Authors of version 2.09
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.09 ====================Released: 2005-10-13
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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ptsname.3
getpt.3
unlockpt.3
openpty.3
posix_openpt.3
grantpt.3
pts.4
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
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pty.7
mtk
Overview of Unix 98 and BSD pseudo-terminals.
Changes to individual pages
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ldd.1
mtk
Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fcntl.2
Peter Chubb / Trond Myklebust / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.10, a read lease can only be placed on a
file descriptor that is opened read-only.
See the following LKML thread of Aug 2005
("fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??"):
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112371777712197&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112374818213000&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112376335305284&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112377294030092&w=2
mprotect.2
mtk
Add new text to ENOMEM error
mremap.2
mtk
Added description of MREMAP_FIXED and 'new_address' argument
under NOTES.
Revised text of EINVAL error.
read.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
read() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
mtk
Added open(2) to SEE ALSO
shmget.2
mtk
s/int/size_t/ for type of 'size' argument (fix from
Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
write.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
write() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
atanh.3
mtk
Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7)
fopen.3
mtk
Improved "a+" description (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
getrpcent.3
mtk
s/getrpcent/setrpcent/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
stdio.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are
BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
strftime.3
mtk
Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from
Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
nsswitch.conf.5
mtk
s/network/networks/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
proc.5
mtk
Added description of /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout.
socket.7
mtk
Update description of SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT.
(fix derived from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).