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==================== Changes in man-pages-4.04 ====================
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Released: 2015-12-29, Munich
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Contributors
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The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
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in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
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incorporated in changes in this release:
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Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
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Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com>
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Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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Colin Rice <colin@daedrum.net>
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Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
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Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
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Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
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Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
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Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
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H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
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Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
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Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
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Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
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Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
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Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
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Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
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Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
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Richard Voigt <richardvoigt@gmail.com>
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Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
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Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
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Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
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Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
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Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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New and rewritten pages
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futex.2
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Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker]
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Rewrite and massively expand page
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membarrier.2
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Mathieu Desnoyers [Michael Kerrisk]
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New page documenting membarrier() system call
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Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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mlock.2
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Eric B Munson [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk]
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Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT
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New and changed links
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mlock2.2
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Eric B Munson
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New link to mlock.2
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Global changes
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error
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Changes to individual pages
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clock_getres.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
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epoll_create.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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ERRORS: add another EMFILE error case
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fanotify_init.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case
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fork.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions
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getcpu.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
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getrlimit.2
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Michael Kerrisk [Lennart Poettering]
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The init of measurement for RLIMIT_RSS is bytes, not pages
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get_robust_list.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Reword EINVAL error text
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gettimeofday.2
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Carlos O'Donell
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Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
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inotify_init.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case
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personality.2
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Dmitry V. Levin
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Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this system call
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poll.2
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Richard Voigt
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timeout_ts is a pointer, so use -> not . for member access
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Michael Kerrisk
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Shorten name of timeout argument for ppoll()
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The name is overly long, and does not hint at the fact
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that this argument is a pointer. Fix this by renaming:
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s/timeout_ts/tmo_p/
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sendfile.2
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Laurent Georget
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Document more ERRORS
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sigreturn.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
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socketcall.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API
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time.2
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Zack Weinberg
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Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno'
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Michael Kerrisk [H.J. Lu]
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Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV
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Michael Kerrisk [Paul Eggert]
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Describe EOVERFLOW details
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rename 't' argument to 'tloc'
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dlerror.3
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Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant]
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Clarify that the string returned by dlerror() is null terminated
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dlopen.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Include a shell session showing build/run in EXAMPLE
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Michael Kerrisk
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Change arguments to main() to "void" in EXAMPLE
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drand48.3
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Michael Kerrisk [Vincent Lefevre]
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Correct descriptions of ranges returned by these functions
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See http://bugs.debian.org/803459
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errno.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note probable cause of ENFILE error
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fnmatch.3
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Pádraig Brady
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Describe the FNM_EXTMATCH flag and pattern syntax
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iconv.3
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Andries E. Brouwer
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NOTES: describe correct usage for flushing partially buffered input
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random_r.3
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Michael Kerrisk [Archie Cobbs]
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Clarify need to use initstate_r()
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tzset.3
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Carlos O'Donell
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Clarify "daylight" and remove erroneous note
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random.4
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Michael Kerrisk [Tom Gundersen]
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Rework example scripts to assume 'poolsize' unit is bits, not bytes
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Michael Kerrisk [Walter Harms]
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Use modern command substitution syntax in shell session log
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proc.5
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Michael Kerrisk
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Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error
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futex.7
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Heinrich Schuchardt
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SEE ALSO updates
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note some other locking primitives that are built with futexes
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Heinrich Schuchardt
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NPTL, avoid abbreviation
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note that a futex is 4 bytes on all platforms
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vdso.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add note on strace(1) and vDSO
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ld.so.8
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H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk]
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Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV
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