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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.41 ====================
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Released: 2006-10-12
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Contributors
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------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
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Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
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Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
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Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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--------------
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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New pages
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splice.2
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tee.2
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vmsplice.2
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Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
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See also:
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http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
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http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
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http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
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http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/
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Changes to individual pages
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ldd.1
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Stefan Puiu
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Note glibc version where "ldd -u" appeared.
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execve.2
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mtk
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The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().
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fork.2
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mtk
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Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited
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by child.
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getdtablesize.2
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mtk
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Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable
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applications.
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getpagesize.2
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mtk
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Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable
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applications.
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_SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
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madvise.2
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mtk
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Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
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Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.
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mount.2
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mtk / Trond Myklebust
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MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
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mmap.2
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mtk
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Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of
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length==0.
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Justin Pryzby / mtk
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Added some EINVAL errors.
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mremap.2
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mtk
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Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
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msync.2
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mtk
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Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to
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a locked region.
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prctl.2
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Marcel Holtmann / mtk
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Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
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possible.
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Guillem Jover
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Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
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Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
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PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
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PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
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remap_file_pages.2
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mtk
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Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
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sync_file_range.2
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mtk
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Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
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vfork.2
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mtk
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Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
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wait4.2
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mtk
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Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
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clog2.3
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mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
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Fix broken text in description.
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See Debian bug 386214.
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clog10.3
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Kevin Ryde
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Fix broken text in description.
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See Debian bug 386214.
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mq_receive.3
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Britton Leo Kerin
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Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
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See Debian bug 387551.
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posix_fadvise.2
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Andrew Morton
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Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
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qsort.2
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Hrvoje Niksic
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Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar'
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function.
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See Debian bug 391402.
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sendfile.2
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mtk
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Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
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termios.3
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mtk
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Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
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tzset.3
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mtk
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Added some TZ examples.
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See Debian bug 386087.
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proc.5
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mtk
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Added delayacct_blkio_ticks (new in 2.6.18) to /proc/PID/statm.
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ip.7
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Stuart MacDonald / Andi Kleen
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Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP.
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pthreads.7
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mtk
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Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.
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socket.7
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Senthil Kumar
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Place socket options in alphabetical order.
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