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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.75 ====================
Released: 200?-??-??
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>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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mlock.2
mprotect.2
mpool.3
offsetof.3
Alain Portal
Format SYNOPSIS in 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/uint16_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.
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
stat.2
fpathconf.3
mtk
s/filedes/fd/
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).
execve.2
Alain Portal
Minor rewordings.
futimesat.2
Alain Portal
Remove duplicate "#include <fcntl.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
mbind.2
Andi Kleen / mtk / Alain Portal
Modify explanation of EINVAL 'maxnode' error.
spu_create.2
Alain Portal / mtk; acked by Jeremy Kerr
Minor formatting/wording changes.
argz_add.3
mtk
Formatting fixes.
envz_add.3
mtk
Formatting fixes.
fexeceve.3
mtk
Fix placement of feature test macro in SYNOPSIS.
getrpcent.3
getrpcport.3
mtk
Use modern C prototypes in SYNOPSIS.
getutent.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Formatting fixes.
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.
posixoptions.7
mtk
Minor formatting and wording fixes.
signal.7
mtk
Minor formatting and wording fixes.