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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.80 ====================
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Released: 2008-??-??
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Contributors
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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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Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
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Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com>
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
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Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
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Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
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Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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bdflush.2
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inotify_add_watch.2
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mprotect.2
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sigprocmask.2
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ctime.3
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getusershell.3
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setbuf.3
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st.4
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ip.7
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packet.7
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mtk
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Replace "(il)legal" by "permitted" or "valid".
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
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New pages
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random_r.3
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mtk, after a suggestion by aeb
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Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(32), and
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setstate_r(3), which are the reentrant equivalents of
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random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3).
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Changes to individual pages
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sched_setscheduler.2
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mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
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Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
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Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
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setpriority.2
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mtk, after a note from Info Molnar
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Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
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kernel 2.6.23 and later.
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Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
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mq_open.3
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mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
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Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
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needed for 'mode' constants.
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rand.3
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Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
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Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
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random(3) instead.
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random.3
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aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
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Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
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that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
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Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
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"Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
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Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
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sem_open.3
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mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
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Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
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needed for 'mode' constants.
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sem_close.3
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sem_destroy.3
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sem_getvalue.3
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sem_init.3
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sem_open.3
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sem_post.3
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sem_unlink.3
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sem_wait.3
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mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
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Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
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"-pthread".
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shm_open.3
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mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
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Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
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needed for 'mode' constants.
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rand.3
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Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
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Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
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random(3) instead.
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random.3
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aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
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Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
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that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
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Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
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"Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
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Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
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sem_close.3
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sem_destroy.3
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sem_getvalue.3
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sem_init.3
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sem_open.3
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sem_post.3
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sem_unlink.3
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sem_wait.3
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mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
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Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
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"-pthread".
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shm_open.3
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rand.3
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Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
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Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
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random(3) instead.
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random.3
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aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
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Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
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that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
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Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
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"Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
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Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
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sem_close.3
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sem_destroy.3
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sem_getvalue.3
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sem_init.3
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sem_open.3
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sem_post.3
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sem_unlink.3
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sem_wait.3
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mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
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Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
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"-pthread".
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