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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================
Released: 2008-07-09, Konolfingen
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>
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Web site
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licenses.html
mtk
A page describing the preferred licenses for new pages that
are contributed to man-pages.
New and rewritten pages
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end.3
mtk
Documents etext, edata, and end symbols.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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memchr.3
mtk
Add description of rawmemchr().
New links
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edata.3
etext.3
mtk
Links to end.3.
getdate_err.3
mtk
Link to getdate.3.
h_errno.3
mtk
Link to gethsotbyname.3.
optarg.3
opterr.3
optind.3
optopt.3
mtk
Links to getopt.3.
rawmemchr.3
mtk
Link to memchr.3.
sys_errlist.3
sys_nerr.3
mtk
Links to perror.3.
Global changes
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Changes to individual pages
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clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
ioprio_set.2
Nikanth Karthikesan
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is longer required to set
a low priority (IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE).
sched_setaffinity.3
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Update type used for cpusetsize argument in SYNOPSIS.
sigaction.2
mtk
Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
Add some text for si_trapno field.
The si_errno field is *generally* unused.
mtk
Put descriptions of SA_* constants in alphabetical order.
signalfd.2
mtk
Modify description of ssi_trapno field.
swapon.2
mtk
Fix two version number typos for MAX_SWAPFILES discussion:
s/2.6.10/2.4.10/
dl_iterate_phdr.3
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: Add elf(5).
crypt.3
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Describe additional encryption algorithms.
errno.3
mtk
Small rewrites in DESCRIPTION.
getspnam.3
mtk
Improve comments on struct spwd.
scanf.3
Vincent Lefevre / mtk
Clarify treatment of intial white space by %% conversion
specification.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
capabilities.7
mtk
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for
ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.