is affected if 'pid' is specified
as 0, or as the value returned by getpid().
sched_setscheduler.2
Carsten Emde
Add text on real-time features of mainline Linux kernel.
select_tut.2
mtk
sync SYNOPSIS with select.2
set_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files.
defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
mention what happens if local/target node contains no
free memory.
clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
this happens.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
sigaction.2
mtk
s/si_sign/si_errno/ in statement about which field is unused.
Ari Entlich
s/SIGILL/SIGCHLD/ for paragraph describing SIGCHLD.
stat.2
mtk
Improve text describing underlying system calls.
swapon.2
Michael Prokop
EINVAL also occurs if target path is on tmpfs or similar.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435885
sync.2
mtk
Incorporated material from now deleted fdatasync.2.
syscall.2
mtk
Small fix in example program.
uname.2
mtk
Improve text describing underlying system calls.
utime.2
Vincent Lefevre / mtk
Clarify utimes() behaviour when 'times' is NULL.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431480
mtk
Other minor clarifications of description of utimes().
copysign.3
Vincent Lefevre
s/sign/sign bit/ to remove ambiguity in description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435415
euidaccess.3
mtk
Changed NOTES to VERSIONS.
ffsl.3
mtk
Add ffsl and ffsll to NAME line.
fts.3
mtk
Removed statement that fts functions are expected to appear
soon in POSIX; it's years old and has not yet come to pass.
ftw.3
mtk / Geoff Clare
Fixes/improvements for example program.
getdate.3
mtk
Add getdate_r to NAME section.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk / Geoff Clare
Fixes/improvements for example program.
gethostbyaddr.3
Mats Wichmann
Add documentation for gethostbyaddr_r().
Plus a few other small fixes.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Add gethostbyname2, gethostbyname2_r, gethostbyname_r,
gethostent_r to NAME line.
getmntent.3
mtk
Fix misnamed function references.
getopt.3
Jon Burgess
Fix small error in example program.
getrpcent.3
mtk
Add setrpcent and endrpcent to NAME line.
gsignal.3
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Fix gsignal() prototype.
hsearch.3
mtk
Add hcreate_r, hdestroy_r, hsearch_r to NAME line.
inet.3
Maxime Bizon
Correct definition of "struct in_addr".
isatty.3
mtk
Minor wording fix.
isgreater.3
mtk
Add islessequal to NAME line.
lgamma.3
Vincent Lefevre
Fix CONFORMING TO section.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417592
log1p.3
mtk
Add log1pf and log1pl to NAME line.
longjmp.3
Paul Brook / mtk
After a call to longjmp(), the values of modified, non-volatile
variables in the function that called setjmp() are unspecified.
makecontext.3
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Fix makecontext() prototype.
malloc.3
mtk / Tolga Dalman
Explain what happens for malloc(0), or calloc() where one of the
arguments is 0.
mtk
Added notes on malloc()'s use of sbrk() and mmap().
mtk
Add mmap(2), alloca(3) to SEE ALSO.
mq_close.3
mq_getattr.3
mq_notify.3
mq_open.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
mq_unlink.3
mtk
Add "Link with -lrt." to SYNOPSIS.
opendir.3
Ulrich Drepper; some edits and additional text by mtk
Document fdopendir().
readdir.3
mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
Document DT_* constants for d_type.
Ulrich Drepper / mtk
Rework discussion of non-standard structure fields.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Minor improvements to example program.
syslog.3
mtk
Add vsyslog to NAME section.
termios.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix XCASE feature test macro description.
wcsspn.3
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Add return type to prototype.
proc.5
mtk
Improve description of num_threads field under /proc/PID/stat.
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix path error (s%proc/sys%proc/sys/kernel%) in mentions of
/proc/sys/ostype, /proc/sys/osrelease and proc/sys/version.
Maxime Vaudequin
I noticed things to correct and to clarify in subsection
"/proc/filesystems" of proc.5:
- clarify filesystems listing: not only FS compiled
into the kernel, also FS kernel modules currently loaded
- add a reference to fs(5)
- add an explanation for FS marked with "nodev"
- s/mount(1)/mount(8)/, also corrected in section "SEE ALSO"
- clarify usage by mount: the current wording may lead to
think /proc/filesystems is always used by mount when no FS
is specified. So, usage of "may" which IMHO is more
appropriate + additional explanations
In mount(8) we can see:
If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is
specified, mount will try to guess the desired type.
If mount was compiled with the blkid library, the
guessing is done by this library. Otherwise, mount
guesses itself by probing the superblock; if that
does not turn up anything that looks familiar,
mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems,
or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems.
All of the filesystem types listed there will be
tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"
(e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems
ends in a line with a single * only, mount will
read /proc/filesystems afterwards.
Samuel Thibault
Since linux 2.6.11, /proc/stat has an eighth value for cpu
lines: stolen time, which is the time spent in other operating
systems when running in a virtualized environment.
arp.7
Updated BUGS text referring to jiffies; refer to time.7 instead.
credentials.7
mtk
Add words to note that file system ID is Linux specific.
hier.7
Maxime Vaudequin
This is some corrections for hier.7:
- missing period for /media and /mnt
- /mnt description is not totally correct, it is true for some
distributions but in others /mnt is used as a temporary FS
mount point, as it is specified by FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT
- s/X-Windows/X-Window/ (3 occurrences)
- section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
man-pages.7
man.7
mdoc.7
mdoc.samples.7
mtk / Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Nowadays tmac.XXX are called XXX.tmac.
pthreads.7
mtk
Update text about modern threading implementations
(NPTL vs LinuxThreads).
socket.7
mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
Clarify that SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO only have effect for
socket I/O calls; not for multiplexing system calls like
select() and poll().
time.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference to new timeradd.3.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
Released: 2007-10-01
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
fallocate.2
David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
close.2
Fredrik Noring
Add text cautioning about use of close() in
multithreaded programs.
execve.2
Ollie Wild / mtk
Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
mtk
Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
open.2
mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
recv.2
mtk
Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
sysctl.2
mtk
Strengthened the warning against using this system call
and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
rpc.3
Mats Wichmann
Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
and pmap_getport().
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.67 ====================
Released: 2007-10-08
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Andrew Josey <a.josey@opengroup.org>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
*.1p
*.3p
mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen and consultation with Andrew Josey.
Add a PROLOG section:
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
The Linux implementation of this interface may differ
(consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details
of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented
on Linux.
*.0p
*.1p
*.3p
mtk
Some formatting fixes, mostly to get rid of unwanted
spaces before "," in formatted output.
*
*/*
mtk
Change all occurrences of my email address in man-pages source
to my new gmail address.
Many many pages
Maxime Vaudequin
I noticed useless use of macros with alternating formatting
(".IR" instead ".I" which suffices, ".BR" instead ".B", etc.)
because there is only one element. For example in ldconfig.8:
-.BR /sbin/ldconfig
+.B /sbin/ldconfig
This is not very important, it only makes the sources more tidy.
To find these I used:
egrep '^\.(B[RI]|R[IB]|I[RB]) ([^ ]+|\"[^\"]\+\")$'
And if you want to make these changes, you can use:
sed 's/^\(\.[BRI]\)[BRI]\( \([^ ]\+\|\"[^\"]\+\"\)\)$/\1\2/g'
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.68 ====================
Released: 2007-11-19
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Hyokyong Kim <hyokyong@ppj.kr>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
P<EFBFBD>draig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
mtk, after http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445436
by Timo Juhani Lindfors
Added <fcntl.h> to SYNOPSIS.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
_syscall.2
mtk
Created as a new page, by taking the content specific to
the _syscall() macros from intro(2).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
README
mtk
Brought up to date.
man-pages-*-Announce
mtk
Brought the info in here up to date.
intro.1
mtk
Added intro paragraph about section, plus a paragraph
about exit status values.
Move "user intro" text to NOTES.
get_mempolicy.2
mtk
Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
intro.2
mtk
Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
Moved _syscallN() material to new _syscall(2) page.
mbind.2
mtk
Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
mmap.2
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix syntax error in example program.
prctl.2
mtk
Linux 2.6.22 added support on Alpha for PR_SET_UNALIGN.
ptrace.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois / mtk
s/PTRACE_POKEUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER/
s/PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_PEEKUSER/
read.2
mtk / Geoff Clare
Add text describing timerfd EINVAL error for read(2).
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
syscall.2
mtk
Added _syscall(2) and intro(2) to SEE ALSO section.
syscalls.2
mtk
Added fallocate(2); removed timerfd(2).
sysinfo.2
mtk
Removed reference to example in intro(2).
dlopen.3
mtk
Added "Link with -ldl." to SYNOPSIS.
getaddrinfo.3
Ulrich Drepper / mtk
Remove references to getipnodebyname.3 and getipnodebyaddr.3.
gethostbyname.3
mtk / Ulrich Drepper
Remove SEE ALSO references to getipnodebyname.3 and
getipnodebyaddr.3.
P<>draig Brady / mtk / Ulrich Drepper
Point out that the functions described on this page
are made obsolete by getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3).
getipnodebyname.3
mtk
Clarify that glibc does not implement these functions.
glob.3
Ulrich Drepper / mtk
Fix description of GLOB_ONLYDIR.
mtk
Added description of GLOB_TILDE_NOMATCH.
Expanded the description of various flags.
Various wording fixes..
intro.3
mtk
Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
posix_fallocate.3
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to fallocate.2.
rpc.3
Sam Varshavchik
Add some arg declarations to prototypes; fix typos.
setbuf.3
Mike Frysinger
Fix text in BUGS section.
sigset.3
mtk
The sigset() bugs were fixed in glibc 2.5.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1951
intro.4
mtk
Minor rewrites.
st.4
Maxime Vaudequin
Various small corrections, formattings and modifications.
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
Document:
- new p_flag: PT_GNU_STACK
- new sections: .gnu.version .gnu.version_d .gnu.version_r
.note.GNU-stack
- new structures: ElfN_Verdef ElfN_Verdaux ElfN_Verneed
ElfN_Vernaux
intro.5
mtk
Minor rewrites.
proc.5
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
Maxime Vaudequin
Update description of /proc/pci.
Maxime Vaudequin
Give italic formatting to file names in proc.5.
mtk
The display type of the /proc/PID/stat fields changed
%lu to %u in Linux 2.6.22:
flags
rt_priority
policy
slabinfo.5
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
intro.6
mtk
Minor rewrites.
bootparam.7
Maxime Vaudequin
Update references to files in kernel "Documentation" directory.
intro.7
mtk
Minor rewrites.
ipv6.7
Andrew McDonald
Fix description of IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT option.
standards.7
mtk
Note online location of C99 standard.
intro.8
mtk
Some rewrites, plus new paragraph on exit status values.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================
Released: 2007-12-03
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
David H<>rdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
*.[013]p
mtk
Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.
mprotect.2
bind.2
mq_notify.3
makecontext.3
fmemopen.3
David H<>rdeman / mtk
Rename error handling function in example program
(s/die/handle_error/).
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Removed pages
-------------
HOWTOHELP
MAINTAINING
mtk
The content of these files is now available in HTML format.
New links
---------
cfsetspeed.3
mtk
Link to termios.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
time.1
Alain Portal
Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.
_syscall.2
aeb / mtk
Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have
more than 5 arguments.
fcntl.2
J. Bruce Fields
Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
J. Bruce Fields
Clarify details in description of file leases.
J. Bruce Fields / mtk
Minor wording edits.
J. Bruce Fields
Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.
mmap.2
mtk
Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
sched_setscheduler.2
Mats Wichmann
Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
spu_create.2
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
Luke Browning
Refinement of text describing a "gang".
mtk
Minor edits.
spu_run.2
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
mtk
Minor edits.
err.3
mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
fopen.3
Mike Frysinger
Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
getloadavg.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
printf.3
Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
vprintf() description.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
sigsetops.3
Mats Wichmann
Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized
with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
macros are employed.
termios.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO
noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific.
ttyslot.3
Alain Portal
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
initrd.4
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other
section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section.
full.4
mtk
Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION.
sk98lin.4
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
elf.5
mtk
Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.
proc.5
Maxime Vaudequin
Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8).
Maxime Vaudequin
Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.
utmp.5
Alain Portal
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
iso_8859-2.7
Adam Borowski
Reverse the 2.68 change applied by mtk in response to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445085
that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
(Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)
man-pages.7
mtk
Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names.
spufs.7
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
mtk
Minor edits.
tcp.7
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.70 ====================
Released: 2007-12-06
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
mtk
Remove section numbers for page references where the
reference refers to the page itself. (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
get_mempolicy.2
mtk
Add CONFORMING TO section.
io_getevents.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
mbind.2
mtk
Add CONFORMING TO section.
msgop.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entries.
sigprocmask.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
splice.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
Add SEE ALSO referring to vmsplice(2).
csin.3
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
Add SEE ALSO referring to ccos(3).
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Add gethostbyaddr_r to NAME section.
rint.3
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
sigsetops.3
mtk
Minor rewording.
epoll.7
mtk
Minor rewording.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================
Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
err.3
fts.3
getloadavg.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
operator.7
mtk
Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pages with man
macros. The only pages in man-pages that still use
mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Deleted pages
-------------
TODO
mtk
This information is now on the website.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Changes.old
mtk
Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format.
Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
Other minor tidy-ups.
fcntl.2
mtk
Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
new in kernel 2.6.24.
listen.2
Josh Triplett
Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.
getpw.3
Alain PORTAL
Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.
sysconf.3
Mats Wichmann
Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.
tty.4
John Sigler
Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.
regex.7
Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Separate text on back references from that describing basic regexps,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
mtk
Remove crufty text about word boundaries.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ====================
Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Alex Tuninga <atuninga@google.com>
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Rob Weryk <rjweryk@uwo.ca>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL / mtk
Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").
Various pages
Alain PORTAL / mtk
Format pathname in italics (.I).
dbopen.3
mpool.3
recno.3
Alain PORTAL
Remove brackets ([]) around error names.
console.4
tty.4
ttyS.4
issue.5
ttytype.5
utmp.5
mtk / Maxime Vaudequin
Some systems have mingetty(8), others have agetty(8), so both
should be mentioned when we are talking about getty-style programs.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Renamed pages
-------------
filesystems.5
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Was previously fs.5
New links
---------
argz.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
Link to argz_add.3.
envz.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
Link to envz_add.3.
fs.5
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Link to filesystems.5.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
readahead.2
Rob Weryk
Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS.
seteuid.2
mtk
s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line.
__setfpucw.3
mtk
Fixed include files references / formatting.
abort.3
mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga
A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort().
argz_add.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
s/envz/envz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
basename.3
mtk
s/DIRNAME/BASENAME/ in .TH line, and swap function names
in NAME section.
envz_add.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
s/argz/argz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
flockfile.3
mtk
s/LOCKFILE/FLOCKFILE/ in .TH line.
getgrent_r.3
mtk
s/GETGRENT/GETGRENT_R/ in .TH line.
stdio.3
Sam Varshavchik
Reformat function list at end of page as a proper table.
ttyslot.3
Maxime Vaudequin
Revert earlier s/getty/mingetty/. This page talks about
historical behavior, and that means "getty(8)".
undocumented.3
mtk
Remove reference to "obstack stuff"; it's not clear what
that is about.
console_ioctl.4
mtk
s/CONSOLE_IOCTLS/CONSOLE_IOCTL/ in .TH line.
proc.5
mtk
s/fs (5)/filesystems (5)/
man-pages.7
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Improve discussion of formatting of file names.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.73 ====================
Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
P<EFBFBD>draig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mknod.2
mtk, after a report by Reuben Thomas
Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod().
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
fgetgrent.3
mtk
Small rewording.
fgetpwent.3
mtk
Small rewording.
rcmd.3
mtk
Noted feature test macro requirements.
BUGS: noted that iruserok() is not declared in glibc headers.
filesystems.5
mtk
Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS to list of file systems.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================
Released: 2007-12-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
s/``...''/"..."/
Various pages
mtk
s/epoch/Epoch/
Various pages
mtk
Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_syscall.2
mtk
Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.
chroot.2
mtk
Various minor formatting changes.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
Fix types in structs.
Formatting fixes.
mount.2
mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Minor rearrangement of text.
select_tut.2
mtk
Fix (my) typos in argument names.
Formatting fixes.
spu_create.2
Jeremy Kerr
We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
times.2
mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
return -1 indicating an error.
mtk
Remove cruft HZ text.
Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
getw.3
Mats Wichmann
CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
in POSIX.1-2001.
hash.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.
st.4
Alain Portal / mtk
Many formatting fixes.
mtk
Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.
vcs.4
Samuel Thibault
Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
mtk
Minor edits.
bootparam.7
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
inotify.7
mtk
Minor heading changes and reformattings.
man-pages.7
mtk
Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
spufs.7
Jeremy Kerr
Add a little information about the differences to mbox.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.75 ====================
Released: 2008-01-08
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoinic.com>
Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_4@chezphil.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
(Grammatical) hyphenation was fixed in many places.
epoll_wait.2
mbind.2
spu_run.2
ecvt.3
fmtmsg.3
getnameinfo.3
rtc.4
proc.5
charsets.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
raw.7
uri.7
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fix incorrect usage of "a" and "an" before following vowel /
consonant, by reviewing the output of the following scripts:
for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
echo $a
MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
egrep '(^| )an [^aeiou][a-z]'
done | less
for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
echo $a
MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
egrep '(^| )a [aeiou][a-z]'
done| less
err.3
fts.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Improve macros used in 2.71 to convert from "mdoc" to "man".
_exit.2
chroot.2
getgid.2
getpid.2
getrusage.2
getsid.2
gettid.2
getuid.2
iopl.2
kill.2
personality.2
pivot_root.2
ptrace.2
sched_setparam.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_yield.2
seteuid.2
setgid.2
setpgid.2
setresuid.2
setreuid.2
setuid.2
unlink.2
wait.2
openpty.3
raise.3
setlogmask.3
sleep.3
ttyslot.3
ulimit.3
tty.4
tty_ioctl.4
path_resolution.7
mtk
s/current process/calling process/
cacheflush.2
clone.2
fcntl.2
getitimer.2
getrlimit.2
mmap.2
mprotect.2
times.2
adjtime.3
byteorder.3
inet.3
offsetof.3
rtc.4
icmp.7
pipe.7
time.7
mtk
s/x86/i386/ since that is the name used in 'arch' directories
in the kernel source, and previously both i386 and x86 were both
used in man pages; also nowadays 'x86' is somewhat ambiguous,
since it is the name of the 'arch' directory for i386 and x86-64.
conj.3
cacos.3
cacosh.3
cabs.3
carg.3
casin.3
casinh.3
catan.3
catanh.3
ccos.3
ccosh.3
cexp.3
cimag.3
clog.3
cosh.3
creal.3
csin.3
csinh.3
ctan.3
ctanh.3
sinh.3
tanh.3
mtk
Various reformattings.
Various pages
Alain Portal
Formating fixes.
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mpool.3
offsetof.3
Alain Portal
Format SYNOPSIS in a manner consistent with other pages.
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
Format casts so that there is a non-breaking space after the
type, and remove unnecessary parentheses around the casted value.
Thus, for example, the following:
.IR "(size_t) (\-1)" .
becomes:
.IR "(size_t)\ \-1" .
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required.
Various pages
mtk
Make the formatting of instances of '*varname' consistent, changing
instances such as:
.RI * varname
to:
.I *varname
pciconfig_read.2
nfsservctl.2
bstring.3
cpow.3
getipnodebyname.3
getpwnam.3
getrpcent.3
lsearch.3
malloc_hook.3
mpool.3
stdin.3
strtol.3
strtoul.3
unlocked_stdio.3
regex.3
sd.4
resolv.conf.5
utmp.5
futex.7
mtk
Format SYNOPSIS consistently.
drand48.3
drand48_r.3
flockfile.3
erf.3
sigvec.3
timeradd.3
wprintf.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Standardize sentence used under "Feature Test Macro Requirements"
when referring to all functions shown in the SYNOPSIS.
get_kernel_syms.2
getdents.2
getitimer.2
nanosleep.2
query_module.2
statvfs.2
clock_getres.3
getaddrinfo.3
getgrent.3
getipnodebyname.3
console_ioctl.4
tty_ioctl.4
rtnetlink.7
mtk
Indent structure definitions by +4n.
recv.2
btree.3
dbopen.3
ether_aton.3
fts.3
hash.3
mpool.3
profil.3
rcmd.3
recno.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
console_ioctl.4
ddp.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
svipc.7
mtk
Use C99 standard types in declarations.
s/u_long/unsigned long/
s/ulong/unsigned long/
s/u_char/unsigned char/
s/u_short/unsigned short/
s/ushort/unsigned short/
s/u_int8_t/uint8_t/
s/u_int16_t/uint16_t/
s/u_int32_t/uint32_t/
s/u_int/unsigned int/
exit_group.2
fallocate.2
getdents.2
ioctl_list.2
nfsservctl.2
sched_setaffinity.2
set_tid_address.2
ustat.2
argz_add.3
confstr.3
envz_add.3
getline.3
getpwnam.3
gets.3
getw.3
inet_ntop.3
inet_pton.3
offsetof.3
console_ioctl.4
termcap.5
ascii.7
feature_test_macros.7
netlink.7
operator.7
svipc.7
mtk
Fix unbalanced .nf/.fi pairs.
chmod.2
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
lseek.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
stat.2
feature_test_macros.7
fpathconf.3
fopen.3
mtk
Rename argument: s/file*des/fd/ , since that is the name most
commonly used on man pages for a file descriptor argument.
bindresvport.3
des_crypt.3
getopt.3
getrpcent.3
realpath.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
mtk
Removed .SM macros.
madvise.2
getdirentries.3
printf.3
sigvec.3
mtk
Remove extraneous .br macro before/after .SH/.SS.
_syscall.2
lookup_dcookie.2
aio_cancel.3
aio_error.3
aio_fsync.3
aio_read.3
aio_return.3
aio_write.3
canonicalize_file_name.3
envz_add.3
getgrouplist.3
getttyent.3
key_setsecret.3
mtrace.3
tcgetpgrp.3
tcgetsid.3
ttyslot.3
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Remove extraneous .sp macros.
fcntl.2
outb.2
send.2
syscalls.2
getopt.3
proc.5
man-pages.7
standards.7
tcp.7
mtk
Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_syscall.2
mtk
Nowadays there are seven macros (see 2.74 change log also).
arch_prctl.2
mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
Clarify interpretation of 'addr'; plus a few other minor edits
and updates.
bind.2
mtk
Minor rewrites.
close.2
mtk
Clarify relationship between file descriptor and open file
description.
connect.2
mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
Since kernel 2.2, AF_UNSPEC for unconnecting a connected
socket *is* supported.
execve.2
Alain Portal
Minor rewordings.
futimesat.2
Alain Portal
Remove duplicate "#include <fcntl.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
getgid.2
mtk
Add getresgid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
getpagesize.2
mtk
Small rewording.
getresuid.2
mtk
Rewrote various parts.
getuid.2
mtk
Add getresuid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
ioctl_list.2
Alain Portal
Use proper tables for layout, and various formatting fixes.
mtk
Various formatting fixes.
listen.2
mtk
Rewrote various parts.
mbind.2
Andi Kleen / mtk / Alain Portal
Modify explanation of EINVAL 'maxnode' error.
mmap.2
mtk
Add comma to clarify meaning of a sentence.
open.2
mtk
Clarify initial description of O_EXCL.
Clarify description of behaviors of O_CREAT | O_EXCL
for symbolic links.
Clarify text describing use of lockfiles without O_EXCL.
mtk, with input from Timo Sirainen and Trond Myklebust
O_EXCL is supported on NFSv3 and later, with Linux 2.6 and later.
pipe.2
mtk
Rename 'filedes' argument 'pipefd'.
pivot_root.2
mtk
s/cwd/current working directory/
seteuid.2
mtk
Minor changes.
setpgid.2
mtk
Add credentials(7) to SEE ALSO, and updated copyright credits,
to reflect my rewrite of a few months ago.
setsid.2
mtk
Add getsid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
spu_create.2
Alain Portal / mtk; acked by Jeremy Kerr
Minor formatting/wording changes.
mtk
Put EPERM in right alphabetical position in ERRORS list.
argz_add.3
mtk
Formatting fixes.
atexit.3
mtk
Minor changes to example program.
cerf.3
mtk
These functions are still not present as at glibc 2.7.
dbopen.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Various minor spelling and formatting fixes.
envz_add.3
mtk
Formatting fixes.
fexecve.3
mtk
Fix placement of feature test macro in SYNOPSIS.
fmax.3
fmin.3
mtk
Small rewording.
getline.3
mtk
Minor changes to example program.
getrpcent.3
getrpcport.3
mtk
Use modern C prototypes in SYNOPSIS.
getutent.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Formatting fixes.
mbsnrtowcs.3
mbsrtowcs.3
mbstowcs.3
mtk
Use .IP tags to create properly formatted lists.
rpc.3
mtk
Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
Add text and start of page describing header files
and types required by functions.
Reformat discussion of request under clnt_control().
xdr.3
mtk
Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
Remove crufty "int empty" from xdrrec_eof() description.
console_codes.4
Phil Endecott
Relocate misplaced line:
"and if LF/NL (new line mode) is set also a carriage return;"
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458338.
console_ioctl.4
mtk
Formatting fixes.
bootparam.7
mtk, after a note by Alan Portal
Fix reference to kernel documentation source file in the
"The Sound Driver" subsection.
man-pages.7
Alain Portal
Move CONFIGURATION description after SYNOPSIS description.
mtk / Alain Portal
Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>).
posixoptions.7
mtk
Minor formatting and wording fixes.
rtnetlink.7
Andreas Henriksson
Fix description of RTM_F_EQUALIZE.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458325.
signal.7
mtk
Minor formatting and wording fixes.
socket.7
mtk
Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC.
spufs.7
mtk / Jeremy Kerr / Alain Portal
s/SPE/SPU/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================
Released: 2008-01-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
longjmp.3
printf.3
scanf.3
setbuf.3
setjmp.3
sk98lin.4
environ.7
mtk
Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.
ioctl_list.2
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mremap.2
syslog.2
cfree.3
mpool.3
offsetof.3
rpc.3
stdin.3
mtk
Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.
ftok.3
mtk
s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chown.2
mtk
Minor wording change.
dup.2
mtk
Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().
open.2
Trond Myklebust / mtk
Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.
gettid.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
thing as a POSIX thread ID.
pipe.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.
umask.2
mtk
A few rewrites and additions.
strptime.3
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.
initrd.4
mtk
Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.
random.4
mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.
pthreads.7
mtk
Minor changes.
spufs.7
mtk / Jeremy Kerr
Define abbreviation "MSS".
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
Released: 2008-01-31
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
stdarg.3
bootparam.7
Thomas Huriaux
Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
remove_COLOPHON.sh
mtk
Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided
as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences
between the trees.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.
fork.2
mtk
Added discussion of directory streams.
Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
Changed authorship notice.
futex.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error to errors.
Phil Endecott
Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
splice.2
WANG Cong
Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
wait.2
Phil Endecott
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
tkill.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
tgkill().
alloca.3
mtk
Change description in NAME section.
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
SIGSEGV).
mtk / Vincent Lefevre
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
point out some cases where it can be useful;
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
bootparam.7
Pavel Heimlich
Remove junk line.
inotify.7
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.
s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.78 ====================
Released: 2008-02-15
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
sigaction.2
signal.2
sigwaitinfo.2
signal.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
eventfd.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the eventfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
signalfd.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the signalfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futex.2
mtk / Phil Endecott
Improve wording describing error returns.
open.2
Greg Banks
Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
reboot.2
mtk / Michael Tokarev
Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not
return.
mtk
Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
and also what is used in the kernel source.
Other minor wording changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ====================
Released: 2008-03-07
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Fernando Luis V<>zquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Lasse K<>rkk<6B>inen <tronic@trn.iki.fi>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Ron Burk <ronburk@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Walter Harms <WHarms@bfs.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
timerfd_create.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and
timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25.
New links
---------
timerfd_gettime.2
timerfd_settime.2
mtk
Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
eventfd_read.3
eventfd_write.3
mtk
Links to eventfd.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Makefile
aeb
Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
execve.2
mtk
Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
getitimer.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
getrusage.2
mtk
Minor rewordings.
open.2
Michael Haardt
Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
signalfd.2
mtk
Fix type for 'ssi_ptr' field.
See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-01/msg00002.html.
syscalls.2
mtk
Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime()
to list.
syslog.2
Jeremy Kerr
Add info on command type 10.
Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Minor grammar fix.
mtk
Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
Update RETURN VALUE section.
Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
Other minor edits.
ctime.3
Walter Harms
Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
mtk / Sam Varshavchik
Remove some duplicated text.
malloc.3
Lasse K<>rkk<6B>inen / Mike Frysinger / mtk
Clarify description of realloc() behavior for
((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
posix_fallocate.3
Samuel Thibault
s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
proc.5
Fernando Luis V<>zquez Cao
Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
It used to be true that the command line arguments were
not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
they should not have that limitation.
epoll.7
Davide Libenzi / mtk
Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain
open.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/.
mtk
Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
mtk
A few minor rewordings.
mtk, after a note by Chris Heath
Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.
Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi
Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
mtk, after comments by Devide Libenzi and Chris Heath
Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
set is [file descriptor, open file description].
mtk, after a note by Ron Burk
Change A3, to note that when events are available,
the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
mtk
Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file
descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket.
posixoptions.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
regex.7
mtk
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348552.
standards.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
time.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.80 ====================
Released: 2008-06-05
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Anoop <acv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Aurelien Gerome <ag@roxor.cx>
Daniel Burr <dburr@topcon.com>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com>
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Hamaji Shinichiro <shinichiro.hamaji@gmail.com>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@science-computing.de>
Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@trialog.com>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Theodoros V. Kalamatianos <thkala@softlab.ece.ntua.gr>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
bdflush.2
inotify_add_watch.2
mprotect.2
sigprocmask.2
ctime.3
getusershell.3
setbuf.3
st.4
ip.7
packet.7
mtk
Replace "(il)legal" by "(not) permitted" or "(in)valid".
read.2
utime.2
filesystems.5
packet.7
mtk
s/time stamp/timestamp/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
madvise.2
mbind.2
mincore.2
mmap.2
mmap2.2
msync.2
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Change name of 'start' argument to 'addr' for consistency
with:
* other memory-related interfaces
* POSIX specification (for those interfaces in POSIX)
* Linux and glibc source code (in at least some cases)
Various pages
mtk
s/filesystem/file system/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
Various pages
mtk
s/zeroes/zeros/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
abs.3
proc.5
mtk
s/builtin/built-in/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
mknod.2
ftw.3
mtk
s/normal file/regular file/
Various pages
mtk
s/nonempty/non-empty/
Various pages
mtk
s/nonzero/non-zero/
Various pages
mtk
s/realtime/real-time/, for consistency with majority usage.
Various pages
mtk
s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively.
Various pages
mtk
Use "run time" when non-attributive, "run-time" when attributive.
Various pages
mtk
Various pages that I wrote carried a slightly modified version
of the "verbatim" license. In the interests of minimizing
license proliferation, I've reverted the modified form
so that the license is exactly the same as on other pages
carrying the verbatim license.
epoll_ctl.2
getitimer.2
getrlimit.2
unix.7
mtk
s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux x.y.z/
wait.2
inotify.7
mtk
Reformat kernel version information for flags.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
(Special thanks to Nicolas Fran<61>ois.)
New pages
---------
random_r.3
mtk, after a suggestion by aeb
Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(3), and
setstate_r(3), which are the reentrant equivalents of
random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3).
New links
---------
lutimes.3
mtk
Link to futimes.3.
initstate_r.3
setstate_r.3
srandom_r.3
mtk
Links to random_r.3.
daylight.3
timezone.3
tzname.3
mtk
Links to tzset.3.
isnanf.3
isnanl.3
mtk
Links to finite.3.
encrypt_r.3
setkey_r.3
mtk
Links to encrypt.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Added note that CLONE_STOPPED (which no-one uses anyway) is
now deprecated.
epoll_create.2
mtk
Add NOTES section pointing out that 'size' argument is unused
since kernel 2.6.8.
epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then epoll_pwait() is equivalent
to epoll_wait().
fork.2
mtk
NOTES: since glibc 2.3.3, the glibc NPTL fork() wrapper
bypasses the fork() system call to invoke clone() with
flags providing equivalent functionality.
futex.2
mtk, after a note from Adrian Bunk
FUTEX_FD has been removed, as of kernel 2.6.26.
futimesat.2
mtk
Note that this system call is made obsolete by utimensat(2).
getgroups.2
Petter Reinholdtsen
SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479284.
mtk
NGROUPS_MAX increased in kernel 2.6.4.
SEE ALSO: Add credentials(7).
mtk
Reformat DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE sections to be more
consistent with man-pages style.
Add some more detail to descriptions of system calls.
Clarified what happens if caller of getgroups() is a member of
more than 'size' supplementary groups.
ERRORS: Add ENOMEM.
getpriority.2
mtk, after a note from Ingo Molnar
Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
kernel 2.6.23 and later.
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
gettid.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section noting that this system call first
appeared in 2.4.11.
kill.2
Marty Leisner / mtk
Add text explicitly noting that sig==0 can be used to check for
the existence of a PID or PGID.
mtk
A few minor rewordings.
mbind.2
mtk
The location of the numactl package has changed.
mmap.2
mtk
Added some .SS headings to make structure of page a little
more obvious.
mtk, with input from Nick Piggin
MAP_POPULATE supports both file and anonymous mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_POPULATE supports private mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_NONBLOCK causes MAP_POPULATE to be a no-op.
mtk
NOTES: Added details on mapping address that is selected by
kernel when MAP_FIXED is / isn't specified.
mount.2
mtk
The MS_REMOUNT changes in 2.4 were at 2.4.10 (not 2.4).
mtk
Minor wording change.
msgctl.2
mtk
Clarify that "unused" fields in msginfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
msginfo.msgpool is measured in kilobytes, not bytes.
Minor rewordings in comments for msginfo structure.
msgop.2
mtk
Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.
mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
Remove "msgop" from NAME section.
mkdir.2
mtk
Clarify meaning of "BSD group semantics".
SEE ALSO: add chown(2).
mknod.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add chown(2) and chmod(2).
mmap.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add mprotect(2) and shmat(2).
mprotect.2
Hamaji Shinichiro
SYNOPSIS: s/size_t \*len/size_t len/
open.2
mtk
Note that O_CLOEXEC should be in the next POSIX.1 revision.
mtk
More than just ext2 supports "mount -o bsdgroups" nowadays,
so make the discussion about group ownership of new files a bit
more generic.
mtk
SEE ALSO: add chown(2) and chmod(2).
poll.2
mtk
If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then ppoll() is equivalent to poll()
with respect to signal mask manipulations.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/;
(The referred-to page still doesn't exist yet, but hopefully
will do sometime soon.)
ptrace.2
Anoop, Acked by Roland McGrath.
Re PTRACE_PEEKUSER: the offsets and data returned might not
match with the definition of struct user.
See also http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/375
recv.2
Felix Kater / mtk
Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
rmdir.2
Martin Pitt
POSIX.1 also allows EEXIST for the ENOTEMPTY error condition.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467552.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
Minor rewordings.
select_tut.2
Justin Pryzby
Various wording clean-ups.
semctl.2
mtk
Clarify that "unused" fields in seminfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for seminfo structure.
semop.2
Aurelien Gerome
Small fix in example code.
setpgid.2
mtk / Karsten Weiss
Clarify description of setpgid() a little.
shmctl.2
mtk
Clarify that "unused" fields in shminfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for shminfo structure.
shmop.2
mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
Remove "shmop" from NAME section.
signalfd.2
mtk
Added BUGS text noting that before kernel 2.6.25, the ssi_int
and ssi_ptr fields are not set.
Added comments describing fields in signalfd_siginfo structure.
Update field names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/).
Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence.
Minor edits to structure definition.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added some comments to code in NOTES.
stat.2
mtk
Minor wording change.
symlink.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add lchown(2).
sync_file_range.2
mtk / Andrew Morton
Remove statement that (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE |
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) is
a traditional fdatasync(2) operation.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482
comments 129 to 131.
syscalls.2
mtk
This page is now up to date as at kernel 2.6.25.
syslog.2
mtk
Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities.
timerfd_create.2
mtk
Minor change to example program.
Minor wording change.
utime.2
Reuben Thomas
Remove unnecessary subheading for utimes().
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477402.
mtk
Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
always change *both* timestamps).
CONFORMING TO: utimes() is in POSIX.1-2001.
mtk
Rename 'buf' argument of utime() to 'times' (like utimes()).
Clarify explanation of EACCES and EPERM errors.
Remove BUGS section, since it doesn't seem to add useful
information.
Clarified discussion of capabilities, and noted that
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE also has a role.
Other minor rewordings.
wait.2
mtk, after a note by Justin Pryzby
Add a sentence clarifying that even though the default disposition
of SIGCHLD is "ignore", explicitly setting the disposition to
SIG_IGN results in different treatment of zombies.
aio_cancel.3
aio_error.3
aio_fsync.3
aio_read.3
aio_return.3
aio_suspend.3
aio_write.3
Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@csc.calpoly.edu>
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
backtrace.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
s/backtrace_symbols/backtrace_symbols_fd/ in one sentence.
mtk
Fix bogus reference to variable 'strings': should be:
"the array of pointers".
ctime.3
mtk
Add warning under NOTES that asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(), and
localtime() may each overwrite the static object returned by any
of the other calls.
Other minor edits.
dlopen.3
mtk
Add more detail to the description of the fields in the
structure returned by dladdr().
fexecve.3
mtk
Clean up SYNOPSIS after work by cut-and-paste-Pete:
the necessary header file is <unistd.h> not <sys/time.h>!
futimes.3
mtk
Add documentation of lutimes(), which appeared in glibc 2.6.
mtk
Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
always change *both* timestamps).
CONFORMING TO: futimes() did not come from 4.2BSD. (It came from
FreeBSD; see the FreeBSD man page.)
getenv.3
mtk
Noted that caller must not modify returned value string.
Noted that getenv() is not reentrant: the buffer may be statically
allocated and overwritten by later calls to getenv(), putenv(),
setenv(), or unsetenv().
Other minor rewrites.
getgrent.3
Petter Reinholdtsen
SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479284.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Add 'h_errno' to NAME list.
getopt.3
mtk
Add 'optarg', 'optind', 'opterr', and 'optopt' to NAME section.
Add subheading for getopt_long() and getopt_long_only()
description.
getpt.3
mtk
Point out that this function should be avoided in favor of
posix_openpt().
Add ERRORS section referring to open(2).
getsubopt.3
Daniel Burr
SYNOPSIS: Fix declaration of valuep.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476672.
malloc.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: Note circumstances in which successful malloc() and
calloc() can return NULL.
mq_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h>
is needed for 'mode' constants.
opendir.3
mtk
Describe treatment of close-on-exec flag by opendir() and
fdopendir().
openpty.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add ttyname(3).
raise.3
mtk / Timothy Baldwin
Clarify semantics of raise() when called from a multithreaded
program.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476484.
mtk
Rewrites and additions to various parts of the page.
rand.3
Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
random(3) instead.
Folkert van Heusden
Clarify wording describing range of values returned by rand().
random.3
aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
"Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
regex.3
Heikki Orsila
Clarify description of 'rm_eo' field.
sem_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
needed for 'mode' constants.
sem_post.3
mtk
Added pointer to example in sem_wait(3).
sem_close.3
sem_destroy.3
sem_getvalue.3
sem_init.3
sem_open.3
sem_post.3
sem_unlink.3
sem_wait.3
mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
"-pthread".
setenv.3
mtk
setenv() copies 'name' and 'value' (contrast with putenv()).
unsetenv() of a nonexistent variable does nothing and is
considered successful.
Noted that setenv() and unsetenv() need not be reentrant.
shm_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
needed for 'mode' constants.
undocumented.3
mtk
initstate_r(3), setkey_r(3), setstate_r(3) are now documented.
utmp.5
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Small rewording.
resolv.conf.5
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
gethostname() is in Section 2, not section 3.
ascii.7
Stuart Brady
Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostrophe (') in tables
charsets.7
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
s/unicode.com/unicode.org/
credentials.7
mtk
NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and
GIDs. But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread. NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
mtk
sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of
supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001.
epoll.7
mtk, after a note from Sam Varshavchik
For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming
may be required".
inotify.7
mtk
Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors.
mtk
Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
file descriptor as readable.
mtk
Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail.
pthreads.7
Justin Pryzby
Grammar fix, plus fix typo in script.
mtk
Add list of thread-safe functions.
standards.7
mtk
Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision.
ld.so.8
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Various wording improvements.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.00 ====================
Released: 2008-06-12, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
The POSIX.1 man pages (sections 0p, 1p, 3p) have been moved out
of this package into the separate man-pages-posix package.
This made sense because those pages are seldom changed (only formatting
fixes, etc.) so that it was unnecessary to redistribute them with each
man-pages release.
console_codes.4
random.4
dir_colors.5
proc.5
glob.7
Stuart Brady
s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for
proper rendering in UTF-8.
Various pages
mtk, after a note from Stuart Brady
Using /'x'/ to denote a character (string) renders poorly in
UTF-8, where the two ' characters render as closing single
quotes. On the other hand, using /`x'/ renders nicely on UTF-8,
where proper opening and closing single quotes are produced by
groff(1), but looks ugly when rendered in ASCII. Using the
sequence /\\aqx\\aq/ produces a reasonable rendering ('\\aq'
is a vertical "apostrophe quote") in both UTF-8 and ASCII.
So that change is made in a number of pages.
See also http://www.cl.cal.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html.
Various pages
mtk
Replace form /`string'/ by /"string"/, since the former renders
poorly in ASCII.
termios.3
console_codes.4
tty_ioctl.4
termcap.5
charsets.7
mtk
Control character names (^X) are written boldface, without
quotes.
printf.3
scanf.3
proc.5
glob.7
regex.7
mtk
Various edits to try and bring some consistency to the use of
quotes.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Small rewordings in description of packet mode.
locale.7
mtk
Minor formatting fixes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.01 ====================
Released: 2008-06-25, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.comm>
Andrew P <ap@zip.com.au>
Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ib.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Daniele Giacomini <appunti2@gmail.com>
Dorin Lazar <dorin.lazar@gmail.com>
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Jason Englander <jason@englanders.cc>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Laurent Vivier <laurent.vivier@bull.net>
Masatake YAMOTO <yamoto@redhat.com>
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
Stuart Cunningham <stuartc@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Yao Zhao <dragonlinux@gmail.com>
WANG Cong <wcong@critical-links.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
acct.5
mtk
A complete rewrite of this page, now with much more detail.
hostname.7
mtk
A description of hostname resolution. Taken from FreeBSD 6.2,
and lightly edited for man-pages style.
symlink.7
mtk
A description of symbolic links. Taken from FreeBSD 6.2, but
heavily edited for Linux details, improved readability, and
man-pages style.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
getrlimit.2
mtk / Peter Zijlstra
Add description of RLIMIT_RTTIME limit, new in 2.6.25.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Add description of mkostemp(), new in glibc 2.7.
core.5
mtk, after a note by Petr Gajdos; review by Neil Horman
Document core_pattern pipe syntax, which appeared in
kernel 2.6.19.
Add an example program demonstrating use of core_pattern
pipe syntax.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/coredump_filter, new in kernel 2.6.23.
Documentation was based on the text in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, plus testing, and
checking the kernel source.
proc.5
mtk
Document /proc/PID/oom_score, which was new in kernel 2.6.11.
This file displays the "badness" score of the process, which
provides the basis for OOM-killer decisions.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/oom_adj, which was new in kernel 2.6.11.
This file influences the oom_score of a process.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/limits, which was new in 2.6.24.
This file displays a process's resource limits.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/fdinfo/*, which was new in 2.6.22.
These files display info about each descriptor opened by the
process: the current file offset, and the file access mode +
file status flags as set in open() or fcntl(F_SETFL).
mtk
Document /proc/PID/mountinfo, which was new in 2.6.26.
This file displays information about mount points.
Closely based on text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/mountstats, which was new in 2.6.17.
This file displays statistics about mount points.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/status.
Samuel Thibault / mtk, review by Laurent Vivier,
Christian Borntraeger, and Andrew P
Document guest (virtual CPU) time field in /proc/stat.
Document guest (virtual CPU) time fields in /proc/PID/stat.
New links
---------
mkostemp.3
mtk
Link to mkstemp.3.
getcwd.2
mtk
Link to getcwd.3, which describes several interfaces, among
them getcwd(), which is in fact a system call.
sched_setaffinity.2
sched_setscheduler.2
set_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7).
Global changes
--------------
chown.2
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
getxattr.2
link.2
linkat.2
listxattr.2
open.2
readlink.2
removexattr.2
rename.2
setxattr.2
stat.2
symlink.2
symlinkat.2
unlink.2
futimes.3
remove.3
path_resolution.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add symlink(7).
intro.1
time.1
fcntl.2
gethostbyname.3
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line.
addseverity.3
backtrace.3
dlopen.3
fmtmsg.3
getnameinfo.3
getpt.3
grantpt.3
makecontext.3
ptsname.3
tcgetsid.3
unlockpt.3
wordexp.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section.
msgctl.2
msgget.2
semget.2
semop.2
pciconfig_read.2
basename.3
cmsg.3
ftok.3
console_ioctl.4
tzfile.5
mq_overview.7
pty.7
mtk
For consistency, "fix" cases where argument of .B or .I was
on the following source line.
adjtimex.2
getrusage.2
io_getevents.2
poll.2
select.2
semop.2
sigwaitinfo.2
aio_suspend.3
clock_getres.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
sem_wait.3
proc.5
mtk
SEE ALSO: add time(7)
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
(Special thanks to Nicolas Fran<61>ois and Alain Portal.)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
acct.2
mtk
Add a few more words to DESCRIPTION.
NOTES: Add pointer to acct(5).
alarm.2
Alain Portal
s/process/calling process/ so as to say that the alarm signal is
delivered to the calling process.
brk.2
Yao Zhao / mtk
Clarify discussion of return value of sbrk().
mtk
DESCRIPTION: Add some sentences giving an overview of these
interfaces.
Add note recommending use of malloc(3).
Change name of brk() argument to the simpler 'addr'.
Add "(void *)" cast to "-1" for error return of sbrk().
Removed some incorrect text about "brk(0)".
Note that SUSv2 specified the return value of sbrk().
Added a detail on the glibc brk() wrapper.
Remove discussions of old standards (C89 and POSIX.1-1990);
CONFORMING TO already discusses the situation with respect
to more recent standards.
chmod.2
mtk
Clarify description of chmod() and fchmod().
Add further detail on S_ISUID, S_ISGID, and S_ISVTX permissions.
Reformat list of permissions bits.
chown.2
mtk
Describe rules governing ownership of new files (bsdgroups
versus sysvgroups, and the effect of the parent directory's
set-group-ID permission bit).
chroot.2
Alain Portal
Clarify description a little.
s/changes the root directory/
changes the root directory of the calling process/
execve.2
mtk
Fix text that warns against use of NULL argv and envp.
Using a NULL envp does in fact seem to be portable (works
on Solaris and FreeBSD), but the Linux semantics for a NULL
argv certainly aren't consistent with other implementations.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408.
getdents.2
mtk, after a note from George Spelvin
Document d_type field, present since kernel 2.6.4.
Other minor edits.
getitimer.2
mtk
Noted that POSIX.1 leaves interactions with alarm(), sleep(),
and usleep() unspecified.
Linux 2.6.16 removed the MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling on timer
values.
Other minor changes.
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
mtk, after a note by Masatake YAMOTO and input from Jeff Moyer
Describe the unconventional error return provided by the
wrapper function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if
the system call is invoked via syscall(2)).
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ltp/4445/
Alain Portal / mtk
Re-order ERRORS and SEE ALSO entries to be alphabetical.
io_getevents.2
Alain Portal
Small wording fix.
io_submit.2
Jeff Moyer
s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/
mknod.2
mtk
Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
nanosleep.2
mtk, after a report from Stephane Chazelas
Remove crufty discussion of HZ, and replace with a pointer
to time(7).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485636
mtk, after some discussions with Bart Van Assche and Roman Zippel
NOTES: describe CLOCK_REALTIME versus CLOCK_NANOSLEEP
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696854/
"nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC, should be CLOCK_REALTIME?"
mtk
Replace mentions of "process' by "thread".
NOTES: describe case where clock_nanosleep() can be preferable.
Some minor rewrites.
open.2
mtk, after a note from Christoph Hellwig
NOTES: Note that access mode flags are not single bits,
and document the Linuxism "access mode 3".
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/653123.
readdir.2
mtk
Minor wording fixes.
recv.2
Alain Portal
Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Add pointer to discussion of RLIMIT_RTTIME in getrlimit.2.
mtk, after a note by Andrew Clayton
Rewrote and restructured various parts of the page for greater
clarity.
mtk
Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an
unprivileged process with a non-zero RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit
changes policy and priority.
SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
sync_file_range.2
Pavel Machek
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request
queue size. For some background, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
syscalls.2
mtk
Added system call history back to version 1.2.
Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
syslog.2
WANG Cong
Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built without
CONFIG_PRINTK.
utime.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Clarify description of 'times' array for utimes().
adjtime.3
mtk
The longstanding bug that if delta was NULL, olddelta
didn't return the outstanding clock adjustment, is now fixed
(since glibc 2.8 + kernel 2.6.26).
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug?id=2449
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
dprintf.3
mtk
Note that these functions are included in the next POSIX revision.
Remove editorial discussion about what the functions should have
been named.
ftime.3
mtk
Rewrote various pieces, and added some details.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Improve description or 'hints' and 'res' arguments.
Add details on numeric strings that can be specified for 'node'.
Other fairly major restructurings and rewrites to improve
logical structure and clarity of the page.
SEE ALSO: Add hostname(7).
gethostbyname.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: Add reference to inet_addr(3) for dotted notation.
SEE ALSO: add inet(3).
mtk
Added BUGS section noting that gethostbyname() does not
recognize hexadecimal components in dotted address strings;
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482973
getmntent.3
mtk, after Stuart Cunningham pointed out the typo
Remove statement that LSB deprecates the functions
"endmntent(), setmntent() [sic] and setmntent()".
This doesn't seem to be true (I can't find mention of it
being deprecated in any of the LSB specs). Rather, LSB simply
doesn't specify these functions. (LSB 1.3 had a spec of
setmntent(), but not getmntent() or endmntent(), and noted
that having a spec of setmntent() was of little use without
also having a spec of getmntent().)
See also https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2006-October/003078.html
getnameinfo.3
Tolga Dalman
Remove mention of sa_len field from example code.
That field is a BSDism not present on Linux.
mtk
Various minor changes.
inet.3
mtk / Stephane Chazelas
inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1.
Rewrote discussion of why inet_addr() is disfavored.
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482979.
mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
Describe the various address forms supported by inet_aton().
mtk
Rewrite description of inet_network().
Clarify discussion of inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr().
Add discussion of Classful Addressing, noting that it is obsolete.
Added an EXAMPLE program.
mtk
Relocate discussion of i386 byte order to NOTES.
Note that inet_aton() returns an address in network byte order.
SEE ALSO: Add byteorder(3) and getnameinfo(3).
inet_ntop.3
mtk
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3) and getnameinfo(3).
Make NAME line more precise.
Move errors to an ERRORS section.
Add EXAMPLE section pointing to inet_pton(3).
inet_pton.3
mtk / Stephane Chazelas
Remove statement that inet_pton() extends inet_ntoa();
that's not really true, since inet_pton() doesn't support
all of the string forms that are supported by inet_ntoa().
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482987.
mtk
Describe IPv6 address formats.
Describe dotted decimal format in more detail.
Add an example program.
mtk
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
Make NAME line more precise.
Make description of return value more precise.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3).
mkfifo.3
mtk
Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Fix discussion of O_EXCL flag.
These functions may also fail for any of the errors described
in open(2).
Various other rewordings.
readdir.3
mtk
Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field.
Reorder DT_ entries alphabetically.
remainder.3
mtk
Recommend against drem(), in favor of remainder().
scanf.3
mtk, after a note from Stephane Chazelas
Add an ERRORS section documenting at least some of the errors
that may occur for scanf().
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
mtk, after a note from Stephane Chazelas; review by Stephane Chazelas
Document the GNU 'a' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
Document the GNU 'm' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
strcat.3
Andreas Herrmann
s/strcat/strncat/ (a typo that changed the semantics in
DESCRIPTION).
strerror.3
mtk, after a note from Daniele Giacomini
Modify SYNOPSIS to show protoypes of both versions of strerror_r(),
and make other small clarifications of the description regarding
the two versions.
random.4
George Spelvin (taking time out from his busy Broadway schedule),
with some tweaks by Matt Mackall and mtk
Add a Usage subsection that recommends most users to use
/dev/urandom, and emphasizes parsimonious usage of
/dev/random.
locale.5
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
LC_TIME: Describe first_weekday and first_workday.
proc.5
mtk
The vaious CPU time fields in /proc/stat and /proc/PID/stat
return time in clock ticks (USER_HZ, cputime_to_clock_t(),
sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)).
Updated, clarified and expanded the description several
fields in /proc/[number]/stat.
mtk
Clarified and expanded the description of /proc/[number]/fd.
mtk
Updated and clarified the description of /proc/[number]/statm.
mtk
Updated and clarified the description of /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
mtk
Many formatting, wording, and grammar fixes.
man-pages.7
mtk
Enhanced description of VERSIONS section.
mq_overview.7
mtk
Note that Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX
message queues.
sem_overview.7
mtk
Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores
since 2.6.19.
time.7
mtk, with some suggestions from Bart Van Assche and Thomas Gleixner
Added some details about where jiffies come into play.
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various
points in the page.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/697378.
unix.7
mtk, after a note by Samuel Thibault
Provide a clear description of the three types of address that
can appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed,
and abstract.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.02 ====================
Released: 2008-07-02, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
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>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
A description of the clock_nanosleep() system call,
which was added in kernel 2.6.
getgrouplist.3
mtk
A near complete rewrite, including additional information and
a new example program.
getutmp.3
mtk
Documents getutmp(3) and getutmpx(3).
gnu_get_libc_version.3
mtk
Documents gnu_get_libc_version(3) and gnu_get_libc_release(3).
sigwait.3
mtk
Documents sigwait(3).
shm_overview.7
mtk
An overview of the POSIX shared memory API.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
updwtmp.3
mtk
Document updwtmpx(3).
New links
---------
getutmpx.3
mtk
Link to getutmp.3.
gnu_get_libc_release.3
mtk
Link to gnu_get_libc_version.3
updwtmpx.3
mtk
Link to updwtmp.3
utmpxname.3
mtk
Link to getutent.3.
utmpx.5
mtk
Link to utmp.5.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/user name/username/
Various pages
mtk
s/host name/hostname/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fchmodat.2
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: add symlink.7. (3.01 changelog wrongly said this
had been done.)
io_setup.2
Alain Portal
Remove superfluous text from RETURN VALUE.
mmap.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add mmap(2), shm_overview(7).
shmget.2
shmop.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).
sigreturn.2
mtk
Added a bit more detail on what sigreturn() actually does.
signalfd.2
sigsuspend.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Describe behavior when multiple threads are blocked in
sigwaitinfo()/sigtimedwait().
SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
dirfd.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: describe return value on success.
Add an ERRORS section documenting POSIX.1-specified errors.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
getaddrinfo() supports specifying IPv6 scope-IDs.
getlogin.3
mtk
ERRORS: add ENOTTY.
SEE ALSO: add utmp(5).
getutent.3
WANG Cong
utmpname() does return a value.
mtk
Add paragraph to start of DESCRIPTION recommending
use of POSIX.1 "utmpx" functions.
CONFORMING TO: mention utmpxname().
Add an ERRORS section.
There are no utmpx equivalents of the _r reentrant functions.
Clarify discussion of return values.
Add pointer to definition of utmp structure in utmp(5).
Clarify discussion of utmpx file on other systems (versus
Linux situation).
getutent.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)
inet_pton.3
Stephane Chazelas
Fix error in description of IPv6 presentation format:
s/x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x/x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x/.
setbuf.3
Reuben Thomas / mtk
Fix confused wording for return value of setvbuf().
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488104.
mtk
Other minor rewordings.
shm_open.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).
random.4
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Slight rewording to make life easier for non-native English
speakers.
utmp.5
mtk
Add discussion of POSIX.1 utmpx specification.
Provide a little more detail on fields of utmp structure.
Added comments to macros for ut_type field.
Correct the description of the ut_id field.
mtk
Consolidate duplicated information about ut_tv and ut_session
on biarch platforms.
mtk
Move some text from CONFORMING TO to NOTES.
Removed some crufty text.
SEE ALSO: add login(3), logout(3), logwtmp(3).
UT_LINESIZE is 32 (not 12).
mtk
SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)
man-pages.7
mtk
Enhanced the discussion of font conventions.
signal.7
mtk
Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard
signals is unspecified.
SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.03 ====================
Released: 2008-07-08, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getcpu.2
Andi Kleen, with some text and edits by mtk
Documents the getcpu(2) system call, introduced in Linux 2.6.19.
sched_getcpu.3
mtk
Documents sched_getcpu(3), a wrapper for getcpu(2), provided
since glibc 2.6.
cpuset.7
Paul Jackson, with review and editing by mtk, and comments by
Hidetoshi Seto and Li Zefan
A description of the cpuset file system, the mechanism introduced
kernel 2.6.12 for confining processes to designated processors
and nodes. (Becomes the fourth largest page in man-pages!)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
readdir.3
mtk
Add documentation of readdir_r().
New links
---------
updwtmpx.3
Alain Portal
Link to updwtmp.3 (3.02 changelog wrongly said this had been done).
readdir_r.3
mtk
Link to readdir.3.
Global changes
--------------
get_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
sched_setaffinity.2
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add getcpu(2).
accept.2
close.2
connect.2
dup.2
epoll_wait.2
fcntl.2
flock.2
futex.2
msgop.2
poll.2
read.2
recv.2
select.2
semop.2
send.2
sigwaitinfo.2
spu_run.2
wait.2
write.2
aio_suspend.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
scanf.3
sem_wait.3
usleep.3
inotify.7
mtk
ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in discussion of EINTR.
Various pages
mtk
Wrapped very long source lines.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
mtk
Small wording change.
io_getevents.2
mtk
ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
open.2
mtk
ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
sigaction.2
mtk
Note circumstances in which each SA_* flag is meaningful.
mtk
Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for
SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD.
mtk
Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7)
describing system call restarting.
mtk
Other minor edits.
truncate.2
mtk
ERRORS: Added EINTR error.
A few minor rewordings.
wait.2
mtk
Remove statement that WUNTRACED and WCONTINUED only have effect
if SA_NOCLDSTOP has not been set for SIGCHLD. That's not true.
errno.3
mtk
Add a pointer to signal(7) for further explanation of EINTR.
getgrouplist.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add passwd(5).
readdir.3
mtk
Remove <sys/types.h> from SYNOPSIS; POSIX.1-2001 does not
require it.
Some minor rewordings.
sleep.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: explicitly mention interruption by signal handler.
SEE ALSO: add signal(7).
usleep.3
mtk
POSIX.1-2001 also only documents EINVAL.
group.5
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add getgrent(3), getgrnam(3).
passwd.5
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add getpwent(3), getpwnam(3).
proc.5
mtk
Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7).
signal.7
mtk
Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting
which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
system calls are never restarted.
mtk
Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal
plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
signal handler has been established, and note the system
calls that behave this way.
mtk
Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid.
SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
mtk
Update async-signal-safe function list for POSIX.1-2004 (which
adds sockatmark()).
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================
Released: 2008-07-15, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
John Brooks <aspecialj@gmail.com>
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Web site
--------
licenses.html
mtk
A page describing the preferred licenses for new pages that
are contributed to man-pages.
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
utimensat.2
mtk
New page documenting the utimensat() system call, new in 2.6.22,
and futimens() library function.
end.3
mtk
Documents etext, edata, and end symbols.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
memchr.3
mtk
Add description of rawmemchr().
proc.5
mtk
Document /proc/config.gz (new in kernel 2.6).
mtk, based on text from Documentation/vm/sysctl.txt
Document /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task
(new in Linux 2.6.24).
Document /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks
(new in Linux 2.6.25).
Document /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom
(new in Linux 2.6.18).
New links
---------
edata.3
etext.3
mtk
Links to end.3.
futimens.3
mtk
Link to new utimensat.2.
getdate_err.3
mtk
Link to getdate.3.
h_errno.3
mtk
Link to gethostbyname.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
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
Various pages
mtk
s/UNIX/Unix/, when not used as part of a trademark,
for consistency with majority usage in pages.
Various pages
mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
Put SEE ALSO entries into alphabetical order.
Various pages
mtk
Remove period at end of SEE ALSO list.
Various pages
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Even when the CONFORMING TO section is just a list of standards,
they should be terminated by a period.
getpriority.2
MB_LEN_MAX.3
MB_CUR_MAX.3
fwide.3
mblen.3
rtime.3
st.4
proc.5
bootparam.7
man-pages.7
utf-8.7
tcp.5
mtk / Alain Portal
Small wording fixes -- express <=, <, >=, > in words when in
running text.
sched_setparam.2
sched_setscheduler.2
getgrent_r.3
hash.3
mtk
Minor rewording w.r.t. use of the term "parameter".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places. (Many, many thanks to Alain Portal!)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
Andrew Morgan
Update in line with addition of file capabilities and
64-bit capability sets in kernel 2.6.2[45].
clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
getrusage.2
Sripathi Kodi
Document RUSAGE_THREAD, new in 2.6.26.
mtk
Improve description of RUSAGE_CHILDREN.
Add pointer to /proc/PID/stat in proc(5).
Other minor clean-ups.
ioprio_set.2
Nikanth Karthikesan
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is longer required to set
a low priority (IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE).
mount.2
mtk
Since Linux 2.6.26, MS_RDONLY honors bind mounts.
openat.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add utimensat(3).
prctl.2
Serge Hallyn, with some edits/input from mtk
Document PR_CAPBSET_READ and PR_CAPBSET_DROP.
Erik Bosman
Document PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC.
mtk, reviewed by Andrea Arcangeli
Document PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP.
mtk
PR_SET_KEEPCAPS and PR_GET_KEEPCAPS operate on a per-thread
setting, not a per-process setting.
mtk
Clarify fork(2) details for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG.
mtk
Add description of PR_SET_SECUREBITS and PR_GET_SECUREBITS,
as well as pointer to further info in capabilities(7).
mtk
PR_GET_ENDIAN returns endianness info in location pointed to by
arg2 (not as function result, as was implied by previous text).
mtk
Expand description of PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME.
mtk
RETURN VALUE: bring up to date for various options.
mtk
Various improvements in ERRORS.
mtk
Note that PR_SET_TIMING setting of PR_TIMING_TIMESTAMP is not
currently implemented.
mtk
Minor changes:
* Clarify wording for PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_FPEMU, and
PR_GET_FPEXC.
* Some reformatting of kernel version information.
* Reorder PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN entries.
readlinkat.2
John Brooks / mtk
Fix and reword erroneous RETURN VALUE text.
recv.2
mtk
Noted which flags appeared in Linux 2.2.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Update type used for cpusetsize argument in SYNOPSIS.
select.2
Andreas Mohr / mtk
Clarify "zero timeout" case.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490868.
send.2
mtk
Noted which flags appeared in Linux 2.2.
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.
signal.2
mtk
Rewrote and expanded portability discussion.
NOTES: Show the raw prototype of signal() (without use of
sighandler_t).
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/
utime.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add utimensat(2), futimens(3).
dl_iterate_phdr.3
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: Add elf(5).
crypt.3
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Describe additional encryption algorithms.
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428280.
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.
fgetgrent.3
Alain Portal
Add references to group(5).
mtk
Minor rewordings.
SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
fgetpwent.3
Alain Portal
Add reference to passwd(5).
mtk
Minor rewordings.
SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
frexp.3
Alain Portal
Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.
futimes.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: remove futimesat(2); add utimensat(2).
getopt.3
mtk
Add details on initial value of optind, and note that it can
be reset (to 1) to restart scanning of an argument vector.
Add a NOTES section describing the glibc-specific behavior
when optind is reset to 0 (rather than 1).
See http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/browse_thread/thread/be0d0b7a07a165fb
mtk
Note glibc extensions under CONFORMING TO.
getspnam.3
mtk
Improve comments on struct spwd.
getpw.3
Alain Portal
RETURN VALUE: note that errno is set on error.
mtk
Add EINVAL error.
insque.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Minor rewordings.
log.3
Alain Portal
Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
log10.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add exp10(3).
offsetof.3
Alain Portal
Small wording improvement.
pow.3
Alain Portal
Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
printf.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Many small formatting fixes.
proc.5
mtk
Remove redundant summary list of files in description of
/proc/sys/kernel.
Make kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops more precise.
Make kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max more precise.
Add Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt to SEE ALSO.
Other minor edits.
profil.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Small wording improvement.
rtime.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Clarify meaning of midnight on 1 Jan 1900/1970.
mtk
Remove netdate(1) and rdate(1) from SEE ALSO, since these pages
don't seem to exist on Linux systems.
scanf.3
Vincent Lefevre / mtk
Clarify treatment of initial white space by %% conversion
specification.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
mtk
Many small formatting fixes.
stdin.3
Alain Portal
Rename CONSIDERATIONS section to NOTES, and relocate
to appropriate place on page.
tmpfile.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Prepend "POSIX.1-2001 specifies that: " to the sentence stating
that tmpfile() may write to stdout. (AFAICS, glibc's tmpfile()
does not do this.)
ttyname.3
Alain Portal
Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
wcsdup.3
Alain Portal
Make wording more precise: the memory allocated by wcsdup(3)
*should* be freed with free(3).
wordexp.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Move example into proper EXAMPLE section.
tty_ioctl.4
mtk / Petr Gajdos
The features in the "Get and Set Window Size" subsection
require the inclusion of <sys/ioctl.h>.
capabilities.7
Serge Hallyn, plus a bit of work by mtk
Document file capabilities, per-process capability bounding set,
changed semantics for CAP_SETPCAP, and other changes in 2.6.2[45].
Add CAP_MAC_ADMIN, CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_SETFCAP.
Various smaller fixes.
mtk, plus review by Serge Hallyn and Andrew Morgan
Add text detailing how CAP_SETPCAP (theoretically) permits -- on
pre-2.6.25 kernels, and 2.6.25 and later kernels with file
capabilities disabled -- a thread to change the capability sets
of another thread.
Add section describing rules for programmatically adjusting
thread capability sets.
Add some words describing purpose of inheritable set.
Note existence of CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES config option.
Describe rationale for capability bounding set.
Document securebits flags (new in 2.6.26).
Remove obsolete BUGS section.
SEE ALSO: Add getcap(8), setcap(8), and various libcap pages.
mtk
Add text noting that if we set the effective flag for one
file capability, then we must also set the effective flag for all
other capabilities where the permitted or inheritable bit is set.
mtk
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for
ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.
mtk
Reword discussion of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE to be file-system neutral.
man-pages.7
mtk
A list of standards in the CONFORMING TO list should be
terminated by a period.
The list of pages in a SEE ALSO list should not be
terminated by a period.
tcp.7
mtk
Correct a detail for sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale.
Formatting fixes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.05 ====================
Released: 2008-07-23, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
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>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Franck Jousseaume <franck.jousseaume@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Uli Schlacter <psychon@znc.in>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
matherr.3
mtk, with review by Andries Brouwer
A description of the SVID-specified mechanism for reporting
math exceptions.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/266.
math_error.7
mtk, with review and suggested input from Andries Brouwer
A description of how math functions report errors.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/249.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
Various pages
mtk
For consistency with majority usage:
s/plus infinity/positive infinity/
s/minus infinity/negative infinity/
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
brk.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add end(3).
open.2
Brian M. Carlson / mtk
Remove ambiguity in description of support for O_EXCL on NFS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491791.
prctl.2
mtk
Place options in some semblance of alphabetical order.
(No content or formatting changes were made.)
cerf.3
mtk
Bump version number: these functions are still missing in
glibc 2.8.
fenv.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
INFINITY.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
nan.3
mtk
Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece in SYNOPSIS.
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
rpc.3
mtk / Franck Jousseaume
Fix errors introduced into a few prototypes when converting
function declarations to use modern C prototypes in man-pages-2.75.
ipv6.7
mtk, after a report from Uli Schlacter
Document the IPV6_V6ONLY flag.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.06 ====================
Released: 2008-08-05, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Gernot Tenchio <g.tenchio@telco-tech.de>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
erfc.3
mtk
Created after removing the erfc() material from erf.3.
Documents the complementary error function.
y0.3
mtk
Created after removing the y*() material from j0.3.
Documents the Bessel functions of the second kind.
Included ERRORS section; noted that an exception is not
raised on underflow, see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6806;
and errno is not set on overflow, see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6808;
Included BUGS section noting that errno is incorrectly
set for pole error; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6807.
scalbln.3
mtk
Created after removing the scalbln*() and scalbn*() material
from scalb.3. Documents scalbln() and scalbn() functions.
Included ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6803.
New and changed links
---------------------
erfcf.3
erfcl.3
mtk
Changed these links to point to new erfc.3 page.
scalblnf.3
scalblnl.3
scalbn.3
scalbnf.3
scalbnl.3
mtk
Changed these links to point to new scalbln.3 page.
y0f.3
y0l.3
y1.3
y1f.3
y1l.3
yn.3
ynf.3
ynl.3
mtk
Changed these links to point to new y0.3 page.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
crypt.3
mtk
Tweak discuss text describing support for Blowfish.
ctime.3
mtk / Gernot Tenchio
Added some words to make clear that the string returned by
ctime() and asctime() is null-terminated.
math_error.7
Sam Varshavchik
Reverse order of SYNOPSIS and NAME sections.
mtk
NOTES: Summarize the state of glibc support for exceptions
and errno for error reporting.
Changes to individual pages (math functions)
--------------------------------------------
Almost all of the changes in this release relate to math man pages.
Very many changes were made to the math pages, including:
* Fixed feature test macros (FTMs). Often, the FTM requirements
for the "float" and "long double" versions of a math function are
different from the requirements for the "double" version. Each math
page now shows the correct FTM requirements for all three versions
of the function(s) it describes. This may have required either
a change to the existing FTM text (if the requirements for the
"double" function were already described), or the addition of an FTM
description to a SYNOPSIS where one was not previously present
(typically because the "double" version of the function does not
require any FTMs to be defined).
* CONFORMING TO: in many cases, POSIX.1-2001 was not mentioned.
Where a function is specified in POSIX.1-2001, this is now noted.
Also, statements about what other standards a function conforms to
were generally clarified. (The wording about which functions conformed
to C99 was previously often done as an add on sentence; now it is made
part of the first sentence of the CONFORMING TO section, along with
POSIX.1-2001.)
* RETURN VALUE: in many cases, pages lacked descriptions of the return
value when the function arguments are special values such as +0, -0,
NaN (not-a-number), +infinity, -infinity, etc. This has been fixed.
I carried out tests on glibc 2.8 to ensure that all of these
functions match the RETURN VALUE descriptions (and the POSIX.1-2001
requirements).
* ERRORS: many pages lacked a clear (or indeed any) description of
how errno is set on error and what exception is raised for each error.
This has been fixed. The ERRORS sections are now generally headed up
as per the POSIX.1 way of doing things, describing Pole / Range /
Domain errors, as applicable.
I carried out tests on glibc 2.8 to ensure that all of these
functions match the ERRORS descriptions. Deviations from POSIX.1-2001
requirements have been filed as glibc bug reports, and noted in the
man pages. (The pages now describe the situation for ERRORS as at glibc
2.8; I may eventually try and extend the text with descriptions of
changes in older versions of glibc.)
NOTE: one point that has not been covered in any page is the
circumstances that generate inexact (FE_INEXACT) exceptions.
(The details for these exceptions are not specified in POSIX.1-2001,
and I haven't gone looking for the standards that describe the details.)
acos.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
acosh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
asin.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
asinh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
atan.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
atan2.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
atanh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6759.
cbrt.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
ceil.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
NOTES: Added some details.
copysign.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
cos.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6780.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
cosh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
erf.3
mtk
Removed the erfc() material (there is now a new erfc page).
Reason: the functions are logically separate; also their
return values differ, and it would have been confusing
to document them on the same page.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6785.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
exp.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6786.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
exp10.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for underflow;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6787.
exp2.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
expm1.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for overflow;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6788.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section, describing bogus underflow exception for -large,
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6778;
and describing bogus invalid exception for certain +large,
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6814.
fabs.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fdim.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fenv.3
mtk
Make style of writing exception names consistent with other
pages and POSIX.1-2001.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
finite.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
floor.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fma.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fmax.3
fmin.3
mtk
NAME: Make description clearer
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
fmod.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fpclassify.3
mtk
Minor wording changes.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO: Add signbit(3).
frexp.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added details to RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
gamma.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added (null) RETURN VALUE section referring to tgamma(3).
Added (null) ERRORS section referring to tgamma(3).
CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
hypot.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: note that calculation is done without causing
undue overflow or underflow.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6795.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
ilogb.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set, and in some
cases an exception is not raised; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6794.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
isgreater.3
mtk
NAME: Make description clearer
Improve the description of isunordered().
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Formatting fixes.
A few wording improvements.
j0.3
mtk
Removed material for the y*() functions to a separate y0.3 page.
Reason: the return values and errors/exceptions differ, and it
would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805.
ldexp.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
lgamma.3
mtk
Note that these functions are deprecated.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections referring to lgamma(3).
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6777.
log.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
log10.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
log1p.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6792.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
log2.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
logb.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: added a little detail; some rewordings.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6793.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
lrint.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6798.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
lround.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6797.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
modf.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
nan.3
mtk
Small wording changes.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
nextafter.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6799.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
pow.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776.
remainder.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: added some details.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that remainder(nan(""), 0)
wrongly causes a domain error; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6779
remquo.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fmax.3
fmin.3
mtk
NAME: Make description clearer
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
fmod.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fpclassify.3
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
rint.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: added some details.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
ERRORS: no errors can occur (previous text was misleading).
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES: point out that lrint() may be preferred in some cases.
round.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: added some details.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
ERRORS: no errors can occur (previous text was misleading).
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES: point out that lround() may be preferred in some cases.
scalb.3
mtk
Removed the scalbn() and scalbln() material to a separate
scalbln.3 page. Reason: scalb() is obsolete; also the
exception/error conditions differ somewhat, so that it
would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: some rewrites and added details.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6803
and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6804.
CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
signbit.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
sin.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6781.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
sincos.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
sinh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
sqrt.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tan.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6782.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tanh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tgamma.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set /
incorrectly set in some cases; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6809
and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6810.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added NOTES section to hold text explaining origin of tgamma().
trunc.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: small rewording.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added NOTES section explaining that result may be too large
to store in an integer type.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.07 ====================
Released: 2008-08-12, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
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>
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Filippo Santovito <filippo.santovito@email.it>
Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Khalil GHORBAL <khalil.ghorbal@cea.fr>
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
move_pages.2
Christoph Lameter, various edits and improvements by mtk
Documentation of the move_pages() system call.
This page was formerly part of the numactl package, but really
belongs in man-pages (since it describes a kernel interface).
clock_getcpuclockid.3
mtk
New page documenting the clock_getcpuclockid() library function,
available since glibc 2.2.
udplite.7
Gerrit Renker
Document the Linux implementation of the UDP-Lite protocol,
new in Linux 2.6.20.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
proc.5
Christoph Lameter, minor edits and improvements by mtk
Documentation of the /proc/PID/numa_maps file.
This material was formerly the numa_maps.5 page in the numactl
package, but really belongs in man-pages (since it describes
a kernel interface).
Global changes
--------------
nanosleep.2
inet_ntop.3
inet_pton.3
scanf.3
initrd.4
mtk
Fix mis-ordered (.SH) sections.
connect.2
socket.2
rtnetlink.3
arp.7
ddp.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
netlink.7
packet.7
raw.7
rtnetlink.7
socket.7
tcp.7
udp.7
unix.7
x25.7
mtk
s/PF_/AF_/ for socket family constants. Reasons: the AF_ and
PF_ constants have always had the same values; there never has
been a protocol family that had more than one address family,
and POSIX.1-2001 only specifies the AF_* constants.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
mtk
The floating-point environment is reset to the default
during an execve().
get_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
Misc cleanup of get_mempolicy(2):
+ mention that any mode flags will be saved with mode.
I don't bother to document mode flags here because we
already have a pointer to set_mempolicy(2) for more info
on memory policy. mode flags are discussed there.
+ remove some old, obsolete [IMO] NOTES and 'roff comments.
Lee Schermerhorn
Update the get_mempolicy(2) man page to add in the description of
the MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED flag, added in 2.6.23.
mtk
Document additional EINVAL error that occurs is MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED
is specified with either MPOL_F_ADDR or MPOL_F_NODE.
getitimer.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks getitimer() and setitimer()
obsolete.
mbind.2
Lee Schermerhorn
Fix error conditions, now that the kernel silently ignores
nodes outside the task's cpuset, as long as one valid node
remains.
Now that cpuset man page exists, we can refer to it. Remove
stale comment regarding lack thereof.
Lee Schermerhorn
Add brief discussion of mode flags.
Lee Schermerhorn
Attempt to clarify discussion of MPOL_DEFAULT.
mtk
Fix URI reference for libnuma.
mprotect.2
mtk / Maxin John
Remove EFAULT from errors. Under ENOMEM error, note that
EFAULT was the error produced in some cases for kernels before
2.4.19.
msgctl.2
mtk, after a note from Filippo Santovito
In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
set_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
Fix up the error return for nodemask containing nodes disallowed by
the process' current cpuset. Disallowed nodes are now silently ignored,
as long as the nodemask contains at least one node that is on-line,
allowed by the process' cpuset and has memory.
Now that we have a cpuset man page, we can refer to cpusets directly
in the man page text.
Lee Schermerhorn
Another attempt to rationalize description of MPOL_DEFAULT.
Since ~2.6.25, the system default memory policy is "local allocation".
MPOL_DEFAULT itself is a request to remove any non-default policy and
"fall back" to the surrounding context. Try to say that without delving
into implementation details.
Lee Schermerhorn
Add discussion of mempolicy mode flags to set_mempolicy(2).
This adds another reason for EINVAL.
setpgid.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks setpgrp() obsolete.
semctl.2
mtk, after a note from Filippo Santovito
In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
shmctl.2
Filippo Santovito / mtk
In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
utime.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks utime() obsolete.
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the POSIX.1-2001 LEGACY
marking of utimes(), so mention of this point has been
removed from the page.
vfork.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of vfork().
atan2.3
Fabian Kreutz
SEE ALSO Add carg(3).
bcmp.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcmp().
bsd_signal.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification ofcw
bsd_signal().
bzero.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bzero().
cexp2.3
mtk
AVAILABILITY: These functions are still not in glibc
as at version 2.8.
clock_getres.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3).
clog2.3
mtk
AVAILABILITY: These functions are still not in glibc
as at version 2.8.
ctime.3
mtk
POSIX.1-2008 marks asctime(), asctime_r(), ctime(), and ctime_r()
as obsolete.
dprintf.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: These functions are nowadays in POSIX.1-2008.
ecvt.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
ecvt() and fcvt().
ftime.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ftime().
ftw.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() as obsolete.
gcvt.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gcvt().
getcwd.3
Reuben Thomas / mtk
Clarify description of getcwd() for buf==NULL case;
CONFORMING TO: According to POSIX.1, the behavior of getcwd()
is unspecified for the buf==NULL case.
mtk
Add an introductory paragraph giving an overview of what these
functions do.
Fix error in description of getwd(): it does not truncate the
pathname; rather, it gives an error if the pathname exceeds
PATH_MAX bytes.
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Add EINVAL ENAMETOOLONG errors for getwd().
Various other clarifications and wording fixes.
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2001 does not define any errors for
getwd().
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of getwd().
gethostbyname.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and h_errno.
gets.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gets().
iconv.3
iconv_close.3
iconv_open.3
mtk
VERSIONS: These functions are available in glibc since version 2.1.
index.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
index() and rindex().
isalpha.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks isalpha() as obsolete.
makecontext.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
makecontext() and swapcontext().
memchr.3
mtk
VERSIONS: memrchr() since glibc 2.2; rawmemchr() since glibc 2.1.
mempcpy.3
mtk
VERSIONS: mempcpy() since glibc 2.1.
mktemp.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of mktemp().
opendir.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 specifies fdopendir().
rand.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks rand_r() as obsolete.
siginterrupt.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks siginterrupt() as obsolete.
sigset.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks sighold(), sigignore(),
sigpause(), sigrelse(), and sigset() as obsolete.
strchr.3
mtk
VERSIONS: strchrnul() since glibc 2.1.1.
tempnam.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks tempnam() as obsolete.
tmpnam.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks tmpnam() as obsolete.
toascii.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete.
ualarm.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ualarm().
ulimit.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks ulimit() as obsolete.
usleep.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of usleep().
standards.7
mtk
Updated details for POSIX.1-2008, and noted that if
POSIX.1-2001 is listed in the CONFORMING TO section of a man
page, then the reader can assume that the interface is also
specified in POSIX.1-2008, unless otherwise noted.
time.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3).
udp.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: add udplite(7).
Changes to individual pages (math functions)
--------------------------------------------
Various changes here following on from the big update to the
math pages in the previous release. Test results going back
glibc 2.3.2 (so far) allowed updates to various pages to note
changes in historical behavior for error reporting by math
functions. Thanks to the following people for providing me
with test results on various distributions and glibc versions:
Alain Portal, Andries Brouwer, Fabian Kreutz, Heikki Orsila,
Khalil GHORBAL, Pavel Heimlich, Reuben Thomas, Samuel Thibault,
Soh Kam Yung, and Stephane Chazelas
cabs.3
cacos.3
cacosh.3
carg.3
casin.3
casinh.3
catan.3
catanh.3
ccos.3
ccosh.3
cexp.3
cimag.3
clog.3
clog10.3
conj.3
cpow.3
cproj.3
creal.3
csin.3
csinh.3
csqrt.3
ctan.3
ctanh.3
exp10.3
exp2.3
fdim.3
fenv.3
fma.3
fmax.3
fmin.3
log2.3
lrint.3
lround.3
nan.3
pow10.3
remquo.3
round.3
scalbln.3
sincos.3
tgamma.3
trunc.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section noting that these functions first
appeared in glibc in version 2.1.
cosh.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.3.4 and earlier, an FE_OVERFLOW exception is not
raised when an overflow occurs.
fenv.3
mtk / Fabian Kreuz
Provide more detail in the description of rounding modes.
Add text describing FLT_ROUNDS (formerly in fma.3).
Add BUGS section pointing out the FLT_ROUNDS does not reflect
changes by fesetround().
fma.3
mtk
Remove text about FLT_ROUNDS, replacing with a cross-reference
to fenv(3).
fpclassify.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: Note that the standards provide a weaker guarantee
for the return value of isinf().
log.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.5 and earlier, log(nan("")) produces a bogus
FE_INVALID exception.
lround.3
mtk
Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
nextafter.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.5 and earlier these functions do not raise an
FE_UNDERFLOW exception on underflow.
pow.3
mtk
BUGS: described buggy NaN return when x is negative and y is large.
See also: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866.
BUGS: Note the bogus FE_INVALID exception that occurred in glibc
2.3.2 and earlier on overflow and underflow.
remainder.3
mtk
Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
round.3
mtk
Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
scalb.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of scalb().
tgamma.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.3.3, tgamma(+-0) produced a domain error
instead of a pole error.
y0.3
mtk
In glibc 2.3.2 and earlier, these functions do not raise an
FE_INVALID exception for a domain error.
math_error.7
mtk
Rewrite introductory paragraph.
Point out that a NaN is commonly returned by functions that report
a domain error.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.08 ====================
Released: 2008-08-27, Zurich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@foveal.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu>
Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar@bravegnu.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getnetent_r.3
mtk
Documents getnetent_r(), getnetbyname_r(),
and getnetbyaddr_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getnetent(), getnetbyname(), and getnetbyaddr().
getprotoent_r.3
mtk
Documents getprotoent_r(), getprotobyname_r(), and
getprotobynumber_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getprotoent(), getprotobyname(), and getprotobynumber().
getrpcent_r.3
mtk
Documents getrpcent_r(), getrpcbyname_r(), and
getrpcbynumber_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber().
getservent_r.3
mtk
Documents getservent_r(), getservbyname_r(), and
getservbyport_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getservent(), getservbyname(), and getservbyport().
numa.7
mtk
A new page giving overview details for the Linux NUMA interfaces.
Incorporates some material from mbind.2, and the description
of /proc/PID/numa_maps from proc.5.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
crypt.3
mtk
Add description of crypt_r().
New and changed links
---------------------
crypt.3
mtk
New link to crypt.3.
getnetbyname_r.3
getnetbyaddr_r.3
mtk
New links to new getnetent_r.3.
getprotobyname_r.3
getprotobynumber_r.3
mtk
New links to new getprotoent_r.3.
getrpcbyname_r.3
getrpcbynumber_r.3
mtk
New links to new getrpcent_r.3.
getservbyname_r.3
getservbyport_r.3
mtk
New links to new getservent_r.3.
numa_maps.5
mtk
Link to new numa(7) page, which incorporates the
/proc/PID/numa_maps description.
As part of the numactl() package, the /proc/PID/numa_maps
documentation was in a numa_maps.5 page; this link
ensures that "man 5 numa_maps" still works.
(Eventually, we may want to remove this link.)
Global changes
--------------
get_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
move_pages.2
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
Add reference to numa(7) for information on library support.
Added a VERSIONS section.
SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
linkat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
unlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
psignal.3
strsignal.3
mtk
These interfaces are specified in POSIX.1-2008.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
eventfd.2
Vijay Kumar
When an eventfd overflows, select() indicates the file as both
readable and writable (not as having an exceptional condition).
fcntl.2
mtk
F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
getrlimit.2
mtk
NOTES: Add text mentioning the shell 'ulimit' (or 'limit')
built-in command for setting resource limits.
gettimeofday.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks gettimeofday() as obsolete.
link.2
mtk
Note kernel version where Linux stopped following symbolic
links in 'oldpath'; see also http://lwn.net/Articles/294667.
POSIX.1-2008 makes it implementation-dependent whether or not
'oldpath' is dereferenced if it is a symbolic link.
Add a reference to linkat(2) for an interface that allows
precise control of the treatment of symbolic links.
mbind.2
mtk
Remove material on library support and numactl; that material
is now in numactl.7.
mmap.2
mtk
Add kernel version numbers for MAP_32BIT.
Add some details on MAP_32BIT (see http://lwn.net/Articles/294642).
move_pages.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS (from kernel 2.6.18) and CONFORMING TO sections.
open.2
mtk
O_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
socket.2
mtk
s/d/domain/ for name of argument.
Add reference to socket(2) for further information on
domain, type, and protocol arguments.
utimensat.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 specifies utimensat() and futimens().
dirfd.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; other minor changes.
exec.3
mtk
Small rewording: "s/returned/failed with/ [an error]".
fmemopen.3
mtk
Since glibc 2.7, it is possible to seek past the end of
a stream created by open_memstream(). Add a BUGS section
describing the bug in earlier glibc versions.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Clarify exactly which functions are obsoleted by getnameinfo()
and getaddrinfo().
getnetent.3
mtk
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
In glibc 2.2, the type of the 'net' argument for getnetbyaddr()
changed from 'long' to 'uint32_t'.
mtk
Note that the gethostbyaddr() 'net' argument is in host byte order.
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getnetent_r.3.
getprotoent.3
mtk
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getprotoent_r.3.
getrpcent.3
mtk
s/rpc/RPC/.
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getrpcent_r.3.
getservent.3
mtk
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getservent_r.3.
mkdtemp.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: this function is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
mq_notify.3
Venkatesh Srinivas
s/sigev_notify_function/sigev_thread_function/
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494956.
realpath.3
mtk
Relocate text for resolved_path==NULL case to DESCRIPTION.
POSIX.1-2001 leaves the resolved_path==NULL case as
implementation-defined; POSIX.1-2008 specifies the behavior
described in this man page.
sem_init.3
mtk
POSIX.1-2008 rectifies the POSIX.1-2001 omission, specifying
that zero is returned by a successful sem_init() call.
core.5
Mike Bianchi / mtk
Make the page more helpful to non-programmers by referencing
the documentation of the shell's 'ulimit' command in the
discussion of RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE.
SEE ALSO: Add bash(1).
mtk
Note that a core dump file can be used in a debugger.
proc.5
mtk
Remove /proc/PID/numa_maps material (it is now in numa(7)).
cpuset.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).
inotify.7
mtk / Li Zefan
Explain bug that occurred in coalescing identical events in
kernels before 2.6.25.
(See commit 1c17d18e3775485bf1e0ce79575eb637a94494a2
"A potential bug in inotify_user.c" in the 2.6.25 Changelog.)
pthreads.7
mtk
Update thread-safe functions list with changes in POSIX.1-2008.
SEE ALSO: add proc(5).
signal.7
mtk
Update list of async-signal-safe functions for POSIX.1-2008.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.09 ====================
Released: 2008-09-10, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2006@lina.inka.de>
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Christopher Head <chead@telus.net>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Michael Schurter <michael@susens-schurter.com>
Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@foveal.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Suka <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@wayland.id.au>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
T<EFBFBD>r<EFBFBD>k Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
fopencookie.3
mtk
Document fopencookie(3), a library function that allows
custom implementation of a stdio stream.
networks.5
Martin (Joey) Schulze, with a few light edits by mtk
Documents the /etc/networks file.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency across pages and
with POSIX.1.
kill.2
sigaction.2
sigpending.2
sigprocmask.2
sigsuspend.2
confstr.3
ctermid.3
ctime.3
ferror.3
flockfile.3
fopen.3
getaddrinfo.3
getgrnam.3
getnameinfo.3
getopt.3
getpwnam.3
longjmp.3
popen.3
rand.3
readdir.3
setjmp.3
sigsetops.3
sigwait.3
strtok.3
tzset.3
unlocked_stdio.3
mtk
Add/fix feature test macro requirements.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
mtk, after a note by Mike Bianchi
More clearly and consistently describe whether
or not the third argument to fcntl() is required,
and what its type should be.
mtk
Move description of negative l_len from NOTES, integrating
it into the discussion of file locking.
Minor rewrites of the text on file locking.
getrusage.2
Bernd Eckenfels
SEE ALSO: Add clock(3), clock_gettime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Remove old sentence about where to send updates for this page.
Add more detail on mount options that prevent updates to atime.
sched_setscheduler.2
Carsten Emde
Update kernel version numbers relating to real-time support.
stat.2
H. Peter Anvin
Note that lstat() will generally not trigger automounter
action, whereas stat() will.
clock.3
Bernd Eckenfels
SEE ALSO: Add clock_gettime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475
clock_getres.3
Tolga Dalman / mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS; remove now redundant
sentence mentioning librt from NOTES.
getdate.3
mtk
Rewrite description of getdate_r() and integrate into main text
(rather than describing in NOTES).
Other parts rewritten for greater clarity.
Make it clearer in the main text that glibc does not implement %Z;
remove discussion of that point from NOTES.
Added an example program.
hsearch.3
mtk
Noted that table size as specified by 'nel' is immutable.
Described differences between hsearch() and hsearch_r().
Added missing pieces to RETURN VALUE.
Added a number of new entries under ERRORS.
NOTES: added some basic advice on sizing the hash table;
noted that when a table is destroyed, the caller is responsible
for freeing the buffers pointed to by 'key' and 'data' fields.
One of the BUGS was fixed in glibc 2.3.
Rewrote and clarified various other pieces.
Rename arguments for reentrant functions, using same name as
glibc headers: s/ret/retval/; s/tab/htab/.
mtk, after a suggestion by Timothy S. Nelson
Integrate discussion of reentrant functions into main discussion
(rather than as a short paragraph at the end).
iconv.3
Bruno Haible
Describe "shift sequence" input.
ptsname.3
sukadev
Fix return type of ptsname_r() in SYNOPSIS.
readdir.3
H. Peter Anvin
s/stat(2)/lstat(2)/ when discussing d_type (since we
are talking about a case where we might be interested to
whether the file itself is a symbolic link).
sigsetops.3
Chris Head, signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Fix typo: s/sigdelset/sigorset/
proc.5
Mats Wichmann / mtk
s/\[number]/[pid]/ in file names for /proc/PID files.
And similar changes for task/[tid] sub-directories.
mtk / Mats Wichmann
In the description if /proc/[pid]/environ, remove reference to
lilo(8)/grub(8) since there seems to be nothing in those pages
that related to this /proc file.
Michael Schurter / mtk
Remove sentence wrongly saying that /proc/meminfo reports
info in bytes;
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462969
mtk
Note that /proc/meminfo reports system-wide memory usage
statistics.
Joe Korty
Document new fields in /proc/interrupts that were added in
Linux 2.6.24.
unix.7
Marko Kreen
Since glibc 2.8, _GNU_SOURCE must be defined in order to get
the definition of the ucred structure from <sys/socket.h>.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.10 ====================
Released: 2008-09-23, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andr<EFBFBD> Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
closedir.3
dirfd.3
readdir.3
rewinddir.3
scandir.3
seekdir.3
telldir.3
mtk
Fix 'dir' argument name: should be 'dirp'.
POSIX.1-2008 and glibc call this argument 'dirp' (consistent
with the fact that it is a *pointer* to a DIR structure).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk, after a comment by John Reiser
Clarify text describing getpid() caching bug for clone() wrapper.
See also:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6910
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417521
getpid.2
mtk, after a comment by John Reiser
Describe getpid()'s PID caching and its consequences.
timerfd_create.2
Sam Varshavchik
s/it_interval/it_value/ when talking about TIMERFD_ABSTIME.
closedir.3
George Spelvin
Clarify closedir()'s treatment of underlying file descriptor.
tsearch.3
Andr<64> Goddard Rosa
Fix memory leak in example program.
Add use of tdestroy to example program.
mtk
Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to example program.
protocols.5
mtk, after a note from Pavel Heimlich
Remove SEE ALSO references to nonexistent Guides to Yellow Pages
services.5
mtk
Remove some out-of-date bugs.
mtk, after a note from Pavel Heimlich
Remove SEE ALSO references to nonexistent Guides to Yellow Pages
and Bind/Hesiod docs.
mtk
Remove crufty text about use of comma instead of slash to separate
port and protocol.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.11 ====================
Released: 2008-10-07, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andr<EFBFBD> Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>
Gergely Soos <sogerc1@gmail.com>
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Maxin B. John <maxin.john@ap.sony.com>
Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nicolas Fran<61>ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Ricardo Catalinas Jim<69>nez <jimenezrick@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Create a new page for umount() and umount2() by extracting
existing material from mount.2 page.
New and changed links
---------------------
umount2.2
Michael Kerrisk
Change link to point to new umount.2
The umount2() material migrated from mount.2 to umount.2
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk
_SC_ARG_MAX is no longer necessarily constant
POSIX.1-2001 says that the values returned by sysconf()
are constant for the life of the process.
But the fact that, since Linux 2.6.23, ARG_MAX is settable
via RLIMIT_STACK means _SC_ARG_MAX is no longer constant,
since it can change at each execve().
Michael Kerrisk
Linux now imposes a floor on the ARG_MAX limit
Starting with Linux 2.6.23, the ARG_MAX limit became
settable via (1/4 of) RLIMIT_STACK. This broke ABI
compatibility if RLIMIT_STACK was set such that ARG_MAX
was < 32 pages. Document the fact that since 2.6.25
Linux imposes a floor on ARG_MAX, so that the old limit
of 32 pages is guaranteed.
For some background on the changes to ARG_MAX in
kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.25, see:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5786
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10095
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/646709/focus=648101,
checked into 2.6.25 as
commit a64e715fc74b1a7dcc5944f848acc38b2c4d4ee2.
Also some reordering/rewording of the discussion of ARG_MAX.
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note lack of glibc wrapper; caller must use syscall(2)
Glibc doesn't (and quite probably won't) include a
wrapper for this system call. Therefore, point out that
potential callers will need to use syscall(2), and rewrite
the RETURN VALUE text to show things as they would be if
syscall() is used.
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to posix_fallocate(3) for portable interface
Add a para to start of page that points out that this is the
low-level, Linux-specific API, and point the reader to
posix_fallocate(3) for the portable API.
getdents.2
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
d_type is currently only supported on ext[234]
As at kernel 2.6.27, only ext[234] support d_type.
On other file systems, d_type is always set to DT_UNKNOWN (0).
getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add an example program
Michael Kerrisk
comment out linux_dirent fields with varying location
The location of the fields after d_name varies according to
the size of d_name. We can't properly declare them in C;
therefore, put those fields inside a comment.
Michael Kerrisk
The DT_* constants are defined in <dirent.h>
Michael Kerrisk
Remove header files from SYNOPSIS
None of the header files provides what is needed.
Calls are made via syscall(2).
Michael Kerrisk
The programmer must define the linux_dirent structure
Point out that this structure is not defined in glibc headers.
Michael Kerrisk
s/dirent/linux_dirent/
The structure isn't currently defined in glibc headers,
and the kernel name of the structure is 'linux_dirent' (as
was already used in some, but not all, places in this page).
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Reword/relocate discussion of BSD's historical RLIMIT_OFILE
The old sentence sat on its own in an odd place, and anyway the
modern BSDs use the name RLIMIT_NOFILE.
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to execve(2) for RLIMIT_STACK's effect on ARG_MAX
Refer the reader to new text in execve(2) that describes how
(since Linux 2.6.23) RLIMIT_STACK determines the value of ARG_MAX.
getrusage.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rusage measures are preserved across execve(2)
mlock.2
Maxin John
Add EAGAIN error.
move_pages.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Make a detail of EPERM error more precise
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of per-process namespaces
Describe per-process namespaces, including discussion
of clone() and unshare CLONE_NEWNS, and /proc/PID/mounts.
Michael Kerrisk
List a few other file systems that we may see in /proc/filesystems
Add some modern file systems to that list (xfs, jfs, ext3,
reiserfs).
Michael Kerrisk
Document MS_SILENT (and MS_VERBOSE)
mount.2
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Split umount*() out into a separate page
The length of this page means that it's becoming difficult
to parse which info is specific to mount() versus
umount()/umount2(), so split the umount material out into
its own page.
pause.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of words "library function"
This really is a system call.
readdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
The programmer must declare the old_linux_dirent structure
Glibc does not provide a definition of this structure.
Michael Kerrisk
s/dirent/old_linux_dirent/
Nowadays, this is the name of the structure in the
kernel sources.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove words "which may change"
These words are slightly bogus: although the interface
is obsolete, for ABI-compatibility reasons, the kernel folk
should never be changing this interface.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove header files from SYNOPSIS
glibc doesn't provide any support for readdir(2),
so remove these header files (which otherwise suggest
that glibc does provide the required pieces).
recv.2
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Move kernel version number to first mention to MSG_ERRQUEUE.
semop.2
Kirill A. Shutemov
Fix typo in example
(The '&' before sop in the semop() call is unneeded.)
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
Make kernel version for MSG_CONFIRM more precise
s/2.3+ only/Since Linux 2.3.15/
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to signal(7) for an overview of signals
Explain semantics of signal disposition during fork() and execve()
Refer to signal(7) for more details on signal mask.
sigaltstack.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain inheritance of alternate signal stack across fork(2)
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Distinguish per-thread and process-wide signals
A sentence clarifying that pending signal set is union of
per-thread and process-wide pending signal sets.
Michael Kerrisk
These interfaces have per-thread semantics
The page was previously fuzzy about whether the these interfaces
have process-wide or per-thread semantics. (E.g., now the
page states that the calling *thread* (not process) is suspended
until the signal is delivered.)
sigpending.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain effect of fork() and execve() for pending signal set
Michael Kerrisk
Explain how thread's pending signal set is defined
The pending set is the union of per-thread pending signals
and process-wide pending signals.
sigprocmask.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain effects of fork() and execve() for signal mask
splice.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that SPLICE_F_MOVE is a no-op since kernel 2.6.21
syscall.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add more detail about wrapper functions
Add a few more details about work generally done by wrapper
functions. Note that syscall(2) performs the same steps.
tkill.2
Michael Kerrisk
EINVAL error can also occur for invalid TGID
The EINVAL error on an invalid TGID for tgkill() was
not documented; this change documents it.
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1-2008 revision will likely affect FTMs for futimens()
Make it clear that the POSIX.1 revision that is likely
to affect the feature test macro requirements for futimens()
is POSIX.1-2008.
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Make various wordings a little more precise.
The times argument point to *an array of* structures, and the
man-page should say that consistently.
wait4.2
Michael Kerrisk
wait3() is a library function layered on wait4().
On Linux wait3() is a library function implemented on top
of wait4(). (Knowing this is useful when using strace(2),
for example.)
atan2.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Fix error in description of range or return value
In recent changes to the man page, mtk accidentally changed
the description of the return value range to -pi/2..pi/2;
the correct range is -pi..pi.
cmsg.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Add parentheses after macro names.
ctime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify mktime()'s use of tm_isdst
Describe use of tm_isdst for input to mktime();
explain how mktime() modifies this field.
(This field is left unchanged in case of error.)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500178
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording for ctime_r() and asctime_r() to indicate that
the buffer must be at least 26 *bytes*.
Michael Kerrisk
Minor rewording of mktime() description.
floor.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
floor.3: Fix error in description: s/smallest/largest/
hsearch.3
Andr<64> Goddard Rosa
Call hdestroy() after using hash table created by hcreate(),
for the sake of completeness
mq_getattr.3
Michael Kerrisk
mq_getattr() and mq_setattr() are layered on mq_getsetattr(2)
mq_getattr() and mq_setattr() are library functions layered on
top of the mq_getsetattr(2) system call.
(This is useful info for users of strace(1).)
mq_receive.3
Michael Kerrisk
mq_send() is a library function layered on mq_timedreceive() syscall
This info is useful for users of strace(1).
mq_send.3
Michael Kerrisk
mq_send() is a library function layered on mq_timedsend() syscall
This info is useful for users of strace(1).
nextafter.3
Nicolas Fran<61>ois
Make description more precise: s/next/largest/
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add getdents(2)
Because readdir() is implemented on top of getdents(2).
realpath.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that returned pathname is NULL terminated
Also clarify that null-byte is included in PATH_MAX limit.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite and simplify description of /proc/mounts
Most of the relevant discussion is now under /proc/PID/mounts;
all that needs to be here is a mention of the pre-2.4.19
system-wide namespace situation, and a reference to the
discussion under /proc/PID/mounts.
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of /proc/PID/mounts
Largely cribbed from existing /proc/mounts discussion, which is
about to be rewritten.
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add mq_notify() to list of lib. functions and syscalls in MQ API
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Improve description in NAME section
Add mention of sigaltstack(2).
Describe syscalls that synchronously wait for a signal,
Give overview of syscalls that block until a signal is caught
Add overview of interfaces for sending signals.
Michael Kerrisk
Describe semantics w.r.t. fork() and execve()
Include text describing semantics of fork() and execve() for
signal dispositions, signal mask, and pending signal set.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.12 ====================
Released: 2008-10-29, Bucaramanga
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Christian Grigis <glove@earthling.net>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Didier <did447@gmail.com>
Halesh S <halesh.s@india.com>
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <fsmla@xinara.org>
Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
Michael B. Trausch <mike@trausch.us>
Pierre Cazenave <pwc101@noc.soton.ac.uk>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_attr_init.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_init(3) and pthread_attr_destroy(3)
pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setdetachstate(3) and
pthread_attr_getdetachstate(3)
pthread_attr_setguardsize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setguardsize(3) and
pthread_attr_getguardsize(3)
pthread_attr_setscope.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setscope(3) and pthread_attr_getscope(3)
pthread_attr_setstack.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setstack(3) and pthread_attr_getstack(3)
pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setstackaddr(3) and
pthread_attr_getstackaddr(3)
pthread_attr_setstacksize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setstacksize(3) and
pthread_attr_getstacksize(3)
pthread_create.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page describing pthread_create(3)
pthread_detach.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_detach(3)
pthread_equal.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_equal(3)
pthread_exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page describing pthread_exit(3)
pthread_getattr_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_getattr_np(3)
pthread_join.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_join(3)
pthread_self.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_self(3)
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_tryjoin_np(3) and pthread_timedjoin_np(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
dup.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of dup3()
dup3() was added in kernel 2.6.27.
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of new epoll_create1()
The new epoll_create1() system call appeared in Linux 2.6.27.
eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Describe eventfd2() and EFD_NONBLOCK and EFD_CLOEXEC
Linux 2.6.27 added eventfd(), which supports a flags argument
that eventfd() did not provide. The flags so far implemented
are EFD_NONBLOCK and EFD_CLOEXEC,
inotify_init.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of inotify_init1()
The inotify_init1() system call was added in Linux 2.6.27.
pipe.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of new pipe2() syscall
pipe2() was added in 2.6.27. Describe the O_NONBLOCK and
O_CLOEXEC flags.
signalfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Describe signalfd4() and SFD_NONBLOCK and SFD_CLOEXEC
Linux 2.6.27 added signalfd4(), which supports a flags argument
that signalfd() did not provide. The flags so far implemented
are SFD_NONBLOCK and SFD_CLOEXEC.
New and changed links
---------------------
dup3.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to dup.2
dup.2 now contains the description of the new dup3() syscall.
epoll_create1.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to epoll_create.2
epoll_create.2 now includes a description of the new
epoll_create1() system call.
eventfd2.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to eventfd.2
The eventfd.2 page has some details on the eventfd2() system call,
which was new in Linux 2.6.27.
inotify_init1.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to inotify_init.2
inotify_init.2 now includes a description of the new
inotify_init1() system call.
pipe2.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to pipe.2
pipe(2) now contains a description of the new pipe2() syscall.
pthread_attr_destroy.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_init.3
pthread_attr_getdetachstate.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3
pthread_attr_getguardsize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setguardsize.3
pthread_attr_getscope.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setscope.3
pthread_attr_getstack.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setstack.3
pthread_attr_getstackaddr.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3
pthread_attr_getstacksize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setstacksize.3
pthread_timedjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_tryjoin_np.3
signalfd4.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to signalfd.2
signalfd.2 now includes text describing signalfd4() system call,
new in Linux 2.6.27.
Global changes
--------------
eventfd.2, getdents.2, mprotect.2, signalfd.2, timerfd_create.2,
wait.2, backtrace.3, clock_getcpuclockid.3, end.3, fmemopen.3,
fopencookie.3, getdate.3, getgrouplist.3, getprotoent_r.3,
getservent_r.3, gnu_get_libc_version.3, inet.3, inet_pton.3,
makecontext.3, matherr.3, offsetof.3, pthread_attr_init.3,
pthread_create.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, sem_wait.3, strtol.3, core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add ".SS Program source" to EXAMPLE
Add ".SS Program source" to clearly distinguish shell session and
descriptive text from actual program code.
eventfd.2, execve.2, getdents.2, ioprio_set.2, mprotect.2,
signalfd.2, timerfd_create.2, wait.2, backtrace.3,
clock_getcpuclockid.3, end.3, fmemopen.3, fopencookie.3, frexp.3,
getdate.3, getgrouplist.3, getprotoent_r.3, getservent_r.3,
gnu_get_libc_version.3, inet.3, inet_pton.3, makecontext.3,
malloc.3, matherr.3, offsetof.3, pthread_attr_init.3,
pthread_create.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, sem_wait.3, strftime.3,
strtok.3, strtol.3, core.5, proc.5, cpuset.7, mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Format user input in shell sessions in boldface
frexp.3, strftime.3, strtok.3
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate shell session above example program
Move the shell session text that demonstrates the use of
the example program so that it precedes the actual
example program. This makes the page consistent with the
majority of other pages.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Say more about unused epoll_create() 'size' arg
Supply a little more explanation about why the 'size' argument
of epoll_create() is nowadays ignored.
eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty text relating to flags argument
Remove sentence saying that glibc adds a flags argument
to the syscall; that was only relevant for the older
eventfd() system call.
getdents.2
Christoph Hellwig
Fix text relating to DT_UNKNOWN and 'd_type' support
Some file systems provide partial support for 'dt_type',
returning DT_UNKNOWN for cases they don't support.
Update the discussion of 'd_type' and DT_UNKNOWN to
support this.
getpeername.2, getsockname.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add ip(7) and unix(7)
getsockopt.2
Michael Kerrisk
EINVAL can also occur if 'optval' is invalid
In some cases, EINVAL can occur if 'optval' is invalid.
Note this, and point reader to an example in ip(7).
In response to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216092
inotify_init.2, pipe.2, timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify *_NONBLOCK description
Make it clear that the NONBLOCK flag sets an attribute in the new
open file description.
sched_yield.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite description in terms of threads
The text formerly described the operation of sched_yield() in
terms of processes. It should be in terms of threads.
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES text on appropriate use of sched_yield()
Strategic calls to sched_yield() can be used to improve
performance, but unnecessary use should be avoided.
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that sa_mask affects the *per-thread* signal mask
The page didn't previously clearly explain the scope of the
signal mask that is affected by sa_mask.
signalfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty text relating to flags argument
Remove sentence saying that glibc adds a flags argument
to the syscall; that was only relevant for the older
signalfd() system call.
sigprocmask.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that sigprocmask() operates on a per-thread mask
The first sentence of the page was vague on the scope of the
attribute changed by sigprocmask(). Reword to make this
clearer and add a sentence in NOTES to explicitly state that
the signal mask is a per-thread attribute.
socket.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags
These flags, specified in the 'type' argument, are supported
since Linux 2.6.27.
socketpair.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to socket(2) for SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK
Refer the reader to socket(2) for a description of the SOCK_CLOEXEC
and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags, which are supported by socketpair() since
Linux 2.6.27.
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add new 2.6.27 system calls
Add pipe2(), dup3(), epoll_create1(), inotify_init1(),
eventfd2(), signalfd4().
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document timerfd_create() TFD_CLOEXEC and TFD_NONBLOCK
TFD_CLOEXEC and TFD_NONBLOCK are supported since LInux 2.6.27.
vfork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify meaning of "child releases the parent's memory"
The man page was not explicit about how the memory used by
the child is released back to the parent.
ctime.3
Michael Kerrisk
ctime_r() and localtime_r() need not set 'timezone' and 'daylight'
The man page already noted that these functions need not set
'tzname', but things could be clearer: it tzset() is not called,
then the other two variables also are not set.
Also, clarify that ctime() does set 'timezone' and 'daylight'.
dlopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is inspected once, at program start-up
Make it clear that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is inspected *once*, at
program start-up. (Verified from source and by experiment.)
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document binary mode (mode 'b')
Glibc 2.9 adds support to fmemopen() for binary mode opens.
Binary mode is specified by inclusion of the letter 'b' in
the 'mode' argument.
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify error descriptions with some examples
Clarify the description of some errors by giving examples
that produce the errors. (Text added for EAI_SERVICE and
EAI_SOCKTYPE.)
Also, add an error case for EAI_BADFLAGS.
gethostbyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rationalize text on POSIX.1-2001 obsolete interfaces
POSIX.1 marks gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and 'h_errno'
as obsolete. The man page explained this, but with some
duplication. Remove the duplication, and otherwise tidy up
discussion of this point.
popen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change one-line description in NAME
s%process I/O%pipe stream to or from a process%
Michael Kerrisk
Document 'e' (close-on-exec) flag
glibc 2.9 implements the 'e' flag in 'type', which sets the
close-on-exec flag on the underlying file descriptor.
raise.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add pthread_kill(3)
readdir.3
Christoph Hellwig
Fix text relating to DT_UNKNOWN and 'd_type' support
(This mirrors the previous change to getdents.2)
Some file systems provide partial support for 'dt_type',
returning DT_UNKNOWN for cases they don't support.
Update the discussion of 'd_type' and DT_UNKNOWN to
support this.
strcpy.3
Jason Spiro
Strengthen warning about checking against buffer overruns
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413940
tty_ioctl.4
Michael Kerrisk
Explain capability requirements for TIOCCONS
Explain capability requirements for TIOCCONS, and describe
changes in 2.6.10 relating to capabilities.
Michael Kerrisk
Explain capability requirements for various ioctls
For TIOCSLCKTRMIOS, TIOCSCTTY, TIOCEXCL, explain the exact
capability that is required (the text formerly just said "root"
in each case).
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
Defines the system-wide limit on the number of threads (tasks).
utmp.5
Pierre Cazenave
It is just "other" who should not have write perms on utmp
The page was vague before, saying that utmp should not be
writable by any user. This isn't true: it can be, and
typically is, writable by user and group.
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Mention epoll_create1() as part of epoll API
epoll_create1() was added in Linux 2.6.27, and extends the
functionality of epoll_create().
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Mention inotify_init1() in overview of API
Discuss the new inotify_init1() system call in the overview of
the inotify API.
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
Detail EINVAL error for IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP socket option
In response to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216092
iso_8859-7.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Add Drachma, Euro, and Greek Ypogegrammeni
Also, amend description of characters 0241 and 0242.
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Example shell sessions should have user input boldfaced
pthreads.7
Michael Kerrisk
Describe return value from pthreads functions
Describe the usual success (0) and failure (non-zero) returns,
and note that POSIX.1-2001 specifies that pthreads functions
can never fail with the error EINTR.
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Timeouts make socket interfaces non-restartable
If setsockopt() is used to set a timeout on a socket(),
then the various socket interfaces are not automatically
restarted, even if SA_RESTART is specified when
establishing the signal handler. Analogous behavior occurs
for the "stop signals" case.
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add unix(7)
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
Document LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS
Drawing heavily on Jakub Jelinek's description in
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-11/msg00127.html
(Subject: [PATCH] Support LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS)
--inhibit-rpath is ignored for setuid/setgid ld.so
The --inhibit-rpath option is ignored if ld.so is setuid/setgid
(not if the executable is setuid/setgid).
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.4, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_ORIGIN_PATH
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of LD_PROFILE and LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT
Clarify that LD_PROFILE is pathname or a soname,
and identify name of profiling output file.
Fix description of LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT, which wasn't even close to
the truth. (But why did it remain unfixed for so many years?)
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.3.4, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
Michael Kerrisk
Since version 2.3.5, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_SHOW_AUXV
Michael Kerrisk
Reorder lists of LD_* environment variables alphabetically
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.3.4, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_DEBUG
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.13 ====================
Released: 2008-11-07, Bucaramanga
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Karsten Weiss <knweiss@gmail.com>
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
T<EFBFBD>r<EFBFBD>k Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(3) and
pthread_attr_getaffinity_np(3)
pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setschedparam(3) and
pthread_attr_getschedparam(3)
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3) and
pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(3)
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setaffinity_np(3) and pthread_getaffinity_np(3)
pthread_setschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setschedparam(3) and pthread_getschedparam(3)
pthread_setschedprio.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setschedprio(3)
New and changed links
---------------------
pthread_attr_getaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_attr_getschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
pthread_attr_getschedpolicy.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
pthread_getaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_getschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setschedparam.3
Global changes
--------------
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_getattr_np.3
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Explain _np suffix
Add text to CONFORMING TO explaining that the "_np"
suffix is because these functions are non-portable.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sched_getcpu(3)
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add pthread_setaffinity_np(3)
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify EINVAL error for cpusetsize < kernel mask size
For sched_setaffinity(), the EINVAL error that occurs
if 'cpusetsize' is smaller than the kernel CPU set size only
occurs with kernels before 2.6.9.
vfork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Child holds parent's memory until execve() or *termination*
The page was phrased in a few places to describe the child as
holding the parent's memory until the child does an execve(2)
or an _exit(2). The latter case should really be the more
general process termination (i.e., either _exit(2) or abnormal
termination).
clock_getres.3
Michael Kerrisk
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID not setabble
According to POSIX.1-2001, the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID clocks should be settable, but
currently they are not.
pthread_attr_setstacksize.3
Michael Kerrisk, after a report by Karsten Weiss
EINVAL occurs on some systems if stacksize != page-size
On MacOS X at least, pthread_attr_setstacksize(3) can fail
with EINVAL if 'stacksize' is not a multiple of the system
page size. Best to mention this so as to aid people writing
portable programs.
pthread_create.3
Karsten Weiss
Fix bug in EXAMPLE program
The calloc() line should read like this instead:
tinfo = calloc(num_threads, sizeof(struct thread_info));
pthread_exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: thread group with a dead leader and stop signals
Document the bug that can occur when a stop signal
is sent to a thread group whose leader has terminated.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/611611
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122525468300823&w=2
resolver.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix prototype of dn_expand()
The 4th argument is "char *", not "unsigned char *".
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504708
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix error handling after accept() in example code
Simply continuing after an error is in most cases wrong,
and can lead to infinite loops (e.g., for EMFILE).
So handle an error by terminating.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504202
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add error handling for epoll_wait() call in example code
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Improve example code
Fill in some gaps in example code (variable declarations,
adding listening socket to epoll set).
Give variables more meaningful names.
Other minor changes.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504202
iso_8859-7.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Add characters for Drachma and Greek Ypogegrammeni
Lines for these two characters were added in the previous patch,
but the actual characters were not included in the 4th column
of the table. This fixes that.
pthreads.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add a section describing thread IDs
In particular, note that in each pthreads function that takes
a thread ID argument, that ID by definition refers to a thread
in the same process as the caller.
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