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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.31 ====================
Released: 2006-05-02
Contributors
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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
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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
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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 Debian bug 186307.
error_at_line.3
error_message_count.3
error_on_per_line.3
error_print_progname.3
mtk
New links to new error.3.
program_invocation_name.3
mtk
New page describing program_invocation_name and
program_invocation_short_name variables.
program_invocation_short_name.3
mtk
New link to new program_invocation_name.3.
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
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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
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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 behaviour of
normalising 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.
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).
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 Debian 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 <rrt@sc3d.org>
DESCRIPTION does not need to say "temporary file name"
just "temporary file", since the name is in any case
unavailable to the user.
See Debian 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.