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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
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Released: 2005-06-27
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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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A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
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Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
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Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
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Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
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Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
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Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
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New pages
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Changes to individual pages
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_exit.2
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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close.2
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mtk
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Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
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Minor formatting changes.
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dup.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not
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accurate.
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Minor formatting fixes
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fcntl.2
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mtk
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Consistent use of terms "open file description",
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"file status flags", and "file decriptor flags"
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Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
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Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
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with a cross ref to dup.2
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Minor wording and formatting fixes
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fpclassify.3
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mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
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The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
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to differentiate positive and neagtive infinity.
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See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
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getgid.2
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getuid.2
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Delian Krustev
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Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
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getitimer.2
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mtk
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The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
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man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
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getpriority.2
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mtk
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Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
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Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
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open.2
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mtk / aeb
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Clarification of term "open file description" along with
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explanation of what information it maintains.
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Other wording improvements
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Various minor wording changes
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atexit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
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shared library unload.
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Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
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abnormal termination.
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Formatting fixes.
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exit.3
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mtk / aeb
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Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
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function".
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mtk
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Minor rewording and formatting changes.
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getloadavg.3
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mtk
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Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype
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log2.3
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Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Add ERANGE error.
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readdir.3
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mtk
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Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
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Some formatting cleanups.
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strtod.3
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Dora Anna Volgyesi/ mtk
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strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE of _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
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tdestroy.3
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mtk
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New link to tsearch.3
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tsearch.3
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mtk
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Added tdestroy to .TH line
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mem.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem"
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null.4
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mtk
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Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
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"chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero"
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vcs.4
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Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
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Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
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signal.7
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Ove Kaaven
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SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
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As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
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urn.7
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mtk
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New link to uri.7
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