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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.35 ====================
Released: 2006-07-06
Contributors
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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
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
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sync_file_range.2
Andrew Morton / mtk
New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17.
Changes to individual pages
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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.